Letting it Rip

[MidnightMonsterMunch]

Why does covid rip rather than spread?

Does flu rip too?

Covid always seems to be ripping through something.

What about mitigations.... oh my some love mitigations and the last of mitigations is huge....otherwise they will be thrown under the bus

List not last

There’s a lot of “with no mitigations!” to mean “with mitigations, just not the ones I want.”

Also masks are always ‘manky bits of cloth stuffed in a pocket’ or ‘crumpled in a handbag’. I’m sure cloth masks aren’t as effective as a fit-tested FFP3, but I don’t think putting it in a handbag without folding it properly is going to make it all covidy.

This thread has made me laugh so much!!

Thanks everyone for your humour

And people who are going to break, sorry FLOUNT, the rules never just do it quietly, privately. No, it has to be declared, loudly and usually with swearing:

"I'm SO F*CKIN over this!"

"I'm f*cking done!"

What about 'sadly,..."

Surprised that “crack on” hasn’t made a comeback yet.

Does anyone remember 'teachers dropping like flies'?

Could they be any more dramatic?

Bodies piling up is another some love to use

'I wear mine to protect you, you wear yours to protect me '

From what? Acute sanctimonioustwatitis?

As if post viral fatigue was never a thing before covid, I wish they would just call it what it is instead of using it as another excuse to never be allowed to do what we want ever again. Give me the rage

Of all the multiple head wrecking things about this pandemic, the one that I still cannot fathom is how post viral fatigue went from something dismissed as psychosomatic to suddenly being a legitimate reason to lockdown society.

There was no lead time in that switch. It seemed to happen overnight.

The UK being a laughing stock of the whole world.

Really? Do you think random person in the streets of Riga or Lima or Cairo or Georgetown really cares whats happening in Manchester?

@NormaSnorks

And people who are going to break, sorry FLOUNT, the rules never just do it quietly, privately. No, it has to be declared, loudly and usually with swearing:

"I'm SO F*CKIN over this!"

"I'm f*cking done!"

There was also a period that I quite enjoyed, when lots of people were using 'flaunt' instead of 'flout', which of course gives the opposite impression! Love the idea of someone flaunting the restrictions, it sounds so flamboyant. 'Ooh, look at my shiny rules...'

Language is important when it comes to perceptions of a situation. You’ll notice these phrases will have been lifted from the press propaganda. You’re right to confront it.

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

The UK being a laughing stock of the whole world.

Really? Do you think random person in the streets of Riga or Lima or Cairo or Georgetown really cares whats happening in Manchester?

Also, what kind of people 'laugh' at another country's alleged misfortune?

Were people rolling around laughing at the spread of the Delta variant in India?

Or were we splitting our sides over the bushfires in Oz, home to many of those allegedly 'watching in horror' at proceedings in the 'laughing stock of the world'?

You'd have to be a horrible person to behave that way.

‘The U.K. is the laughing stock of the world’

Oh yes how could we forget

I bet the same people who write this laugh at India and Brazil.. or maybe some special laughter for us alone

The phrase ‘covidiots’ gives me the rage 😡

@MarshaBradyo

‘The U.K. is the laughing stock of the world’

Oh yes how could we forget

I bet the same people who write this laugh at India and Brazil.. or maybe some special laughter for us alone

There's a lot of laughing going on amid a global pandemic. You'd almost think people don't care, just like covid doesn't care.

apologies it repeating what others have said but I hate (in no particular order as I hate them equally) :-

let it rip - same as everyone!
covid safe
covid secure
hunker down (really hate this one)
bubble / bubble bursting
mask mandate
peak
lag
jab
double jab
single jab
booster
bursting with antibodies
T cells
pinged
zoom quiz
blended anything
amber list (don't mind green or red so much)
new normal
old normal
normal
sourbread

"stay home" - so bloody American. It is "stay AT home" surely?

"mask up" is another one which gives me the rage

And don’t forget to add the word ‘global’ in front of pandemic for maximum Hollywood effect.

Variations of "I went to X for VERY important and special reasons and I was HORRIFIED, APPALLED and TERRIFIED by how many people were there. Why don't people understand what stay home means???????!!!!"

@TheKeatingFive

Blended in the sense that it’s a blend between learning and not learning.

Too true 😆

Ooh, get you, showing off that you managed to get some learning done. I found it more a blend of shouting and rage-eating.

On the bright side, people have stopped putting “socially distanced of course” when describing anything they do.

“I went to a 1,000 person rave in the basement of a disused tyre factory (socially distanced of course).”