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

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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’.

Amen

Oh thank goodness it isn't just me being a grouchy.

Every pigging email I get lately has stay safe at the end.

I can’t stand it either. Just another fad. “Stay safe” “be kind” bla bla bla. May as well just say “don’t die”. “Ok, thanks, I’ll try”.

Stay indoors and away from other people then. You won’t be annoyed and you don’t have the risk of infection/infecting others.

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

^That's probably written by someone who is trying to avoid writing "stay safe"

May as well just say “don’t die”. “Ok, thanks, I’ll try”.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 brilliant

I don't see how it's any worse than people saying "take care" .

Stay positive, test negative

I am staying indoors it’s indoors I hear it most! On the phone, on emails, on zoom, on the telly!

Stay safe hun 😈

I go for the more low key 'I hope you are well' which I now understand why this is a traditional form of greeting - because now I actually do care if people are well!

On Facebook, on Instagram, Twitter......

These little sayings tend to stick in some awful situation times, and then everyone automatically keeps saying them or writing them down. Its kind of an old fashioned thing to do. I remember in the war, that everyone would say, stay safe, and god willing we will see you all again, when men and women went off to fight in the war.

Its a bit like saying drive carefully when you wave someone off if they are driving off somewhere. it just becomes a habit.

We "stayed safe" the other day with antics including long ladders, guttering and slightly wonky ground. It must be safe. It's legal, involved staying the fuck at home and no Covid risk

YY to it being the binary of safety 2020/21 revolving around Covid. Stay safe and 2m apart... never mind stepping into the road to avoid a second of walking past someone.

@NastyBlouse

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.

Excellent post. Society has become obsessed with safety to a seriously unhealthy degree. This permeates every aspect of life. The response to COVID is no different and I think will only usher in more of this aversion to risk. Risk lies on a spectrum and people are struggling to remember this when they process what’s currently happening.

Another moaning post over nothing. I am getting close to think that this needs some serious hardship. My god people be grateful for what you have and that will lead you to happiness.

I agree OP, I find it unnecessary and patronising.

I say 'stay safe' to people. I work in social care and for the NHS. I am genuinely worried about people I know and love given the strain the system is under. I mean it when I say it and don't think it's glib, axiomatic or trite. Surprising to hear that this is the thing that's pissing you off. Huh.

@Loseweightanddeclutter21

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!"

This

@TriciaMcMillan

I say 'stay safe' to people. I work in social care and for the NHS. I am genuinely worried about people I know and love given the strain the system is under. I mean it when I say it and don't think it's glib, axiomatic or trite. Surprising to hear that this is the thing that's pissing you off. Huh.

Also this.

Stay safe op

It’s because ‘stay safe’ doesn’t really mean just that does it. It’s because it has the connotations of ‘stay safe, or else.’

Yanbu I hate it too. 'Stay at home' can piss off too!

Yep, could agree with you more. Gives me an overwhelming desire to say fuck off.

It's better than "take care".