Somewhere in the 1860s to 1880s....as Europeans started to arrive and settle out on the great plains of America....a new term was created: 'Prairie Madness'.
No one can say what journalist or intellectual started the phrase, but it generally meant that the isolation, living conditions, extreme weather and 'nothingness' had your emotions bottled up.
Depression would start up, and alcohol consumption increased.
I expect toward the end of April, that COVID-madness will be coined by some journalist. A dozen-odd experts will appear on CNN to say they are experts on the topic, and spend hours describing the conditions. Some people will go then and spend years in therapy....trying to get over the disease.
Then along the way, someone over at Fox News will coin the phrase China-virus madness, and some guy at NPR will coin the phrase Corona-madness.
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