Do we even recall a time when “lockdown” or “social distance” or “vaccine” weren’t part of the daily vernacular? COVID-19 terms have infiltrated our personal and professional conversations and we now use them casually in our day-to-day lives. Dictionary.com’s word of the year in 2020 was, after all, “pandemic.” The 2021 word was “allyship”— another, though less direct, nod to the pandemic. So what’s there to laugh about when the the latest report from the World Health Organization there have been more than 281.8 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and more than 5.4 million deaths around the globe? Quarantini: People were finding ways to cope during the global crisis, and for some this meant consuming alcohol.

Source: thestar January 02, 2022 10:02 UTC