Words and phrases you never want to hear again after this is over

[Welshmaenad]

"Unprecedented"

"Social distancing"

"Feed the nation"

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@Sh05 You're not wrong, there.

Unprecedented. For those of us who experienced serious isolation, restrictions and health anxiety for years in our youth, due to health problems of our own, immunosuppression in a family member, or in my own case both, this is not unprecedented; it is a return to our youth, inducing something very like PTSD. From a broader, less self-centred perspective, it also is not unprecedented: it is the way things were for almost everyone before modern medicine. (What is unprecedented is having the technology to cushion the blow somewhat.) Thank the lord for the vaccinations and medical treatments and sanitation, that mean that we are not ALWAYS in this position nowadays!

We're in uncharted territory - said in every news programme every night! As well as unprecedented of course.

Stay at home.
I want to hear ' go outside'
!

Matt Hancock telling us he's going to "strain every sinew" 😖...yuk....makes me feel queasy!!

"It's against the rules" said by every single hard of thinking person on Mumsnet and all my social media.

Shielding
Self isolation
Social distancing
Key worker
Face mask
Hand sanitiser
Skype- I can’t hear you / can you hear me

2m rule
Essential travel

Stay safe, flatten the curve, peak, lockdown, isolation, death toll, the new normal.

Arghhhhh

“You are in a queue to get onto the website” - ALDI/Morrisons/B&Q/Boots

Flatten the curve

I don't why but the phrase 'self isolating' sets my teeth on edge. And as for 'social distancing',surely that's an oxymoron?

Raab, or, Hancock or whoever: "We will now take some questions...Robert Peston, ITV news.
Peston: Thankyou, err, a quick queeeeestion for the er scientists if I er, maaaaaaay...about er, yes, er the question is about errrrr, PPEEEEEEEE..errrrrr

At which point I hurl the cat at the TV and switch over to The Chase.
Odious man.

social distancing, stay safe, stay at home.

on my daily walk to justify everything.

Fuck off with your daily walk! Basically you are doing whatever you want to do (pick up an item, buying make-up, visiting friends), and no one can or want to check if it is your daily or 3rd walk or if it makes it ok.
Enough with the "daily walk", why don't you try a daily exercise for a change Susan, you need to lose weight anyway.

*Scaremongering

Because it's only ever said by people denying there's a bit of a problem.*

No, it really isn't. It's a good term to call out people who are adding additional hysteria to an already anxious time. Scaremongering is very much happening and it's fucking awful. The worst of it is on Mumsnet.

Fuck off with your daily walk! Basically you are doing whatever you want to do (pick up an item, buying make-up, visiting friends), and no one can or want to check if it is your daily or 3rd walk or if it makes it ok.
Enough with the "daily walk", why don't you try a daily exercise for a change Susan, you need to lose weight anyway

This is so unnecessarily angry. You are allowed on those walks and you can walk to do something so long as social distancing is happening. Maybe you should read the recent thread on here where someone posted an official document listing what is considered reasonable reasons to leave your home? I'm assuming you must be one of the curtain twitchers....

"scaremongering" is still much better than the casual posters pretending to laugh at the situation and to be superior because they are not concerned. Great, but if the world is reacting to a pandemic, it is a bit more serious than you have decided, based on a couple of memes you've seen that day.

Even worst when the poster think they have had it cause they sneezed twice and are now magically immune.

And as for 'social distancing',surely that's an oxymoron?

Uhhm no, it really isn't. Are you being sarcastic or can you seriously not comprehend the phrase? it means distancing in areas where there would be social elements...

GreytExpectations
you spectacularly missed my point.
Do your walk, go for your daily jog, take your kids on their daily cycling trip, we all do. Well, I do, and I don't time them. That's not the issue.

It's the constant use of the expression I do xyz "on my daily walk" which drives me nuts. Just say: I pick this up, I drop that. You don't need to add "on my daily walk" to justify yourself or look so smug. It's very irritating.

scaremongering" is still much better than the casual posters pretending to laugh at the situation and to be superior because they are not concerned.

I think they are just as bad as each other really. No need for people to be posting "facts" that somebody's best friend's sister's auntie who knows a doctor'ss uncle posted on FB. It creates additional anxiety when that's the last thing people need right now

That makes sense now that you explained it OneandTwenty your initial post wasn't very clear as you definitely insinuated that you were annoyed at people doing those things on their walks. But now you clarified, fair enough. I suspect people add in the "daily walk" phrase because of the curtain twitchers who are waiting to interrogate them

Sorry I wasn't clear!

Oh don't worry, just wanted to explain why my response may have seemed rude!