Irritating Covid Phrases

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Now we’re about a year into the pandemic, we’re in a good position to assess what new phrases and words are the most irritating.

I’ll start with the obvious ones - “Covidiot” and “New Normal”. However, I also hate the “Stay safe” at the end of emails (suspect that’s just me).

‘Unprecedented’

‘Long covid’ - it’s post viral fatigue, I don’t know why the covid version is special

The word ‘safe’, used in the context of the virus. It’s used in such a pointless way to portray a non-existent binary of ‘safe’ or ‘unsafe’. ‘Supermarkets are safe’, ‘schools are safe’ etc. What does that actually mean?! Safe to me means there would be no chance of getting the virus. So no, things aren’t ‘safe’. However, they may well still be the sensible thing to do given an appropriate cost benefit analysis and employing reasonable risk mitigation.

Learn to live with it
Bubbles - all of them, particularly when they involve bursting
Lockdown when used as a verb
Frontline/front line/keyworker/ key worker
Full PPE
And not a phrase, but people who post pictures of themselves in ffp3 masks on social media so that everyone knows that they're on the 'frontline'. In my experience, there's usually an inverse correlation between time spent wearing these and number of pictures.

Covidiot
Covid denier
'Stay safe' -while chatting crap about their life to me in a supermarket, one of the most highly likely places for it to spread
' Save the NHS' is always met with 'when did it become my job?'

I hate everything about anything to do with fucking Covid.

Forgot 'new normal'
'Learning to live with it' though were not living with it, were hiding from it.

My DH calls it 'corvid', I have told him that's the crow family but he still persists.

All of them but 'new normal' grates the most

stay safe

mask compliant

the virus doesn't care about your holiday/your daughter's birthday/Christmas

selfish flouters

the new normal

‘Long covid’ - it’s post viral fatigue, I don’t know why the covid version is special

^ this is my biggest one, along with repeated phrases people clearly think make them sound wise and superior:

• kicking cans up the road
• Vaccines not being a silver bullet
• misinformation about vaccines

Stay the fuck at home.

Even worse is for me has to be 'stay the fuck home'.

I hate gratuitious Americanisms at the best of times, and this is not the best of times.

'When this is all over'

I hate people announcing that they, or their family member has "worked throughout the pandemic" like it's unusual and they need a medal for just doing their job.

'Save the NHS' is always met with 'when did it become my job?'

Ooh I'm guilty of that one. I'll try and stop!

No words but I hate that fucking guilt shaming advert about “looking them in the eyes” how the government have the gall to run with that is beyond me.

@CeeCeeEnnEss

‘Unprecedented’

‘Long covid’ - it’s post viral fatigue, I don’t know why the covid version is special

I've corrected everyone who's suggested I've had long covid, I had (still not 100% many months later) post viral fatigue as confirmed by my GP.

‘Long covid’ - it’s post viral fatigue, I don’t know why the covid version is special

This is factually incorrect, the reason the medics have termed it long vivid is because it is completely different from stand post viral fatigue. Unfortunately the covid version is special.

Typo: vivid = covid

Stay safe. Nothing is safe!

Learn to live with the virus. Awful

Agree jabs in arms. Imagine if it was a bum one.

Who says Coh vid and who says Cov id?

Most I know say Coh vid.

Socially distanced walk/coffee etc.

Key worker and frontline are two of the most overused and pointless phrases to come out of this whole effort.

Selfish- the most used word in the past 12 months (on here anyway)

Who says Coh vid and who says Cov id?

The people who say 'cov id' are the same ones who say 'veerologist' IME

Socially distanced walk/coffee etc

You just know that when someone adds 'socially distanced of course' that whatever they did was undoubtedly not socially distanced!

Stay the f at home
Wear a f’ing mask
Covid wardens
And the rest