“PANDEMIC” = “DEM PANIC”
Yes. Dem Panic = Demon Panic
reminds me of the old classic:
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
by Mackay (in the 1850’s)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24518
The Mississippi scheme — The south-sea bubble — The tulipomania — The alchymists — Modern prophecies — Fortune-telling — The magnetisers — Influence of politics and religion on the hair and beard — The crusades — The witch mania — The slow poisoners — Haunted houses — Popular follies of great cities — Popular admiration of great thieves — Duels and ordeals — Relics.