13 new words that have emerged from the coronavirus pandemic

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

So calledCovidiot a person who does not take the pandemic seriously, spreads fakes, does not observe the self-isolation regime, screams at every corner about 5G towers and the 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, the deniers of the coronavirus were named - those who claim that it does not exist, people get sick something else or do not get sick at all, and Bill Gates, under the cover of a nonexistent epidemic, wants everyone to chip.

4. Coronosceptics

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

5. Crown enthusiasts

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

6. Coronafeiki

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 exterminators, 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. Masquerade

In May, the Russian government began to quietly ease restrictions imposed by the pandemic, and allowed residents of some regions to go to work, walk in parks, play sports outdoors air. True, do it all can only wearing a mask and gloves. Moreover, the benefits from 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. Corona panic

It's about the reaction of people to a pandemic. About the purchase of fuflomycins, 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. Outside

In April 2020, cartoonist Oleg Kuvaev, after a long break, released a new episode "Masyani" (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

So calledCoronials the unborn "pandemic generation" - children conceived during quarantine. The word is formed by analogy with millennials and centenaries.

13. Covidarity

During the epidemic, many were 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 those locked up in quarantine, restaurant chains fed doctors free of charge, lawyers conducted consultations. This surge of kindness, compassion and solidarity during the COVID-19 era came to be called covidarity.