A Third-Word Country

= a place where even the wealthy suffer, and only every third word is intelligible during a zoom call.

The Coronavirus does not discriminate between socio-economic strata, leveling all of Humanity; so when a grey rectangle appears on our screens--YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION HAS BECOME UNSTABLE-- we can barely make out every third word, combined with TERRIBLE distortion, during our only tenuous links to the outside world-- our Zoom} calls-- & we are all, thus, living in "A Third-Word Country!"