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.

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.

Yes, this happened to my family member who is a truck driver too.

@alwaysraining123 That reminds me of the batshit posters who would jump on you if you suggested juggling work & home schooling was tough with "shouldn't have had dc if you don't want to look after them", etc. People were far more spiteful & stupid then I realised.

Yes this.

I get the point of the OPs thread, however cannot be lighthearted until there is justice and Mr Johnson and others have the convictions and long prison sentence they should have.

My lifelong opposition to the death penalty is why I think Mr Johnson should not hang.

My husband and I cried with laughter when we heard the captain Tom/Michael ball cover song. It was the worst thing my ears have ever had to endure. Even thinking of it now brings a tear to my eye.

i also ripped down a particularly patronising sign some wankers had put up on a public footpath, implying that driving to this public footpath (which was in the absolute middle of nowhere and could only be driven to, unless you lived in the house next to it, said house was likely source of wanky laminated sign) then you were not only endangering yourself but everyone else around you including the NHS and most importantly your postman. I really don’t think my postman (an all round good egg) gave a crap where I was walking my dog quite frankly.

One of the saddest things is the Queen sitting alone at her husbands funeral.

While Boris and the other fuckers partied.

That reminds me - I popped into the uni library and was dutifully following all the fucking yellow arrows around the entire ground floor (having passed no less than 10 signs in foot high letters warning me to MASK UP NOW... REMEMBER SANITISER... and the delightfully charming and "down with the kids" GET READY TO SQUIRT) and got to a point where there were four paths of yellow arrows, all reaching a central point and pointing towards each other with no "legitimate" escape route at all. One of the cleaners was absolutely killing himself laughing at the ridiculousness of it.

The nutty conspiracy theories - one I heard was that ambulances were driving round empty with the sirens on just to put the fear into people!

Like there are any spare ambulances to do that 🙄

It's going to sound strange but a lot of the bonkersness kind of past me by.

DH and DCs were working in a supermarket, starting in the early hours to get home shopping picked and out of the door.

My assistant had been furloughed (company cost saving) so I had to do his work as well as my own.

All we seemed to do was work.

People saying you don't need to go out to buy milk, just put some cheese in your coffee.
Sobbing and shaking because someone only bought a chocolate bar from a shop.
Being made to feel like a leper by people living in tier 1 because I lived in tier 3.
Made to feel like scum because you exercised for 61 minutes instead of 60, even though such a rule didn't even exist.
I tested positive and I wanted to go for a walk late at night when nobody was around, because I lived in a studio flat and was going crazy. The responses I got on here honestly, as if I were some sort of nazi.

Honestly I didn't comply with the stupid stuff so when I look back on my own behaviour I don't cringe.

I think the worst is people who are still terrified of it now.

One of the saddest things is the Queen sitting alone at her husbands funeral.

I’d say the boy who died alone. And elderly isolated in care homes for weeks on end

I can laugh at some of it but then remembering makes me so irritated as so many demanded harsher measures, on here too. Then I use the same word for them as you did

I count myself lucky that I went out to work throughout and don't watch live television so I missed most of the nonsense! We still had the radio at work, which was infuriating with the traffic jams in hallways rubbish and nhs worship, ignoring the rest of us working to keep the country going.

This was a particularly bonkers thread which has stuck in my mind:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/coronavirus/3911003-at-the-garden-centre-on-home-oxygen?page=1

Linking to old threads is liable to get this one deleted as a TAAT.

Me too @Proudgypsy. I did what I have always done and that is to use common sense and keep away from others if I was ill.

I didn’t even bake banana bread. 😂

The police van driving across Peckham Rye telling people they weren’t allowed to sit down was a real lowlight.

Oh and when my work were cajoling people back they explained the new lift system: four people at a time only and you had to stand in the corner and face the wall

My friend's daughter went for a sleepover for her best friend's very delayed 16th birthday. They were in the same "bubble" at school at this time. And a neighbour called the police and she was made to stand outside of the house until my friend (her mother) could collect her and given a telling off by the police. This was the same year group who missed out on GCSEs, prom etc. I could maybe understand reporting a large party but how would you even notice one extra child at someone's house.

I often wonder if the curtain twitches are proud of themselves for policing rules that made no sense, and were put in place by people who had no intention of following said rules themselves.

When my husband couldn’t stay with me and a seriously ill newborn after he was born ‘because of covid’ but could come and go bringing all sorts back and forth in the daytime. Covid knew the difference between day and night 🤣

People telling me to ‘stay safe’, like the checkout operator or postman 😑

Never heard of the Marsh family but agree with most other things:
NHS and rainbow posters put up in people's gardens/houses
Clapping/banging pans
Captain Tom
All the hype about zoom, Joe Wicks etc
Media hype about most of it
Some of the threads on MN, I don't think it really did anyone's mental health any good eg someone saying milk wasn't essential, you could put butter in coffee, someone said you couldn't sit on a bench and eat a packet of crisps
Videos of dancing nurses/doctors
Anthony Fauci

I was one of those annoying people who used the Facebook frame "I can't stay at home, I'm a keyworker" 🤦🏻‍♀️

shame on you @Cupcakekiller!

Oops, sorry.

You'd be amazed. Another friend thought the same thing at the time and she genuinely thought they were keeping tabs on people somehow. Given how some police forces were behaving - going through people's shopping baskets, sending drones up to track people out for walks etc - I'm not really surprised that people felt that way! They were pulling drivers over round here to ask why people were out; maybe she'd been stopped before and that's where her fears came from.