plandemic

Noun

plandemic (plural plandemics)

1. (informal, neologism) A deliberately planned pandemic, typically supposed as part of a conspiracy theory. (Often associated with COVID-19.)
   • 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...2020 April 12, Greg Keisch, “The View From Here: Looking for the ‘plan’ behind COVID”, in Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel
   • 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...2020 May 6, Roy Cimagala, “Chill it out, take it slow”, in BusinessWeek Mindanao, volume 10, number 135, page 4
2. (informal, neologism) A proliferation or overabundance of plans, especially plans for a pandemic.
   • 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.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...
   • 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.2006 July 11, Peter Curson, “Beware the pandemic of hysteria”, in The Sydney Morning Herald