I stayed out most discussions about Covid at the time, but I do vividly recall there was a short period where I found it darkly amusing to say stuff like “deplo

I stayed out most discussions about Covid at the time, but I do vividly recall there was a short period where I found it darkly amusing to say stuff like “deploy the Omegacron variant” in response to people expressing optimism about lockdowns ending soon. It was a short-lived period because I got lambasted over it. While I was just using it to make sarcastic jokes, apparently some politicians were really using it to make sincere policy? Hell of a punchline.