Citations:plandemic

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Noun: (informal) a planned or purposefully created pandemic[edit]

  • 2020 April 12, Rachel M. Cohen, “How the Hunt for a Coronavirus Vaccine Could Go Horribly Wrong”, in The Daily Beast[1]:
    In recent weeks, they’ve been raising the alarm over expedited development. Larry Cook, one of the top anti-vaccine activists on Facebook, has called COVID-19 a “plandemic” that governments are using to “usher in mandatory testing, tracking, and vaccination.” #ResistThePlan, he’s urged his followers.
  • 2020 April 12, Greg Keisch, “The View From Here: Looking for the ‘plan’ behind COVID”, in Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel[2]:
    My poker face must have slipped, because she said, “You can look it up. It’s called ‘plandemic’ because it was all planned – like 9/11.” [] The “plandemic” theory is not limited to this one person. It was probably behind a piece of graffiti I saw later that said something about a COVID patent from 2006.
  • 2020 May 6, Roy Cimagala, “Chill it out, take it slow”, in BusinessWeek Mindanao[3], volume 10, number 135, page 4:
    But before all that, we cannot deny that there are things that still are up in the air as to their veracity. Like whether the virus is man-made or is something natural, whether it came from China or wherever, whether lockdown, ecq, gcq are the right thing to do, whether we have a real pandemic or a ‘plandemic,’ etc.
  • 2020 May 8, David Von Drehle, “Why people believe in a ‘plandemic’”, in The Washington Post[4]:
    People believe in a “#Plandemic” because it fits into existing convictions. A lot of people already believe — not without reason — that pharmaceutical companies cash in on suffering. Many people have heard that government labs do research on biological weapons. All true. [] All of these mind-sets are potential vectors for the viral #plandemic.
  • 2020, Khali Raymond, “PLANdemic”, in Shadow Work, →ISBN:
    now
    the PLANdemic of 2020
    "coronavirus"
    this has been both a blessing but
    at the same time, it's been a curse
  • 2022 August, Eunice Okyere, Mosese Salusalu, Ramneek Goundar, Kissinger Marfoh, quoting anonymous interview subject, “What do university students say about online learning and the COVID-19 pandemic in central Fiji? A qualitative study”, in PLoS One, volume 17, number 8, →DOI, page 8:
    If you ask my friends about my view towards this plandemic or scamdemic, or for the coronavirus, they will tell you that I think that it’s all fake.

Noun: (informal) an official response plan to a pandemic[edit]

  • 2020 April 20, Clifton Leaf, “What we know about COVID-19”, in Fortune[5]:
    There, under piles of Beanie Babies and other 1990s detritus, Gellin has found volumes of several of the federal government’s plans to fight a viral scourge. “We had a plandemic,” quips Gellin, a former deputy assistant secretary for Health and leader of HHS’s National Vaccine Program Office.

Noun: (informal) a proliferation or overabundance of plans[edit]

  • 2006, Frank J. Cilluffo, “Biodefense and Pandemic Influenza”, in Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations. Special Hearing: May 23, 2006—Washington, DC (United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, Second Session)‎[6], Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, pages 22–23:
    At the end of the day, though, it all comes down to implementation and execution. Yet currently we are experiencing a “plandemic”—a proliferation of plans. Unless and until the focus shifts to competent execution, the nation’s preparedness posture will not be solidly grounded.
  • 2006 July 11, Peter Curson, “Beware the pandemic of hysteria”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:
    Does it justify the "plandemic" of plans that have consumed our society over the last year? Everyone now seems to have a pandemic plan - governments, businesses, schools, churches, universities. There are more pandemic plans in the world than there are human cases of bird flu.
  • [2007 November 6, Brandon Bond, “Back to the Basics”, in Disaster Recovery Journal[7], volume 20, number 1, page 36:
    I took a moment to ask how many had a personal preparedness plan and sufficient supplies for their home. I was a bit surprised when only a quarter of the audience raised their hand. I recently heard the term “plandemic” in reference to the many new plans []]
  • 2009 October, Rachel Lee, Australian Family Physician[8], volume 38, number 10, page 757:
    Kirsty Douglas at the 2009 General Practice and Primary Health Care Research conference aptly referred to all this activity as a "plandemic".
  • 2010 April, “Lemmingaid: they say it's painless”, in JICS, volume 11, number 2, →DOI:
    In hospital, ventilators were bought, stocks were piled and thousand of man-hours were spent sitting on committees and drafting doomsday plans. Result? No pandemic but a national plandemic.