The One Pandemic Buzzword I Am Most Fed up With
It’s not one of the obvious ones
We’ve had a long tiring year of lockdowns, layoffs, face masks, restrictions, and closings. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of new words and phrases have entered the lexicon.
This is not your grandfather’s blog post… this is an awards ceremony. It’s time to hand out an award for the most hated, the most overused COVID-related word or phrase.
It’s one you’ve heard dozens of times since the beginning of the pandemic. But it’s one you’ve probably overlooked.
It may even be something you read quite recently, without even realizing it.
Honorable mention: Social distancing
6 feet of distance, 6 feet of distance, 6 feet of distance. Yes, it’s a good practice during a pandemic, but this became one of the most overused terms of all.
I remember when my city’s tourism bureau hosted an online virtual DJ night at an otherwise-closed hotel bar. They had to splash “Socially Distanced” on the screen so viewers at home could breathe a sigh of relief that the DJ, the cameraman, and the hotel staff were all 6 feet apart, because if one of them came within 5 feet, 11 inches of each other, surely the whole city would die.
