# Uh, you might want to rephrase that.

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [April 1, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-you-might-want-to-rephrase-that/850833 "2020-04-01T20:56:19Z")\
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The radio host was talking about his upcoming special something-or-other about thanking healthcare workers. He said that in times like this, we all need to be positive.

No, Mr. Duran, I’m preeeetty sure that at this time we want to test _negative_.

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**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-you-might-want-to-rephrase-that/850833/2 "2020-04-03T02:29:32Z")

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At a company-wide “rah rah” conference call a couple weeks ago, someone at my husband’s firm said that he was hoping that things would have improved soon.

“Hopefully, in a couple weeks, we’ll all be in a better place”. :eek::smack: