What we're the most bizarre/memorable moments of the pandemic for you?

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Just wondering what they are for you?

I'll start. One of mine was seeing a children's playground cordoned off with tape, including all the park benches.

@EvilPea in this person's case, they would normally have walked across and got their shopping from Iceland, farm foods etc 5 minutes away.. Our short sighted council removed all seating so they could no longer have a rest when needed, so no longer do the shopping, get some exercise and a bit of social interaction.

By the time we discovered how sorry the situation has become, they couldn't do that short walk anymore and the knock on effect is that they stopped being able to keep their house clean too, but were too proud to say.
They now can't live the active life they had before, doing a hobby they loved a few times per week and so on.

A sad situation that must have been repeated up and down the country, that was foreseen by many of the disaster experts who were completely ignored.
It doesn't need an expert though. Anyone can see benches taped over and wonder what about elderly, disabled people and pregnant women.

My mum, after i has just delivered her shopping to her ,asking if she could touch me, just stroke my arm
I said no, as I'd just been to the supermarket
She was alone for the whole lockdowns
This haunts me 😥

Not surprised about compliance. Look up Stanley Milgram and Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment. We all conform to perceived authority.

Our local eye hospital has still got tape on the seats they're four joined seats the two middle ones are covered in tape. You go in one entrance then out another. The funny thing is covid swept through the staff last month.

Our local walk in centre has certain seats taped off. If ignored them when I was with DH as there didn't seem any point as we were together

I can remember going to work on the Wednesday of the first week of the first lockdown. I walk to work and it was eerie, no cars, shops shut, hardly any people. It was like a film where it's the day after a nuclear event or something. Really weird.

Mother’s Day 2020, being really pleased because I’d found a shop that had toilet rolls in stock. On our way walking through town a large police van passed us, and I remember feeling very nervous.

The disconcerting revelation that huge swathes of the population were clearly just not very good at thinking.