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.

The police officers inspecting people's shopping baskets and getting customers to put things like Easter Eggs back on the shelves for not being essential

The way DH and I were stopped by police whilst on a bike ride, to echecs it was an essential journey

The way MN era told me I was selfish and irresponsible for going for a walk unless absolutely essential as I might fall and require medical assistance this endangering everyone around me

A lot of bonkers ness on MN

The worst was the NHS posters everywhere saying "Look them in the eye" (with picture of dying person, who was dying because you had made a journey that was not essential. Or maybe you had bought a non-essential Easter egg... and thus made people die

Me too!
Who the heck are the Marsh Family? and Imagine what??

The clapping was horrendous.
As a family we guessed which other houses would be making the loudest pan banging noise and we were correct.

The shop staff ruling those one way systems with a rod of iron and loving every minute 😡

Yeh. Soppy old duffer

DEFINITELY the clapping!!! annoying AF!

People thinking you could catch it off of money. The kids wanted an ice cream, I think it must have been 2021 when there were some rules still about. We went to a falconry display at a castle and there was a woman in a little ice cream van. We ordered and I attempted to pay with a tenner. She asked me to pay with a card which I refused and she very reluctantly picked the note up with her fingertips and flung it in a bucket on the floor which had other notes in. To be sanitised at a later time? Who knows. Luckily I didn’t need any change 😂

The disinfecting of shopping and quarantining Amazon parcels. My colleagues were talking of this and the touching of computer mice, light switches etc only with a multibac wipe over their hands and then washing their for 20 seconds after (via Teams of course). They were convinced I was going to die because I couldn’t get excited when the dog pre washed the plates as they went in the dishwasher. They’re going to be washed at 60 for 2 hours before being steam dried. I’m still alive.

the conspiracy theories. I got into a row on FB group once because some guy said it started because of 5G. When I asked for evidence of this, he said ‘People ate burning the masts.’ I rolled my eyes and suggested that was evidence that people were stupid, not that covid started by 5G.

I’m a care worker, one of our service users relations wouldn’t let anyone in to visit him.
But asked if we could meet him in the park to give him his meds

I have my own created cringe moment as I managed to do very enthusiastic clap for key workers on my front doorstep 24 hours early… I did wonder why the rest of the street were not joining in…
a friend also timed arriving home after a run just as the clapping was underway… was clapped along the street 🤣

the double standards of former mil saying that we should stay at home when she gets was off out at every opportunity 🙄

God I hate her so much. The grief she gave CEV dh for actually not going round her house. He was shit scared of covid and rightfully so.

Neighbours standing on the doorstep with a saucepan and wooden spoon just making a racket. Somehow supporting the NHS....

Our office manager going round putting up all the notices that head office had sent saying how many staff could be in any room at once though it was a bit overkill when she stuck one on every toilet cubicle stating only one person allowed at any one time!!

I cringe when I remember I very nearly bought a running machine on ebay, I'd paid the buy it now price etc but thankfully the sale fell through as the seller wasn't able to go to the house where it was (or something).

I mean, as if I ever ran before , I had no way of collecting it and also I live in a tiny terrace and there is literally nowhere it would fit. I must have been absolutely deranged.

And people walking around our tiny, isolated village with face masks on

People are burning masks. They didn’t eat burning masks. Though I bet there were people stupid enough too.

This reminded me of many times I'd go to a loo and see a sign along the lines of "No more than 2 people in the toilets at a time" With no way of telling how many people might already be in there!

I remember when I finally got into my Asda ( after a bloody 30 minute queue) and couldn’t find any toilet paper or hand sanitizer/soap/ anything to wash my hands with. The sheer panic! Horror!! Waaah!!! Like I was seriously panicking what to do now!

Yes I had 2 years of being jealous of people with Gardens.

I remember the smugness of many who couldn't grasp that lockdown wasn't lazing around in your new hot tub for all of us.

Tiger King was a funny thing and everyone cooking 'banana bread' (not me I LOATHE bananas).

I was higher risk, I made it all through without getting covid until the week they lifted lockdown and the school went back to 'normal' (march 2022) when my DS caught it instantly and passed it to me. Now I've got bloody long covid.

I never clapped, I found it patronizing. My friends in the NHS didn't see not clapping as a slight.

My friend had twins in scubu each parent being forced to pick a twin and never touch the other and not to visit together ....nuts they still lived together etc.

Totally cringe most of it looking back. They had folk so scared they would die in the street like a rabid dog if they disobeyed made up rules. Out in street clapping who even thought that up?!.

Me worrying about BREAKING THE LAW by letting my 23-year-old stay overnight on Christmas Day because the rest of us were allowed to. The rules kept changing and I didn't have the heart to send him back to his empty flat-share by himself while the rest of us stayed in the family home and played games.

Me worrying about BREAKING THE LAW visiting my very recently widowed, elderly mother before bubbles came in. We stayed in the garden as much as we could but I couldn't not drive the 75 miles once a week to check she was OK.

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!

Yes, I got told that. It was an innocent thread about how many times a week are you shopping and I said I went out midweek for bread and milk and wine. Got told they are not essential. I thought they were bonkers tbh.

People believing you could only shop for ‘essentials’ when the wording was ‘leave the house only for essential activities such as shopping’.

People believing you could only leave the house once a day for an hour.

Wow 😳😄

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