bubble
bubble – sostantivo e verbo
It remains the case ‒ even inside someone’s home ‒ that you should socially distance from anyone not in your household or bubble.
You, and members of your household or support bubble, should only stay overnight in groups of up to 2 households.
Households of two grandparents cannot bubble if their children live with other adults.
You could bubble with a friend, another single parent or a household with two adults.
Man mano che in Gran Bretagna vengono revocate le misure restrittive imposte durante il primo periodo della pandemia da coronavirus, le norme e le raccomandazioni riguardo i comportamenti da tenere si fanno sempre più complesse. Prendiamo ad esempio il concetto di bubble, ovvero l’idea che chi è single e vive da solo o con i figli possa incontrare al chiuso gli appartenenti a un altro nucleo familiare, l’importante è che sia sempre lo stesso, senza obbligo di rispettare la distanza interpersonale. Inevitabilmente, si è iniziato a usare il sostantivo bubble anche come verbo, come nel terzo e quarto esempio citati.
Origini del termine
Esiste un significato di bubble che indica la situazione in cui un gruppo di persone è isolato dalla realtà o dal mondo esterno; sembra che l’uso dell’espressione social bubble o contact bubble per definire un gruppo di individui ristretto ma più ampio di un nucleo familiare sia nato in Nuova Zelanda, uno dei primi Paesi a uscire dal lockdown.
Traduzione di Loredana Riu
bubble – noun and verb
It remains the case ‒ even inside someone’s home ‒ that you should socially distance from anyone not in your household or bubble.
You, and members of your household or support bubble, should only stay overnight in groups of up to 2 households.
Households of two grandparents cannot bubble if their children live with other adults.
You could bubble with a friend, another single parent or a household with two adults.
As the restrictions imposed in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic have eased, the rules and recommendations concerning what we can and cannot do have grown increasingly complex. One part of this complexity is the concept of the bubble. This is the idea that single adults living either alone or with children should be able to merge with one other household, always the same one, and can mix freely within that bubble, including staying in each other’s houses. Perhaps inevitably, the noun bubble soon started to be used as a verb, as can be seen in the third and fourth examples above.
Origin
There is an existing meaning of bubble that refers to a situation in which a group of people is isolated from reality or the outside world. The use of the term social or contact bubble in relation to a social group that is restricted but wider than a single household seems to have started in New Zealand, one of the first countries to emerge from lockdown.
