It was the third year of the pandemic. People named Covid have started forming groups to stop the ridicule.

Let's be honest: they are hard!

The name Kovid, translated from Sanskrit, means "scientist or educated person" - it is even mentioned in Vedic literature and Hindu prayers. But since March 2020, no one cares about this, because everyone has a completely different covid on their minds. In general, in the third year of the pandemic, we can safely say: people named Covid have obviously suffered and are tired of jokes. And some even united on social networks to talk about their problem.

For example, Kovid Kapoor from the Indian city of Bangalore complains about the situation. He called what was happening "absolute madness." Kapoor regularly tweets about his misadventures, pointing out that, unlike many, he has been "covid-positive since 1990" (the year he was born). But Google keeps suggesting that we fix the spelling of his name — he is Kovid, not Covid. His friends for their 30th birthday ordered a cake that said "Happy Birthday #Covid-30". The confectioners did not understand the essence of the congratulations, so the name, of course, was also misspelled.

“Life has given me and all of us a sour lemon,” Kapoor writes. “I decided to take it all with humor and make lemonade out of it. The funniest and saddest thing is that there will be a lot more jokes in the future, and it looks like it will be for the rest of your life.”

Covid Jain, a 28-year-old from the Indian city of Indore , said she had fun in her first year because of all the hype. Friends of Jain, who got married in December of that year, were amused that "Covid gets married during covid." She now chooses not to give her first name publicly, using her husband's last name, the initials "KJ" or the first name Koko "to avoid unwanted ridicule." One day, after wishing someone a Happy New Year, Jain received a response that they would not like to receive congratulations from her.

When the WHO gave the novel coronavirus an official name in February 2020, experts tried to find a word that was not specific to a geographic location, animal, individual or group of people, and easy to pronounce. But this is far from the first time that words that have entered the global lexicon due to a pandemic have been associated with something else. For example, Corona beer maker and Delta Air Lines suffered for the same reason.