Raw Dog Oxygen (breathing without a face mask)

“Raw dog” usually means sexual intercourse without a condom. The 2020 COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic resulted in requirements to wear face masks, and “raw dog oxygen” (or “raw dogging oxygen”) means breathing without wearing a face mask.
   
“White ppl out here rockin them Michael Jackson surgical masks scared to raw dog that oxygen” was posted on Twitter by FUBU Hilfiger on March 3, 2020. “CDC is wilin if they think I’m about to stop raw dogging this oxygen out here” was posted on Twitter by Quarentina Aguilera on March 4, 2020. “Got self conscious and took my mask off earlier, just raw dogging this oxygen” was posted on Twitter by Milt on March 13, 2020.
   
“Raw dog oxygen” was posted on Twitter by Xavier Hoods on May 11, 2020. “I miss being able to raw dog oxygen” was posted on Twitter by señor on November 19, 2020, and went viral (over 100,000 likes). “raw dog oxygen breathing without wearing a mask” was entered in the Urban Dictionary on December 1, 2020.
 
     
Wikipedia: COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. The outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in January 2020 and a pandemic in March 2020.
     
Urban Dictionary
raw dog
sexual intercourse without a rubber.
Man, fuck that, hit that shit raw
dog then bail
by big johnny July 09, 2002
     
Twitter
FUBU Hilfiger
@YoungDre360
White ppl out here rockin them Michael Jackson surgical masks scared to raw dog that oxygen.
9:47 PM · Mar 3, 2020·Twitter for Android
 
Twitter
Quarentina Aguilera
@CMowod
CDC is wilin if they think I’m about to stop raw dogging this oxygen out here
10:47 AM · Mar 4, 2020 from Manhattan, NY·Twitter for iPhone
 
Twitter
Milt
@MiltoniusPrime
Got self conscious and took my mask off earlier, just raw dogging this oxygen
9:18 PM · Mar 13, 2020·Twitter for Android
   
Twitter
jasimay_
@jasimayor
Replying to @DeeDee_Mayor
at work they started wearing scarves and shit and here i am raw dogging the entire oxygen and i told my 1SG that mask ain’t gonna work
12:55 PM · Apr 7, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
   
Twitter
Alex Castillo
@LegalizeRanchh
I hate wearing a face mask I’m ready to raw dog this oxygen again
5:11 PM · May 5, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
   
Twitter 
Xavier Hoods
@CEOnal
Replying to @howardwrites
Raw dog oxygen. Next stop? Bossip headline writer.
7:47 PM · May 11, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
   
Twitter
clomidea
@sugartiddie
can’t believe we can’t raw dog the oxygen anymore who would’ve thought
9:45 PM · Jul 24, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
   
Twitter
Cestrum Nocturnum
@CestrumNocturn1
Replying to @BraverStill and @wweek
Seems like a million years since we could stand that close to one another and just raw dog each other’s oxygen.
1:35 AM · Oct 5, 2020·Twitter Web App
   
Twitter
señor
@nowaywhoischris
I miss being able to raw dog oxygen
11:26 AM · Nov 19, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
 
Urban Dictionary
raw dog oxygen
breathing without wearing a mask
I miss being able to raw dog oxygen before this COVID shit happened.
by kcamperz December 01, 2020
 
Twitter
LLKP
@alexbarrett_81
Can’t believe we used to raw dog oxygen in public seems like a lifetime ago
9:56 PM · Feb 2, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
 
Twitter
$tu.
@STU_07
I hate these fucking masks .
I like raw dogging my oxygen
3:51 PM · Feb 3, 2021 from St Louis, MO·Twitter for iPhone
 
Facebook
MemeAholics Anonymous
DON’T BE AFRAID
RAW DOG THAT OXYGEN
February 3, 2021 at 5:20 PM ·