In these last hours of a challenging, exhausting pandemic year, what words need to be said?
For me, there were many days I had to ensure all my marbles were accounted for.
To wrap up the year, here are some lists:
New Vocabulary
- Blursday
- Contact tracing
- COVID hair
- Doomscrolling
- Essential workers
- Flatten the curve
- Front-line workers
- Hydroxychloroquine
- N-95s
- PPEs
- Pod
- Quarantini
- Remote learning
- Social distancing
- Superspreader
- Unprecedented
- Zoom
- Zoombombing
- Zoomaholics
- Zoom fatigue
Blu(From the article “Left Speechless? Let’s Review,” New York Times, Dec. 20, 2020, plus a few word of my own)
Temporary Shortages Due to High Demand (or Hoarding)
- Flour & baking supplies
- Toilet Paper
- Sanitizer
- Bleach
- Bicycles
- Lumber
- Contractors (home repairs
A Good Year for…
- Alcohol (beer, wine, etc.) sales
- Amazon.com and other online retailers
- Animal shelters
- Car sales
- Computers
- Delivery services
- Edibles
- Home printers
- Hulu, Netflix, other streaming
- Manufacturers of takeout containers
- Pets
- Puzzles
- Realtors
- Therapists
- Zoom
Synonyms for 45
- lifelong media hound
- conflict junkie
- relentless solo act
- operatic camera hog
- celebrity-in-chief
(From the article “This Show Has Been Canceled,” NYTimes, Nov. 22, 2020)
Some Things To Applaud
- Quiet skies ➛ better air quality
- No traffic ➛ less stress, better air quality
- No mass shootings in schools
- Historic voter turnout despite the pandemic
- End of the trump presidency show
- Kamala Harris, the first woman of color U.S. Vice President
- Increased awareness of the country’s systemic racism
- Approval and distribution of the coronavirus vaccine
- Remembering who and what we hold dear
Wishing everyone a Happy, Safe, & Healthy New Year!
Loreen Lilyn Lee 