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.

Conga lines on VE Day.

All the praise for NHS workers but none for the supermarket workers and food delivery workers keeping everyone feed.

I remember opening up the school I work in and one child coming every day (for the whole day!) this was the first lock down before online learning was set up.
This girl was 10 and new to the school and was painfully shy. We did lots of art activities but she didn’t talk all day. It was so very awkward and I felt really sorry for her.

Clapping,
captain Tom,
fill yer gob to save a job,
Walking to work at the pharmacy and being told off by people when I walked home again "always out and about aren't you"... just felt so people were watching every minute and I did cringe for them really... on their high horses for no reason all the time.
A couple of entitled arses trying to prop open the pharmacy door so people wouldn't have to touch the copper rich (antibacterial) handles, so they just ruined the airflow through the aircon filters instead.

I remember my dd having friends over for her 16th birthday. They were sat in a gazebo in the garden at the end of October freezing. This was when only 6 people were allowed to meet up but we were 7 in total. I spent the evening petrified the police would turn up and telling her sister to stay hidden in her bedroom.

I met someone the other day who still feels guilty that he broke the one hour rule. He was genuinely shocked when I told him it had never existed, it was just a passing comment made by a minister in an interview.

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!

This did my head in. "I've gone for jog & the park is packed", "i couldn't believe how many cars were on the road this morning as I drove to work", "The shop was rammed when I went for tea, don't people realise it's lockdown" 🤔

I cringe for the person who had a go at me for walking the wrong way down an isle in Asda towards the very end of covid restrictions. Life went pretty much back to normal the following week

Captain bloody Tom

😂😂😂 Im loving this thread and just backs up how I felt I was the only one thinking ‘has the whole world gone mad’ for 2 years. Although Hubby thought the same so that helped.

I found the whole thing cringeworthy. ‘Protect our NHS’ always shouted the loudest by hugely obese people wobbling on their mobility scooters. The absolute irony of it.
People on Facebook complaining about how busy the shops were whilst doing their own shopping
The worst was the endless self important rants from people who were or knew someone ‘vulnerable’ Like you were responsible for their Mums’s death if you so much as sneezed in your own garden.
‘I can’t stay at home I’m a key worker’

What a load of old shite it was!!

The people who claimed to be ‘working on the front line’ when they were actually admin staff working in an office at our local hospital. I knew a few of those.

I work for the police - every call at the time was people reporting their neighbours for having visitors, the nonsensical rules seemed to only serve in bringing out the really horrible side of a lot of people!

I have a "WTF" moment now when those jobs pop up in relation to current ones - "report of people from more than two households inside address" (usually malicious) - what sort of dystopian nightmare were we living in?

Finishing a night shift and not being able to get my shopping on the way home like I usually did, as the first hour was reserved for NHS only and I needed to go to bed as I'd been up all night.

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

Actually, I got quite good at cutting DH's hair. He was deemed an essential worker (not sure why) & had the luxury of commuting on completely empty roads & knowing exactly how long his journeys would take - unlike on all previous working days. So he was still out & about instead of being stuck at home, & while he let his hair get longer at the beginning of lockdown, as time went on something needed to be done. So I stepped in.

First I just cut the bottom of it, to keep it above collar length, but then I learnt (from YouTube) how to do a basic man's cut. I did that for him all through lockdown & beyond. I only gave up because he wanted it left longer at the sides & I could never get a decent look when I tried that. I sent him back to his previous stylist, & I noticed she's not having any of his nonsense & has cut the sides short again!

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.

this made me laugh out loud

Spot on.

Did he think the government were timing him? 😂😂😂

Hysteria around closing schools and nurseries from people on MN. I feel like I failed my children at that time (full time work with two children at home). I wonder if the people demanding schools to close think it was worth it now? (Genuine question).

It was awful, my family member who was an essential worker and going out to work throughout having to queue after working all night, while teachers jumped the queue, in school hours.

I can’t believe most of it now. Just bananas

Oh, & I cut my own hair (long with a fringe). I'd fiddled with the fringe before, till I got my last stylist & she told me not to! But I'd never cut the bottom of it before lockdown.

I may never visit a hairdresser again.=

😂😂😂 This is hilarious @mumofteenss

I was called out to a Homebirth and somehow managed to arrive at 8pm on the dot. It was awful being clapped into a house!!

I worked throughout lockdown as a Community Mental Health Nurse. During the first lockdown I had to go into clients homes to administer depot medication. The 'I'm a keyworker, I work for the NHS' drove me insane. Many were admins or clinics that could see clients online or by phone. Not able to administer injections by phone! But what made me mad was we weren't the only ones...some teachers, care staff, retail, transport, rubbish collection, police, prison service, fire, deliveries. Who clapped or made a fuss of the bin men??? Imagine how much worse the spread of covid would have been if our bins hadn't been emptied!

The masks standing up but not when sitting down was when my critical thinking kicked in and I began to feel furious about the farcical nature of the restrictions.

My son shared a Uni campus flat with 7 other people. The campus security would break them up if they were seen walking around campus together due to the "rule of six", and they weren't allowed to have a drink or meal together in the Uni bars/cafes, again, because of the "rule of six". They all carried ID cards/key fobs which proved they lived together but campus security refused to even look at the ID. All that despite them living together, sharing a kitchen together etc! They were actually exempt (legally) from the rule of six because they lived together, but campus security wasn't having any of it!

Likewise, the Uni library imposed a one way system with aircraft style zig-zag queueing at the desk. Son went in one evening and there was literally no one in sight other than himself and the librarian behind the desk. Rather than walking all the way around the library floor and zig-zagging through the barriers, he ducked under a barrier and went straight to the desk (which was still 2 metres behind a fixed barrier and the librarian desk had a plastic screen). The librarian had a panic attack - started ranting and raving at him, threatening to call security to have him expelled etc. She was completely out of control, all for absolutely nothing!