An acronym for Covid Cautious or Covid Conscious. Being CC means that someone continues to practice harm reduction with
SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 based on quality scientific evidence rather than just
government policies or
popular trends, e.g. wearing a respie, promoting HEPA filtration and
good ventilation indoors, taking regular tests, and staying up to date on medical research. Many CC people are disabled or medically vulnerable and/or have loved ones who are; this motivates them to try to reduce the spread of COVID even after the rest of the world has given up. Often, people are CC because they've developed PASC ("long COVID") and are now disabled despite being healthy before they got the
virus, and they are motivated to continue taking precautions because they don't want this to happen to anyone else.
My
sister makes
fun of me for being CC, but she's had COVID five times now and has
chronic health problems that get worse with every reinfection. I wish she understood that I'm CC because I don't want her to get sicker!