Citations:COVIDian

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English citations of COVIDian, Covidian, and covidian

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  • 2020 March 26, Glenda Bartosh, “Life in COVIDian times: What to do when you have to keep calm and not quite carry on”, in Pique Newsmagazine, volume 27, number 13, page 38:
    I contacted nearly 70 friends and colleagues in Sea to Sky before I wrote this column asking just that, and for their tips for sustenance—both real and metaphoric—to keep the COVIDian blues at bay.
  • 2020 March 26, Anthony N. Morgan, “How we treat prisoners in COVID-19 crisis is a crucial test”, in Toronto Star[1]:
    The full weight of that idea hit me in a recent conversation with my friend, the award-winning writer NourbeSe Phillip, who casually referred to these “Covidian times.” To quote my brother, “prisons are simply not equipped for a crisis like this.”
  • 2020 April 2, James Lileks, “Navigating the Covidian Miasma”, in National Review[2]:
    Now, in Covidian Miasma times: We have a fortnight of sustenance in the freezer. If it spoils, we die.
  • 2020 April 10, James Lileks, “The quarantine's upside is that we're finally sitting down”, in Minneapolis Star-Tribune[3]:
    In retrospect, we’ll chart the distinct phases of the Covidian Situation.
  • 2020 April 11, S Vaidhyasubramaniam, “To test or not to test in Covidian Times”, in The New Indian Express[4]:
    At this crucial Covidian times[sic] lie two valid questions waiting for an answer—to test or not to test, online test for college students and multiple entrance tests for high school students seeking admissions?
  • 2020 April 14, Tom Burton, “Why government will never be the same again”, in The Australian Financial Review[5]:
    Federal and state old-school portfolios are being subsumed into new whole-of-government approaches, Cabinet government has been rewritten, federalism is being flattened, and a raft of radical new digital practices adopted, as Australia's 1.8 million strong public sector remakes itself for the covidian world.
  • 2020 April 18, Ian Warden, “Australians all let us deJoyce”, in The Canberra Times[6]:
    They, the properly-cocked (cluey immunologists, epidemiologists, chief health officers, economists divining the Covidian impacts on the economy, and well-informed others) are the new actors on our stage.
  • 2020 April 23, Barry Coulter, “World O’ Words: Hemerophiles, and a new era of synanthropization”, in Cranbrook Daily Townsman[7]:
    The Covidian Age is a great time to be hemerophile. Just think of the raccoons of Toronto. Human activity is so reduced in urban centres that by the time things return to normal, raccoons will be empowered to demand rights for themselves, or seek seats on City Council.
  • 2020 April 24, Shane O'Riordan, “Letter: Strictly must adapt to social distancing and a thank you to our postal workers”, in Sheffield Star[8]:
    I know it all sounds inconsequential in view of so many lives and businesses lost in the present Covidian era, but it appears that Strictly is still in the autumn agenda.
  • 2020 April 25, Patrick Kidd, “Glorious outbreak of wisteria spreads joy”, in The Times[9]:
    I did not expect Roger Mosey to provoke such pleasure this week. Nothing against the Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge, who I have never met, but in a previous life he ran the BBC’s coverage of the London Olympics in 2012 and I feared that any reminder of that glorious summer, when everyone in the country seemed to get along, would deepend my covidian gloom.
  • 2020 April 27, Tom Grobaty, “Quarantine Chronicles Day 43: Stockholm Syndrome provides comfort in captivity”, in Long Beach Post[10]:
    But my COVIDian captors have, for the most part, been OK with me.
  • 2020 April 27, Paola Kernahan, “Living in a covidian world”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday[11]: