Covido's definitions

COVID-🗿

When the natives of Easter Island realized that with closed borders during the coronavirus pandemic they could no longer depend on tourism for their survival; as a result, they switched to tapu, an ancient Polynesian tradition that is based on protecting their health, their lives, and their elders’ wisdom, with spiritual restrictions and shared prohibitions at its core.

In the long term, COVID-🗿could be a blessing in disguise for Easter Island—which relies so heavily on mainland Chile for food, and its 100,000-odd annual tourists for income—to be self-sustainable and waste-free.

by Covido December 26, 2020

COVID-🍦

When some mainland Chinese provinces are simplistically tempting vaccine skeptics or anti-vaxxers with buy-one-get-one-free ice cream cones if they get jabbed, as part of their carrot-and-stick strategy.

Is COVID-🍦just a quasi-ineffective primitive marketing gimmick to address vaccine hesitancy among some gullible residents?

by Covido April 10, 2021

Covid-🇲🇺

When the island paradise of Mauritius wished the coronavirus would go the way of the dodo, so that it could welcome back the tourists (and new tax fugitives) to revive its half-dead economy.

How long would the Dodo Island, which hopes that generous China would freely provide her with a million-odd doses of coronavirus vaccine to match her population size, have to wait before Covid-🇲🇺 became a reality?

by Covido November 25, 2020

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

Covid-📝

When Covid-19 quarantines and lockdowns stirred the hearts of tens of thousands of people worldwide to start writing letters to their long-lost friends, hoping that the one address they still have would somehow reach their recipients, as they reminisced the old good days of their friendship—when a pandemic refocuses their thoughts and priorities of what is really important in life.

Covid-19 has ironically brought about many good memories in millions of people, and one of them is to be infected with Covid-📝.

by Covido December 14, 2020

Math 4 Life

When quantitative reasoning or mathematical thinking, which makes use of numbers and other mathematically based ideas to reason our way through the kinds of problems that confront us every day, becomes a way of life or second nature to us.

Math 4 Life is quite different from oft-impractical school math, but it’s as just as, or sometimes more, important.

by Covido August 24, 2022