Covido's definitions

Covid-🧟 ♂️

The hypothesis that zombies may be carriers of the coronavirus, which prompted the authorities to lock all cemetery gates or to have security guards patrolling the area at the request of superstitious folks to prevent these walking dead from infecting the general population.

Because the infection and mortality rates of residents living near cemeteries are above those from other neighborhoods, authorities don’t want to take any chances what if those infections and deaths were really due to Covid-🧟 ♂️.

by Covido November 16, 2020

Covid-🇮🇳

When India continues to break new world records in its daily rise in corona cases and deaths, with its hospitals running out of beds and medical oxygen, thanks to its inept and corrupt right-wing government, which allowed religious festivals and political rallies to be held, which became superspreader events, in the midst of the apocalyptic health situation plaguing the nation.

Just when the world thought that no head of state could match ex-President Trump’s failure in containing the pandemic crisis, Prime Minister Narendra Modi could prove everyone wrong by his serial mishandling of Covid-🇮🇳.

by Covido May 7, 2021

Singapore

The economic-and-political model country for rogue political leaders or dictators in developing countries, with capitalist leanings, who long to enrich themselves and their cronies—minimum political freedom for the electors and maximum financial gain for the elected.

A number of African and Asian nations are keen to emulate Singapore’s model of governance in helping their oft-undisciplined or unmotivated population out of poverty, by reducing red tape to promote business entrepreneurship and meting out heavy penalties for lawbreakers—and bankrupting or/and jailing those who try to “pollute the minds” of an oft-apathetic or petrified electorate.

by Covido January 25, 2022

Covid-🚢

When the Diamond Princess at one time—on day nine after the 3,700-odd passengers and crew started their two-week quarantine—became the world’s hot spot, when it had more corona cases than every nation except China.

How many billion dollars would the cruise sector be losing worldwide, and how many million jobs in the global tourism industry would be lost, since Covid-🚢 came to the world attention, when most countries refused to let the passengers disembark?

by Covido November 9, 2020

Cørøffin

A custom-made casket resembling the spiky coronavirus that a wealthy person would anonymously order to be sent to the loved ones of their dead business or political foe.

A Wuhan billionaire had commissioned carpenters in North Korea for a cørøffin, which would be flown to the United States as Beijing’s “donation” in the event that a China-unfriendly VIP at the White House experienced his last heartbeat.

by Covido September 5, 2020

The Great Lockdown

A term that refers to the global economic crisis brought about by the coronavirus pandemic, which has inflicted so much pain and suffering to millions of employed and jobless people—it is like Covid-19 has resurrected the Great Depression of the 1930s.

What are the odds that the widening inequality between the rich and the poor, exposed by the Great Lockdown, if not addressed, could lead to a global economic meltdown or apocalypse?

by Covido February 4, 2021

Covid-🇲🇲

When the double crises of military coup and Covid-19 pandemic could push half of the population of Myanmar, one of Asia’s poorest countries, below the poverty line of $1.10 a day, by completely wiping out the progress the country has made in reducing poverty over the last one and a half decades.

With ongoing protests against the military rule in which thousands of blue- and white-collar workers have gone on strike with the aim of disrupting the economy and unseating the coup leaders, would Burma ever recover from the Covid-🇲🇲 crisis without a people’s revolution to kick the military junta out of the political system?

by Covido May 1, 2021