To ask what Covid related words and phrases are you sick of hearing? (lighthearted)

[Rainbowb]

This is not to undermine the seriousness of the pandemic at all, this is just an observation on language use and the general mood of the public. Covid has provoked lots of new expressions that are being used over and over again and for me some of them are beginning to epitomise my feelings of weariness and are beginning to rankle. Phrases like two metres, unprecedented, bubble, social distancing- I feel like I can’t bear to hear them anymore!

Self isolating. Are you self isolating? I can’t work/shop/help because I’m self isolating!

Shielding ....gives me the rage for some reason. 😂

All of them but especially hand sanitiser and social distancing and Covid 19!

When it's safe. Meaningless phrase.

Unprecedented

New normal - as it's not, this is just some temporary shit we need to live though.

"During Covid times" gives me the rage!

Also hate shielding - I've had the misfortune to have been doing it and returned to work last week and cringed inwardly as I was introduced to new staff members who've started since I've been off as "this is Ruby who has been shielding at home" .

We have an all staff briefing (webinar) on Monday and my friend and I have made a bingo card with hateful words. I bet every single one goes.

"You do know that..." chanted out by every competitive lockdowner, now mostly confined to haranguing un-named pubs and restaurants, as they sit there rubbing their hands and hoping for a second wave.

We’re boycotting any company that uses the words ‘now more than ever’ - we have an increasingly narrow shopping selection...
‘You’re on mute’
‘Zoom’
‘Furlough’ - being furloughed has had a huge impact on my mental health but nobody wants to talk about it because ‘you’re lucky to still have a job’ (I know) and ‘I’m working to pay for you to sit on your arse’ (not my decision - don’t you think I would rather be working?)

One from a while back. Anyone who posted anything on Facebook that had anything to do with them being out all had, "on our daily allowed exercise" as if they had to justify why they were out.
Now, any being out is justified with, "socially distant of course"

Key workers presumed self importance drives me mad.

“Now more than ever”. I can get with most of the Covid language but this gives me the rage!

“14 days isolation” ...I just imagine being locked in an isolation cell with a daily delivery from a “key worker” 🤣

"These strange times."

Sick of people calling face masks a muzzle.

"Hero/heroes"

NHS heroes
Key worker heroes
Stay-at-home heroes
Our children are all heroes...

Godsake!

Pivot

We’re in the USA. Not sure if this is being used a lot in the U.K. but pivot is the buzzword here.

We’re in the USA. Not sure if this is being used a lot in the U.K. but pivot is the buzzword here

Presumably not just for getting new sofas up a couple of flights of stairs...?

I listen to a UK radio shows weekly on the Internet. It’s a request show and pre-virus it was all “please can you play xxx by zzzz for Steve because it’s his birthday tomorrow”. Normal requests. Now it’s all “please play xxx by zzz for Steve who’s a key worker, keeping us all safe, working 20 hours a day on the front line, and shopping for 23 shielding relatives and making masks for the whole country in his spare time”.

Reporting. All this reporting your neighbors. People who previously were quite happy to let their neighbors do whatever they want, however dangerous, illegal, unethical etc are now reporting them for having their parents round for a cuppa. We live in an area prone to wildfires, which are a very serious problem here in the west of the USA, we have burn bans in place to prevent wildfires. People won’t report people breaking burn ban rules but will report people in grocery stores without masks.

Zoom
New normal
Eat out to help out

Uptick
Granular (data)
World beating track and trace

@SilverOnToast not heard that one here on the west coast. Thankfully I have been spared as it annoy me too.

“On the front line” gets me too.

Every single one. Everything to do with it. I'm sick hearing it all.

Every single one of them

'The most vulnerable'. Hate it. Stupid catchall phrase that politicians use to pretend they care. Technically a meaningless term that encompasses so many people making it impossible to track or evaluate. The perfect empty postmodern word. Ugh!!!!!