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COVID cringe memories (light hearted)

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Floogal · 14/08/2023 13:52

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.

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Puffypuffin · 14/08/2023 23:26

I wasn't bothered about wearing a mask, I kind of looked on it as doing something to make other people feel comfortable so it was no biggie. But oh god the clapping made me cringe at the time and it still does now.

JenniferBooth · 14/08/2023 23:26

CrystalPalace Of course not I mean people like JuJulia Grace. sold lots of CLOTH masks

ApplesinmyPocket · 14/08/2023 23:26

"Being allowed to leave house once a day. How people agreed to this is still beyond my understanding."

Hang on, that never happened.

Like the 'cheese in coffee', often mentioned on here that also never happened as it is quoted. The anti-dementor types are determined to rewrite history for some reason. Which is a pity. Rewriting history isn't great but it gains traction, unfortunately.

Zone2NorthLondon · 14/08/2023 23:27

Ok,here’s my only funny

Thanked a client for wearing a mask to the appt
No bother! says he. Delighted to be praised he elaborated He took it out a bin

seennothinglikeit · 14/08/2023 23:27

It's the public video posting I find strange, ring your friends and share your stress and upset instead.
I guess in todays world every emotion is captured on social media for public viewing,

CloudyMcCloud · 14/08/2023 23:27

Floopyfloop · 14/08/2023 23:02

The other insanity in wales was when I couldn’t even buy a bobble hat and gloves in Tesco to do playground support with my pupils so I had to pay an obscene amount for one on Amazon.

We also had the issue that you could not travel over the county line but you were allowed to take children to do sports in your county, my daughters gymnastics club had to find a club that was literally one minute away from the line as the coach also lived in our county. So the coach and 5 girls who lived over the border trained in this club instead for weeks and weeks until they decided to lift the rule. The rest of the team had a coach from the club we were seconded to who couldn’t cross the border. Utter insanity!

People went mad for Drakeford and Sturgeon on here and their authoritarian approach. Crazy. Finally people say now how bad it was.

Moonlightdust · 14/08/2023 23:29

Zoom birthday parties 😵‍💫

JenniferBooth · 14/08/2023 23:29

People made big sacrifices not seeing family and some of those missed out on a last Christmas with family members who died (not all from Covid) I predicted back in April 2020 that whatever we did it would never be enough and i was proved right.

BaldButNotOut · 14/08/2023 23:29

Re the nurse, it's bizarre to post a video of yourself crying on SM. I think we all had a good cry now and again during that time but I don't remember anyone else thinking to film themselves and put it on their Facebook. Plus "I'm in a shop wanting to buy food, and I am right to do so, but everyone else must stop going to shops to buy food" just isn't cool. There was a load of chat about 'panic buying ' that got extremely finger pointy and beggar thy neighbour and that video was part of it.

sammyjoanne · 14/08/2023 23:30

no toilet roll as everyone raided the shops. And pasta.

Topseyt123 · 14/08/2023 23:32

The clapping was just frightful. I never joined in. DH did but found himself left to it.

The bloody hand sanitiser that caused my usually fairly robust skin to split, go raw and bleed. I just stopped bothering with it and just used plain old soap and water.

The fact that some idiots thought that COVID meant that nobody needs to use the toilet when out and about anymore and kept public toilets closed, making it difficult for people with medical issues to go out at all.

Moonlightdust · 14/08/2023 23:33

People buying puppies. Despite never previously owning a dog and showing interest in them. That was more infuriating than cringe though.

seennothinglikeit · 14/08/2023 23:35

People crossing the road if someone came within 2 metres, no eye contact, just glum expression while trying to control a puppy they didn't want or need

BaldButNotOut · 14/08/2023 23:38

At least they weren't on their phones though! Now we're back to having to dance around people so glued to their screens that they don't even notice they're about to crash into you/your buggy/your horse etc.

Jifmicroliquid · 14/08/2023 23:40

The weird eerie silence in shops after you had queued to get in and only a certain number could be in there at once. No-one spoke!

Moonlightdust · 14/08/2023 23:41

Being afraid to get takeouts when it was allowed because of contamination. I cringe at myself now. Also the washing of food shopping & the fury of doing it, as it was a mammoth task!
The disputes between families re visiting/breaking rules!
Smug people on social media still living their best lives.
The clapping. Major cringe.
Buying pointless crap on Amazon just for the excitement of having a parcel delivered 😂
People being competitive re getting fit!
The cringey Teacher singing on Oak Academy - sorry but even my daughter was embarrassed watching it 🙈

GrandTheftWalrus · 14/08/2023 23:45

Dh and I worked together during covid and were always told by a snotty member of staff to stand 6m apart. I was pregnant, don't think he could be closer than that!

Iam4eels · 14/08/2023 23:52

McDonald's closed and the day it reopened people went daft for it, the queues were on the local news. My DC had really missed having a Happy Meal treat and wanted to go but I said no, I wasn't sitting in an hour's long queue for the sake of nuggets and chips.

Several hours later there was a knock at the door. I opened it to see my mum reversing off my driveway and six McDonalds meals lined up on the doorstep - one for each of us. She knew the DC had been missing their treat so queued for over two hours at the drive-thru to bring them one.

I cried my eyes out while eating it because I missed my mum, I missed my life, I missed the normality of popping out for fast food, and everything else I was missing. It was less of a Happy Meal and more of an Existential Crisis Meal but I felt so much better after it.

Anotherchristianmama · 14/08/2023 23:52

We were all some combination of scared, exhausted, angry, emotionally deregulated. Of course we made odd choices.

ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea · 14/08/2023 23:53

JenniferBooth · 14/08/2023 22:52

ShinyApple the second lockdown was November 2020

Ah OK. I recall a lot of restrictions coming back in before the Christmas period - including a colleague making a mad dash down to London to bring her daughter home. In my post I was responding to a poster who said that it was only during the March and April 2020. My recollection was of the winter one being the worst.

ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea · 14/08/2023 23:54

@Snippysocks - good for you . So many elderly were left totally isolated .

justasking111 · 14/08/2023 23:56

The university shutting down in DC's first and second year, the loneliness of the students broke my heart.

JenniferBooth · 14/08/2023 23:57

Students getting screwed over so landlords could get their rent

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