A few people have been commenting on the current "death by semantics", or what Orwell called "doublespeak."
I used that image just in October, but it's too on-the-nose not to use it again here.
T. Ryan Gregory wrote,
"Death by semantics. It's spread in the air, but it's not airborne. It's a major global health risk but not an emergency. It's still a pandemic but not the emergency phase of a pandemic. It's a variant of interest but not a variant of concern."
