Pretend this is one of those Facebook quizzes and put a checkmark besides any words/phrases you didn’t know (or think about regularly) *before* a month ago when the Coronavirus began to expand and grow our language…
- Asymptomatic
- Carole Fuckin’ Baskin
- CERB
- Community Spread
- Contact Free Delivery
- Contact Tracing
- Contagion (movie)
- Coronavirus
- COVID
- Covidiot
- Coworker (in reference to children and/or pets)
- Curbside Pickup
- Day pyjamas/Night pyjamas
- Dr. Fauci
- Droplets
- Essential Workers
- Exponential Growth
- Flatten The Curve
- Google Classroom
- Herd Immunity
- Higher Risk
- Houseparty
- Hydroxychloroquine
- Instacart
- Intubation
- Joe Exotic
- Keep A Safe Distance
- Livestream
- Mitigation
- N95
- NetflixandStayStill, NetFlixandChills, NetFlixandAntiViralPills
- Online Delivery
- Open Up The Economy
- Pandemic
- Pandemic Playlist
- Physical Distancing
- PPE
- Presumptive Positive
- Quarantine
- Quarantini
- Respirator
- R Naught
- Self Isolate
- Senior Grocery Hours
- Shelter at Home/Shelter in Place
- Shutdown
- Six Feet (minor quibble – the Prime Minister and others regularly say “two metres” which is appropriate as a metric-based country. But I wish they’d say “six feet or two metres” sort of like how they’ll repeat the same message in English and French!)
- Slow The Spread/Stop The Spread
- Social Distancing
- Sourdough
- Spanish Flu
- Speak Moistley
- Statistically Significant
- Stay at Home Order
- Super Spreader
- Telework (or “WFH – Work From Home”)
- Temperature Check
- The Name of Every Chief Medical Officer in the Country
- Tiger King
- Toilet Paper Shortage
- Ventilator
- Viral Load/Viral Spread
- Virtual Happy Hour
- Wet Market
- World Health Organization
- Wuhan
- Yeast
- Zoom
- Zoonoses(Inspired by this tweet.)
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