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.

It’s just kind, it’s a “best wishes or kind regards” of a pandemic.

When I say it I mean it.

This is another way in which children- having been quarantined, fed a steady diet of uncontextualised death tolls and 'stay safe' and continuously doused in antiseptic and so on - will be scarred by this chapter.

They'd already been robbed of any opportunity to reasonably approach risk in their lives pre-corona.

#beKind was a shallow platitude based on nothing more than the media turning one person’s tragedy into a bandwagon.

We are all in the position that we could catch corona, some more than others.

To my mind “stay safe” implies that you’re thinking of someone, and hope that they remain ok.

I said it last week to the cardiology consultant I spoke to and I meant it with all my heart. The heart he restarted last year when I went into cardiac arrest and he gave me CPR. Were it not for him I literally wouldn’t be alive now.I absolutely hope that he remains ok, as with everyone else I have also had dealings with in the NHS.

And I hope it for my family and friends who I will not see for the foreseeable future, knowing that it’s possible I may never see some of them again.

If you’re offended by it, don’t say it. It ain’t that hard is it? .

Most of the people I love and mostly everyone I work with are keyworkers in health and social care. I'll say stay safe or take care because I mean it. It's not a generic hashtag, like be kind, but a personal wish for them because I care about them.

I find your insistence that it's a trend a bit odd. These are very concerning times for most people who care about others and showing that by wishing them well isn't trite or a trend.

Yes I'm a twat then. Stay safe everyone. And I mean it.

YANBU
Driving me demented!
That and the word 'vulnerable' applied to oneself.

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.

But doesn't that make you more concerned about others and hope they stay well? I had it (unconfirmed) a few weeks ago and have ongoing respiratory issues requiring paramedics a few nights ago. I'm a very healthy person normally, I wouldn't want anyone to go through this. It's fucking awful. Most people that I know haven't had it, when I say stay safe, take care etc I say it because I mean it.

@Whatisthepoint2020 you’re bored, aren’t you?

^^ Agree that this entire thread is essentially trolling people to get a rise out of them.

Not so much a chip on your shoulder, as a whole fish supper!

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

Sometimes the words you use prompt an action as well

@joeyspecial, hilarious

OP I agree with @Jelly. I say it to my son every time he leaves the house, before this, be careful, as if by saying it or writing it the person can somehow have some control in a very uncertain world.

I'm not a twat and when I say it I do mean it. I want the people I say it to to stay safe. It's a wish not an instruction.

Front line NHS worker here

I bloody cringe when someone says it to me. It has become just a phrase like see you later or goodbye
People if the really are concerned they could phrase it much better- be careful at work today etc

Aren't all sign offs trite and cliched though? Kind regards (you might not feel particularly kindly), Yours sincerely/ faithfully (but you would jump ship at the first opportunity), Affectionately yours (to an aunt/ uncle/ cousin you don't particularly care about), Take care (don't really care if you do), May the Force be with you (for geeks like me ), Goodbye/ Farewell (don't care if good or bad/ well or not), Best wishes (you might not really wish them well).

A sign off is just that, a sign off. "Stay safe" is a new one. People are overthinking it.

It's exactly the same as people saying 'take care', which they said before the pandemic. Strange thing to have 'the rage' about. Only a twats get enraged by nice things in my experience.

I think people should be using the words they actually mean and usually say

But we're not usually in the middle of a pandemic so my language is just reflecting that change in circumstances - fwiw I didn't entertain the be kind thing. It's very clear most people don't mean that. I think this is rather different

I use it and I’m not a twat (well, I don’t think so).

For me it’s like saying I love you, I care about you. I only put it on emails to close friends.

OP, I completely agree with you.

I just think people are saying it because it’s the ‘in’ thing to say & they don’t mean it.
How bizarre!
I say 'stay safe and well' because, at this moment in time, I genuinely wish everybody, especially those who have to have to put themselves at risk, to stay safe and well.
I mean it a lot more genuinely than all the best wishes, kind regards, sincerely and failthfullys that I normally sign letters with.
But yeah, it's the 'in' thing....that's the real reason!

Stay safe as far as possible? That's how I read it. I don't get the 'rage', that is seriously unbecoming at a time when everyone struggles in different ways.

My husband is a police officer. I’ve always said it to him every day when he goes to work. I don't think that makes me a twat.

The fact that someone has changed from their usual 'best wishes' or whatever means that they have thought about it, and that's what they want to say even if they have amended their work email signature.

What would you rather people signed off with?
"have a nice day" with a smiley emoji thrown in for good measure?

They ARE words I actually mean & usually say

FFS

Yeah I agree. I don't get the point. And it's not like we didn't wish people well before without having to add some cheesy line.