Seemingly bonkers covid measures (lighthearted)

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Today I went to buy new running shoes. Had to put those plastic shoe covering things over my socks before I could try the trainers on. Because covid is clearly renowned for hiding on people's socks but touching the trainers etc is clearly OK.

Any others?

On aeroplanes last year. we all sat in close confinement. Then we all took our masks off to eat at the same time. BUT, if you went to the toilet, you had to wear your mask and stand 2 meters apart!

Oh and currently in the NHS if you go to the toilet, once you have had a wee, you have to wipe the toilet seat with a wet clinell wipe, then wipe the door handle. Then you wash your hands.
I didnt know you could get covid from sitting on toilet seats. Why the need to wipe the toilet door, when you wash your hands as the last thing you do before leaving the loos!

Taking the seating out of shopping centres. Why? I don't get it.
I really want to go and do some clothes/stuff shopping but I can't because I can't stand up for more than 15 minutes at a time and need quick sit down. (I've go a disability, not lazy)

DD has to leave her water bottle at school all week, the teacher washes them each afternoon and refills them each morning, it then comes home only on a Friday "as we feel it is safer that items are not passed back and forth between home and school on a daily basis". They send her reading book and reading diary home every day though and she has to take it back again the following day.

School has separate yard areas for each bubble and staggered start/ends so only one bubble is using each area at a time. You're supposed to drop off and collect your youngest child first. I collected DD2 at 2.45 from the front yard then went around to the rear yard to collect DD1 for 2.50 but got wrong off the headteacher (an absolutely fanny of a man) for "contaminating" DD2's bubble by bringing DD1 into it even though both children live in the same house.

The school reception has been designated a "no go zone". In non-covid times, if your child was late or had an appointment or whatever then they would go in via the office. Now that it's a no go zone if your child is late for any reason (including medical appointments) then they're not allowed in school that day. Friend of mine had her car breakdown and got there ten minutes after the gates had been closed, they wouldn't allow her DS in via the office and she had to take him home again, it was marked down as unauthorised absence too

No school bags coz Covid.
So you have to walk to school clutching the book, reading record, water bottle, reply slips and any other crap required, in your hands.
We have a very muddy reading record this year.

I'm not convinced that school bags exhale much vapour...

I plan to take dd to a small festival which is still running in August. However, we can’t take a caravan (usually permitted) because of Covid this year but can take a tent.

I have a very part time office based job. I have to put on plastic overshoes when I arrive and keep them on all day. Nasty covid feet.
I'm not allowed to bring a book into work, but a kindle is fine.

At my work we can’t use hand dryers

We can only walk one way round-not the other

We can work with our arses touching but if someone turns round then that person is in trouble

We share ppe like gloves and visors

Clocking in/out is ok and it’s fine not to clean the machine-ever

Food has to be carried on a tray-if we carry the bags in our hands it’s a COVID risk but not on trays-the same trays are never cleaned

We have screens that have to be just right-move them an inch and it’s a COVID risk-let’s gloss over the fact that the plastic part only reaches halfway down the stand that they sit in-in case someone needs to walk past

Customers have to walk in,order their food then walk across to stand in one of 6 places-4 at the counter (where they are squeezed in like sardines)

I’m guessing COVID will hit them if they stand to the side

We’re only allowed 6 customers in at a time-if I allow 7 in by mistake then I get yelled at-I’m guessing COVID doesn’t like 7 people but 6 is fine

Nobody can sit outside-but 20 yards down the road is fine

We’re not allowed the staff telly on-COVID doesn’t like watching tv and will infect us if we even think about turning it on

We can’t sit in the staff room on our breaks but can sit in a room a bit further along to eat-which is smaller than our staff room

I’m guessing COVID doesn’t know about THAT room

How long will it take councils, schools and other institutions to reverse this crap when Covid is no longer a concern? 🤷🏻‍♀️

I've not been back to my office since first lockdown, but I've laughed at the protocols for the people who are in the office.

