Sorry we don't have a better shorthand term for that, but we don't. Trying to control how people use language to express a perfectly good concept* is folly. *there is, in fact, a "during" and an "after" the emergency response to the pandemic
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I've also heard "lockdown" or "quarantine" used to refer to that block of time but both of those obviously also have their issues
sep 3, 2025, 12:50 am • 0 0 • view
The shorthand term I normally use is "during the acute covid pandemic". It may just reflect the kind of people that read me, but there hasn't been any particular misinterpretations.
sep 3, 2025, 12:52 am • 4 0 • view
I don't mind it, but, like "during covid" it could be misinterpreted. The pandemic of acute disease from Covid-19 has not gone away, just as the pandemic of acute disease from Influenza A/H1N1pdm/2009 hasn't gone away. It may disappear one day, just like A/H1N1 has disappeared (twice!) before.
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