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Definitions by Monkey's Dad

Tokyo Hilton

A mythical place of serenity, unimaginable to most, where a woman's cares vanish.
She knew that others were suffering, but for the moment, her pillows fluffed, her coffee done exactly the way she loved it and brought to her bedside, she felt she was at the Tokyo Hilton, and the world was at peace.
Tokyo Hilton by Monkey's Dad March 29, 2020

Icon tact 

The care a sports hero or movie star takes to maintain eye-contact and appear humble when expounding on something they know nothing about.
Asked his opinion on the impact of coronavirus on climate change, and also how it felt to see his new action flick streamed instead of released, he looked directly at the host, maintaining icon tact, and began cautiously to espouse his scientific theories.
Icon tact by Monkey's Dad March 29, 2020
A multiple of units of coronaviral infection.
Watching the growth of COVID-19 move exponentially, with nothing on the horizon to reverse the trend, the doctor feared that infections would soon be measured by the gigabug.
Gigabug by Monkey's Dad March 29, 2020

2020 Social Climber 

Someone who aspires to share dinner in a restaurant with another person, before the year is out.
He accepted that he was a 2020 Social Climber, longing to be invited to any party, where he would weave fanciful stories of having been anywhere, and rubbed elbows with anyone.

underlying condition 

A pre-existing medical issue that can increase a person's vulnerability to contracting coronavirus and/or dying from it.

Anything which renders someone less than optimally healthy, compromising their immunity.

Being human.
Just being alive felt like an underlying condition. Her asthma was an additional factor, she supposed, but each day she was getting news of yet another person coming down with corona. They were old, middle-aged, young, healthy or not.

The James Taylor Prophecy 

The lyrics to his song "Her Town Too" have taken on a new edge in the age of coronavirus:
"She's been afraid to go out
She's afraid of the knock on her door"
Lying in bed, fearful of leaving her apartment, waiting for a stranger to deliver her dinner, the song came up.

'It's the James Taylor Prophecy', she thought, 'I'm afraid to go out, I'm afraid of the knock on my door, always a shade of a doubt, I can never be sure, who comes to call. Maybe the friend of a friend of a friend. Anyone at all. Anything but nothing again.'

The New New York 

An almost unrecognizable city, silent and still, filled with people yet seemingly abandoned.
From her balcony she looked down at the bizarrely empty streets of the New New York.