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The early leader is Scranton Syndrome, which works both as a reference to The Office and Biden and sounds vaguely like a real medical condition - "He's got Scranton Syndrome, I'm prescribing rest and a complete block of all Eric Topol tweets!"

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Two more winners:

CDCD

Donkeypox

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TDS

Topol Dinger Syndrome

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The problem with all of this is that it make us, the "sufferers" who are the ones who at least are appropriately skeptical, if not seeing things clearly, it makes us look like we're the ones with the problem. The last thing you want to do is make "Team Reality" look like the crazy ones. That's exactly what the covidiots are doing; don't add fuel to their fire.

I think "Team Reality" is just fine.

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Really like CDCD but like CDCF better

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Slong covid

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Biden seems too clueless to deserve naming rights. Why not name it after the diminutive narcissist who is the icon of Pandemia: The Fauci Effect

I would love to see his recent pathetic effort to brand himself backfire spectacularly.

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I've been to Scranton. It doesn't deserve the association with idiocy (or with the Big Guy).

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I went to U. of S. It was a depressing existence.

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I went to Harvard, and it was a depressing existence. I think any city where winter is tough is pretty un-fun if you're a broke college kid. Steamtown is a great place to bring a kid, though, and the Radisson has an amazing brunch if you're a working adult. And I can't think of a place I've been (including Buffalo in December for a funeral) that is as depressing as anything about the last two years of federal BS.

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It was partly the weather but also being in one of the first classes after admitting women. I could write a book... No support, no recourse for blatant misogyny. Ugh! And yes, the last two years have been hellish. The repercussions for those bucking the narrative are not over yet.

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I didn't mean to make light of it... and I can only imagine how obnoxious some (most?) of the people around you were. Perhaps there is quite a bit that that atmosphere shares with the otherwordly hell of much of the US over the past two years. No recourse, no rules... Like Korematsu, but for far more people, and in an age that pretends to know better.

I have a soft spot for that part of PA, though, and it irks me no end that the jackwagon-in-chief associates himself with it.

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So I've trained for this! All of my family is from that region going back generations... Coal miners of yore...

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I really enjoyed this comment

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