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.

Who the bloody hell are the Marsh family? They look unbearably wholesome, upon Googling. 😂

Do you remember posters saying we should be more like China? as in locking people in their homes etc

All of it

Yes and the ones that said night clubs and travel were over

My neighbour's shagging.

I got caught up in the Captain Tom hysteria and donated a small amount.

Knowing what I know now, I don't resent at all that you and your colleagues had a gift voucher. Seems like a nice token to me.

The thing that still makes me so angry and cross is Cummings and partygate. I naively thought we were all in it together. That was a lie.

We would meet in the street for a catch up.
one lady brought a 6foot pole with her to measure the distance between us 😡

The school shoes post reminds me when I went to the opticians. Any glasses I tried on had to be put on a tray for decontamination. Got told off for touching a pair to see price and not putting them on the tray. I had to wear a mask so every pair I tried on steamed up.

When it all kicked off but the lockdown hadn't yet been announced, I hid all of my toilet rolls from my cleaner behind some bags in a drawer, just incase she decided to steal them. Embarrassing.

Never got on board with the captain Tom thing. Everyone lauding over him because he was wheeling himself up and down his garden . Probably a lovely guy but the media attention and the expectation that we should be amazed was just odd.

The whole period was batshit - a load of nonsense rules that people blindly followed to 'keep safe'.....scotch eggs! 🙄

My kid has allergies and I was told off multiple times in supermarkets for picking up food and then putting it back on the shelf. Explaining that I was picking it up to check the allergen labels wasn't enough to appease them

The people on here who "knew it was coming" and were therefore totally prepared unlike the rest of us plebeian folk.
"Well I actually take an interest in world affairs and am a bit of an epidemiologist so I was wearing a hazmat suit and stocking up in December 2019..." 🙄

Yes loads of people on MN who knew literally months before the WHO...

And (not esp lighthearted) all the berating of people not isolating for weeks because their child had been in the same room as someone with covid, but they couldn't afford to take loads of time off work.

Getting screamed at by a mad woman on a walk because ‘she hadn’t seen us before so we mustn’t be local’. We were, and it didn’t matter anyway. Really brought out the angry twats in force. Same for the woman who literally ran to about 50m away across a field because she saw us coming and still covered her whole face with a scarf.

Captain Tom.

Our local off-licence which had a barrier up so you couldn’t look at any wine. You had to play 20 questions with the man on the door before ending up with something you didn’t really want. Still didn’t actually prevent getting or giving Covid because he didn’t wear a mask and came right up to you to ask his million questions, show you the wrong thing a dozen times and then hand it over. Lunatics.

I can't believe some of the crap we happily went along with.
Clapping like demented seals once a week.
Not being able to travel more than a few miles from home.
People wearing masks driving alone in a car.
People diving off the road to avoid passing you on the pavement.
Having my temperature taken before entering shops.
Our local hospital not having any visiting restrictions for weeks despite having several covid patients.

Sam Smith sobbing in his luxury manor cos he felt isolated.

Everyone who knew fuck all worth knowing but became an expert in....... well anything from reading a few social media posts/reports from "experts". Were very vocal about how they knew better/were braver/cooler than everyone else. And still think they do/did today.

I have a friend who is still wiping his groceries, mail, etc down....after he's quarantined them in his porch for 3 days.

Just today he made a woman who came in with a bit of a cold sit 3 desks down from him while he dealt with her query...by ringing her on her mobile phone.

Mental.

Walking along a footpath on an embankment in the earlyish days when 2 metres were the thing but not masks.

An older woman in a massive outdoor coat is coming towards me.

As we get close she detours down the bank to avoid me.

Trips and rolls down, coming to rest on her back.

I called down to ask if she was OK.

”Go away” was the reply.

Oh god yes haha

My half brother going full 'It's a liberal conspiracy propergated (sic) by the mainstream media to damage Boris' on social media. Lasted about a month before he'd been bollocked by his kid about just what they were dealing with at work and it made its way up to the village where he lived, taking out most of the neighbours.

This couple in Tesco one of the first few times I'd gone supermarket shopping. Before I'd always have food deliveries but they were harder than hen's teeth to get until I got added to the priority list. It was when you could not go into a section unless someone had vacated it, shown by tape on the floor. I was waiting and waiting while they seemed to endlessly debate which ketchup to buy. I was like, we've all been locked up for weeks, you are standing there having a chat about ketchup! Luckily my Paddington bear hard stare worked on her and they moved on swiftly.

The test and trace people who called you if you a) tested positive or b) came into contact with someone who had given your details! They asked if you were isolating and told you someone might be round to knock on your door to check you were definitely in! Did anyone actually get someone knocking on their door? No one on mumsnet answers the door anyway so that would be a non-starter.

Fucking hell I've just read a couple of pages of replies and I think I've got PTSD!!

We still have neighbours who don't speak to us because we didn't clap. And there are also still some rainbows in windows round here. And one house who still has a notice up on their door saying they're shielding.

Fuck off, all of you.

I was speaking to a relative a few weeks ago who lives in France, who was telling me that her and her friends watched England thinking we were doing such a better job of managing lock downs etc than they were (she felt their local laws were mad...). So I think everyone just thought their country was terrible and everyone else was doing it better...

The people on here who "knew it was coming" and were therefore totally prepared unlike the rest of us plebeian folk.

Omg yes! They had been carefully following the news in 2019 so knew it was a matter of time, gimme a break!