Hygiene theater is when people and businesses enact measures to make people who are anxious about the spread of germs feel safer but do little to actually prevent spreading. This performative act became prominent in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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The keyboard pattern typed by students who have exhausted all other methods of fighting classroom boredom and are now contemplating the existential void. This desperate combination represents the final stage of academic ennui, where even the standard top-row sweep has lost its appeal. If you've typed this, you've either achieved peak procrastination or should seriously consider dropping that class.

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