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.

I think it is just their way of saying they are worried about everyone they care about

I think I can see where you're coming from OP. Actions do speak louder than words. So if you're out every Thursday clapping for workers on the frontline don't vote Tory ever again. If you really want everyone to be safe, don't vote Tory ever again.

I don't say this but I might consider adding it to mine but augmenting it to say "Don't die today"

Says the same thing.

Ah, for fucks sake this place.

I'd rather they said hope you and your family are safe or well and not stay safe as find it abit disingenuous but that's just me being fussy.

I also hate other abbreviations like how's you instead of how are you though so that's just me

Jesus you just can't bloody win with some ppl...go back to bed OP!! Ffs!!

No. You are really losing perspective on this.

Well I have just signed off a work email to a paediatric A&E nurse with "stay safe" (I work for the NHS in a non-clinical, non-frontline role), hopefully she doesn't think I am a twat. I typed it because I meant it. I have colleagues on the front line who I ordinarily work closely with, I really don't want anything bad to happen to them.

I thought this place had reached peak Miserable Bastardness with the “don’t put rainbows in your windows” shite. There’s always a new low on here. What a laugh they’re asking us for money to read (and write) it.

I'm using stay safe at the end of emails , it sort of replaces the hug I would give friends and family if we were meeting in person.

Sorry if it offends.

I say it, or something along the same lines to colleagues when we end a call. Didn't know it was a trend. It's similar to good luck, you can't control how lucky someone will be or how safe they are but it's hoping that whatever they're doing, they come out of this pandemic safely.
I don't think it's anything like the Be kind movement which I have sometimes found a bit cheesy🤨

I think stay safe and be kind are the same kind of thing and are abbreviations. People either like them or they dont but no reason to be offended or think negative thoughts about who is sending them as I'm sure they mean well.

I've been telling people to stay safe since I came down with COVID because I dont want them to go through what I've been through (and I m a mild/moderate case). It's better than screaming "do you know how sick this could make you?" esp as some of them are key workers and have no way of keeping completely safe.

It makes me feel a bit sad ATM because I'm pretty sure me and and my family have had Covid-19 and are still getting over it. Lots of people are way worse off than us, but I haven't been feeling safe lately

I found #be kind to be patronising, and usually sent by those who are on the band waggon for most things like that ie, holibobs, xxxxgate, etc

Being kind is what we should be doing anyway, but wishing someone to be safe in this particular time in history can't really be been as patronising - unless it's from your line manager, telling you there's no PPE left for you to do your job.

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

Well, yes, but the same with all sorts of things. When you send kind regards, do you always mean them. Do you really mean it when you say take care or good bye (god be with you)?
And it's not my fault or anyone else's that your DP is a key worker.

Hmm I disagree and dont think either is particularly offensive but anyway back to the thread topic as op is talking about stay safe not be kind. And just for context it was somebody saying it in an email pr whatsapp msg? Or with a hashtag in front as I find anything with a hashtag in front cheesy.

No I don"t like 'Stay safe'...I find it patronising, to me it's like an order, same as someone telling me 'not to forget to wash your hands/keep to social distancing/follow the rules....'

....I'd prefer a 'Be well'....

I prefer hope you and your family are well or a message to ask how we are personally instead of 'stay safe' then not hearing from them for weeks which feels abit like whats the point. I woudnt be offended by it though or think bad of the person. To me it depends on the closeness of your relationship maybe.

Cheesy! Yes! That's what it is that annoys me about Bekind...and the clapping come to think of it - but yes, back to the thread...(You've got a point about the hashtag thing too)

What's the difference between be safe and be well?

One you can try and do - the other is out of your hands. Both are well meaning - as they all are, but personally (just thinking aloud as it were ) "be well" seems to be the same as "have a safe flight" - both are out of your control (unless you're the pilot)

People say it as a way to reassure themselves - as if saying it imbues some special ability to make it true, a kind of magic charm. I don't think people are saying it to be twats. It's an expression of good will.
It's a bit like the bulk loo roll buying - on some subconscious level people equated buying loo paper with being prepared for a pandemic and able to cope.
I can see why it feels trite to someone who works in a hospital and knows that it doesn't have any real meaning.

I don’t think people are saying this to be “trendy”. Like when people suddenly started saying “from the get go” or “my bad.”

This is just an inoffensive way of saying “take care”. It’s not people trying to be trendy, I think if that’s why you’re getting cross, you’re misinterpreting people.

Not RTT.
But wanted to say, I have said stay safe to a few people.
What I wanted to say was I hope this virus doesn't kill you or anyone you love.
So OP. Stay safe.

Get Well Soon - what benefit is this comment to my recovery?

Happy Birthday - how do you know I’ll have a happy birthday?

Merry Christmas - bah, humbug!