Covidism

Covidism is an umbrella term for various lockdown, social distancing, and mask wearing policies undertaken in response to the Covid-19 situation.

Origins
Coronavirus is believed to have escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China via a researcher who came into contact with a sick bat and proceeded to spread the disease without telling anyone. It has been pointed out that China's handling of the situation was severely hampered by it's hierarchical government culture and tendency to shift blame. This meant the Chinese government officials at the local and higher levels felt more comfortable lying to each other, and the world. This allowed Covid-19 to spread around the world and become a pandemic.

Mask Mandates
One of the most common policies. People are often required to wear masks in public, as well as inside private establishments as part of restrictions. Masks are supposed to reduce spreading by people incubating the virus. However the efficacy of masks against Covid-19 is still questionable, not just because of the mask's relative porosity, but also because of how people end up using them.

Social Distancing
As common as mask wearing. Social Distancing is a stopgap measure which was imposed to help limit spread by having people physically distant from each other and thus reducing any viral load people would get from infectious individuals. The usual distance is 6 feet. Some studies have found that this made not be enough, significant amounts of viral particles may be able to travel up to 16 feet.

Lockdowns
Lockdowns were essentially the initial reaction to Covid-19 across the board. Closing people in their homes to limit inter-household contact and this spread. Lockdowns were enacted with varying degrees of severity. China went so far as to literally weld people into their apartments. After the initial 2 - 4 week lockdowns in the U.S, some U.S states decided to open up with social distancing and mask measures. While more open states showed higher initial case totals, they haven't been affected by subsequent waves of Covid-19 very much. Sweden, which basically refused to lock down, is probably doing the best out of it's neighbour countries, meaning lockdowns may have just delayed the inevitable instead of preventing deaths.

However, lockdowns have also been somewhat proven to work, as they helped effectively rid New Zealand of Covid-19 for months, helped stop spreading it around and prevented many deaths. This is further backed up by the low amount of deaths caused by Covid.

The primary critique of lockdown measures is that they damage the economy, are overly restrictive, place stress on people's mental health, and are usually not followed by the people who actually put them in place. It is postulated by some that the lockdowns caused more economic damage and deaths (usually via suicide or malnutrition due to increasing food insecurity) than Covid-19 itself. However, there is still not that much evidence to back up these claims.

Covid Tracer App
The Covid Tracer App is an app made by the New Zealand government, which allows you to scan QR codes put up in buildings around New Zealand which allows you to record where you visited and when. It also has bluetooth tracing to keep an anonymised record of the people you have been near.

The app also allows you to register your contact details so that contact tracers can get in touch with you if they need to, and you can also save your National Health Index number to speed up the process if you need a test. It also allows you to find the closest testing centre near you.

How to Draw
You're done!
 * 1) Draw a ball.
 * 2) Add a blue (#00AEF3) line inside the outline.
 * 3) Fill the rest of the ball an off-red (#F76060).
 * 4) Draw a black gavel, with lines in the ends like Authortarianism.
 * 5) Add eyes.
 * 6) (Optional) Add protein spikes on the gavel.

Friends

 * [[File:Gamer.png]] Gamerism - Something to do while you're stuck inside.
 * [[File:Sec.png]] Authoritarianism - We need you to do proper pandemic response.
 * [[File:PolState.png]] Police Statism - Thanks for enfocing covid restrictions.

Frienemies

 * [[File:Dengf.png]] Dengism - Your incompetency let the coronavirus escape! At least you're locking down to prevent more spread.

Enemies

 * [[File:Libertarian.png]] Libertarians - You need to stay inside, do you want to kill old people!?
 * [[File:Awaj.png]] Anarchists - You just want blind chaos!
 * [[File:Cap.png]] Capitalists - Keeping the market going isn't worth human lives.
 * [[File:Corona_Accelerationism_Sprite.png]] Corona Accelerationism - NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, YOU CAN'T JUST SPREAD THE VIRUS, YOU'RE GONNA KILL [[File:Gero.png]] GRANDMA!