Covido's definitions
A frightening or undesirable state of mind people find themselves in prior to Christmas—for instance, they might unfairly be made redundant so that their companies could save on salaries and year-end bonuses.
Sanitation engineers at Twitter's headquarters in San Francisco were handed a cryptmas letter informing them that they were fired sans retrenchment benefits, because robots would be taking over their wallet-unfriendly jobs.
by Covido December 9, 2022
Get the Cryptmasmug. When China used the cover of coronavirus crisis to tighten its administrative control over Hong Kong, by implementing a new national security law following months-long pro-democracy protests that had plagued the city.
With the recent arrest of pro-democracy lawmakers in the midst of the Covid-🇭🇰 crisis, Hong Kong’s “One Country, Two Systems” governance model suffered a political stroke before falling into a coma.
by Covido April 9, 2021
Get the Covid-🇭🇰mug. A corona-infected jihadist or terrorist who is hell-bent to spread the virus to as many “infidels” as possible to get even at the authorities for refusing to incorporate the sharia into the legal system, or for allegedly treating some radical Islamists unfairly.
In Xinjiang, dozens of corrorists have volunteered to travel all the way to Beijing with the aim of infecting a thousand-odd hardcore Chinese Communists to “teach them a lesson” for cracking down on “Islamic extremism.”
by Covido December 26, 2020
Get the Corroristmug. An often less draconian or more relaxed house confinement for residents of some cities or counties, or for the entire country, which may last a few weeks or even months in the aftermath of an increasing infection or mortality rate in the population.
A number of dictatorial or weak regimes are leveraging on Lockdown 2.0 to postpone the general election on the excuse that holding one during the pandemic crisis would unavoidably lead to more infections and deaths.
by Covido January 26, 2021
Get the Lockdown 2.0mug.