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Seemingly bonkers covid measures (lighthearted)

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WhoIsH · 25/04/2021 20:15

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 Grin but touching the trainers etc is clearly OK.

Any others?

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Aroundtheworldin80moves · 25/04/2021 23:01

I have never been inside my childrens school. They've only been there a week... But it feels really odd to have never been inside. I've only seen the outside.

sherrystrull · 25/04/2021 23:12

My school have had the children in pe kits all day as they are very young and would need close contact for changing l, doing buttons, helping with jumpers etc.

I agree about preferring it. We don't waste half the lesson changing it!

DC's school make the parents cram at pick up on a very narrow path. Social distancing is impossible. We look longingly at the huge playground that we could wait and find social distancing much easier!

Returnoftheowl · 25/04/2021 23:13

My local shopping centre had toilets on the ground floor and then another on the 2nd floor. They've closed the ground floor ones "because of covid" so now everyone has to use the 2nd floor ones...filtering so many more people through a confided space.

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Hobnobsandbroomstick · 25/04/2021 23:24

Being required to sign in with the track and trace app when visiting a pub beer garden, when we're sat outside and over 2 metres away from anyone else. So wouldn't meet the criteria for any potential "close contacts" as defined by track and trace themselves anyway Confused.

clareykb · 25/04/2021 23:34

We have to wear masks at socially distanced desks in our office unless we are on a Video call...because Covid knows when you are on Zoom!

Chatanooga1 · 25/04/2021 23:35

Not long after it all started a chap in a shop was reluctant to accept my cash as he didn’t want to touch the note!

He made a big deal about it in front of customers and staff but I insisted and then took great delight in feigning mock horror as he handed me a paper receipt, whilst he looked foolish and embarrassed.

MrsMoastyToasty · 25/04/2021 23:42

Shops asking you to pay by contactless means. Then the shop assistant hands you a paper receipt which they have folded in half. My local Tesco- i am looking at you!

AdobeWanKenobi · 25/04/2021 23:43

@BeyondMyWits

Going in to get my first vaccine, I was wearing leather gloves... it was cold (February). I had to take them off, use sanitizer and then I could, and did, put them back on. No sanitizer, no access... nuts...
I had similar last year in a shop. The woman was properly nasty, yelling I needed to use her sanitiser. I told her I was wearing gloves and not removing them but that wasn't good enough. I reached for my own out of my bag and was again told that it wasn't good enough and I needed to use hers as she knew it was 70% alcohol or some such figure. I pointed out mine was too. Still not good enough.

I thanked her politely and left. Been back to the little outlet the shop was in today, unsurprisingly the unit is now e pty.

indiakulfi · 26/04/2021 01:59

@badlydrawnbear

My DC have to wear their P.E kits all day because of Covid, but next week my 6 year old is doing forest school one afternoon and she should bring clothes to school for that and can get changed there. Maybe Covid is only transmitted via P.E kits and not other clothes?!
Pe kits are identical and the wrong one can go home and potentially be returned unwashed. Forest school clothes are all different and so don't get muddled up. That's why.
MoppaSprings · 26/04/2021 02:42

My kids couldn’t have class photos taken or family groups done.

We are in Aus, there had been no community transmission cases of covid for months. ( this was last year)

itsgettingwierd · 26/04/2021 07:00

As hilarious as this thread is you can see why compliance begins to wain in some and we hear "make your own risk assessment" so much - because some rules really are daft and people will 'ignore' some stuff when you can do it elsewhere.

CovidCorvid · 26/04/2021 07:06

The jacuzzi at the gym is allowed to be open but only one household at a time to be in it. But the sauna is shut “due to govt rules “. Why can’t the sauna be open even if only one household at a time?

ClaraLane · 26/04/2021 07:20

@DoomPoodle

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)
Yes! I have had to breastfeed my now 8.5 month old sitting on the floor more times than I’ve lost count “because covid”. Same for National Trust properties and removing picnic benches however once they were allowed to reopen the cafes for takeaway the picnic benches were magically allowed to come back.

