COVID cringe memories (light hearted)

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Looking back at the pandemic, especially at its height in 2020, what made your toes curl?

1. "Imagine". Enough said.
2. The Marsh family.
3. On the local news, footage was shown of the Thursday clap (may or June). There was a parade of bhangra drummers and smarmy bratty kids doing the irritating floss dance. Was that point the 'applause' was seen as having had it's day.

I know some people may mention the dancing nurses, I only saw tiny clips on the news. Even that made me cringe.

All that stupid clapping.

The clapping.

I had a friend who was still wiping down her shopping well into the time when we knew it was airborne. I didn't have the heart to tell her it was pointless. She'd been told to do that by a doctor at the very very beginning and never picked up that it was pointless.

Then endless conversations about how long you could go out and exercise for - as long as you bloody liked!

And all the time those idiots in Downing Street were stuffing fizz and sausage rolls down their faces.

Having to wear a mask in the pub if you stood up but not if you were sitting - like Covid would know the difference

The hysteria around Captain Tom.

The RAINBOWS! 🌈 THE DREADED RAINBOWS. IN EVERY WINDOW.

The phrase "Protect our NHS" when the whole point of a taxpayer funded health service is that it's supposed to protect US.

The hype with bloody Joe Wicks and his daily workout videos.
I'm sure many people loved them, and I can appreciate he seems like a genuinely lovely man. But fuck me! I started out all positive and ready to do his workouts every day with the kids, three minutes in and the kids were still going strong while I was flopped on the sofa cursing myself for not owning a decent fitting sports bra after nearly knocking myself out with my own breasts 🤣 Never again!!
Now the lovely cosmic yoga lady? That I could get on board with and really enjoyed!

The Marsh family brought some joy to my DD while she was having a very hard time with her MH throughout the pandemic. They did good.

Michael Ball and that old bloke on his zimmer frame. That was only about 4 weeks into the madness and it peaked me completely.

threads on here, it was insane! someone said they couldn't use their garden as neighbour was in theirs coughing. The preppers berating the panic buying

Imagine? What the song?

Must have missed the Marsh family will google.

But yes the clapping. The phrases in peace time, unprecedented etc

The clapping

Curtain twitchers trying to police their neighbours' behaviour

The tier system

'Bubbles'

Illogical use of masks.

The mumsnet threads of posters arguing that really nothing is essential (I'm sure someone said nappies weren't at one point).

The number of exponential charts

Some of the cringy and saccharine artwork

A farmer's wife having a tizz on MN because people were touching gates on the public footpaths that went across their farm, and her husband was going to catch covid if he touched the gates.

People wearing face masks and with the windows open when they were driving alone in a car. Mind you, I still see people alone in their cars wearing face masks.

Definitely the clapping. I work in hospital labs and we all thought it was awful, just smacked of paying lip service instead of actually investing money where it was needed. I.E PPE that actually worked and was available!

The sudden need to celebrate VE day in the street because people were fed up of being stuck in. By people who had never considered it before and haven't since.

I don't know what the first 2 are? But yes the clapping was quite strange.

Oh wow a lot of it is really cringy now looking back. I believe a lockdown was needed and the correct thing to do, but a lot of the measures seem insane looking back.

The chained up play parks, country parks and other places popular with walkers/cycles etc closed off from the public.

Rules that seemed in conflict.. takeaways near me open and running with a dozen mask-less workers crammed in a small indoor space every night (I’m looking at you Dominos) whilst people were receiving fines for sitting on a bench outdoors on a walk.

The gap between people. Many people in very comfortable situations (big house and garden etc) enjoying judging others in less fortunate situations for not obeying the rules as well as they were.

The word ‘selfish’

The mumsnet threads of posters arguing that really nothing is essential (I'm sure someone said nappies weren't at one point).

yep & bread & milk I think.

I don't really remember any of these things. It was no different really for me and my oh. Except we had to move house and couldn't find a removal company for weeks that had insurance so we hired one without insurance. We both worked remote already and didn't venture out much so nothing changed for us.

The whole mask obsession! The amount of times I got told my ds who has autism and a brain injury should be wearing a mask! Trust me I did try but the longest it would stay on his face was about 5 seconds!

When the only place you were allowed to go was a garden centre clearly Covid knew to stay away from there.

Omg this own wins the prize for me.

The way people would viciously argue with people about not wearing a mask on the tube or supermarket..... WINCE

I was about to smugly reply that I never heard of the Marsh Family. But a google has put me right in my place, I even liked the first one when it first came out

Not just the clapping but the policing of the clapping. Endless posts on the local residents group about "good showing Such And Such Street, you did us proud" and "why was I the only person out clapping on That Here Way?" and "I've noticed it's the same people out doing their bit each week (what bit!? It's fucking applause not COVID research) and the same people ignoring it" followed by people agreeing that people who don't clap will still expect NHS treatment even though they're not out supporting them with claps. It was absolutely crackers how people fixated on it so much.

The banana bread obsession. Ditto sourdough starters.

Home haircuts. Life lesson: even hairdressers rarely cut their own hair because it never ends well. Don't do it.