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I'm not talking at all about the response (why do you keep bringing it up? I'm not a lockdown supporter), and it does have a property that other coronaviruses don't have, it's spreading through a global population that has never encountered it before. This is somewhat of an imprecise definition, but if a virus is circulating through a population, with a good portion of members having some immunity, and without the characteristics of an epidemic in most times/places, it's endemic, but if it's spreading through a population that's never seen it before, at a high reproductive rate, that's epidemic for sure, and probably pandemic if the originating region can't contain it. If a virus has a basic reproductive rate of over 2, like this one does, with very little population immunity, there's no way it can be endemic. In places like the UK and Israel, with quite a bit of immunity, it's going endemic, but places like India, the disease is endemic epidemic (RIP) for sure.