Do we even remember a time when “blockade”, “social distance” or “vaccine” were not part of the daily vernacular?
The terms COVID-19 have infiltrated our personal and professional conversations and now we use them casually in our day-to-day lives. Dictionary.com’s word of the year in 2020 was, after all, “pandemic.” The word for 2021 was “ally”- another, although less direct, assent to the pandemic.
So what’s there to laugh about when the latest report from the World Health Organization Have there been more than 281.8 million confirmed COVID-19 cases and more than 5.4 million deaths worldwide?
Well, experts have said time and again throughout the “landscape” that humor is not just an effective coping mechanism during a global crisis, it is It has been shown have health benefits, such as helping reduce stress and anxiety, which in turn can minimize risk of cardiovascular problems.
So, Star has decided to compile a list that brings together our favorite terms (some of which are real and some made up) that have become part of the lexiCOVID standard.
AN UNOFFICIAL COVID GLOSSARY
Before the timesLonging and nostalgia for easy, carefree times before COVID seems to have relieved some, giving way to acceptance of the new way of life for many people. This term, according to Merriam Webster, has existed long before the pandemic, especially in an episode of “Star Trek” “in which Early it was a period before a plague killed the adults of a planet. ”
Blurred day: A term to capture the feeling of days bleeding into each other, especially at the beginning of the pandemic during the confinement, when one day would inevitably resemble the previous one.
Coronavirus, Miss Rona, the rona: It’s been almost two years since the coronavirus first entered our vocabulary, and over time, a host of new words and nicknames appeared for a deadly virus that would kill millions of people.
Covidiot: Loosely defined as someone who chooses to ignore public health advice, often vehemently denying the severity of COVID-19; see “mask” below.
COVID-15: This term refers to the weight gain that many experienced as a result of sudden urges to bake banana bread or replicate TikTok recipes along with the closure of gyms, swimming pools, and other exercise venues.
Doomscrolling: Browse or scroll through the news even if it is saddening or maddening. Canadian journalist Karen K. Ho and former Star Media Group staff member helped popularize the term.
Emotional distancing: When you are alone, are you alone? As people around the world struggled with the often mandatory physical distancing between themselves and others, and people who were already isolated withdrew further, feelings of loneliness and loneliness seemed rampant. A survey conducted this summer showed that while vaccination rates increased along with loosening of restrictions, rates of anxiety and depression remained high.
Frontline workers: People who put their own health and safety aside and continued to work in person during a global pandemic, sometimes without proper personal protective equipment or without early access to vaccines, to provide care and services to the general population.
Maskhole: A pun, this refers to people who refuse to wear a mask properly and leave their nose exposed, or choose to wear a mask as a chin support.
Pandemic, panorama, panini, panny, Panasonic: The pandemic was from dictionary.com word of the year in 2020, and is defined as “a disease that is prevalent in an entire country, continent or the entire world.” The global disorder was reflected in a linguistic one, since in the early days, the word global pandemic seemed to prompt the appropriate and predictable response of concern. But as the pandemic progressed, many tweeted and posted videos from their living rooms while locked in and started calling it anything other than a pandemic. Maybe it was in vain “if you’re not laughing, you’re crying” or a way of coping by comically removing the urgency and severity associated with the word.
PPE: N95, surgical masks, face shields, also known as personal protective equipment. What was once used strictly by people in the fields of health and medicine now has a home in most people’s cabinets.
Quarantines: People were finding ways to cope with the global crisis, and for some this meant consuming alcohol. Often. And a lot of it. The LCBO kept stores open during the COVID-19 closures and reported an increase in sales on most channels at the beginning of the pandemic, noting that sales were up sharply from the previous year.
Sanny: Remember back in the days (see above), when hand sanitizer was relegated to a little bucket in the travel section of the pharmacy? Hand sanitizer, such a rare commodity in the early stages of the pandemic that people felt the need to stockpile truckloads of it, has become so deeply integrated into our daily routines that we hardly notice the current texture of our overly dry hands. scaly that have developed in 20 years since 2020.
FMH: While many were required to continue working in person to deliver food and goods and staff to hospitals, long-term care homes, factories, warehouses and grocery stores despite the high number of cases and without the massive availability of vaccines (at that time), “FMH” (work from home) became synonymous with privilege and further highlighted the evident division in the social class structure.
Zoom: As some people’s lives moved almost entirely online during the early days of the lockdown, Zoom, Teams, FaceTime, WhatsApp, and House Party were used almost primarily to communicate both professionally and personally. Zoom experienced meteoric growth as stocks surged nearly 400 percent in 2020. Along with our new virtual reality, there were fun new scenarios (the teacher using a potato filter, the cat lawyer, Zoombombing of children and pets) and some troublesome (Zoom dysmorphia, courts fighting to stop the illegal sharing of video trial images, liberal MP Will Amos exposing himself during a parliamentary call (twice), to grapple.
So whether you’ve fully embraced your new “vaxxed,” TikTok scrolling, panDemi Lovato’s life, or you. They still long for the old days, one thing’s for sure: Although it often feels like the joke is ours, laughter can be a great form of therapy.
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