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 know someone who still does it on emails and online. Ugh.

Hindsight is wonderful, especially backed up by all the knowledge we have gained since

Yes that is true. But it was always obvious that you weren't going to catch covid because you ventured 6 miles from home instead of 5. Or drove somewhere for exercise. And it was also obvious that the risks outdoors were way way smaller than indoors. Right from about April 2020.

How can we forget the excuses...Domanic Cummings having a day out in Barnard Castle with his wife and family just to test his eyesight by driving!!! Dear me..like you would go drive if you couldnt see lol and them expecting us to swallow it.

And another one.

I met a friend for a walk. We hugged. But we did it behind a large tree in case anyone saw us!

Dancing tiktok nurses did my head in!! Why??!

A woman shouting at me because her dog ran up to me (off lead) and I petted him when he jumped up. She literally shrieked about “spreading virus” and to my absolute shame I burst into tears.

Absolutely with you on this one.

Yes!
the clapping absolutely did my head in.

I never heard about any x mile limit, I was driving 30+ miles to stay with family once there were single adult/single parent bubbles

I don't think that's shameful. It was a hard time, someone was a twat to you and you were upset.

People calling masks 'face nappies' was one of the peak covid cringes for me.

Everytime I went to a particular house I was berated by their relative for wearing a facenappy, he did tone it down a bit after being hospitalised with covid. Fortunately he made a full recovery so he could then berate me for getting the vaccine, from another room so he didn't catch any vaccine spores from me

Holland and Barratt remaining open on the basis that their magic beans were somehow healthcare and essential!

Why dickheads? I got the essentials then would have had to walk all the way up one aisle and down the next to get chocolate, or just a few steps up the empty aisle the 'wrong' way 🤔 .

Oh this thread is making me laugh so much.

I am so impressionable and get swept up with stuff so easily.

I committed all of these crimes and more.

That stupid jerusalema dance - I learned the steps and performed with one (socially distanced) group then went onto another group and taught it to them.

I immediately set up a WhatsApp on the street in case anyone needed assistance.

I wouldn't leave the house at all (to be fair I had stage 4 cancer) even to go onto the empty green facing my house in case I picked up COVID on the soles of my shoes.

When I eventually did go outside and around the corner, I saw messages of hope from the children written on the wall. I didn't just cry, I bawled.

I clapped so hard I nearly took the skin off my hands.

On my informal work WhatsApp chat I told everyone to step it up, stop moaning and just do what had to be done. I'm pretty certain a new group was set up for everyone except me.

I went on a tirade to DH's ex as she had nonstop parties which compromised me if DSD came over. When DSD did come over I made her stay in the garden with a mask and gloves (!!!) on.

I set a 15 minute timer on my phone for any impromptu street chats.

I began doing yoga on the green inviting everyone else to join me.

I ran daily online meditations and talked endlessly about unity in separation.

Cringe does not cover it.

I walked past a woman on the train, I mean she was sitting on an aisle seat and I walked past her seat to get to mine.
She sighed very loudly and tutted. I get she was very anxious but how exactly was I supposed to get to my seat? Crawl through the window?

Then on another train, which was practically empty, my partner and I sat next to each other. A young jobsworth ticket inspector came and told us we had to sit separately. I told him that we loved together and he replied 'I don't care.'
Nutter

Surely more walking past more people is more potential spreading 🤔

I loved it because I got IDed buying alcohol (or rather, they asked me to lift my mask - dammit, they accepted I was over 25 when they saw me! - and because men suddenly got much more attentive, offering to get things off high shelves and so on.

The language we'd mostly never used before becoming normal overnight...

Bubble
The R
Social distancing
PCR
LFT
'lat flow'
Getting pinged
New normal
Unprecedented
Stay safe
Now more than ever...
Level 4
Furlough
Flexi-furlough
WFH
Next slide please

Any one else admitting they had Christmas dinner cooked in the same house but one table at the top of the garden and one socially distanced outside the garden on the drive? Just me then?! Safer outside what were we thinking?

Oh! I just remembered the “stoppit” nurse cos she couldn’t get fruit at the supermarket 😂😂😂

People wearing those absurd visor masks that were completely exposed at the bottom. And ditto those daft partial screens at tills some of which haven't been removed yet. I just kept smacking my fingers on them and knocking shopping everywhere.

For some reason the thing that makes me really shudder is the American term ‘shelter in place’. They use it for staying inside during hurricanes too. No idea why it winds me up so much.

@ClashCityRocker > 'Oh god the arrows! Which inevitably made sure you'd end up going up and down every bloody aisle to ensure full contamination rather than just visiting the bits you needed. ...'

I had a man shout at me in Tesco, "It's one way!", when I picked up something from the end of an aisle and stepped a couple of feet back to reach the centre aisle. If I hadn't done that I would have had to walk down the whole of the shelving aisle, and then back down the other way, to reach where I wanted to be. My next misdemeanour was stepping back into the aisle he was on to say, 'I know, but I was at this end' and then turned round and re-trod the couple of feet back to the centre aisle. So (say four foot) ended up being eight foot of sinning.

Looking through these posts just makes me cringe and shake my head. The whole bloody world went into mass hysteria about a virus that is still in circulation yet now 2 years later no one seems that bothered about.

Don't even get me started on the £600 million spaffed away on eat out to help out or the damage to our children's education.

Bet that nurse shudders now!