Definitions by Monkey's Dad

personal disappearance 

The care we take with how we look, when there is no one to see us.

Saturday night in a city under lockdown, another date with her laptop. She brushed her hair and put on makeup, knowing that for the foreseeable future, she would be the only one to take pleasure in her personal disappearance.

personal disappearance by Monkey's Dad March 18, 2020

Love in the Time of Callera

The era when a phone call may be your only means of connecting with a loved one.

... with a hat tip to Colombian Nobel-prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez for his 1985 novel Love In the Time of Cholera.

She wondered how long it would be until they could touch each other, see each other, breathe the same air. But he could call, she could hear his voice, and that was love in the time of callera.

Love in the Time of Callera by Monkey's Dad March 18, 2020

virtual unreality

Disorientation when all normal human activity had been re-routed through computers.

Working from home, shopping from home, seeing other people only through skype and facetime, they felt a virtual unreality no one had predicted.

virtual unreality by Monkey's Dad March 18, 2020

resilify 

To increase resilience and enhance immunity.

After her double nursing shift, she was exhausted, anxious and hungry, all making her vulnerable. She hoped that a good dinner and a night's sleep would help her resilify, as she was going to need her strength tomorrow.

resilify by Monkey's Dad March 18, 2020

flight risk 

The new Fear of Flying, where people on a plane are inches apart and, once seated beside someone coughing, there is nowhere to escape.

Advised to distance himself from other humans, needing to get to Chicago, he assessed the flight risk and decided to drive.

flight risk by Monkey's Dad March 18, 2020

domestididact 

Home schooled.

Like every other child in America at the moment, his school shut down indefinitely, her son was becoming a domestididact. Together twenty-four hours a day, she would try to teach him what she could, although she knew nothing for certain any more.

domestididact by Monkey's Dad March 17, 2020

coronaviral 

Something which spreads at unprecedented speed.

The swift lockdown of the planet was coronaviral.

coronaviral by Monkey's Dad March 17, 2020