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

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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.

It started off well intentioned but it's now so ubiquitous it sounds rather trite.

It's nothing like the #bekind stuff earlier this year. You're a twat for using the phrase 'on trend to be fair. I'm an NHS nurse working through the pandemic and I sincerely hope we all stay safe.

Why on earth wouldn’t they mean it? You’re being ridiculous.

So you've had many nurses and key workers saying they use it and don't mind it so time to find something else to focus in perhaps?

I've been using "Remain indoors"

Totally agree with you OP. It's replaced "take care" which always came over as a pointless, virtue-signalling mantra.

People who say it in blanket fashion are irritating. Similar to people saying "be kind" will combat suicide.

It started off well intentioned but it's now so ubiquitous it sounds rather trite.

Yes, let’s make sure that we come up with a new sign-off every week or so lest our email wishes come across as trite to some nitpicking loon with a penchant for constant novelty in email etiquette.

I agree. Like you actively don’t ‘stay safe’

Yeah from now on I am going to say hope you catch it, because that's what I really mean. Ffs stay or keep safe is being used a lot more because we all need to try and stay safe. It just means don't put yourself at anymore risk than you need to and for frontline workers I think Is more like a prayer or an intention because obviously they are more at risk and you hope they stay safe. What am I allowed say according to you?

Don't mean it ?

Ridiculous.

I say it to people and am not a twat...I just actually happen to really care about my friends and family!

How depressing. Of course the people sending the email want you to stay safe, ie they don't want you to contract a painful and dangerous disease. Of course they mean it. Address your fears about your husband getting ill in a healthier way than being angry with people doing ordinary, kind gestures during unprecedented circumstances.

I think people should be using the words they actually mean and usually say and not some new phrase that on trend at the moment.

But everyone is telling you they do mean it

Don't you just say things that are relevant, so at the moment we are in the middle of a pandemic and I genuinely hope everyone stays safe and well which is why I say it. It's the same as if someone hadn't been well I might sign off saying hope you are feeling better or if someone has something special on, hope you have a lovely weekend.

It's no different and not comparable to the #bekind cringe that I can't abide.

YABU. It's just a nice expression, acknowledging that we're living through a risky pandemic. It has been widely acknowledged that certain workers are taking huge risks and that's much appreciated.
But that doesn't mean the rest of us aren't nervous about ourselves or a loved one catching this damned thing and ending up seriously ill.

It's hardly a trend. People are using it more right now because of the situation we are in, not to be 'on trend'.

You are too easily enraged IMO

I agree. Like you actively don’t ‘stay safe’

No but the people saying it are hoping you stay as safe as your possibly can be in the circumstances, I.e wash your hands, adhere to social distancing and don't lick anything.

I find it trite. I wish people would just act normal and stop saying it.

I'm not a twat as nd DH is working for the NHS. I didn't know it was the 'in' thing to say, I say it because I mean it. I wouldn't be messaging people I don't care about.

I've been signing off all my emails with 'Stay safe' not because I'm a twat, but because I genuinely mean it. I think it's nice think to write and acknowledges this awful situation we're in.

I hate it. Everyone said this in NYC after 9/11. Yet another parallel.

I understand that it's well intentioned and it's far too ubiquitous to really get upset over, but I would like very much to see the back of it.

I find it weird personally because I think it’s too late as we’ve already likely had it - or got it as still coughing, wheezing, chest tightness etc a month later. More and more of us are likely to have caught it and recovered so no longer can “stay safe” in the sense of not catching it. But I’ll still say similar to family and friends as it’s not a nice virus even for those not at high risk. Over use of a phrase can render it a meaningless platitude regardless of sincerity.

It is trite but I am guilty of using it. I am also a massive twat though so there's that.

I work for the NHS and don't mind it at all, in fact we say it to each other!