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Pandemic Patois

‘Blursday,’ ‘Covidiot,’ ‘Doomscrolling’ — How the Covid19 Pandemic Changed the English Language Forever

...we focused on during the pandemic, possibly giving us a window into what we considered important or relevant at the time. It not only introduces pandemic-specific terms but also heavily...

Describing the Pandemic As a ‘War’ Is Ineffective and Dangerous

...use of violence as a metaphor for describing a contagious pandemic like Covid19 can be dangerous, divisive, and at times, fatal. When the pandemic is framed as a war, the...

By Shashikant Yadav

It Doesn't Matter

Why People Feel the Need to Blame China For the Pandemic

...be seen reflected in the way conspiracy theories regarding the coronavirus pandemic evolved. As the pandemic spread and claimed more lives, people started suspecting whether the coronavirus was born in...

Pay Cuts, No Plan to Restart Play — Women’s Football Faces Pandemic Setback

A global union of football players, Fifpro, conducted a survey on how women footballers have fared in the Covid19 pandemic, only to find that a majority of players across 62...

This Is Not A Drill

Flu‑Like Viral Pandemic Will Soon Kill 80 Million, Wipe Out 5% of World Economy

...of an epidemic or pandemic on the scale predicted will be calamitous. “The World Bank estimates that a global influenza pandemic akin to the scale and virulence of the one...

By Pallavi Prasad

Everyone Has Their Role

Are You the Pandemic Prepper, or the Freeloading Denier?

...less about the current pandemic and more about how we personally cope in the face of stress — styles that are very closely linked to our individual personalities. Pandemic preppers...

By Liesl Goecker

How Much Is Too Much

People Are Using ‘Pandemic Productivity’ as a Distraction From Grief, Vulnerability

Journalist Gayatri Shah recently hosted an InstaLive talk on the future of luxury retail post the pandemic. She says that her motivation to set up the session stemmed, partially, from...

By Gretchen Ferrao Walker

Lockdown No Bar

Amid the Covid19 Pandemic, Volunteers Risk Their Health to Rehabilitate Delhi Pogrom Survivors

...was helping with relief work at a camp set up for people displaced by the pogrom when the coronavirus pandemic hit India. Soon, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day-lockdown,...

By Meghna Prakash

1.3 Million Indian Women Lost Access To Birth Control, Abortions During Pandemic: NGO

A report by an international NGO has found that almost two million women, across 37 countries, have lost access to contraceptives and abortion services amid the pandemic — with India...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Essential Service

Sanitation Workers on the Frontlines of the Pandemic Are Overlooked, Unprotected

...after six months and, if needed, to be fixed or replaced. But even before the pandemic hit, this regulation was seldom followed. “We are exposed to lethal bacteria and viruses...

By Varsha Torgalkar

2 Million Girls Worldwide Are at Risk of Undergoing FGM During Pandemic: UNFPA

...Covid19 pandemic, according to a United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) report. Describing this finding as a “catastrophe within a catastrophe,” UNFPA’s deputy executive director, Dr. Ramiz Alakbarov, has said the...

By Anubhuti Matta

Coronapocalypse

UN Urges Countries To Protect People From Mental Health Crisis Amid Covid19 Pandemic

...health crisis: frontline healthcare workers, older people, adolescents and young people, those with pre-existing mental health conditions, and those caught up in conflict and crisis. “Even when the pandemic is...

By Devrupa Rakshit

There Will Be No New Emojis This Year, Thanks to the Covid19 Pandemic

Since the Covid19 pandemic began, there’s been a rise in the use of certain emojis — the facemask emoji, the microbe emoji, the sneezing emoji, the nauseated face emoji. In...

The Quality of Scientific Research Has Deteriorated Amid the Covid19 Pandemic. Ethicists Explain How to Fix It.

...researchers race to find answers related to the Covid19 pandemic, news media is responsible for making their research accessible to the masses. The emergent nature of the Covid19 pandemic has...

A Pandemic Is No Excuse for Racist Attacks Against Indians From the North‑East

...pandemic. Yesterday in Kolkata, students from North-East states were thrown out of their homes, and assaulted, both verbally and physically. In response to the sad trend, the Indian Ministry of...

The Buzz Cut: All the Free Stuff the Covid19 Pandemic Can Get You

...comics published generously by creators in response to the coronavirus pandemic. * The Covid19 pandemic has delivered a blow to football lovers across the world. Not only are their game-watching...

Haldi Has Become a Hot Commodity on Sri Lanka’s Black Market During the Pandemic

...powers’ amid the global pandemic. Turmeric has been in short supply in the island nation since last December, before the impact of the pandemic was fully realized, when the government...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Work Re-cultured

Work, Re‑cultured: A Sex Worker Trying to Standardize Pandemic Safe Sex Protocols

...the National Network of Sex Workers, Ayeesha. Before the pandemic, I used to earn Rs.500-1,000 every week. I’m 30. But with this business, there’s never been a guarantee of how...

By The Swaddle Team

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