• you have to walk in the main entrance and sign in with the receptionist.
• you have to walk clockwise round the building.
• if you need to go to the toilet, or printer, or kitchen, you have to walk clockwise to get to it. Even if it's a few steps anti clockwise from your desk to the printer, you still have to walk clockwise round the whole office to get to the printer.
• front stairs are up only, back stairs are down only.
• when you leave in the evening you have to walk clockwise to the front of the building to sign out, then walk clockwise round the building to the exit at the back of the building.
• if you work upstairs, when you leave you walk down the back stairs past the exit, clockwise round to the front of the building to sign out, then clockwise back to the back of the building to exit, past the stairs you just came down.

Gosh, some of these are so pathetic
We were in windermere last week.
A shop door way maybe 4 feet wide was halved for people to go in one way and out the other.
Why can’t people stand aside to allow others to pass.
Like it was a common courtesy in the good old days.
They even carried the charade onto the very narrow pavement as well.
Stupid places like this won’t be getting any of my money

My friend’s kids’ school makes the parents walk in a circle around the entire playground passing all the other children waiting with their class on the perimeter to get their own child. Whilst wearing a mask and socially distancing (2m apart according to the footprints painted on the ground) despite being outside.

NHS mental health here; we couldn’t have a Christmas tree on our ward as the tree would have had to be fenced off and the advice was to quarantine Christmas presents.

Things were much worse then in terms of covid in the local area but we were still allowing visitors, didn’t have to quarantine them, only the parcels they bought🤷‍♀️

These inconsistencies show what a load of fucking bollocks some of these rules are.

And another one, we went to a restaurant in Bristol where only one person at a time was allowed in the loo block. 4 loos, 3 not in use but you didn’t know until you went in whether anyone was in there. Complete nonsense and lead to lots of queuing in corridors, not socially distanced.

I couldn't stop giggling when watching rugby on TV a few months back. The players stood 2m apart to sing the National Anthems. Before doing all the tackling and scrums etc.

@Hoppinggreen No individual school photo nor class photo for DD since it began. I took my own individual so as not to miss the development, but jeez.

The PE kit in primary schools thing just makes me wonder why they spend the rest of their life in clothes they can’t do kids’ sports in. They’re children - they’re supposed to turn cartwheels or do breakdancing or play football all the damn time, not only on PE kit days. PE is throwing a ball, not elite athletics.

(Our school is wearing jumper/tee shirt top half, and legging or jogger bottom half and trainers every day atm. I thoroughly approve and hope they keep it.)

I’m also wondering what happens on flights where airport security theatre meets Covid regulations.

How do you sanitize when your sanitiser is a liquid?

I’ve been irritated for months by Sainsbury’s system of shutting off the bottom of aisles and channelling everyone down two aisles
to checkouts and into a cordoned queue.
So everyone is forced into a confined space rather than spaced out 🤷🏼‍♀️

DB and SIL went out to eat at their local beer garden, they're a family of seven. The staff made them sit at two separate tables as they aren't "allowed" to have groups larger than six even if that group is one family.

So many posts here are classic examples of someone-somewhere putting their own interpretation on the actual rules. It's the whole "you're only allowed one hour of outdoor exercise each day" thing all over again.

Our worst was when we had to buy nativity costumes for our children even though the school already had them but couldn't be used due to covid, we then had to send them in one week before the performance so the school could quarantine them.. and then!!!! we found out that the kids had been rehearsing the nativity in the costumes the school already fucking had!!!!!!

Covid camel cunts sorry I'm still cross about it

At an outdoor activity today (go ape type thing) there were lockers with a sign saying tokens available at the desk for 50p. When I asked for one I was told this wasn't possible "due to Covid" but I was allowed to put my stuff in the locker and leave it unlocked. It was impossible to do the activity while holding a bag so I had to do so. I could theoretically see the locker so wasn't that stressed about it.

But why was it considered safe to touch a locker (and all the ropes, bars etc that other people were also touching in the same session) but not a plastic locker token????

@Hoppinggreen

My DC couldn’t have a school photo together as they are in different school years so can’t mix at school

How would you have managed taking sibling photos, given that we all know that year groups are not mixing in school, even though siblings obviously do mix at home? Year groups are staying in their own areas of the school and playing in set areas of the playground, no whole school assemblies in the hall etc, but you think schools should have ignored all that to let all the family groups gather together in a hall or corridor, just to have a photo taken?