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Seriously asking: what is COVID-speak?
by KittenInABox 5y ago
Seriously asking: what is COVID-speak?
- zo1 5y agoNot OP. I thought it was really disturbing the first time I heard someone say they got "the jab" or "double jabbed".
- zarzavat 5y agoWhy would that be disturbing?
- _Wintermute 5y agoThat's just how vaccines are commonly referred to in the UK, long before covid.
- pandaman 5y agoThat's not how vaccines had been referred in the US before 2021.
- fknorangesite 5y agoIs that because you were previously unaware of an extremely common idiom?
- MockObject 5y agoIt was not a regular term in US before Covid, and always sounded strange when British media used it.
- zo1 5y agoI am aware of the term, having lived in a former British colony. It's hard to verbalize it. But it was just so sudden and became THE jab not just a jab, and people were talking about it everywhere. It felt very forced and like it came out of a marketing department.
- yanderekko 5y agoI'm guessing it's an attempt to poison the well by pointing out that "I want to be able to choose which media I consume" sentiment is often employed by anti-vaxx nutjobs to protest social media censorship.
- edmcnulty101 5y agoSo some censorship is good?