If you're paying much attention, they're using "endemic to refer to a managed, "steady state" of the disease, comparable to other infectious diseases, as opposed to the current, crisis level it's at.
The claim about the vaccines "wearing off" does not seem to be true. Compelling immunization also does not, in my view, constitute "assault," and I don't care if it makes people upset, something you could say about almost any policy imaginable.
So they should use the word “managed”. Endemic has a very specific meaning.
If you haven't seen the push for boosters, seasonal shots, etc then you’re not paying attention.
As to assault, you’re right. Legally, the sovereign cannot assault (not even MBS in SA). that being said what the sovereign is doing easily falls into the common law definition of assault:
“An intentional act by one person that creates an apprehension in another of an imminent harmful or offensive contact”
Note the words “offensive”, “contact” and “apprehension”. As my lawyer friend once explained to me, merely touching someone’s arm who you know doesn't want to be touched is assault.
A vaccination necessarily requires that a needle purposely touches, pierces, and injects a foreign substance into another.
If unwanted it constitutes assault, except that the state (as the BLM folks, thankfully, explained last year) has sovereign immunity.
The claim about the vaccines "wearing off" does not seem to be true. Compelling immunization also does not, in my view, constitute "assault," and I don't care if it makes people upset, something you could say about almost any policy imaginable.