This phenomena occurs when you are living with someone else within close proximity and you contract an illness through the roommates deliberate actionsâ this includes deliberately coughing in your direction, sneezing without covering the mouth, or not even informing you of their illness to begin with. This term comes from the death of a college student when their roommate, Sean Davis, purposefully spread the illness out of spite.
âHey man, are you feeling alright?â
âNah, man, my roommate got me sick! Keeps coughing at me and shit, itâs ridiculous. Didnât even tell me he was sick at first.â
âOh man, talk about a Sean Davis Phenomenon!â