How do we qualify the most irresponsible of us who put others at risk in these times of pandemic and confinement? The Anglo-Saxons did not look very far and contracted "Covid-19" (the disease induced by the new coronavirus) and "idiot" to give birth to "Covidiot".
An expression that has officially entered the Urban Dictionary, the slang bible, announces the Australian site 10 daily. Among the different definitions.
And since the simplest ideas are often the best, the term, which it is useless to translate into French, has already ignited Twitter where #Covidiot is now one of the most used.
"If you stock up on toilet paper and canned food or decide to spend your Saturday night in a nightclub, you are certainly a Covidiot," said the reporter for 10 days before listing all kinds of dangerous behavior, like those of these Australians who massed on Bondi Beach on Friday, March 20.
Miles de personas ignoraron el consejo del Gobierno australiano sobre el distanciamiento social y autoaislamiento en medio del brote de coronavirus cuando acudieron en masa a la playa Bondi de Sídney pic.twitter.com/0jmxIaaACR— RT en Español (@ActualidadRT) March 22, 2020
Or this young man, on vacation in Miami, quickly became a symbol of stupidity. "If I get the coronavirus, I get the coronavirus," he says. It’s not going to stop me from partying. ”
"If I get corona, I get corona"— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) March 20, 2020
US students on Spring Break continue to party, despite warnings about coronavirus https://t.co/fwURJxjg1P pic.twitter.com/oZjaO1ubuE
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