Covido's definitions

Convict-19

A label given to a prisoner who has contracted the coronavirus, or died of it.

The authorities refused to reveal publicly the number of convict-19’s among the millions of inmates in US prisons, who are generally not given proper face masks and disinfectants to protect themselves.

by Covido November 28, 2020

Covikim

The name North Korea plans to christen its locally developed Covid-19 single-shot vaccine, which can be kept at regular refrigerated temperatures—it has allegedly been shown to be 91% effective in a Phase 3 trial involving no less than a quarter million human guinea pigs.

A spokesperson from the Pyongyang Medical University told the media that millions of free doses of Covikim would be shipped to friendly nations like Iran, Syria, and Mozambique as part of the country’s “vaccine diplomacy.”

by Covido January 29, 2021

Putin the Great

The unofficial title conferred by millions of mainland Chinese netizens on Dictator Vladimir Putin for waging a war against the US and its allies via Ukraine, which are afraid of China’s economic and military rise and the world order (or disorder) it would create—Chinese jingoists view him as “the greatest strategist” of the 21st century, who would help deliver resources-rich developing nations from American hegemony and hypocrisy.

Pro-Russia, pro-Putin, and pro-war Chinese online users, particularly the so-called “little pinks,” see President Putin as a demigod or political savior—it’s no surprise that these diehard pro-Xi fans call him “Putin the Great.”

by Covido February 27, 2022

Q-tistics

Short for “QAnon Statistics.” The conspiracy that the corona infections and deaths statistics in the US have been concocted or inflated to make Donald J. Trump look awfully untruthful and inept in managing the pandemic crisis.

President Trump claimed that “Only 6% people actually died of Covid-19,” “99% of coronavirus cases are “totally harmless,” and “US’s Covid-19 mortality rate is the lowest in the world.” Aren’t these examples of Q-tistics?

by Covido September 27, 2020

2🦠2🦠 MATH

When the mathematical education of millions of students in developing countries, who don’t have access to a computer or the internet, were hard hit by the lockdowns, which forced the authorities to postpone the national exams to 2021—a painful reality that exposes the wide inequality gap between the haves and the have-nots.

With new waves of the coronavirus pandemic currently sweeping many parts of the developed world, how much would 2🦠2🦠 math students be affected in the new year, especially when they’re not likely to be vaccinated before their counterparts in the West?

by Covido November 29, 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