# Coin a Covid-19 term **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [March 19, 2020, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coin-a-covid-19-term/849822 "2020-03-19T18:20:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coin-a-covid-19-term/849822/21 "2020-03-23T15:38:35Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > COVFEFE-19: The term for the administration’s handling of the pandemic/press briefings/tweets/etc. See also: Covidiocracy. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coin-a-covid-19-term/849822/22 "2020-03-23T15:52:45Z")
**Covidenial** –the idiot children on Spring Break, drinking, drugging, dancing, swapping germs, saying, “It’s MY life, and you can’t tell me what to do!” Obviously, those kids are not all independently wealthy. Why hasn’t Mommy or Daddy cancelled the credit cards and phone contract, with the message, “Come home now, idiot. You’ll be sleeping in the garage for the next fourteen days.” Perhaps the word I mean is **Covidelusional**. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coin-a-covid-19-term/849822/23 "2020-03-23T15:54:54Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > COVFEFE-19: The term for the administration’s handling of the pandemic/press briefings/tweets/etc. This term also includes the statement, “I’m a smart man, and I have a good feeling about this drug.” ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coin-a-covid-19-term/849822/24 "2020-03-23T17:02:35Z")
**Coroneo and Juliet** - lovestruck teens who have to break quarantine because their love for each other is Just Too Pure. (If there isn’t a movie made with the above title, I will be shocked.) ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coin-a-covid-19-term/849822/25 "2020-03-23T17:58:27Z")
I posted this in the [New Words and Phrases](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=890916) thread in Cafe Society a couple of days ago: > [@](#): > > A new noun: **Penitentiary Walk** > > Definition: In a public space such as a park or a well-used trail, a walk in which each group maintains a safe and polite distance (typically at least 10 meters) between itself and the group ahead. > > Example of use: Social distancing was giving us cabin fever - we had to get out of he house, so we went for a penitentiary walk beside the canal. > > Also the corresponding verb, **to penitentiary walk** - to walk as described above. j ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coin-a-covid-19-term/849822/26 "2020-03-23T18:13:58Z")
I didn’t coin this but I heard on an NPR show this weekend that “Social Distancing” is too negative and we should instead be “ **Socializing from a Distance** ”. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coin-a-covid-19-term/849822/27 "2020-03-24T00:24:22Z")
Covid 19: the 19 pounds you gain from being stuck inside with nothing to do but stream Netflix and munch. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coin-a-covid-19-term/849822.md?page=1)