At the restaurant, the waitress starts flirting with me. "She must have COVID," my wife said. "Why?" I asked. "'Cause she clearly has no taste." She responded.
Wife's COVID Insult
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The joke plays on the double meaning of "taste". The wife implies that the waitress has no "taste" in men, suggesting her husband is undesirable. She makes this insult as a witty comeback to the waitress flirting with her husband and uses COVID as a humorous way to connect to the situation. It's not a literal statement about COVID.