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    Mary Schmich: Coronachondria, coronacravings and pandemania: A few words to describe our strange new times

    by Mary Schmich, Chicago Tribune Apr 30, 2020 3 minutes

    Among the many things changed by the sad, eerie moment we're living in is our vocabulary. We bat around words most of us had never heard or spoken until a few weeks ago.

    PPP. PPE. Coronavirus. COVID. Zoom. Zoom fatigue. Coronapocalypse. Covidiot. Doomscrolling. Quarantini.

    Some of our new words are deadly serious, but some, inevitably, are humorous. It's a human reflex to leaven our grief and dread by laughing about what terrifies us.

    In that

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