[zo1]

Not OP. I thought it was really disturbing the first time I heard someone say they got "the jab" or "double jabbed".

[_Wintermute]

That's just how vaccines are commonly referred to in the UK, long before covid.

[pandaman]

That's not how vaccines had been referred in the US before 2021.

[zarzavat]

Why would that be disturbing?

[fknorangesite]

Is that because you were previously unaware of an extremely common idiom?

[zo1]

I am aware of the term, having lived in a former British colony. It's hard to verbalize it. But it was just so sudden and became THE jab not just a jab, and people were talking about it everywhere. It felt very forced and like it came out of a marketing department.

[MockObject]

It was not a regular term in US before Covid, and always sounded strange when British media used it.