Looking for love during a global pandemic can be tricky. It’s difficult to meet someone during periods of lockdown so many people used dating apps and kept in touch using zoom or chat. If you get to the stage where you want to meet up IRL then prepare to be corona zoned. This is where your partner is afraid to come over and get intimate in case they catch the ‘Rona and if you’re not vaccinated your relationship may end abruptly. This is probably just a notch up from being friend zoned.
The Urban Dictionary has a crude definition for corona zoned:
The new cockblock of 2020 due to the quarantine situation during the coronavirus outbreak. When a girl you trying to have sex with won’t meet with you purely out of fear that she might get infected with the virus.
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An article published for the Huff Post explains it more eloquently: “When someone ― very understandably! ― doesn’t want to come to your place to hook up out of fear of catching or spreading the virus, you’ve been corona-zoned” (Wong).
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Sources:
flame99fromthablocc. “Corona zoned.” Urban Dictionary. March 18, 2020. URL: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=corona%20zoned.
Wong, Brittany. “13 New Dating Terms We Have COVID-19 To Thank For.” Huff Post. October 27, 2020. URL: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/new-dating-terms-covid-pandemic_l_5f90a2b7c5b695a32fb005f0.