beadsland, Sitting with the realization that many now use the phrase "the pandemic" in the same way that the term "capitalism" is bandied about:
As a hauntological signification, naming not an object in the world, with a history and a consequence, but rather gesturing over one's shoulder to the vague vicinity wherein spectres of that which one is unprepared to speak, unequipped to name, are commonly said to have been sighted.