To think that people who end messages with ‘stay safe’

[Whatisthepoint2020]

Are twats?

Maybe it’s because DP is a key worker so doesn’t have the option to ‘stay safe’ but it gives me the rage.

🙄 no, I’m not a twat and I put this to my clients and friends (as they do to me). It’s well meaning and well intentioned.

I think it's lovely. Shows they care

As above.Some folk can take offence at its!

Like when you're about to get on a plane and you get a text saying "have a safe flight" lol

Mine is when people say, drive carefully.

I say to my nan, I am going to drive dangerously today

I do this too. DC is a medic on a covid ward.
I also clap the NHS and all others that are working at this time.
As above its well intentioned.

Obviously I fully understand the risks people are having to take due to lack of PPE.

No. I do this and especially for my key worker friends. I want them to stay safe.
If it helps, I think it's generally meant more as a wish than instruction.

No I don't think they are twats, I appreciate it I triggering for you but it's the same as saying take care. It's not a command but a sort of psychological "spell",as if by saying it or writing it the person can somehow have some control in a very uncertain world. Try to see the intention behind it not the uselessness of the actual words.

I say it. I'm a doctor with covid pts on my ward and my husband is an ICU consultant. I say it because I am worried about people and I want to acknowledge the situation that we are in.

@Jelly you’ve hit the nail on the head there.

I just think people are saying it because it’s the ‘in’ thing to say & they don’t mean it.

I also got this from someone who is completely ignoring the stay at home rules so really rubbed me up the wrong way!

I think it’s BECAUSE my husband is a key worker that people so frequently tell him to ‘stay safe’. They recognise that he is putting himself (and in turn his immediate family) at risk, while they are able to stay home. It’s a way of acknowledging the sacrifice he is making in order to help society keep ticking over.

The world is an uncertain, worrying place at the moment. We should gratefully accept all the kindness we are offered.

I think your raging about your own situation which is understandable. Everyone is scared and there are people who are having to put themselves at risk with no acknowledgement. I am a GP receptionist and a lot of patients say this to me on the phone. It's lovely but I am a lot safer than the guys who deliver for dispensary who drive all over the place or those working in the supermarkets.

They show they care. You are the twat for judging them.

I like the sentiment and I have said it, but shouldn’t it be ‘stay well’?

Whatisthepoint2020 - I say it and I absolutely mean it. YABU.

I hope the person I am writing or saying it to stays safe. I appreciate it when someone says it to me. The expectation isn’t that the person you say it to tries harder to be safe, we know and appreciate the risks key workers are taking. The hope is that whatever they are doing works and they stay safe!

I can’t believe the things that people are offended by.

Right... all people who like baby showers, destination weddings, hen party’s that cost more than a tenner and the knobs that’s write a well meant stay safe at the end of text... well it’s about time we had a virtual public hanging for you all!

We are in the middle of a pandemic, give your head a wobble!

OP....not that you're generalizing hey?
No, they're not all twats. Most of them are kind and thoughtful.
Nice judgement though

It seems that you are in the minority and the ‘twat’ for starting the thread :) Not a nice word to describe well intentioned people.

Stay safe OP

My DP is a key worker. Of course I tell him to stay safe before going out!

I can’t see how this is anything to get annoyed by tbh.

Don't clap, don't say 'stay safe', moan moan fucking moan.

Some people just LOVE to take offence at pretty much everything.

I only say it to my colleagues, BECAUSE we are putting ourselves at risk every day, just because one person used it as a glib platitude doesn't mean no one means it. It's unlikely that all of my team will come through this workout some of us either being very seriously ill or not making it.

You're being extra.

So now we can't show people we care about them in case it offends someone?

Haha I’m definitely a twat no denying that 😀

I just feel it’s like the ‘be kind’ message from earlier in the year.

Actions speak louder than words and this is just a new phrase bandwagon.

I've been putting similar on all my emails to my work colleagues, I wholeheartedly mean it.

They're people I used to see every day who I genuinely care about and want to wish them well in this grim time.