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’.

I take it in the spirit it's meant.

I received a parcel today from a supplier I'd placed an order with: it contained a quick personal note that ended "Keep smiling! :)"
I don't often get emotional, but that moved me to tears after the week I've had. A quick, thoughtful note that meant someone I didn't know still wished me well.

@DollyTots

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.’

The fuck it does

@Tanith

I take it in the spirit it's meant.

I received a parcel today from a supplier I'd placed an order with: it contained a quick personal note that ended "Keep smiling! :)"
I don't often get emotional, but that moved me to tears after the week I've had. A quick, thoughtful note that meant someone I didn't know still wished me well.

That’s sweet, people more cynical than I would say it’s because you bought something but not I.

Omg OP I've been feeling this way since people started saying it last year, and I had already had covid during the first wave in March. I din't actually say this but all it made me think was stay safe from what? I've had the bloody bat lurgy!

Yes, the stay safe is annoying but not as annoying as "be kind". I always try to be kind but I get twitchy eyed when I keep hearing people say it and see it on signs. I think the majority of people are kind and the ones who are not will not be changed by a sign!

Well as someone who has lost relatives to Covid when I say this I genuinely mean it and am not trying to irritate anyone. Unfortunately Covid is spreading because many people are not in fact staying safe, but are quite simply getting too close to other people.

Or because some idiot says they don’t believe in it, refused to wear a mask, then travelled to a family function, gets infected, goes back to work pretending that they don’t have a cough (lying on their check on sheet that they have always had to complete before a shift anyway which asks if they have any illness)... then infect the whole squad (and end up in hospital on a ventilator...)

Fucking hell.

New MN low when you can't even wish someone well without all this fucking drama.

'Stay safe' simply means 'I hope you remain Covid free & well/healthy/safe from
any other things. Same with 'take care'

& 'drive safely' is just shorthand for 'watch out for the fucking idiots on the road & I care enough about you to want you to get to your destination safely'

NONE OF them are a criticism & nor does the person think you're going to go & play with crocodiles if they don't say it.

It's all just shorthand for 'I care about you'

Get over yourselves. FFS

@WitchesBritchesPumpkinPants

Fucking hell.

New MN low when you can't even wish someone well without all this fucking drama.

'Stay safe' simply means 'I hope you remain Covid free & well/healthy/safe from
any other things. Same with 'take care'

& 'drive safely' is just shorthand for 'watch out for the fucking idiots on the road & I care enough about you to want you to get to your destination safely'

NONE OF them are a criticism & nor does the person think you're going to go & play with crocodiles if they don't say it.

It's all just shorthand for 'I care about you'

Get over yourselves. FFS

Says the total drama llama 😁

What about ‘mind how you go’? We say that in Scotland a lot (pandemic or not)

@ThatIsNotMyUsername

What about ‘mind how you go’? We say that in Scotland a lot (pandemic or not)

I think that’s sweet, if people had always said ‘Stay Safe’ it wouldn’t be as irritating iyswim.

OP what about Tesco’s new one: we will get through this together. A big banner. On. Every. Fucking. Till.

@WitchesBritchesPumpkinPants

Fucking hell.

New MN low when you can't even wish someone well without all this fucking drama.

'Stay safe' simply means 'I hope you remain Covid free & well/healthy/safe from
any other things. Same with 'take care'

& 'drive safely' is just shorthand for 'watch out for the fucking idiots on the road & I care enough about you to want you to get to your destination safely'

NONE OF them are a criticism & nor does the person think you're going to go & play with crocodiles if they don't say it.

It's all just shorthand for 'I care about you'

Get over yourselves. FFS

@WitchesBritchesPumpkinPants I think it’s also the expression...stay safe? In relation to a virus? Like it’s about to knife you in the back as you get out of your car.

It was a terrible choice and use of language.

I don't get it. Why does that bother you so much? To care for others is seen as irritating, this country needs real healing.

@ThatIsNotMyUsername

Or because some idiot says they don’t believe in it, refused to wear a mask, then travelled to a family function, gets infected, goes back to work pretending that they don’t have a cough (lying on their check on sheet that they have always had to complete before a shift anyway which asks if they have any illness)... then infect the whole squad (and end up in hospital on a ventilator...)

Right...but someone inanely saying 'Stay safe!" is hardly going to change such a person's attitude, is it?

How lucky you are, if this tops your list of frustrations this week.

People are trying to deal with things as best they can, in vocabularies that are new and awkward to many of us.

Get over it.

That was in response the the PP who said that she has lost a relative to Covid because people chose not to stay safe and get too close to others.

It’s safe to say that the man who spread it to my nieces squad now believes on staying safe.

@Lucidas

How lucky you are, if this tops your list of frustrations this week.

People are trying to deal with things as best they can, in vocabularies that are new and awkward to many of us.

Get over it.

Language matters. Let’s not lose sight of literally everything because of covid, hey?

@blueangel19

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.

Humbug

@CoronaIsWatching

Ugh completely agree. I've never said it or written it. I just don't get it. Does it mean people who catch covid are being careless and reckless with their safety?

It’s more of a desire - ‘I hope you stay safe’ - rather than an instruction - ‘You must stay safe.’.

Jesus people here are so socially stunted.

Agreed. I hate it!!!

@Funneth

Omg OP I've been feeling this way since people started saying it last year, and I had already had covid during the first wave in March. I din't actually say this but all it made me think was stay safe from what? I've had the bloody bat lurgy!

Bloody bat lurgy

[quote Redbrickwall]@blueangel19
I need some serious hardship and then things like this would not annoy me? Thanks for the input. I was widowed when I was in my early 20s and left on my own with 2 children. The stay safe comment still annoys me. Sadly my husband couldn’t stay safe from cancer, but as he didn’t die of Covid it doesn’t count does it?[/quote]
So underlying the annoyance with the ‘stay safe’ comment is a belief that the risks of covid have been over exaggerated.

There’s no pleasing people with any form of language if that’s what they think.

I agree. I stayed in a hotel between lockdowns last year and the post stay survey asked "how safe did you feel with our COVID measures in place?"

I know what they meant and obviously they want people to come and stay so welcome feedback but it really irritated me. I have never not "felt safe" since last March. Honestly. Feel a lot of other things but unsafe is not one of them. I told them so.

I get that is is from a caring place (well most the time other times it is just the latest thing to say).

However I personally dislike it because it feels like with some people they are projecting their anxiety on me. They are worried about covid all the time so I am suppose too.

My family do are bit to stick to the rules but we also just live are lifes as close to normal as possible. Try not to think about any dangers. Keyworkers and had covid already. So there is only so much we can do to STAY SAFE.