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.

Our office manager cramming about 60 of us from an open plan office into a meeting room, to tell us we’d all have to work from home.

@JenniferBooth yes we too! And You are not alone too!

We never took part in the NHS clapping because my daughter is a nurse and said they thought it was incredibly patronising. I'm sure we were spoken about as "the ones who didn't care"

A politician telling grandparents they could meet their grandchildren in a car park but only one grandparent at a time.so one sat in the car and waited then they swapped over. The person on the radio who said that the virus was coming through our taps.

A family member with a history of cancer, who was sent urgently to hospital by a GP, only to be sent home again without being examined. They died of the cancer that was eventually diagnosed far too late.

A family member who died alone in hospital, around the time the Tory cunts were opening the 46th bottle of Bolly.

Having to birth my first child completely alone, health visitors being furloughed, midwives told they couldn’t touch me or come to my house, so I had to cart myself out with a fresh csection wound. No health checks for me or my baby.

All of it sticks in my craw because of the contempt held for us by the total cunts in power.

People stockpiling and the panic of no toilet rolls

Being allowed to meet one person for a walk, for no more than an hour, as part of your exercise...but it couldn't be socially (who else would you go for a walk with?!)

and then getting a takeaway coffee but being too scared to sit on a bench with it in case it looked like we were having a picnic

Rushing back home after 58 minutes because you weren't allowed out for longer than an hour...like who was timing you?

Somebody being off work sick...and then the whispering 'they've got COVID' in a hushed tone and the gasp of shock like they had syphilis or something shameful

Crazy when you look back..

I remember being aghast at families who made their young kids isolate in their bedrooms away from the other family members. I mean, kids feeling ropey need their mums and dads!

Being told to cover my face in Hibiscrub so that i could wear a mask (i have a skin condition which ive managed to keep at bay since late 2014)

Another here for Captain Tom... I am surprised someone didn't harangue the pope for not offering him and his daughter sainthoods

There were copycats too. I remember seeing an elderly woman on the news who was walking up and down her stairs over and over for the NHS

I’d forgotten about that. Seemingly normal people imprisoning their 5 year olds for a week as if it were reasonable!

Surely that must be classed as a non essential journey! What if she had fallen down the stairs thus burdening the NHS heroes??!

Having to wear a mask to go in Tesco while people in the three pubs opposite were hugging and kissing each other
Barbers plucking mens nose hairs in the summer of 2020 while beauty salons remained closed (see Caroline Hirons Twitter)

People falling out with you for breaking the 5 mile rule in Scotland but then the minute saint nippy said it was ok to travel same people leaving for England in their droves . The whole thing was a load of performative theatrical nonsense and well seeing the Hancock diaries didn’t seem to get as much publicity as they should have when basically they said the whole thing was designed to scare us all .

Yessssss @BoogLoaf ! I worked in a school at the time and we were all on top of each other breathing directly into each others mouths the majority of the time and it was SCANDALOUS when someone tested positive. The drama! 😂

‘Red list’ countries and people isolating in hotels for ten days on returning to the country. No matter that the UK was absolutely riddled with it anyway.

The November ‘lockdown’ to save Christmas (which was cancelled anyway). That was a weird one because we had a few days warning. I remember going to a museum and a pub in central London (Interestingly enough I went to The Covid Letters exhibition at the Foundling Museum) on the last weekend of October because we were being locked down in November and wouldn’t be able to socialise then. Complete and utter silliness - like Covid wouldn’t infect us in October but Nov 1st was out of bounds. 😂

My MIL was in different Tier and we couldn’t visit/ meet-up…
So one day before Xmas the bell rang and when I opened the door, she was outside with full hands of Xmas present, pushed me on side - run past me into our living room, quickly dropped off the presents, run out - started the car up and was gone! She drove 100 miles to do this.

I completely disregarded socialising rules!

My best friend was working from home - her only daughter had just moved to Wales, her husband was a lorry driver - her mental health was screwed.

I went round there every other day to sit in her garden for a glass of wine on my way home from work.

Her mental health was way more important. And I was more likely to catch covid from a patient or someone in the supermarket than I was sitting 6ft away from her in her garden!

The whole fucking was an embarrassment.

It amazed me then and it amazes me now that some people thought lockdowns were a good idea.

The filthy looks that people would give you if you were out for a walk and walked too close to them.

The clapping was just embarassing. A nation of sheep, I thought to myself at the time.

My moment of Covid madness came while taking our daily trudge through our local nature reserve. People were told not to drive for exercise and we lived within day walking distance. The police had taped up the car park but people had broken it and parked anyway. So I collected up the end of the tapes and tied them all back together thus trapping the rule breakers in the car park forever 😂😂😂 (in reality they will have just broken the tape again of course).

My friend's husband who refused to touch/open any mail posted through the door for days.
They would go food shopping and then they would sanitise every item of food that they bought, it took them hours. 😂
People clapping
Not being allowed to walk up our local mountain I'm in Wales 🙄
Bubbles
Never heard of Marsh family

I raise you being told not to leave the house because I cough with hayfever and it might frighten people. Oh and being told if I loved DH I would wear a mask indoors!

Scotland was mad too! We had a weekend away in Edinburgh in October 2020 because we were losing our minds with boredom, and the place was completely dead. No atmosphere at all - places weren’t allowed to play music (even background music coz it encouraged people to ‘talk louder’ so they might spit Covid at each other!), no alcohol being served anywhere (even with food). We went for afternoon tea and couldn’t have the glass of champagne with our meal - we had to have it delivered to our hotel room after. Just bonkers. If I’d never been to Edinburgh before I’d be thinking it was a dreadful city with absolutely no redeeming features, rather than a lovely vibrant city, full of culture.

@Motorcycleemptyness Cancelling Christmas just a few days before ensured maximum spend in the shops. Because ppl who were going to see family would have had no Xmas food or even their usual food in when it was cancelled so had to go out and buy some

I'm not sure 'lockdown' was even 2 months. It was 2 weeks in March and the month of April. By the May bank holidays the beaches were packed out and people were doing the conga on the streets on the first bank holiday.

The pubs were back open July 4th 2020 and air travel restrictions were eased so thousands went off on foreign holidays.

Obviously the restrictions went on a lot longer but lockdown was less than 2 months.