13 new words that have emerged from the coronavirus pandemic

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Koronasleng, covid-neologisms and a little "Masyanya".

1. Covid, covid

This is the abbreviated name for the virus itself and those who are sick with it - so as not to write COVID-19 or "patients with coronavirus infection" every time. The word "covid" has a dismissive ‑ squeamish connotation, so it is better to use it with caution.

2. Covidiot

This is the name of a person who does not take the pandemic seriously, spreads fakes, does not observe the regime of self-isolation, screams at every corner about 5G towers and conspiracies of the world government of reptilian pedophiles. It also empties store shelves without caring for others. You can read more about this in our article.

3. Covid dissident

A kind of covidiot. There are HIV / AIDS dissidents - strange people who believe that HIV does not exist, and pharmaceutical companies and the government simply poison people with drugs. By analogy with them, deniers of the coronavirus were named - those who claim that it does not exist, people are sick with something else or do not get sick at all, and Bill Gates, under the guise of a non-existent epidemic, wants to microchip everyone.

4. Coronosceptics

They, like the dissidents, lack complete confidence in the information provided by official sources. Coronoskeptics, as a rule, do not support conspiracy theories, but believe that the scale of the problem is exaggerated, harsh measures are not needed, to isolate oneself or not is a private matter for everyone.

5. Corona enthusiasts

They are opponents of skeptics and dissidents. Crown enthusiasts advocate self-isolation and masks and have heated debates urging others to do the same.

6. Coronafakes

This is fake news that is booming on social media and messengers amid general anxiety and uncertainty. This includes the aforementioned tales of Bill Gates and 5G towers, and panic reports that robbers, posing as pest controllers, are putting people to sleep with gas, and just unverified information.

7. Quarantines

In March, we were all sent either on vacation, or to quarantine, or to mysterious self-isolation. Nobody understood what it was, and as a result, such a capacious and funny word was born - quarantines, combining "vacation" and "quarantine".

8. Masculinity

In May, the Russian government began to gradually ease the restrictions imposed by the pandemic, and allowed residents of some regions to go to work, walk in parks, and play sports in the fresh air. True, all this can be done only with a mask and gloves. Moreover, the benefits of them are not fully confirmed, it is inconvenient to walk in them and they are now decently worthy. Therefore, the new rules caused a stream of indignation, sarcasm and memes, and for masked obscurantism they came up with an appropriate name - masquerade.

9. Coronapanic

This is about the reaction of people to a pandemic. About the purchase of fuflomycin, decadent forecasts, the spread of fakes, attempts to dig in a hut in the forest or dig a cellar and fill it to the brim with buckwheat and toilet paper.

10. Outward

In April 2020, cartoonist Oleg Kuvaev, after a long break, released a new episode of "Masyanya" (if someone suddenly does not know, these are short and funny cartoons about the girl Masyanya, her boyfriend and friends). According to the plot, the heroine, together with her family, sits on self-isolation, and the outside world, which now seems distant and almost non-existent, calls out. The video received 5 million views, and quotes and words from it leaked to the Web.

11. Zoom

Well, everything is simple here: it means communicating in Zoom - a service for video calls. In the past two and a half months, this has become a common form of communication.

12. Coronials

This is the name of the yet unborn "pandemic generation" - children conceived during quarantine. The word is formed by analogy with millennials and centenaries.

13. Covidarity

During the epidemic, many found themselves in trouble - they got sick, were left without money, could not buy their own food. But there were also those who came to the rescue: volunteers went shopping for the elderly, neighbors brought food for the quarantined, restaurant chains fed doctors for free, lawyers consulted. This surge of kindness, compassion and solidarity during the COVID-19 era has come to be called covidarity.