Page 19 | COVID cringe memories (light hearted)

Floogal · 2023-08-14T12:52:57+00:00

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.

MyMotherWorked15Hours5DaysAWeek · 14/08/2023 19:18

Maternity restrictions
Fucking Captain Tom
That book with the horse on the cover
The lunacy of university rules

feellikeanalien · 14/08/2023 19:18

We live in England very close to the Scottish border. I remember going to Scotland and we could eat inside in a cafe and all my friends being very jealous that we had actually got to eat inside.

Utter madness.

PuppyMonkey · 14/08/2023 19:19

I remember my sister got stopped by the police while walking her dogs down the road - she lives in the Peak District and they thought she’d got in the car to drive there, the horror.

inloveandmarried · 14/08/2023 19:21

Being given advice by the government not to go into the garden and to take in fresh air at an open window.

We were in the shielding group but it just made nervous.

It was early days of covid.

FunkyMonks · 14/08/2023 19:21

Masks hated them
Never washed my food shop thankfully never bought into that madness.
Bubbles
In wales we had the miles restriction couldn't go past certain mileage from your home just madness the whole lot was.

WestwardHo1 · 14/08/2023 19:21

My nephew used to love banging the pots and pans. It was the highlight of his sad little week, but that's because he was three.

Grown adults?

Vitriolinsanity · 14/08/2023 19:21

DS and I were taking our mandated walk one Thursday evening. We turned into a street at the exact moment of the mandated Thursday night Clap. We had to walk along the entire street as though we were the ones being applauded. We even tried clapping as well.Even now the memory makes me shrivel with cringe.

Vitriolinsanity · 14/08/2023 19:23

Also, worse, it was a really long street. There were pans and spoons.

Pixie2015 · 14/08/2023 19:23

Eat out to help out !

CloudyMcCloud · 14/08/2023 19:23

Vitriolinsanity · 14/08/2023 19:21

DS and I were taking our mandated walk one Thursday evening. We turned into a street at the exact moment of the mandated Thursday night Clap. We had to walk along the entire street as though we were the ones being applauded. We even tried clapping as well.Even now the memory makes me shrivel with cringe.

Well this thread is cathartic. This made me laugh

Wintersgirl · 14/08/2023 19:23

Bonfire23 · 14/08/2023 15:29

My old cat bloody loved the clapping. He was coming back from his patrol when it started and he thought they were clapping for him. Every time he would sit on the windowsill craning his neck to see who was outside

I'd clap for your cat any day! I bet he thought he was a film star!

Yorkshiredolls · 14/08/2023 19:23

Fucking keep your distance and two meter signs everywhere.

they’re still about, they make me furious.

Noticed a council one still up on a lamppost in PILs welsh village yesterday. if I lived there id have screwdrivered it off long ago. God knows how much councils spent on all that signage

EarringsandLipstick · 14/08/2023 19:23

BarbiesModesOfTransport · 14/08/2023 15:21

The picture attached used to make me smile every time I went past it in a nearby garden. Not because it's completely untrue, it just was over the top dramatic!

That's amazing 😂😮

Jamtartforme · 14/08/2023 19:25

People who at the time were washing shopping and telling people to stay the fuck at home now pretending they were super blasé about everything and it’s everyone else who were the hysterical nut jobs

QueenOfDuisburg · 14/08/2023 19:25

I remember someone suggesting to me that bubbles were potential COVID spreaders as they were blown from the mouth. The horror as I watched them floating towards other families in the park one time my youngest managed to smuggle a tube out with us 😬

Why40 · 14/08/2023 19:26

The 'keep your distance' floor markings, many of which are still there.

Soubriquet · 14/08/2023 19:26

I used to wear one of the stupid face shields. Had no choice. I have scarring on the back of my ears and the face masks were badly rubbing them leaving them sore and bleeding. The shield was a compromise at work… even when I pointed out there was no bloody point

drunkpeacock · 14/08/2023 19:27

Pixie2015 · 14/08/2023 19:23

Eat out to help out !

Oh, I know it turned out to be a disaster and started off the next wave but I bloody loved it at the time. Mainly because somebody I really fancied could regularly be persuaded to come for a meal on the basis that we were doing our part!

EarringsandLipstick · 14/08/2023 19:28

mumofteenss · 14/08/2023 16:07

At the start of covid when the claps were a big thing, i worked on a post surgery ward, most patients were self caring, able to mobilise, they were in purely for IV antibiotics etc. Because all elective surgeries were cancelled, just emergency procedures were taking places, the ward was quieter than normal, only 12 patients on the ward. Our ward was the only non-covid ward in the surgical dept left so we were in our own little hospital bubble of sort.

Anyway, one nightshift, all the patients got together, and at 8pm on the dot, they all came to the nurses station and stood there clapping and cheering and wooping at us for a solid 5 minutes.

It was the single most cringey thing ever to happen. I didnt know what to do or say. I hated the claps in general, but 12 of them clapping right at me, another nurse and a healthcare, it was just mortifying.

This is hilarious too!

myusernamewastakenbyme · 14/08/2023 19:29

That stupid crying nurse in her car whinging that the supermarket shelves were empty....how embarrassing.

CloudyMcCloud · 14/08/2023 19:31

drunkpeacock · 14/08/2023 19:27

Oh, I know it turned out to be a disaster and started off the next wave but I bloody loved it at the time. Mainly because somebody I really fancied could regularly be persuaded to come for a meal on the basis that we were doing our part!

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It didn’t bother me we had loads of meals out. Better than all the numbers angst

nopuppiesallowed · 14/08/2023 19:31

One of my brothers lives in Spain. He and his wife were walking on the pavement on their way to the supermarket where they would be allowed to shop together. A policeman stopped them and told them they couldn't walk to the supermarket together and one of them would have to go home! We think things were mad in the UK, but that was crazy and totally illogical.

Vitriolinsanity · 14/08/2023 19:33

I also live at the end of a dark, quite perilous path. Every single person coming to our houses comes in the back, which is not dark or perilous.

In December 2020 when DS and I had tested and declared positive, a woman from T&T appeared in our garden demanding to see that we were both indoors. Did I mention it was December and dark?

When we said yes, again because we were poorly, it was December and dark and we had to come outside to evidence we were inside, she then complained that she'd had to walk up the dark, dangerous path.

I pointed out that she could've popped round the back (like the Postman, Bin Men, many key worker delivery people) and quite possibly saved herself a death defying journey to our kitchen door.

PinkCherryBlossoms · 14/08/2023 19:34

WestwardHo1 · 14/08/2023 19:21

My nephew used to love banging the pots and pans. It was the highlight of his sad little week, but that's because he was three.

Grown adults?

That's why we did it too, kids liked the pans and fireworks! I used to use the time for a chat with neighbours.

YukoandHiro · 14/08/2023 19:34

Jamtartforme · 14/08/2023 19:25

People who at the time were washing shopping and telling people to stay the fuck at home now pretending they were super blasé about everything and it’s everyone else who were the hysterical nut jobs

Agree with this. I was terrified and unhinged. I was pregnant and trapped in a flat and was convinced me, unborn baby, DH and my parents (all high risk CEV) would all die and leave my then 2 year old with no other family (as we don't have any other surviving relatives). I behaved absolutely irrationally.
Looking back I'm very sad for myself. My mental health was awful and the government sought to protect itself from obvious evidence of failure by damaging the nation's mental health.