The 2011 words of the year list wouldn’t be complete without occupy, as in the Occupy protests that sprang up in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park and elsewhere. And Zuccotti lung? It’s an illness that made its rounds among the camped-out protesters. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Occupy and Zuccotti Lung”
We can’t go much further into our Words of the Year discussion without mentioning Occupy,
as in Occupy Wall Street, or Occupy San Diego, or Occupy Oakland, and so on and so forth.
One of the things that happened in Zuccotti Square near Wall Street was something called
Zuccotti lung.
So, yeah.
Sounds like a pasta.
And this was an illness
that was being passed around
from person to person
because of all these people
working and sleeping
and protesting in close quarters.
Zuccotti lung.
It’s like kennel cough only for…
Yeah, for protesters, sure.
Zuccotti lung.
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