the saying “avoiding like the plague” really loses its effectiveness when the past 3+ years have proven people do not, in fact, avoid the plague at all
@[email protected] "Avoid it like the plague..no! No! I meant avoid it! Don't seek it out! The plague is bad! Stop! Even if your cousin got the bubonic plague and survived! ENDEMIC PLAGUE ISN'T A GOOD THING! THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS PLAGUE DEBT! AAARGH!"
@starshine "avoiding like I wish people would avoid the plague" doesn't have the same ring, either
@starshine The german saying translates to „hate it like the plague“, which is nice because we can hate the illness while still enthusiastically spread it.
@starshine To be fair, I've been avoiding spicy cough as if my and my family's life depended on it.
Assholes ruined it for me though. People suck.