Covid-19: Euphemisms for the Duration
When I was a young kid -- single-digit age -- like all members of Generation X I lived a life of extreme cartoon deprivation, compared to kids today: other than Saturday morning cartoons, the only ones I could watch on a regular basis were old (1930s through 50s/earliest 60s) shorts which originally aired in movie theaters, but by the time I came around you'd find them on local indie TV stations that mostly aired whatever syndicated content could be had cheap. Since a lot of those cartoons (Woody Woodpecker, Tom and Jerry, Max Fleischer's and Tex Avery's oeuvres) came out in the early 40s, I actually got a "feel" for certain aspects of daily life in World War Two before I had any inkling of their contemporary equivalents -- for example, I had a vague understanding of how "ration points" had to be considered whenever you'd buy food at the grocery store, loooong before I knew anything about the importance of checking the unit price of an item in order to get the best deal (e.g. "Paying $1.50 for the 20-ounce bottle is a better bargain than paying $1.00 for 10 ounces").
So, here's a question for all of you: what phrases, abbreviations or euphemisms, if any, have YOU been using when discussing the quarantine and other covid-19 issues?
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