We went to a national park on Saturday, all outdoors but there’s a one-way system to get in and out (still outdoors) which quite literally takes you around the entire perimeter. Woe betide anyone who can’t walk that distance after walking round the rest of the park all day. It’s ridiculous.

Temp023 · 26/04/2021 07:51

I always wonder why I have to give my details if I am sat outside a cafe. If T&T then contacted me and said someone at the next table, or a waitress had been diagnosed with Covid, what am I meant to do with that information? I’ve not been near anyone, maybe a masked waitress for 30 seconds and we are outdoors.

Sbk28 · 26/04/2021 07:53

@CovidCorvid

The jacuzzi at the gym is allowed to be open but only one household at a time to be in it. But the sauna is shut “due to govt rules “. Why can’t the sauna be open even if only one household at a time?
See, I kind of get this one. The steam in a sauna is the ultimate lack of ventilation situation.

The pub rule from last summer, where you could sit as long as you like without a mask, but needed mask for standing up... Bonkers!

Ilovemycat13 · 26/04/2021 07:53

Our university said that our work, instead of being anonymous like it usually is, has to have our names on ‘because of Covid’

What??

WaltzingBetty · 26/04/2021 07:56

@Chatanooga1

Not long after it all started a chap in a shop was reluctant to accept my cash as he didn’t want to touch the note!

He made a big deal about it in front of customers and staff but I insisted and then took great delight in feigning mock horror as he handed me a paper receipt, whilst he looked foolish and embarrassed.

To be fair you sound fairly unpleasant. There was concern around surface transmission at the start of the pandemic and cash that has been through many different hands would be more of a risk than a freshly printed till receipt.

Plus working in retail during a pandemic, exposed to hundreds of people/day isn't fun. Yes there are lots of bonkers covid rules. But mocking a retail worker for not wanting to handle cash is unkind.
You could decline the receipt if you were concerned. He cannot decline the cash if you refuse to pay by another means.

WaltzingBetty · 26/04/2021 07:58

@womanity

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?

Use a bottle that's less than 100ml?
MinnieMountain · 26/04/2021 08:07

Our local pools have opened the (individual) shower cubicles but taken the curtains off them. Silly enough but the changing cubicles still have curtains.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 26/04/2021 08:08

@Temp023

I always wonder why I have to give my details if I am sat outside a cafe. If T&T then contacted me and said someone at the next table, or a waitress had been diagnosed with Covid, what am I meant to do with that information? I’ve not been near anyone, maybe a masked waitress for 30 seconds and we are outdoors.
Wasn't that to do with clusters? So if lots of people went to one restaurant on Sat afternoon, then developed Covid later that week, they could identify that restaurant as a possible source.
EssentialHummus · 26/04/2021 08:13

Venues / premises being declared "covid safe" because there are stickers/tape on the floor at intervals and signs up telling people to wear masks. Well done, the virus is very impressed and will immediately move along.

Actually, "covid safe" as a concept can go jump in a sanitiser-filled puddle.

Anecdotally the cars at my local big Sainsbury's are, on no one's orders, being parked in a socially distanced way these days. Noticed it a few months ago.

BitchIAmFromChicago · 26/04/2021 08:14

Our local co-op only allows one customer in the store at a time. It’s absolutely fucking impossible to see if anyone is actually in the store unless you go in due to the layout.

Swimming pools are open but waterslides etc are closed.

KFleming · 26/04/2021 08:25

Thought of another one...blocking off every other toilet cubicle, even though each cubicle is completely enclosed and self contained. Resulting in lots more people queuing for the loo (and not keeping distance).

As well as the queueing, each cubicle is therefore being used by far more people so is presumably dirtier.

KFleming · 26/04/2021 08:32

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

If my child was late due to a medical appointment I would take serious issue with this policy. That is utterly absurd.

Hoppinggreen · 26/04/2021 08:33

[quote getyourfreakon]@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. [/quote]
It’s the only year they will be at the same school since Primary too so no chance of one now. Not a huge deal but a bit disappointing given how daft it was

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