Dm suggesting that the use is the words covid or corona virus is class based issue

[ShallallalAa]

Dm on the phone -
People who like drama call it covid.

People who prefer to make minimal fuss and get on with things call it coronavirus.

Ie the middle classes are more likely to call it coronavirus.

She was bu of course wasnt she. Didn't know what to say

[SpaceCadet4000]

I'd translate this as someone she doesn't like much calls it COVID, but she herself calls it Coronavirus... that's if she's like the types in my family who would say this sort of thing!

I call it COVID because COVID-19 is what it is, but saying the 19 bit seems overkill.

[thecatneuterer]

I always call it Covid as to me coronavirus brings to mind the one that affects cats and which has been part of my vocab for many, many years. And it worries me that people might confuse the two, thus making coronavirus positive cats harder to home than they already are.

[MrsEricBana]

Since Covid-19 is the name of this particular strain of coronavirus, the COronaVIrus Disease of 2019, that's more correct than calling it coronavirus, but which you use probably isn't linked to class/drama (and it IS pretty dramatic tbf). Sigh. My Australian friend says that e everything that happens here relates to class or sexism.

[JigsawsAreCool]

Are we agreeing the she is unreasonable or that you are unreasonable for thinking she is unreasonable

I've found the opposite to what you have said she thinks.

[ThumbWitchesAbroad]

Covid-19 is the designated term for the disease condition caused by SARS-CoV2 virus (formerly known as coronavirus 19)

So they're not, scientifically speaking, interchangeable.

[1forAll74]

Doesn't really matter what anyone calls it, your Mother has a strange way of thinking. I never think about people being in a certain class. it's a bit outdated now. I have written three letters to people today, and in parts, I said,. hope you are all well,and coping with this Virus thing..Everyone knows what you mean, whatever terminology you use.

[Lynda07]

Very strange way of thinking but never mind, mums are odd at times, maybe even me :-). My mother was a typical working class snob and had ideas about what was 'nice' and 'not nice', when it came to speech (embarrassing most of the time). I sometimes wonder what she would have made of all this. She would certainly not have stopped moaning about being locked in!

[OneEndStreet]

SparrowInTheHedge

But then of course the WC could try to "upspeak"?

they could, but why the fuck would we want to sound like we've got the queen's thumb up our arse like you lot do. Pretentious shite.

[MitziK]

Naturally, the people with the 'positive' traits of being sensible and wealthier just happen to use the same name as she does, right?


Mine would have probably said similar, but would have been calling it something like 'Convid'. (She insisted that DSis would visit when they were 'on their way to buy a bookcase from Ikendo', etc). And if (I learned not to get dragged down the rabbit hole in the end) I was daft enough to say 'Corvid? That's crows, Mum. You mean Covid', there was an almost 100% chance that by the time it reached the siblings that 'Mitzi's so stupid. She says that you get Corbynovirus from Blackbirds'.


Anyhow, from experience, ignore your Mum. Let the words drift over your head and off into infinity. There is absolutely no point in getting embroiled in her little proclamations about who is U and Non-U (and she'll have read about that in her preferred newspaper at some point. Mine bloody did. Thinks it makes her sound U like Nancy Milford and she couldn't even get the name right to describe things in such a way).

Ask her about pets, what she had for dinner, anything to distract her away from distinguishing characteristics of class. Your blood pressure will thank you for it.

[Oysterbabe]

What bollocks. I say Covid because coronavirus is too general.

[Waxonwaxoff0]

I call it both, but use Covid more. I'm not particularly anxious and I'm "getting on with things".

[joannaplumley]

I use COVID as a result of being involved in work contingency planning and that's how it was referred to. At home we call it "the Covids" thanks to Russell Kane!

[captainpantbeard]

I say corona because I like the way it rolls off the tongue.

[TroysMammy]

In work when writing I abbreviate it to CV19. Speaking to patients it's Coronovirus. The GPs say Covid when discussing amongst themselves.

[SaraLundsHairyJumper]

I don’t know about class difference but I have noticed a tendency among my more dramatic friends to call it Covid/Covid 19, whereas everyone else I know calls it Coronavirus.

[WhateverHappenedToMe]

C-19 at work. COVID-19 out of work.

[Newbie1999]

@CoCoCorona That’s EXACTLY what I’d have said.

[Splodgetastic]

@AnneBullen, calling it The Situation makes it sound like you are a Soviet newsreader!

[listsandbudgets]

Dread to think what your DM would make of us. It's usually known as " this flipping virus" in our house.

Actually in more formal conversation we usually call it covid 19.

My DN is called Rona.. I doubt she'll be impressed by the latest abbreviation!!

[Spamellahamella]

I can only bring myself to say "the virus" or "all of this". If o had to it would probably be corona virus. I'm not posh. I can't remember which way round your mum had it.

[Angel2702]

Most use both I know I do, or just say “with everything going on at the moment”.

[FerneGreene]

Its the 'rona here too, or 'the situation'.

@DontStandSoCloseToMe I'm intrigued as to what/who your DH's clients are

[CovidicusRex]

I lolled at the suggestion that the middle class don’t like causing a fuss!

[Tillyscoutsmum]

My DP insists on calling it COVONA virus.
I could plead mitigating circumstances in a manslaughter case, yes?!

[opticaldelusion]

A bit like saying flu or influenza

Not really. It's like saying flu/influenza or H1N1.

The difference is a generic type of virus vs a specific illness caused by that type of virus.