Lockdown#2 bingo

[Juststopswimming]

I thought I'd start a thread of current over-used phrases I keep seeing on other threads (does this count as a thread about a thread? :

"its 4 weeks people!"

"this virus isnt going anywhere!" (i hold myself to account for using that one)

"its not a proper lockdown"

"Christmas is just ONE DAY"

Please feel free to add your own!

My second cousins grest aunt died and they put COVID on death certificate but she died of something else.
Doctors are paid extra to put COVID on desth certificate

Can I have the next slide, please?

There is no such thing as Long COVID
It's just flu

All of them, all of them make me

@friedshrimp Piers Morgan used to say that on repeat and I’d want to throw things at the TV.

Piers Morgan's stint as self-appointed virologist was even more annoying than his usual provocateur persona.

Easy to 'stay the fuck home' when you're worth millions and live in a mansion.

[quote IcedPurple]**@friedshrimp Piers Morgan used to say that on repeat and I’d want to throw things at the TV.

Piers Morgan's stint as self-appointed virologist was even more annoying than his usual provocateur persona.

Easy to 'stay the fuck home' when you're worth millions and live in a mansion.[/quote]
Yes, and easy to say ‘all you’re being asked to do is stay at home and watch Netflix’ when you don’t have two children to homeschool, a baby to look after and a full time job to do at the same time.

One of my favourites is "shield the vulnerable", which is spouted willy nilly on many threads

Nobody has a clue who these vulnerable are, whether they even want to be shielded and shut away, much less whether they can have or afford the time off work.

@Topseyt dh is ecv and has been asked to wfh etc etc. All good.
However children of ECV still have to go to school though. So they can mix with 450 kids between them which kind of makes a mockery of shield the vulnerable.
Of course we can all judt stay 2 metres away from him at home maybe.

A light/lite lockdown, or I've also seen it read it as lockdown light/lite

Spanish Flu references

Why can't they use the Nightingales?

References to gas masks. Apparently Some people's grannies wore them all the time in ww2.

Constant talk about how perfect 'other countries' are.

As in... other countries have mass testing (yet now they're whining about it being done in Liverpool)
... other countries have great 'mask compliance' (another MN fave)
... other countries had 'better' lockdowns.

and so on.

You hear it a bit less now that it's evident that many of those wonderful 'other countries' aren't doing much better than the UK. But it was all over the place back in March-April.

The use of the word "covidiot" when someone does something you don't approve of i.e. when people with no gardens went to the beach in may when it was sunny.

Equally use of "selfish" for anyone not prepared to follow everything to the letter - or perhaps for simply questioning the rules - or for doing anything not approved of like booking a supermarket home delivery slot or buying chocolate or paint.

@IcedPurple oh yes the mythical other countries. You don't hear so much about Spain or France now. Incidentally many children struggled to walk after the Spanish lockdown I think it was, where they weren't allowed out of the house for many weeks.

The use of the word "covidiot" when someone does something you don't approve of i.e. when people with no gardens went to the beach in may when it was sunny.

"people went to beaches"?

Surely you mean 'idiots flocked to beaches'?

[quote rookiemere]@IcedPurple oh yes the mythical other countries. You don't hear so much about Spain or France now. Incidentally many children struggled to walk after the Spanish lockdown I think it was, where they weren't allowed out of the house for many weeks. [/quote]
What Spain - a supposedly 'family friendly' country - did to its children is a disgrace. Yet many on MN thought it was a fab idea. They're a bit quieter about it these days.

"We shouldve shut our borders and kept them shut"

(I also often see this written as "we shouldve shut our boarders and kept them shut" and wonder what posh kids have to do with it)

Sorry @IcedPurple of course I meant to day flocking or swarming.

"The rest of the world are laughing at us"
Yes they are, but not for the reasons you think.....

'suck it up'
Worst saying ever, so vile

'people in Japan/S Korea etc. Are naturally more compliant'
'We all need to do our bit"
'it's for the greater good'

Roolz
Lockdowns don't work
Face nappies/ muzzles
I'll do my own risk analysis
"Critical thinking"
Great Barrington

@LivinLaVidaLoki

"The rest of the world are laughing at us" Yes they are, but not for the reasons you think.....

Oh god yes, that whole 'We are the laughing stock of the world' nonsense was constant a few months ago. As if people around the world had nothing better to do than obsess over what was happening in Britain. Most were much more concerned with their own government's handling of the crisis, because despite what you might think from reading MN, people in 'other countries' found plenty of reasons to criticise their governments' response.

Yeh the laughing at U.K. sure, France, Spain, Belgium, US on and on all in hysterics

‘We don’t need the northern hemisphere’ (except for vaccine and treatments)

@Zena389

'suck it up' Worst saying ever, so vile

A bit like 'Businesses will just have to adapt or die'.

Invariably spoken by someone sitting in their naice middle class home doing their cushy WFH job while waiting for the sourdough to rise.

Cowering
The rest of us just need to crack on