Moody

[liv]

It's a perfect glorious weekend. There was a lovely service this morning (I joined on Zoom). Lots of completely delightful under-5s, two new Jews being welcomed to the community, Torah and Haftarah readers who are exceptionally good with beautiful voices. And it's one of those gorgeous balmy October days, blue sky, actually warm temperature, green trees just starting to turn orange and red. Sometimes there's a Shabbat between Yom Kippur and Succot and it's the most perfect time.

And I'm still testing positive for Covid, so I'm stuck at home and I hate everyone and everything. I can't bring myself to be civil to jack. I know that at worst I'm only stuck in this quarantine for a few more days, I don't even feel particularly ill any more. So I should be cheerful but instead I'm resentful that I can't go out and enjoy the weather and I can't see my friends or my other partners. I have to teach Sunday school on Zoom tomorrow so I should be planning, but I have no enthusiasm for it. I'm not building a succah or making plans to sit in my friends' ones.

Anyway, to distract me from being completely unreasonably grumpy, have a good old-fashioned poll about language use:

Poll #27627 covid terms

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 66

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Which of these might you use to complete the following sentence: "I can't come to your party, I have _____"

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covid
64 (97.0%)

COVID-19
23 (34.8%)

SARS-2
3 (4.5%)

coronavirus
18 (27.3%)

corona
6 (9.1%)

rona
11 (16.7%)

vid
0 (0.0%)

vids
0 (0.0%)

cov
0 (0.0%)

spiky boi
3 (4.5%)

plague
35 (53.0%)

lurgy
9 (13.6%)

Wuhan flu
0 (0.0%)

other term not listed
4 (6.1%)

I would add 'the' before the name of the disease

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yes
2 (3.1%)

no
23 (35.4%)

yes for some names, no for others
40 (61.5%)

Which of these terms might you use to complete the following sentence: "I'm protected from severe illness, I've had my ____"

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vaccines
34 (51.5%)

vaccinations
52 (78.8%)

vax
12 (18.2%)

vaxx
2 (3.0%)

vaccs
4 (6.1%)

shots
29 (43.9%)

jabs
24 (36.4%)

jags
1 (1.5%)

injections
4 (6.1%)

immunisations
11 (16.7%)

other term not listed
6 (9.1%)

Comments

[fyreharper]

Legal requirements are not the only type of standards that exist.

I should not, for example, spit in your soup when you are my dinner guest, even I certainly wouldn’t expect any legal consequences to doing so.