VOCABULARY USED FOR COVID-19 [ CORONAVIRUS]

🦄 PANDEMIC  - (noun) when an epidemic spreads throughout the world.

🦄 CONTAGIOUS - able to be passed from one person to another 

🦄 OUTBREAK - a sudden increase in something negative (eg. Disease,  war)

🦄 QUARANTINE - a period or a state of isolation to prevent the spread of infection.

🦄 LOCKDOWN  - a situation in which people are not allowed to leave or enter.

🦄 COVIDIOT - a stupid person stubbornly ignores social distancing protocol, thus helping to further spread COVID-19

🦄 EPIDEMIC - Outbreak of disease that spreads quickly and effects many individual at the same time.

🦄 BLURSDAY - (noun) an specified day because of the lockdown's disorienting effect on time.

🦄 FLATTEN THE CURVE - (verb) slow the spread of a virus to reduce the peak number of cases and related demands on hospitals a d infrastructures.

🦄 SUPER SPREADER - (noun) person infected with a virus who transmits or spreads it to a  unusually large number of people.

🦄 WFH - work from home 

🦄 WFO - work from office 

🦄 CARRIER - (noun) a person or animal that transmits a disease to others, whether suffering from it themselves or not.

🦄 PATIENT ZERO - (noun) the person identified as the first to become infected with a disease in an outbreak.

🦄 SPRING BROKE - that week in April which you still can't leave the house and have no money anyway.

Also 'broke' relates to potential breakdown under such circumstances.

🦄 STAY HOME - For the sake of your and your community's health please stay home

🦄 INCUBATION PERIOD - the time from a person's first exposure to a disease to the when symptoms develop

🦄 SUPER SPREADER - individual who is highly contagious and capable of transmitting disease 

🦄 ENDEMIC - a disease or condition regularly found among particular people or in a certain area.

🦄 CORONACUT - a haircut you give yourself during the coronavirus pandemic because the non - essential barber shops are closed 

🦄 PPE - personal protective equipment 

🦄 INFECTIOUS - able to pass a disease from one person , animal, or plant to another

🦄 CONTRACT  - to catch or become I'll with a disease 

🦄 IMMUNE SYSTEM - the cells and tissues in the body make it able to protect itself against infection 

🦄 QUARANTINE  - the cocktail people drink at home while under quarantine. Also led to the trend of ' virtual happy hour'.

🦄 CAREMONGERING - spreading kindness and love to help the lonely, anxious a s vulnerable 

🦄 DOOMSCROLLING - obsessively scrolling for updates on the pandemic- even though there's no good news.

🦄 ZOONOTIC - used to refer to a disease that can spread from animals to humans. 

🦄 RAMP UP  - increase