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"Once COVID Is Over" Is Starting to Sound a Lot Like is a phrase that became popular on Twitter in early 2021 as a way to humorously imply that the COVID-19 pandemic will not end any time soon, comparing the phrase "once COVID is over" to something else that is unlikely to happen soon.

Origin

On January 21st, 2021, @JASSS2232 tweeted,^[1] "'Once COVID is over' is starting to sound a lot like 'When I win the lottery.'" (shown below). The tweet gathered only 56 likes and 16 retweets in 5 days.

Spread

On January 22nd, 2021, @smirhnn tweeted,^[2] '“Once COVID is over” starting to sound a lot like “when Rihanna releases a new album”' garnering over 233,000 likes and 51,600 retweets in 4 days (shown below).

On January 23rd, @_justwinnie tweeted,^[3] '“once COVID is over” is starting to sound a lot like “once im not depressed anymore,”' garnering over 597,000 likes and 86,000 retweets in 3 days (shown below, left). On the same day, @FlNEANGEL tweeted,^[4] '“once COVID is over” is starting to sound like “when i meet harry styles”' garnering over 28,600 likes and 4,000 retweets in a comparable span of time (shown below, right).

On January 24th, @venusized made another tweet^[5] following the trend, garnering over 100,000 likes and 21,000 retweets in 2 days (shown below). On January 26th, The Washington Post^[6] published an article on the trend.

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