Livre d'Or

What I see: +1 for "I can't come, it's got us" and also in Germany "can't come, I'm positive" [works less well in English I think...] are the most common on our band WhatsApp. (Or that emoji that looks like a fluffy purple bug).

(He/she/I has/ve Corona in response to 'How are you/they' ...)

What I (think I) would use: "Can't make it tonight sorry"

(In general if you are interested Germany has kept 'Corona' with Corona-legislation and Corona-Tests etc. Same in NL, Belgium (and I think Sweden?). I tried to compromise with 'the rona' for a long time but now mostly say Covid for UK/Oz people. I first heard Covid out loud when I put on CNN/Sky news at the time of the 2020 US election, and it wasn't pronounced how I had been reading it in my head. I also watched some French news at that time, and they had 'covid', and I asked some Italian/Catalan colleagues earlier this year and was told "Fun fact: in Spanish, the preferred form is "el covid" (masculine) and in Catalan we should call it "la covid" (femenine), although a lot of Catalans say "el covid" because of the influence of Spanish :wink:" and "You say "il covid" in Italian, although linguists tried to push "la covid", being D for disease = malattia (feminine in IT)")