You know how people behaving stupidly; recklessly endangering themselves and others during the COVID 19 pandemic gave rise to the term Covidiot? Turns out, the unprecedented circumstances we find ourselves in, have given rise to many other new terms as well: the Quarantini, the Moronavirus and so on. Of course, this grave global crisis has also inspired a whole new type of dark humour or corona-humour.
This is the person who endangers not only themselves but also others around.
There is now a breed of entitled, belligerent and insufferable conspiracy theorists who believe that there is no need to wear a mask; that mask-wearing is part of some deep dark plot.
After first having denied the seriousness of the pandemic and then having handled it poorly, many blame POTUS Donald Trump for the US being the world leader in Coronavirus cases.
There is the special martini that will help navigate through the difficulties of the quarantine.
Yes, fattening, not flattening. The lockdown has triggered the over-eating impulse in a lot of people. They decided to #fattenthecurve rather than to flatten it.
There are/were a lot of couples stuck at home, with little to do except err… be together during the lockdown. Maybe the stork will come calling nine months later?
Ordinarily they long to be at home, but now that they’ve been told that they have to be home, they don’t want to do it.
Remember how they were making end-of-the-world predictions not so long ago? Perhaps they were merely inaccurate, not wrong.
People are behaving differently in public because we don’t know how a simple thing such as coughing in public may be perceived.
So many people staying at home means that the weather out of doors isn't that important any more. No umbrella decisions to be taken.
Some restaurants are offering innovatively named new items on their menus.
People are thinking back to times when they could go to a restaurant and eat without thinking about numbers, distancing, masks, sanitising, etc.
Many events are being called off. Even the Olympics have been postponed to next year!
Wannabe is now suitably amended with the altered world reality of coronavirus.
We have had plenty of reasons to really, really dislike 2020. The coronavirus jokes and the new COVID lexicon may be the only silver linings to the clouds.
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