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.

I got told off by an employee in Tesco for walking ‘the wrong way’ down one of the aisles. It was a Tesco Express store and I was the only shopper in there at the time!
Please can someone link me to one of the batshit MN covid threads? I do recall a certain poster on there who used emotive language such as ‘I’m afraid’ ‘sorry to say’
’its carnage’ and believed that lockdown should be permanent & all Christmases/social events should be on zoom forever, and travel banned for good!

I didn’t clap and im a healthcare worker 🙈 I thought it was ridiculous and most of my colleagues didn’t take part either. Like most of the rules, it was the government playing the public to keep them onside.

DH died during lockdown so I have weirdly fond memories of early lockdown as it marked me and DD's last days with him (unbeknownst to us). I'm grateful that we had all that time together, to be honest, and so all the stuff people see as "cringe" – the clapping, the Marsh family, Joe Wicks, the neighbours doing group pilates, Zoom quizzes, washing down shopping etc – make me feel oddly nostalgic. Such a strange thing, especially given Covid precipitated DH's death, AND made the whole process so much harder (not being able to be with him in hospital, having to have a tiny funeral, grieving entirely alone without any family etc etc).

A friend invited me round for a coffee in her garden. I had to run through her house in a mask, after disinfecting hands, towards the back door, with her shrieking " Back door is open, don't touch it!"
I wondered what she did with my coffee cup after I'd gone. I suspect she picked it up with a pair of tongs and dumped it in the bin!

I had someone hammer on my window to go outside for a street party for VE Day. I'd literally just sat down with my tea. Went out and was subjected to someone doing karaoke and a woman dancing with her Dalmatian. Needless to say as soon as the woman who'd hammered on my window had disappeared to talk to someone else I went back inside, closed my curtains and sat and ate my now cold tea

DD and DS not being allowed anywhere near each other at school but both were allowed to mix with anyone in their year freely.
Then at the school gates they were allowed to walk home together but not with their classmates
Made no sense.

I wasn't allowed my husband to support me at my dating scan. I had a late miscarriage a few months before so was pretty anxious. They let me have the bereavement midwife with me instead. So added another person from another household who neither me or the sonogropher had ever met before. Logic just went out the window.

All the people judging other people being out at the same time as them but if course only theirs was a valid or "essential" reason for going out!

The "I am not a cat" one

Still brilliant

Sitting outside a pub in pissing rain in November in order to be allowed to have a glass of wine, and only being permitted to go inside for lunch if you agreed to have a soft drink 🙄

And flying to London in September 2020, so face masks had to be worn unless you were eating. The usual trolley service was banned (cos, you know, Covid) so everyone was given a bag with a bottle of water and a bag of crisps. Cue EVERYONE on the plane then removing their masks to simultaneously munch their crisps and breathe germs everywhere before putting their masks back on. Absolutely pointless.

@peachgreen i'm sorry.

Oh, I've thought of another one.

My local Co-Op had a sign outside saying "Only two people in the shop at once - if necessary, please wait for a customer to leave before entering"

I asked how you'd know if there were already two people in the shop without going in. The manager didn't have an answer.

Everyone on here was talking about risk assessments as in 'I have risk assessed going to poundstretcher for a new bag of compost and I have decided it's low enough risk to chance it' and everyone would tell them the general public are rubbish at risk assessments

Our local primary school making the children sing “we’ll meet again” on the last afternoon when the school closed. As if they weren’t traumatised enough.

Leaving my office for a wee and the one way system meant I couldn't turn right into the loo next door ..... I had to turn left and go along the corridor, down the stairs ... back up another set of stairs and then left into the loo 🙄. I ignored this one day and got a real bollocking off the jobsworth caretaker.

I usually cringe when people on MN say thus but I genuinely just laughed so loud my cat jumped up and hissed at me 🤣🤣🤣

The whole bloody thing. But the especially cringe and INSANE thing were people that didn't leave their house for 2 years, people with children!
We had a brilliant time during lockdown.
Bbqs, forest walks beach everyday.
Completely ignored the guidance. Stayed in our 'bubble' (cringe!) but still made the most of being together.

I just remembered the school Mum who registered as a delivery driver on zero hours contract and openly shared she would not be delivering a single parcel.... all so that her 3 kids could attend daily at school on the hideously ridiculous "keyworker" excuse. It worked.

"I'm a key worker....

it seemed every person and their fucking dog was a key worker....

So sorry 😞

my husband who worked during the pandemic who decided it was best if we socially distanced at home when he came in from work! This meant minimal contact and no sex to protect me. I mean bless him but well no words!

Yes! DS left his locker key in DD's bag. School rang me to say he'd forgotten his locker key and could I drop it off at reception. I said it's in DD's bag, could someone go get it. They said that they couldn't as that would contaminate the bubbles.

When tiers were introduced, we were in Tier 4 but my mum was Tier 3 even though she only lived a ten minute walk away. My dad was in hospital and visiting was restricted to one person for 30 minutes, subject to a negative COVID test, mask, etc but it was okay to put him into a wheelchair and take him down to the hospital canteen so five of us could visit with him (rule of six), no masks required as we were at a table with food, then pop him back to the ward afterwards.

Oh yes I remember the poster who preceded everything with "I'm afraid..." and then made some bonkers prediction that, at the time, couldbt be 100% sure whether it really was bonkers because we were all discombobulated with all the rules! They said (among other things) all weddings in future would likely be on zoom!

I tried telling so many people this and Michael Gove really should have clarified his remarks. Just shows how the media have such a huge power in this Country.

The traffic light system at the entrance to Tesco......bonkers