Ten words you need to know to understand how we can be entering the seventh year of the covid pandemic.
1
Covvabarator
A public health figure who sides with the virus over the people.
2
Afraidance
Avoiding the truth because you're scared of it.
3
Justapose
To take the stance that a serious illness is just a cold, just a flu, just a measles, just a whooping cough.
4
Decaydence
Gradually getting sicker because brunch.
5
Sarschasm
The profound gap between what people know about Covid infection and what science has proven about Covid infection.
6
Emopath
Someone who claims to care about children but keeps making them sicker.
7
Scientishts
People who look like scientists but don't look at science.
8
Covincidence
When something proven to be caused by covid infection is treated as a strange coincidence.
9
Masquerode
Undermining mask effectiveness and usage while pretending to respect science and personal choice.
10
Covplay
Warning people to wash their hands or get vaccinated against covid without recommending any action to prevent airborne infection.
11
Deathsmissing
Saying it's ok someone died because they were older, disabled, or a rock or film star, or human.
12
Covnitive Dissonance
Any mental contradiction to do with Covid:
Eg "We know covid doesn't cause harm because no one is testing"
13
Aerosolver
Someone who understands and accepts airborne spread and acts accordingly.
14
Vibonomy
Running the economy on vibes and hoping long term disability just sorts itself out.
15
Pandemystery
A health problem clearly caused by covid infections.
16
Covnitive Dysfunction
Brain fog, memory problems, or slowed thinking after covid.
17
Titaniac
Someone stubborn enough to resist the pressure to keep getting sick like everyone else is.
18
Aerosolution
FFP2/N95+masks worn properly, ventilation, hepa filters, meeting outdoors. 1
19
Cumulonimble
Understanding that repeated infections add up, and adjusting your behaviour because of it rather than pretending you are invincible.
20
Surrendespair
Giving up on avoiding infection, not because it is safe, but because everyone else does it.
21
Sterilying
Getting people's hopes up about a potential future but as yet non-existent medical solution, therefore encouraging them to get sick now.
22
Mildelusion
Pretending to yourself that pathogens always become less harmful despite facts.
23
Denialysis
Ignoring information you don't like.
24
Scarecrov
A scientisht (see above) who dismisses people warning about the proven harms of covid by labelling them scaremongers.
25
Integrectomy
The removal of ethical integrity from public health or clinical practice.
(with thanks to
@N95Anaesthetist)
@N95Anaesthetist 26
Semmelwince
The expression you make when a doctor washes their hands but isn't wearing a mask.
(with thanks to @N95Anaesthetist)
@N95Anaesthetist 27
Airmnesia
The systemic forgetfulness that covid is airborne.
(with thanks to @N95Anaesthetist)
28
Oblividence
Choosing not to notice evidence so you can stay comfortable and relaxed.
29
Masquerage
Getting angry with people who wear masks.
30
Infectionists
People who actively promote harmful infection as normal, unavoidable, and beneficial, and push others towards it.
31
Quacademics
Credentialed people who give dangerous nonsense the appearance of science and hurt people badly.
32
Mitigishion
Providing staff with surgical masks for an airborne disease.
33
Ignoranscendence
A higher state of ignorance based entirely on the ignorance of others.
34
Bloviology
Loving to talk at length about how Covid is harmless, with great confidence but no curiosity or empathy.
35
Hippocratic Sloth
Of doctors, being too lazy or unwilling to put on a mask to protect patients from an airborne disease.
36
Covoid
A health news article that should mention covid infection, but carefully does not.
37
Anythingelsis
Diagnosing a post-covid condition as literally anything else, as long as it is not Long Covid.
38
Christmisser
Someone who gets badly ill every year in late December, then treats it as bad luck and does it all again the next year, but also in February and April and June.
39
Afterbody
Your body after you've had a covid infection.
40
Afterbody Plus
Your body after repeated covid infections, carrying the cumulative and increasing effects.
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