Irritating Covid Phrases

[GoldenPenPot]

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).

"Now more than ever"
"Stay safe"
"I hope you are staying safe in this difficult/strange/unprecedented times"
"Social distancing" - WTF does that even mean"
"New normal"
"Stay home"

PLUNGE.

The press are obsessed with this... "Boris to PLUNGE the nation in lockdown... "Chester set to PLUNGE into tier 4"

My most hated has to be: "Now comma more than ever..."

'I'm a key worker so....'

Does "sorry I was on mute" count???

"Covidiot"
"Lockdown queen"
"Alas"
"We're staying safe" (the lack of empathy for those who can't "stay safe" through no fault of their own really riles me!).

Self isolating why not just isolating the self bit makes me wince.

Yes I've wrote it wrong haven't I, it's the one's who say Cov-id.
Even Michael bloody Gove does it.

'xxx of people jabbed today!!' Really pisses me off ! Just say vaccinated...

Bubbling! Bubble! Bubbled!

I’m being really good and only seeing my bubble!
My support bubble
Key worker bubble
Family bubble
Bubble with the fucking Gardner
Bubble with the

'I'll be running in rolling up my sleeve ' and other similar descriptions people give of what they'll do when they get their jab to describe how happy they to receive the vaccine.

Its understandable to be releived or happy but It always just reads as really OTT/sickly as a description and makes me imagine really annoying over enthusiastic, dramatic grown adults grabbing at their sleeves in an insane manner as soon as their name is called in a waiting room.

You HAVE to roll your sleeve up (if you're wearing them)to get it you tit.

The ‘rona’

Covid-safe
Unprecedented
The new normal
Keyworkers
Heroes

The incessant announcements in Sainsburys about how they are "there to support me and keep me safe as the situation changes".

Since I've found the shop, I've clearly worked out where it is, and now would just like to buy my bananas and bog roll in peace, thanks.

I'm fed up of hearing/reading the word "shitshow". Unfortunately it crops up on here quite a bit!!

You're on mute...said at least 10 times a day!!

As has already been mentioned, the hyperbole used in words like flouting, flocking and rammed. Why can't people just say others are breaking the rules, or people are going to the beach, or that the playground was a bit busy? (And the reason someone can say the playground is rammed is because they had the idea of going there so I'm not sure why they're acting so shocked just because other people had the same idea )

Covidiot. It might have raised a wry smile back in March but it definitely isn't funny or clever now.

Shop announcements about safe. When I'm in Sainsbury's and hear the ones about "Keeping a safe distance" and "Keeping our colleagues safe", I start muttering "SAFER, not safe" to myself like a mad woman. Tbh, the word safe in general when life is never guaranteed to be safe.

Has anyone added 'personal risk assessment' yet? Thanks prats, not listening to science and making stuff up as you go along is really helping.

Oh yeah, all the f words. Flagrantly flouting, flocking and flaunting.

'Abundance of caution' sick of hearing it,

Bubble. All forms of bubble.

'You have to do what works for you' (um no, you're a member of society- maybe think about someone other than yourself when your actions impact others)

'We've been so careful so [description of unsafe and banned activity] is safe'

'I've performed my own risk assessment' - ffs not how public health works

& People whinging in general.

MUTANT virus/strain as if it is something that goes against nature. Makes me imagine the little covid virus particle with a ninja turtle mask on

@Chanandlerbong01

I can’t cope with key worker being at the start of every Facebook post. “Hi I’m a key worker and want to buy a new car”

“Key worker here, just wondering if any takeaways are delivering to the moon”

“As I key worker I am devastated to come home from work to find I have been burgled” - as if it is a barrel of laughs for the rest of society!

Totally agree!!

They obviously feel people are more likely to help them if they are a key worker!

People being terrified

People panicking

Wtaf?

"Little Lilly-mae's bubble has burst"

Sounds like she's got her period or list her virginity

‘Bubble burst’ annoys me on purely pedantic grounds. Surely the whole idea of the ‘bubble’ is that if anyone gets infected it stays within the bubble. If the whole class bubble is sent home to isolate, that’s the bubble doing its bubbly job, surely? It’s only burst if Lilly-Mae manages to infect half the class in the next room too.

(Maybe we should just scrap ‘bubble’)

@GoldenOmber

‘Bubble burst’ annoys me on purely pedantic grounds. Surely the whole idea of the ‘bubble’ is that if anyone gets infected it stays within the bubble. If the whole class bubble is sent home to isolate, that’s the bubble doing its bubbly job, surely? It’s only burst if Lilly-Mae manages to infect half the class in the next room too.

(Maybe we should just scrap ‘bubble’)

I always took it to mean that they were safe inside their bubble, so if the virus has gotten in and someone has covid then it must have burst, if that makes sense.