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.

Working from home

What a farce.

Oh god, the fucking hand sanitiser.

I remember the woman at the door of John Lewis refusing to accept that I’d just sanitised my hands with my own sanitiser before I walked in - which I had, and ironically I’d bought it from John Lewis - and wouldn’t let me in the shop until I’d used theirs. The bottle of which promptly exploded and emptied sanitiser all over my clothes. She was so unbelievably rude and yet every bloody shop had signs up about “being kind” to staff. What about the staff being kind to the customers?!

The biggest load of cobblers was when I was trying on glasses after my eye test sometime in 2022 in vision Express, and the assistant ran over to me in a panic and held out a basket into which I was supposed to place every pair I had tried. Just such a waste of time.

Yes.Staff knew the clapping would end badly. Fast forward, staff striking and public are all moany & critical. It’s a vocation blah blah. why should they get a pay increase.

sigh. How easily folk forget the sacrifice and arduous work the public sector endured. When the vast majority got to work from home. The middle classes had their personal safety maintained by poorly paid deliveries & retail staff having to maintain service and compromise their wellbeing delivering to the wfh legions or serving and packing in stores

No light hearted memories of being scared,exhausted and quietly crying in the work toilet. I get this isn’t the response your after but I genuinely feel the pandemic has been a doss for majority and ghastly for minority

@EarringsandLipstick

"There is absolutely zero evidence that it was a deliberate "

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You are correct that there is zero evidence it was a deliberate release but there is plenty of evidence and examples of previous lab leaks in China through lax bio security.

Oh god the sanitizer nazis! I noticed in my GP surgery last month they've finally removed the huge sanitiser station that was surrounded by yellow and black emergency tape. Twats. They now need to retile the floor as the drips from that oh so safe sanitiser have rotted the tiles. Nice.

The posts on MN of "if only we lockdown hard enough and long enough can we finally get rid of Covid".

Absolutely batshit crazy.

The awful covid statistics on the BBC news- every single day.

I was surprised how long that lasted.

Served up daily here incase people forgot to think of the numbers

Jonathan Van-Tam talking about the covid vaccine "It's not a yogurt that can be taken out of the fridge and put back in multiple times"😅

Sitting in a bar with 120 other people - no mask needed

Going outside to the totally empty foyer to take call - chased outside by the doorman yelling ‘put your mask on or you’re barred’

Mumsnet went absolutely batshit! I remember reading so many AIBU about essential shopping/masks/2m rule etc

It was completely WTF that we all just accepted the doomsday death rates that were presented to us every night, despite the 28 day threshold.

I also remember reading (and saw it posted again on twitter today - also as a ‘WTF’ tweet) that the army were going knock on the doors of the unvaccinated to administer the vaccine! Scaremongering at its absolute worst.

People knitting effing PPE and making it out of old duvet covers to donate to the Doctors and nurses!!!

Stood in Aldi and not a Single fuckin toilet roll on the shelf! It looked like the place had been looted. What on earth were we thinking?

Oh and an outdoor music festival being told dancing was banned but we could sit in our bubbles of 6 tapping our feet and waving our arms while 2 people from the council sat either side of the dj making notes and filming to ensure no rule breaks.

After an hour they left and we danced sang and hugged in peace

Stuff like this was just so ridiculous! Just baffles me now

When Hall Place in Bexleyheath opened again in June 2020 and the whole of SE London/West Kent descended on it but they DECIDED TO KEEP THE FUCKING TOILETS SHUT so everywhere you walked there were streams of urine emerging from hedges. It was truly baffling!

The shortage of toilet rolls because of stupid idiots panic buying

as a person who has always used hand sanitiser the fact some people only used it because of covid… never mind the countless illnesses been going on before that.

Washing your hands to Happy Birthday song... twice- urgh!

@User135644 you're forgetting the second lockdown in the early part of 2021.

@fullbloom87 that is awful about your grandmother's care home . I felt that some of the early visiting rules at mum's were a bit OTT but after the first couple of weeks they were definitely allowed to socialise with the other residents and staff put on extra entertainment as the outside entertainers couldn't visit .

That is so sad about the elderly man @LaMaG

My friend who went to a wedding in Greece and package included spa treatments - and then being told she had to wear her mask for her facial 🤷‍♀️

People on Twitter realizing that Jonathan Van Tam bore a striking resemblance to Penfold from Danger Mouse and referring to him as such and putting up stills from the cartoon

A highlight: Neil Ferguson, government science advisor, discovered breaking lockdown rules by meeting his mistress for illicit shagging sessions.

The clapping. Never once did it.

I had a friend that was not only wiping down her shopping with anti-bac, but she was also isolating it in the garage for 2 days 😂

The masks, home-made, flimsy - pointless.

Sanitizer stations - I used to just pretend.