From Fomo to Nosmo: how not to let a crisis go to waste
In these desperate times of social distancing or collective self-quarantine, Fomo is replaced with Nomo (the necessity of missing out)
Every year Oxford Dictionaries selects its “word of the year”, normally a word or expression that has attracted a great deal of interest over the previous 12 months. In 2019 it chose the term “climate emergency” — a self-explanatory choice.
In the last few weeks something happened that has changed the world as we know it. Towards the end of December a novel coronavirus that causes a respiratory illness called Covid-19 broke out in Wuhan, the ninth most populous city in China with 11-million people. The city was placed under quarantine on January 23. Since then the virus has rapidly spread across the globe. Now SA is in lockdown...
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