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Originally Posted by Niamh.
I've never heard that one [emoji1787]
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Originally Posted by Vicky.
Not heard that one yet  |
it's been so over used. When boris went to hospital it was out of an abundance of caution, when he moved to icu, it was the same. When something is closed, its for an abundance of caution. When people started wearing face msks etc
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To consider this morass of developments is to appreciate what the phrase “abundance of caution” accomplishes. It has an air of rhetorical largesse; it implies politeness and restraint instead of flailing panic. It’s a verbal lasso around galloping unpredictability. Though the scale of its terms are oxymoronic — abundance signaling plenty, caution calling for restraint — that only serves to make it sound more poetic. Imagine a kind neighbor coming over to your house and sharing their caution with you, because they had an abundance this year. An unlimited buffet with a caution fountain, caution towers, baskets of caution. As though we’re all positively relishing in our carefulness rather than preparing for the worst.
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