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.

Featuring every ingredient no bugger could get hold of at the time (tinned tomatoes, pasta, flour, eggs)

Yeah just how did he get hold of that stuff? Jamie's Black Market Cookery Show more like.

When the kids initially went back to school, I remember seeing one mum who every day on pick up would get her child to stand with their arms out and eyes closed whilst she sprayed them head to toe with what I think must have been antibac spray before they were allowed in the car!

I don’t see how people choosing to wipe down trollies or wear masks in Tesco are doing anything particularly wrong or ridiculous. It is up to them, surely? And not impacting on you?

I agree there were a lot of ridiculous things, but I don’t think the one about potentially falling on a non essential walk was one of them. As unlikely as it might be, if you HAD fallen and required medical assistance, don’t you think that would have been pretty selfish? I’m sure I won’t convince you though.

Likewise eating solid food may have resulted in you choking and requiring the assistance of the parademics. So I hope that you stuck to liquids and pureed food only. Though thinking about it you could accidentally aspirate, develop aspiration pneumonia and require medical treatment so I hope that you didn't eat at all.

Seriously WTAF! you absolute loon?!

You're not alone, I don't know who they are either but I can't be bothered to google them!
My OH died at the very start of lockdown, not lurgy related, and among everything else I will never forget my obsession with black shoes! Mine needed heeling and nowhere was open to either heel them or sell me another pair. It became a massive thing in my head, Shall I wear them and totally ruin them? Shall I wear flat shoes? Eventually I went into a place that sold everything but was open for food only, and shoes for essential workers, I saw a pair and managed to get them to sell them to me after a lot of tears etc!!

Best one yet. Well done!

I don't think there's that much "light hearted" to remember, we lived in the time and it changed our lives - or didn't. There were strange distractions (which I mostly welcomed at the time because it was, quite frankly, scary). People will look back with humour, credulity, bitterness, pride, shame... the whole gamut.
As ever, a total lack of preparation by government and a lack of honesty with the population. Let's hope we will be better prepared next time (sadly there will be a next time because no one will spend the money to put in the infrastructure to mitigate - much like the climate change migrant crisis that is looming). Not a doom monger, really hope to be proven wrong

Taking the PiLs (in their 80s) out for a pub lunch and not being able to drink alcohol yet 20 feet away loads of young lads were getting pished watching a game of football because they were "outdoors" in a gazebo.

Sitting outside on a freezing pavement in October to celebrate a birthday because alcohol could not be served indoors. We were just laughing about this nonsense last week.

No, not a loon. It was about choices. Obviously you can’t help eating. You can help going out for a walk if it wasn’t essential , that’s all.

Fresh air and exercise is essential to most people's wellbeing.

Your best defence against getting ill is staying fit and healthy, sunlight, exercise etc. Walks are essential!

Loon is the right word. You do realise that most accidents happen at home, right? So eating solid foods, using knives, cooking, walking down the stairs, doing pretty much everything involves risk, including many activities done at home that could also be deemed non essential so presumably risking choking and using knives to prepare food when you could buy pre chopped is equally selfish. It was and is utterly bonkers to expect people to restrict their lives to an insane degree to eliminate every possible risk.

Feeling like I was risking my life every time I went to the shops, always alone as it was far too dangerous for DD to go and DP needed to stay with her. What was more dangerous was my overspending and having to explain to DP why I'd spent double the budget each time. Not sure why he asked me - I had no idea either.

This. It was embarrassing. It almost felt like taking the p*ss. Clapping doesn’t pay the bills.

The clapping

People wearing masks driving alone in the car

Boris Johnson, Matt Hancock and most of the government trying to seem competent

QR codes for checking in to places

The stupid app

Being interrogated by Test & Trace (clearly some clueless lad working in his bedroom)

People assuming that if you were against lockdowns you were also against vaccines

How do you distinguish an essential walk from a non-essential one?

Where I live the clapping was always accompanied by playing songs, so we had Oasis, Robbie W, Beatles, they played them for hours .
Then they stopped as it apparently encouraged people to go out!
Being in the garden meant constantly listen for cought from other gardens, if my neighbours started coughing, we left and immediately run inside.

We had Michael Jacksons Heal The World every week played by a neighbour at full volume

I hope no-one had a shower or bath either, they could have slipped getting out. Likewise no-one should be using stairs or sharp kitchen implements. It's not essential! Stay sitting on the sofa and carefully eating soft food while festering in your own filth. It's for your own good!

Let's hope we will be better prepared next time (sadly there will be a next time because no one will spend the money to put in the infrastructure to mitigate - much like the climate change migrant crisis that is looming). Not a doom monger

No, not a doom monger AT ALL

The memes!

Pluto 's a dog
Mickey 's a mouse
Don't be an a*hole
stay in your house

Thinking of different songs to sing as we washed our hands for the required number of seconds

Zoom meetings "you're on mute!"

In the very of the beginning of Covid, literally like beginning of the March 2020 I remember I read somewhere about panic buying, so I quickly run into shops around me and bought any tin of anything they had left.
Also cleaning products, I literally bought anything I could see, to mention that not much was left so took the last bits.
Also I remember I was getting them food parcels from government as clinically vulnerable, these were quite handy, still have some tin tomatoes left!

Im in North Essex and our town centre Tesco blocked off the upper floor It wasnt just Wales

I remember shopping in Waitrose and totally forgetting it was nearly 8pm on a Thursday. I went to pay at the cashier but the clock struck 8pm and the manager came up to the checkouts and declared it was time to clap so all the staff stopped serving.

It felt so bloody bizarre being made to stand there and clap as the store manager was slowly spinning around recording everyone clapping on his phone, so I felt I had to give an enthusiastic performance 😂

My led face masks that I could program messages in and flashed through rainbow colours. I was very cool to my class of five year olds but I'm afraid I did throw them away the other day as the need has hopefully gone!