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The coronavirus has been on the top of our minds and the tip of our tongues since early 2020. The media has become so saturated with pandemic messaging that it was only a matter of time before certain COVID clichés emerged.
We asked you to share a few chestnuts that you’d be happy to never hear again. Here are the terms that received the most mentions, along with a sampling of your comments.
1. Unprecedented
“There have been so many pandemics in the past! This absolutely IS precedented.”
Caitlin Perry
2. New normal
“Furthest thing from normal I can think of.”
Janel Winslow-Sherwin
3. We’re all in this together
“Maybe it’s just me, but I immediately get that high school musical song stuck in my head.”
Brenna Lane
4. Homeschooling
“I’m sick of [people] calling this homeschooling. It really devalues what we have done as teachers.”
Kristen Kokura
5. Flattening the curve
6. Speaking moistly
7. Stay safe
8. Let’s Google Meet
“Before all this I had no clue what a Google Meet even was!
Rosa Bianca
“Going teacher” at the grocery store
“I’m guilty of giving teacher looks at people coming towards me down one-way aisles.”
Leigha Heather
“Or if they pick up something and put it back. Ha! The stink eyes I’ve given!!!
Cameron Ashton Reidy
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