Anyone else getting irate by "stay safe"?

[Iliketeaagain]

Or just me?

It's such a crappy phrase, on the end of email signatures, on text messages. And just want to tell them to piss off with their "stay safe", because the words mean nothing when NHS staff still don't have the right PPE, when they still don't have hand alcohol gel, when we are only testing hospital admissions so we have no idea whether staff have just got a sore throat from a mild cold or Covid19 so the workforce is down 20% for 14 days as staff self-isolate, as we are told to prepare for higher numbers of patients.

It's empty words "stay safe" - well Matt Hancock - tell us how the NHS is meant to "stay safe" when it's so serious that schools, pubs, restaurants etc are closing and we don't have the right equipment to keep health and social care staff safe across the whole health and social care system.

"Stay safe" can piss off and take covid19 with it.

(Sorry, that was a bit ranty - but is it just me?)

It's better than #be kind

When I say it, this is what I mean...

I cannot do anything to protect you from this illness and the times we live live in. I wish I could because I love you. I ask you to do what you can in your situation to not make things worse for yourself. I'm praying for us all.

You might think all that is meaningless too, sorry.

To be fair @isittheholidaysyet the sentiment to family and friends is a lovely one.

To hear it from the powers that be in the health and social care system who are not given the tools they need to "stay safe" is just empty words. Everyone expects healthcare workers to pull together and do their bit, putting their own families at more risk because we can't make the choice to socially distance from our essential patients and clients (because they would die). "Stay safe" in that context is meaningless.

I'm sorry you are frustrated but l think yabu. There sre people that are still saying it's a fuss over nothing. People only thinking of themselves. Showing that you care is a little thing we can do to support each other.

I prefer "take care" it has more meaning and more active choice than "stay safe".

It's not frustration. It's fear.
Fear that community workers are going around spreading the virus completely unaware that they even have it. Fear that community health staff are going in to patients who have cv19 symptoms with no PPE, because the alternative is that the patient will die and then having to see 20+ other vulnerable patients and potentially pass on the virus. Fear that some of my colleagues will get it and die from it all because they were to do their best and keep their patients healthy and well.

So "stay safe" makes the person who safe it feel better, it's doing nothing to keep the country and its population safe.