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Definitions by Monkey's Dad

isolassitude 

Lack of energy and mental fatigue from being alone.
After months of working from home, going nowhere and seeing no one, barely caring to get dressed, he felt crushing isolassitude.

recirculated err 

He tried not to do the same stupid thing more that two hundred times, but it seemed to happen anyway, and he was growing tired of breathing recirculated err.

Georgia on my Mind 

After being "liberated" by its governor, Georgia reported nearly 1,000 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours.
Thinking not of its reopened tattoo parlors, bowling alleys and nail salons, but of all those who would inevitably sicken and suffer, kept Georgia on my mind this morning.

American slaughterhouse 

The location of massively disproportionate numbers of COVID-19 infections.
By late April, it still had not occurred to anyone in government to question whether the American slaughterhouse shutdowns, due to huge numbers of worker infections, might be a signal that coronavirus was animal-borne.

saturmontuesfrithurswedsunday 

The New Week.
In the COVID-19, stay-at-home time-sense, any given saturmontuesfrithurswedsunday might as well be any other.

conspiracy theory 

Literally - the idea of people breathing together.

Con=together. Spire=breathe.
She didn't want a respirator, didn't want to expire. Her inspiration was that once the pandemic passed she might breathe with other people, her conspiracy theory, and it filled her with hope.

Coronundrum 

As the months wore on, all hopeful answers leading to dead ends, coronavirus threatened to become an incurable coronundrum.
Coronundrum by Monkey's Dad April 26, 2020