Covido's definitions

Covid-🇲🇻

When tourists to Muslim-majority Maldives, where the quality of its health infrastructure is questionable, needn’t serve any quarantine on arrival, but have to bear any medical costs should they be infected with the coronavirus—a catch-22 situation where they are most likely to be buried on one of the islands should they fail to recover even with access to a China-made ventilator.

With India donating their homegrown half-baked vaccine to Maldives as part of their vaccine diplomacy to sideline China, and with the local population getting inoculated, the odds of half-hearted budget tourists facing a Covid-🇲🇻 situation are lower.

by Covido January 21, 2021

Covid Rule

When a thin majority or weak government declares a nationwide state of emergency as an excuse to curb the spread of the coronavirus to hang on to power, or to prevent the administration from collapsing.

Malaysian PM resorts to Covid rule to suspend the parliament, thus preventing any elections to be held during the emergency, which could last until 2022, when the situation returned to normal.

by Covido January 12, 2021

Braccine

When wealthy corona patients want to bribe doctors so that they needn’t wait for weeks or months to be vaccinated—they let the doctors decide what they wish to do with their generous contribution: to keep it for themselves, or to donate it to a charity (out of guilt).

A CEO was about to donate $50,000 to the hospital for getting a braccine, but withheld the money when he’s told that he wouldn’t be getting the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 or the Moderna dosage, but the Sputnik V shot instead—a proof that not all Covid-19 vaccines are treated equal.

by Covido December 19, 2020

Covid-Minded

When you spend an unhealthy part of your day feeling anxious or paranoiac about the coronavirus and its effects on your life and those of your loved ones.

Those with a covid-minded attitude would likely increase their anxiety or stress level, which could lead some vulnerable folks to end their lives prematurely.

by Covido July 1, 2021

Covid-404

The error message Miss Corona saw when she visited Satan’s website, which had crashed as a result of tens of thousands of his ambassadors accessing it, who felt defenseless against the half-dozen vaccines currently available in the market.

When Covid-404 popped up on her screen, Ms. Corona knew that her days on Earth are numbered, and that it’s time for her to get ready to journey to other planets to carry on her deadly mission.

by Covido March 2, 2021

Covid-🏴 ☠️

When pirates or sea thieves have been kept busy figuring out how to take advantage of the surge in cargo ships passing by their coastal lands to raid and rob them during the coronavirus pandemic.

Thanks to Covid-🏴 ☠️, Somali marauders have had a boon time attacking a number of ships this year in spite of the economic pains brought about by Covid-19 at home—they sell their loot to buy food to survive the pandemic crisis.

by Covido December 13, 2020

Coronaissance

A bourgeois term for the next wave of the coronavirus pandemic to sweep across a county or country.

Rogue or right-wing inept heads of state are worried how a second, third, or fourth coronaissance would impact the “frontline worriers,” who have been slaving round the clock to protect their nations against the coronavirus and its ever-deadlier variants.

by Covido June 6, 2021