Flatten the curve - a public health strategy to slow down the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus during the COVID-19 pandemic. The curve being flattened is the epidemic curve, a visual representation of the number of infected people needing health care over time.
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Welcome to the fourth episode of (Art)iculate! I'm your host, Jenny Li, and I'm looking forward to jazzing and jiving with you through the intricacies of COVID-19 terminology! Grab your marmalade, succulents, and copies of Animal Crossing as we criss-cross the wild landscape of reckoning with a public health crisis that demands coordinated, collective action. And please, if you're someone that runs six miles every morning, teach me your ways.
Music: Biscuit (Prod. by Lukrembo) - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtZ2m2Zm3vY" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Youtube</a>
Sources:
- "How the Coronavirus Has Infected Our Vocabulary" - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/13/a-temporary-moment-in-time" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">New Yorker&nbsp;</a>
- "Our Ever-Expanding Virus Vernacular" - <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/style/language-slang-coronavirus.html" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">New York Times</a>
- #ReframeCovid - <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1TZqICUdE2CvKqZrN67LcmKspY51Kug7aU8oGvK5WEbA/edit#gid=268174477" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Google Sheets Project&nbsp;</a>

Welcome to (Art)iculate, a pop linguistics podcast that explores the endearingly odd features of human language, both written and spoken. Language is a charmingly idiosyncratic bit of machinery so let's delve into those cogs and gears together and disentangle a bit of the mess.