Definitions by Covido
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.
Covid-🇻🇪
When the Facebook page of Venezuelan President-turned-Dictator Nicolás Maduro was frozen after he repeatedly promoted misinformation about the coronavirus, such as claiming with zero evidence that a herbal remedy could cure Covid-19.
Like US ex-President Donald Trump and Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro who both promoted fake remedies, Venezuelan’s Prescriptor-in-Chief is advising his people how to fight Covid-🇻🇪 inexpensively with herbs rather than depending on dear risky vaccines produced by unfriendly Western nations.
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?
Frankenstein Vaccination
When rogue scientists are unethically considering mixing different homegrown vaccines with low rates of protection into a hybrid one, or are planning to inoculate people with two or three doses of different vaccines, to boost efficacy.
China, which had trialed four vaccines whose efficacy rates are as low as 50%, is seriously considering Frankenstein vaccination to optimize its immunization process.
Frankenstein Vaccination by Covido April 12, 2021
The Positives of the Coronavirus
When the world experienced a temporary relief in weather and road conditions, as daily carbon emissions dropped globally and the air quality improved substantially for millions of people during the lockdowns.
Be they boars roaming the streets of Barcelona, bears entering homes or supermarkets in California, or beavers playing along the river bank in London, these are arguably some of the positives of the coronavirus.
The Positives of the Coronavirus by Covido April 12, 2021
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.
Covid-🇭🇰
When Hong Kong is politically being taken advantage of by China during the pandemic crisis, as the Chinese Communists passed a “security law” to weaken its Western-style political system following months-long pro-democracy protests that had plagued the city.