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.

A couple in the village had supermarket home deliveries, but insisted on the delivery driver unloading half way down the drive way , and certainly not any closer to the house. Driver would leave it there. Once he's got off the driveway, the couple would then go out armed with anti bac wipes to clean their shopping, before they brought into the house.

Pointing my phone at a qr code and pretending to check in. My phone can't even read qr codes.

Also the sad cases who thought they were intelligent and rebellious by walk-in around the shops coughing without covering their mouths.

Philip and holly hugging through that plastic screen with their arms in the plastic

@fullbloom87

Where have you been?!?!

There are opposing theories but none has been definitively proven

https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Declassified-Assessment-on-COVID-19-Origins.pdf

There is absolutely zero evidence that it was a deliberate act.

The prediction of a pandemic had been made by epidemiologists in advance of Covid-19. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PandemicpredictionssandpreparationsspriortootheCOVID-199pandemic

My mother's insane obsession with loo rolls. The shortage was all her, OK! It can be traced back like a recessive gene to my mum. We make fun of her now but she was desperate to ensure we could wipe our bums. We reminded her of an invention called the shower in the event of no loo rolls 😆 😆

The clapping, obvs.

Oak Academy online learning

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/coronavirus/4308520-Vanity-Fair-article-on-Covid-19s-origins I bought the print issue with this article in it the same day i had my first Covid vaccine

I don't blame the staff. I blame the care home owners who had the authority to allow key visitors in but chose not to allow this.
Covid did get into the home. My grandmother got it and was fine. No deaths in the home even when they were finally allowed out of their rooms.
They locked the patients in their rooms for 6 months including those that had no bathroom commode only. My grandmother didn't get a wash the entire time just bed bath.

Not being able to get my male kitten neutered. He started climbing the curtains, shredding them in the process and biting out ankles, so in the end we let him out and hoped he didn't impregnate too many of the local females.

@fullbloom87

That's awful. Your poor DGM 😢

Also as it was kicking off- various ' sightings' of the army travelling down the motorway ready to come patrol. Always seen by the friend of a friend ...

Did anyone notice the people on their daily walk who clearly didn’t usually go on walks? The sort of earnest, slow marching with the “Look at me everyone, I’m on my walk!!”

Yeah big deal, look at me walking normally, arms by my side…

Oh god, I've just remembered the supermarket delivery we had where the driver unloaded everything before he rang the door bell and ran back to his lorry. No carrier bags so he had literally unloaded all our shopping up the garden path, balanced in buses etc. 😂 Madness.

I never said anything's been categorically proven. Pretty hard to prove a government coverup. And it's very convenient that they predicted a pandemic isn't it.

Giving a fancy names to your kitchen like La Kitchinet, Los Toiletos, La gardenia..

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins

People getting all het up about the Range being open

In August 2020 the Terrence Higgins Trust gave advice about having sex "not kissing, wearing a face mask during sex and favouring positions where you’re not face-to-face may also help".

*bushes not buses...

I’m pretty sure that’s where posters would go and then get annoyed anyone else was there

Not a cringe moment but a wth moment. While shopping in a supermarket and remembered I wanted to get a magazine for my dm who was in a nursing home. Walking over to the rack an elderly man practically jumped out of his skin as I came near him and flattened himself with arms outspread against the mags till I was no longer a danger to him. I assume that was his thinking then he scurried away like a bat out-of hell trying but not very successfully to avoid people.
Very bizarre moment.
Dh and I met up with a couple he had got to know over zoom in the ROI. Two minutes after sitting down we got subjected to at least an hour of conspiracy theories. There was an hour of my life I was never going to get back. We were sat outside as then you couldn't sit indoors to eat without proof of vaccination and they were vaccine refusers. After they left we went inside and had lunch after doing a bit of shopping.

A written postcard in my local supermarket on a notice board. Elderly gentleman looking for local person to form a household 'bubble', enjoys walks, reading etc. It just broke my heart.

I remember 2 neighbours chatting across the road at each other and their kids ventured off to the side without them noticing. They weren't touching but were near each other. My little girl then 6 came sobbing and running into the house 'mummy mummy x and y are not social distancing!'

Not cringey as such but the most bizarre for me.

Yes. I mean they were outside at the time as I recall.

Where do you live @RaraRachael ?
So many different rules .

Look up "zerocovidzoe" on Twitter. It's either a huge joke or an absolute tragedy.