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Covid-𝛿

Read as “Covid-delta.” Also known as the B.1.617.2 or “Delta” variant. The Indian variant, which is responsible for the second, third, or fourth wave now sweeping many countries, carries 2.61 times the risk of hospitalization within 14 days compared to the UK’s “Alpha” variant.

A recent study shows that 73% of Covid-𝛿 cases are in unvaccinated people, compared to only 3.7% in people who have been fully jabbed, which suggests that it pays to be inoculated to avoid being infected or reinfected.

by MathPlus June 18, 2021

MASKHØLE

Someone who grudgingly wears a face mask in public after being fined at least once for failing to do so previously.

After being fined $300 for her first offense and $1,000 for her second offense for refusing to wear a mask in public, Arna is now a repentant maskhøle, who has been

warned that a third offense would land her behind bars.

by MathPlus March 13, 2021

Maskepreneur

A fly-by-night opportunist who imports cheap face masks from China, most of which probably don’t meet the safety health standards for public use, to repackage and resell them to both developed and developing countries, or to offer them online at a wallet-unfriendly price.

In the aftermath of the shortage of face masks in so many parts of the world, maskepreneurs have sprung up overnight to meet the demands of millions of unvaccinated people, who want to mask themselves until they receive their jab.

by MathPlus June 18, 2021

Sinovated

Being jabbed with China’s home-made, half-baked Covid-19 vaccine, which has so far received zero approval for use from developed countries, but instead is being donated to most African and Middle East countries as part of the country’s vaccine diplomacy.

With the rich nations hoarding the “branded vaccines,” most of the developing countries have no choice but to have their citizens sinovated rather than let them wait to be jabbed with their preferred vaccines.

by MathPlus March 20, 2021

Pi

WHO's yet-to-be-approved 16th letter of the Greek alphabet as a politically correct label for the politically charged “Trumpvirus”—named after Trum-pi-sm—to avoid stigmatizing any right-wing inept head of state who failed to prevent millions of infections and thousands of deaths.

Diehard Trumpists and hardcore QAnonists have complained to the World Health Organization that Democrat lawmakers’ and US-unfriendly nations’ use of “Trumpvirus” is discriminatory or demeaning, so they suggested rechristening it to “Pi,” and proposed “Tau” for its twice deadly variant (B.6.28).

by MathPlus May 31, 2021

Covid-👽

When conspiracists or Trumpists-turned-QAnonists attributed the origin of the coronavirus not to a lab in Wuhan but to the extraterrestrials that apparently wanted to harm the earthlings, or to prove to them that they are inferior to other galactic beings.

President Trump, who blamed China for infecting the US with Covid-19, refused to expose the conspiracy promoted by some of his supporters for linking Covid-👽 to the high number of infection cases and deaths plaguing the country.

by MathPlus September 26, 2020

Covid-𝜊

Read as “Covid-Omicron.” Also known as the B.1.1.529 or “Omicron” variant. WHO’s second “variant of concern” for South Africa—after the Beta variant (B.1.351)—that is thought to be more infectious and transmissible than the Delta variant, and can apparently bypass most of the protection offered by presently approved vaccines.

What are the odds that profit-driven vaccine makers would soon pressure folks who were recently boosted against the Delta variant to go for a fourth shot to protect themselves against the unprovenly deadliest Covid-𝜊?

by MathPlus December 2, 2021