How the Coronavirus Has Infected Our Vocabulary | The New Yorker

How the Coronavirus Has Infected Our Vocabulary | The New Yorker

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“‘Flatten the curve’... alchemizes fear into action. The phrase is an injunction: it says, gently and urgently, that it is not too late for us to change the shape of this story.”

Author Karen Russell explores the phrases — ‘self-isolation’, ‘social distancing’, ‘abundance of caution’ — that have infected our discourse. (The New Yorker | 9 min read)