Table 2.

Words belonging to the Affect LIWC category that appear in the primarily Death-based clusters in the three snapshot word co-occurrence networks shown in Fig. 3a–c. The middle and right columns indicate in which snapshots they are most prominent, and the likely explanation for their association with the concept of death during the pandemic

Word	Figures	Interpretation
Positive	3a–c	Used in reference to the number of people that have tested positive for Covid-19
Isolat*	3a, b	Used in discussion surrounding symptomatic and at-risk individuals self-isolating
Care	3b, c	Used in relation to: the health care system; the death care industry; the admission of Covid-19 patients to intensive care units; and deaths occurring in care homes for the elderly
Panic	3a	Panic-buying of household goods, e.g. toilet paper, hand-sanitiser
Protests	3c	George Floyd’s death and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests