ABSTRACT
Because of the deleterious nature of the COVID-19 virus and its fast-spreading, the world had to make an urgent migration to online space. This transfer was achieved by way of a complex collaboration between home as space and the internet as cyberspace and was encouraged by the discourse of "stay home.” Using cyberspace to do daily tasks, while staying at home, has been compensation for the now still resisted face-to-face interaction;the latter, depending on the context, is often only allowed when keeping one's distance or when remotely connecting with others from home. Although "stay home” has been seen as the solution during this pandemic for world events to run their course, it poses a great many problems of ideological order. This chapter offers a critique of the stay-home discourse and unearths some of its concealed ideologies. One of its aims is to denounce as a myth the highly enthusiastic positivity that has become dogmatically associated with it. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.