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!

At the beginning when everyone on social media seemed to be typing ‘TOTAL LOCKDOWN NOW’ which was always always in upper case and usually posted on local newspaper pages . I detested the ‘take care stay safe ‘ email sign offs from colleagues in other departments whom I have never actually met . Like most of us on here now I hate all the words and phrases associated with it all .

@LaMarschallin 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Agree with so many already mentioned especially global pandemic and would add
Can you see my screen?
Have you been back to the office yet?
Sacrifice
World beating/leading

I have to defend bubble though. I like it. Obviously not appropriate for 300 secondary school kids more like a planet but for the 12 5 year olds in dd2's reception class the idea of them all being it together with their wonderful TA was kinda cute

I don’t like it being called “the rona” 😣
Also, and I will probably get slated for this but I don’t like seeing rainbows everywhere anymore, at the start it was kind of uplifting and showed us we were all in it together (sorry!) but now they’re just a reminder that it’s still going on months later with no end in sight...especially seeing the old faded ones just makes me think of how long it’s been going on 😔

I’m hearing “kovvid” much more now - why suddenly change the pronunciation? It’s stupid. It’s like highbrows want to put their own stamp on things.

Sick of Furlough, Zoom and all the you’re on mute, you’re breaking up, etc etc garbage that entails. “New normal”, and something about ‘face covering’ too

And lots of talk in business about being in the post covid (kovvid) world - doesn’t post mean after? It’s not bloody over yet.

In Ireland we don't shield, we cocoon. It sounds cosy, after hearing it all the time it's irritating.

Covid secure. Particularly when there is actually no social distancing going on!

Not strictly a covid phrase but an annoying thing on Facebook I keep seeing....
“If you don’t like wearing masks, you’re going to hate the ventilator”
Just to add I’m not against mask wearing and wear one when I need too, just that phrase pisses me right off for some reaosn

Considering (as in.. i hope you had a good birthday / holiday considering)
In these current times - just fuck off
Covidiot i want to slap people who say this as much as i want to slap people who say snowflake or ok boomer
Shielding (i work for a company that requires a safety check in tenants property and theyre all ringing up refusing access because theyre shielding and while i have every sympathy if i hear for the 10 millionth time "BUT I CANT EVEN SEE MY OWN GRAND CHILDREN BECAUSE IM SHIELDING" i feel like screaming and saying no one is fucking forcing you to do this! Go and see your grandchildren! Just take whatever precautions you need to take! But of course i can't say that)

All in it together

Furloughed (reminds me of work when redundancy is looming and people start talking about toupeeing people like its a word we've always used). I hate when everyone starts banding words about like they already knew what it meant. Or stupid media created words which everyone just adopts such as brexit.

All the shit about wearing masks being akin to slavery.

@eggandonion
In Ireland we don't shield, we cocoon. It sounds cosy, after hearing it all the time it's irritating.

Oh god im pissing myself laughing. Ive got visions of that horrible man off the x files who made this creepy kind of papier maché coccoon..!!!

Oh i forgot... 'second spike' i dont know why that irritates me more than second wave but it does

its not a word or phrase - it's endlessly seeing idiots that think a requirement to wear a mask means carefully covering their neck.
Bloody morons.

“Can everyone mute their microphones please if you’re not talking?”

For fucks sake, John, we’ve been having these weekly virtual meetings for over 4 months. Why do you need to be told to mute your fucking mic every single time? We all know it’s you!

Do you want to meet for a ....‘socially distanced coffee, socially distanced walk or a socially distanced picnic?’Just say coffee, walk and picnic! Also there is nothing social about it, surely it’s physically distanced.
New normal, just no for that one.
The phrase ‘if you think a mask is bad try wearing a ventilator’ as if it’s an automatic death sentence for anyone who catches it.
Plus all the other phrases mentioned by previous posters.

@Sunnydazey

Not strictly a covid phrase but an annoying thing on Facebook I keep seeing.... “If you don’t like wearing masks, you’re going to hate the ventilator” Just to add I’m not against mask wearing and wear one when I need too, just that phrase pisses me right off for some reaosn

Ugh I hate self righteous shit like that. I am pretty self righteous too so it obviously hits a nerve

@Wavescrashingonthebeach

Oh i forgot... 'second spike' i dont know why that irritates me more than second wave but it does

Haha, also people who go on about the R rating and other sciencey or medical terms like its every day parlance. God I'm just a bit of an up myself cantankerous snob

Plateau annoys me and I don't know why

@famousforwrongreason

Argh yes the fucking R rating! My Mum keeps on about it!
Haha i must be a cantankerous snob too!

Anything that comes out of Gavin Williamson’s mouth. I know it’s wrong but I can’t even stand his accent never mind the absolute bilge he says.

"Covid safe" of a business.

Seems a bit overly confident , lol!

I hate the word 'shielding'. I always imagine someone cowering in a locked room, while a knight in armour clanks up and down guarding the door.

'Dementors'

All in it together

"COVID secure" fuck off Boris. 🤦‍♂️

I really get aerated if I hear the government have labelled something they've just come up with on the back of a muesli packet "world beating". It just so isn't going to be.

In fact I feel anything crazily upbeat that Boris Johnson says is an affront to my critical faculties.