plandemic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plænˈdɛmɪk/
rhymes: -ɛmɪk
Forms: form: plandemics
Etymology: Blend of plan + pandemic.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 2020 April 12, Greg Keisch, “The View From Here: Looking for the ‘plan’ behind COVID”, in Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel:
text: 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.
ref: 2020 May 6, Roy Cimagala, “Chill it out, take it slow”, in BusinessWeek Mindanao, volume 10, number 135, page 4:
text: 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.
ref: 2020 May 8, David Von Drehle, “Why people believe in a ‘plandemic’”, in The Washington Post:
text: She observed that people working in the field of bodily care seemed particularly drawn to anti-vax, anti-mask, “plandemic” beliefs.
ref: 2023 November 15, Katherine Rowland, “Naomi Klein on wellness culture: ‘We really are alive on the knife’s edge’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A deliberately planned pandemic, typically supposed as part of a conspiracy theory.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 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), Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, pages 22–23:
text: 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.
ref: 2006 July 11, Peter Curson, “Beware the pandemic of hysteria”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:
text: 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.
ref: 2010 April, “Lemmingaid: they say it's painless”, in JICS, volume 11, number 2, →DOI:
glosses: A proliferation or overabundance of plans, especially plans for a pandemic.
Related terms: endemic
scamdemic