“What do you call a Russian with Covid?”/“Nastikof.”

Russian names sometimes end in ‘kov” or “koff,” and this can sound like “cough.”
     
“What do you call a Russian with Covid?—- Nastikof” was posted on Twitter by Here’s Johnny on March 16, 2021. “What do you call a russian with covid? Nastikof” was posted on Twitter by Mike on August 17, 2022. “What do you call a Russian with Covid? Ivor Nastikov” was posted on Reddit—Jokes on November 4, 2022. The name “Nastikov” sounds like “nasty cough.”
     
“What do you call a Russian with Covid? Kalashnicough” was posted on Reddit—Jokes on November 4, 2022. This is similar to the name of Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919-2013), who designed the AK-47 rifle.
   
“Which composer got the coronavirus?”/“DryCoughsky” is another Russian name joke.
 
 
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.
       
Twitter
Here’s Johnny.
@HeresJo29627694
Replying to @Bryan19121
What do you call a Russian with Covid?—- Nastikof.
5:50 PM · Mar 16, 2021·Twitter for Android
   
Twitter
Mike
@mrseed2022
Replying to @JohnCleese
What do you call a russian with covid?
Nastikof
6:05 AM · Aug 17, 2022·Twitter for Android
 
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/GMEthLoopring November 4, 2022
What do you call a Russian with Covid?
Kalashnicough
 
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/High-Plains-Grifter November 4, 2022
What do you call a Russian with Covid?
Ivor Nastikov.
 
Twitter
JokesBot
@RedditJokesBot
What do you call a Russian with Covid? Kalashnicough
8:08 PM · Nov 4, 2022·IFTTT