{"id":204,"date":"2020-05-14T09:19:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T09:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/covid-19\/?p=204"},"modified":"2020-05-14T09:19:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T09:19:29","slug":"the-many-meanings-of-stay-safe-in-a-pandemic-sympathy-duty-and-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/covid-19\/2020\/05\/14\/the-many-meanings-of-stay-safe-in-a-pandemic-sympathy-duty-and-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"The many meanings of \u201cstay safe\u201d in a pandemic: Sympathy, duty, and threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By David Shaw.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re out for a walk, your daily exercise since the pandemic began. You bump into someone you know (metaphorically speaking), exchange a few words about life under lockdown from the other side of the road, and then wish them well before setting off again. Chances are you wish them well with the ubiquitous coronavirus farewell: \u201cstay safe\u201d. Everyone is saying \u201cstay safe\u201d, but not everybody is thinking about everything that \u201cstay safe\u201d can mean.<\/p>\n<p>When you say \u201cstay safe\u201d, you (probably) mean \u201cI hope you don\u2019t get the virus\u201d, while also implying that the same applies to a person\u2019s family and friends: \u201c(I hope you all) stay safe.\u201d It seems a nice thing to say; it simultaneously expresses concern and optimism, while also necessarily reminding people that there is a threat that could pose them harm. Indeed, it would be pretty strange to use \u201cstay safe\u201d as a typical phrase of farewell outwith the context of a pandemic or other emergency situation; if you\u2019d had some friends round for dinner last summer and the last thing they said to you was \u201cstay safe\u201d, you\u2019d wonder if they knew something you didn\u2019t or if you\u2019d done something to annoy them.<\/p>\n<p>But \u201cstay safe\u201d also conveys much more than concern and hope that someone will avoid harm; the phrase also has some sinister undertones. There is a strong sense in which the phrase also suggests that its recipient should also <em>has a duty<\/em> to stay safe; not only \u201cI hope you don\u2019t come to harm\u201d but also \u201cI hope you take the necessary measures to avoid harm.\u201d Specifically, the phrase implies that people should stay safe at home, and stay safe by respecting social distancing when out and about. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-51991887\">the BBC put it<\/a> when the lockdown was announced, \u201cStay at home to stay safe.\u201d This is good advice, but it does change the character of \u201cstay safe\u201d from being purely concerned for someone\u2019s wellbeing to advising them that they have certain responsibilities in that regard.<\/p>\n<p>In saying \u201cstay safe\u201d you are (inadvertently) advising people not only to stay away from others in case they catch the virus, but also advising them to stay safely away from you in case they give it to you. And this shifts us even further away from mere concern for their health; we have moved through giving them advice about how to protect their health to expressing concern for our own as well. And if we are concerned about our own health, we are also concerned about that of our community, and stay safe can also be read as implying that. \u201cStay safe\u201d can also imply \u201cobey the rules or I\u2019ll tell the authorities you\u2019re breaking them\u201d \u2013 essentially \u201cstay safe or else\u201d. This might seem hyberbolic, but you only need to look at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/stayathome-and-stay-safe\">government website<\/a> to see that it is not. \u201c#StayAtHome and stay safe\u201d proclaims the UK Government: \u201cNew policing powers are now in force across the country to encourage people to stay at home, protect the NHS [National Health Service] and save lives.\u201d It seemed that the government\u2019s main coronavirus slogan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/coronavirus-lockdown-end-uk-boris-johnson-sunday-address-parks-work-exercise-a9502911.html\">was to change<\/a> from \u201cstay at home\u201d to \u201cstay safe\u201d; instead, the new phrase is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2020\/may\/12\/boris-johnson-accused-misleading-mps-coronavirus-stay-alert-slogan\">\u201cstay alert\u201d,<\/a> which has even stronger connotations of blaming those who fail to obey the slogan.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, \u201cobey government policy\u201d is not what most people mean when they say \u201cstay safe\u201d, but the phrase is nonetheless not as wholesome and supportive as might be imagined given the frequency with which it is used. By saying stay safe, you are tacitly endorsing the government\u2019s message about enforcement of lockdown measures. Many citizens will be happy to do so; others will not.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Stay safe\u2019 also has another sinister side, which is that home is simply not a safe space for many. People suffering from depression may have their condition worsen through lack of social contact; those who live alone will have feelings of loneliness reinforced; and victims of domestic or sexual abuse are trapped with even fewer options for aid or escape; in the UK <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2020\/apr\/22\/every-abuser-is-more-volatile-the-truth-behind-the-shocking-rise-of-domestic-violence-killings\">the number of domestic murders has doubled<\/a> since the pandemic began. And even those who do not fall into any of these categories might not be safe because the lockdown is denying them care for existing or emerging health conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Telling people to stay safe may seem a nice thing to do, but it assumes that they can stay safe at home, and it also implies that they have a duty to do so. They may indeed have such a duty, but \u201cstay safe\u201d is a rather stealthy way of conveying that. This is an unavoidable truth given its appropriation by the government, police and NHS. We should all endeavour to stay safe, but it would be even safer if we kept in mind the darker implications of the phrase. Not everyone is safe at home, and saying \u201cstay safe\u201d can convey a lot more than mere concern for someone\u2019s welfare.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Postscript Poem \u2013 Stay Safe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While writing this blog I realised that all these concerns about the darker aspects of what should be a simple message of hope and concern can be summarised in the style of Renton\u2019s famous monologue from <em>Trainspotting:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Stay safe<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Stay at home <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Stay worried about not getting your chemo<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Stay locked up with your abusive husband<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Stay still alone at home with the silence<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Stay away from your family and friends<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Stay safely away from me and cover your face up with a mask<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Stay safe or I\u2019ll report you to the authorities<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Stay safe and obey the rules and hope one day it will be safe for this to end<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Stay safe or you might die<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Stay safe or you might kill me<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Stay safe even if it kills you<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Keep saying stay safe<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Stay safe<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Stay safe<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Author<\/strong>: David Shaw<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affiliations<\/strong>: Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, and Assistant Professor, Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University<\/p>\n<p><strong>Competing Interests<\/strong>: None<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David Shaw. 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