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

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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

Not sure about my class but have been a scientist etc so have seen many forms... I probably say everything from the pandemic / covid / virus / corona .,,,

Haven’t rtft so sorry if someone’s done this x

It's Rona.

The fact that your MIL has even thought about this says more about her than anyone else.

My mum insists on calling it
COVID-D

The Yoof call it 'Rona.

I'm bored of saying coronavirus so have started to say Covid to jazz things up a little. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I don't think it matters in the slightest, call it covid or coronavirus, everyone knows what you mean.

19yo DD and mates are calling it rona, or the rona

21yo DS and friends have taken to calling it the plague, or the pestilence.

I think both are just very bored now.

Agree, @Haffiana.

I havn't rtft. The virus itself was once (and sometimes still is) refered to as novel coronavirus(nCoV), as that's what it is, and is now known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, shortened to SARS-CoV-2, the cause of coronavirus disease 2019 (nicknamed covid 19). But what would a working class pleb like me know?

Meh, don't people call it different things and different times? I know I do. I think it's a bit silly (and pointless) to try to tie any of the names to a class, so on the basis of that, she is being unreasonable.

Ugh. Different things *at different times...

Hilarious that the class system has taken hold of this word so quickly.

Ah mumsnet
Like a Keeping Up Appearances episode it's all about how you want to be perceived with regard to class.

My mother is like that. She still treats me as if I'm 14. Just mutter some platitude and talk about the weather.

We call it "the virus" or "the pandemic", since everyone knows what we're taking about. When typing i use "cv19". There's not a class thing to this and one term isn't more provocative than the other and being a drama llama isn't a class characteristic.

The best name for it is covfefe-19

I use either pretty much at random, does that make me lower middle class or upper working class?