I will scream if one more person says or writes ‘stay safe’

[Redbrickwall]

I’m sick of it! I walk round the supermarket and their sound systems are playing through messages about ‘keeping you safe in our store’. Every email at work is signed ‘stay safe’, Halfords even just sent me a spam email about ‘Staying safe’

Omfg I can’t deal with it anymore!! I remember last year when being safe meant not walking out in front of a car or failing onto a train track, avoiding murderers and not walking home alone in the dark!.

Now all that staying safe means and is measured against is not catching Covid!!! It feels like complete brainwashing

Oh and don’t get me started on ‘Protect the NHS’.

I hear you!! Even at the end of phone calls I hear ‘Stay Safe’.

Yep. My friend started putting it at the end of texts and I had to say look, you don’t tell me to stay safe every day when I go out in the car and I’m prob more at risk of having a car crash! It’s become a catchphrase but can come across as very “virtue signally” and fake IMO.

Scream away OP. The people who write this are usually caring friends and family or colleagues who really do want you to be safe and free from harm. Just let it go over your head because you aren't going to stop everyone from saying it.

I read a great response on here once:

"Thank fuck you said that, I was going to go bungee jumping naked over a crocodile infested pit".

I couldn’t agree more! Mindless drivel

It's the new sign off, even on work calls and e-mails.

I hope you stay safe in these strange / unusual / uncertain* times

*delete as applicable

Stay Safe

runs off

I agree I can’t stand it, it makes me want to scream

I think it's new normal to wish people to stay safe during pandemic.
Regarding brainwashing agree, there are lots of BS and irrationality going on.
However, if NHS get overwhelned they will have to choose who they will treat and who they will leave to their fate.

Gosh this isn't something that upsets me in the slightest. It's just shorthand for saying, "I hope you and your family manage to avoid catching Covid-19 in these rather scary and uncertain times". Better than a message saying "I don't give three f about you!"

Stay safe

yep, very childish!

Stay safe OP X

Yes I hate it too!
We aren’t “unsafe”, we aren’t at risk of being shot in the street, it’s not a zombie apocalypse.
We are at a much higher chance of catching a transmissible illness that might kill us it give us long term complications or might just be a mild illness that we recover from quickly. That’s not as snappy as a catchphrase though.

@Redbrickwall irrationally irritates me too. Although probably because its normally said by people out of habit in my case instead of family/friends. Also maybe because I've not been anywhere since March 2020.

I hadn't realised how sick I was of hearing 'stay safe' until this post!

Every phone call I've had since March has ended with 'stay safe', emails are signed off 'best wishes, stay safe' even the posty started saying it!

At most I'll say 'take care' to nearest and dearest, but that's not because I'm ordering them to shove a mask on in their own home or to stop my Granny from going to raves every weekend.

The problem with it isn't the sentiment, which is almost always good and kind.

It's that collectively we have reduced the concept of 'safe' down to a false binary the idea being, something is either safe or it isn't. But life isn't like that there are degrees of safety, and risk, which we all have to assess and navigate using information we gather and our own gut feeling.

By drilling actions, behaviours and places down to being either 100% safe or 100% not, we're setting up unrealistic notions of public vs private safety and personal responsibility.

OP, majority of people are frustrated with Covid situation develpment and 3rd lockdown with no light at the end of the tunnel in sight.

By drilling actions, behaviours and places down to being either 100% safe or 100% not, we're setting up unrealistic notions of public vs private safety and personal responsibility.

Blimey, I agree with the personal responsibility point, but do people really take that from a casual e-mail sign off?

I so agree with you.

I just want to respond to tell them I’ve never felt unsafe.

Stay safe, OP and all

Always makes me want to say ‘oh thank god you said that, before I was running around letting strangers cough on me.’

Annoys me too OP!!

Don't get me started on "I hope you're well in these strange times."

STRANGE TIMES just makes me cringe

And let's face it they're sadly not that bloody strange any more

I find it irritating too. The sentiment is nice but it's started to grate when I hear it all the time.
It's become a catchphrase and they always annoy me.