Someone on twitter said what we need is a Swamp vaccine.
I can picture it now.
Hurry and get your Swamp vaccine to stop the spread of the Swamp Fever. STOP and get your shot to stop the Swamp Contagion. Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Maybe while they are at it they can develop a Karen vaccine.
LOL
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In search of Q’s dual meanings
contagion (n.)
late 14c., “a communicable disease; a harmful or corrupting influence,” from Old French contagion and directly from Latin contagionem (nominative contagio) “a touching, contact,” often in a bad sense, “a contact with something physically or morally unclean, contagion,” from contingere “to touch,” from assimilated form of com “with, together” (see con-) + tangere “to touch,” from PIE root *tag- “to touch, handle.” Meaning “infectious contact or communication” is from 1620s.
Contagion = contact with something morally unclean
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contagious (adj.)
late 14c., “contaminating or contaminated, containing contagion” (of air, water, etc.); “communicable” (of disease); also “morally corrupting,” from Old French contagieus (Modern French contagieux) and directly from Late Latin contagiosus, from Latin contagio “a touching, contact,” often in a bad sense, “a contact with something physically or morally unclean, contagion,” from contingere “to touch,” from assimilated form of com “with, together” (see con-) + tangere “to touch,” from PIE root *tag- “to touch, handle.” Figuratively applied to anything apt to spread from one to another (rumor, etc.) from 1650s. Related: Contagiously; contagiousness.
Contagious = Morally corrupting
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Karen (1)
heterogeneous people of eastern Burma, 1759 (as Carian), from Burmese ka-reng “wild, dirty, low-caste man” [OED].
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Apologies to any freeQs with given Christian name Karen. That whole Karen thing was not my doing. I myself have a paternal cousin, Karen who would probably rub my face in the dirt if I looked sideways at her and her Leftist Progressivism. She would outweigh me by a 100 pounds most likely but I could surely out run her to avoid any contagion.
:)