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

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Rainbowb · 05/08/2020 21:47

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!

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VainAbigail · 06/08/2020 21:40

Everything’s everyone has already said and also:

“but of course, I won’t be letting them use my toilet”.

Travelledtheworld · 06/08/2020 21:48

Doing anything "safely" said in a coy sort of way. Wearing a condom then ?
Social distancing can just f**k off.
And bubble.

Rainbowb · 06/08/2020 23:45

Yed I hate the word “heroes” - it’s been banded about far too much lately. I got given a mug with a rainbow on and “lockdown hero” on it at the end of term. I’m not a hero, I’m a nursery worker in a zero hours contract job who carried on working throughout the peak of the pandemic because I needed to put food on the table. I was glad to keep going because frankly I would have gone insane at home full time. I feel deeply uncomfortable with being labelled a hero just because a minority of those in the education sector ducked out of their responsibilities.

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