Pandemicink is the experience of intense sexual arousal in response to a real or imagined pandemic. Objects such as masks, latex gloves, and scrubs, for example, are viewed as aesthetically pleasing and may become fetishes. This paraphilia may also involve behavior such as doctor-patient role play, participation in remote threesomes, or in extreme cases, edge play scenarios like "bug-chasing" (seeking out infected individuals or high-risk front-line care workers as sexual partners).

Intelligence agency term for "psychological operation". A government or corporate-sponsored operation, usually taking the form of a "terrorist attack" or "crazed gunman on a spree", with the intent of panicking the public into demanding more police and laws inhibiting freedom. Psyops are usually carried out by drugging a civilian or group of civilians with aggression-promoting drugs, psyching them up, arming them, and sending them out to commit mayhem. Government-sponsored terrorism. See also blackshirts, conspiracy