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.

Vaccinated status on hook up sites 😂

This was despicable 😡

Lockdown puppies and dogs dumped in shelters. Fucking shameful 😡

Oh, I've just noticed the 'lighthearted' in the title

Yes behave yourself, lemmein 😅

On the opposite side of my coin - myself and DH both got covid for the first time in May this year, and when we were feeling better but still testing positive we were going out for walks but trying to avoid people as we didn't want to infect anybody. So if we were walking along one side of the road and someone was coming towards us we would cross over just in case. We had to go to the shops a couple of times too and wore masks and took sanitiser.

The amount of people who seemed mortally offended by this was astounding, and one bloke shouted at us and called us "paranoid"! No mate, we've already got it and are trying to help you!

I've reported myself 🙈😅

😂😂😂😂😂 I know. What a wanker.

And twinned with that “ we’re an island like NZ- why can’t we just do what they’re doing?”

I mean do these people not ever thing about really obvious things like how freight gets into each country/ population density etc?

My office had a sign on the loos (the main door) saying you had to lock the main door after you so only one person could use the entire bank of loos at a time. Some people did it as well! I thought it was stupid and never did, and the looks on some people's faces when they walked in and found me washing my hands after expecting it to be empty was like I'd jumped on them and licked their face

Use of the term Karen to describe a woman is deeply misogynistic

Our smirking PM telling us to just carry on as normal and

wash our hands as if that was some kind of amazing new information and we didn't wash our hands already.

(About a fortnight before he had to call a lockdown because ignoring covid fir a couple of months had let it spread to the extent that tens of thousands were about to die of it within the next month.)

We were the blind being led by the couldn't give a shit

That's what makes me cringe.

(Having my fifth bout with covid at the moment. Ironically it's likely more Omicron, you remember, the one that was going to end the pandemic. 🙄)

'the economy vs people's lives' arghhh

• Angry debates over whether we should be allowed to buy non-essential items like Easter eggs

• Police searching shopping trolleys

• Police tape around playgrounds

A happy memory - the first Sunday morning swim session when pools were allowed to open.

I went to the adult session and came out to see the queue forming for the family swim session. That queue was bouncing, so many children excited to be able to go swimming! Maybe their parents didnt look quite so thrilled to be waiting for a 9am swim but you could have powered a small town off the children who were buzzing!

M&S moved a lot of stuff downstairs so people could buy some homewares and clothes and shut the upstairs, probably had the stuff people rarely buy up there and people were moaning that M&S had done this and how it wasn't right they were selling 'non essentials'. FFS M&S we're doing people a favour by doing this so they could buy clothes to wear or a saucepan.

People thinking it was possible to achieve zero covid. Some of them are still at it, posting “ I’ve just got covid, it’s not over” on various social media platforms.

Oh god that went on for ages

And the save every life crowd

The lack of logic was the worst

Some 3,000 of Melbourne's most vulnerable residents were locked in nine public housing estates for 14 days. Was found to be a violation of human rights and a class action lawsuit was made.

This was so sad. So many supporters on here (do they feel bad I wonder?) but all this kind of thing was heartbreaking

Agreed.

It's OK to be sneery about things now, but at the time we really didn't know much about how Covid spread and many people really were getting very, very poorly and dying. It's easy to forget, or repress, how uncertain and unsettling it was.

The worst thing of the whole saga is that it’s put vulnerable people like my youngest DD in more danger than they’ve ever been.

People used to be really considerate. They’d make sure I knew if we were going somewhere and someone had a cold or the likes so we could avoid them. They’d rearrange if someone was ill because they knew how dangerous it was for her.

And now so many people think everything is “just a cold” and are so resentful that they lost so much time they feel they and their children should do what they want, when they want. To the point my child has twice been knowingly exposed to chicken pox, three times knowingly exposed to covid and twice to children with a streaming cold with the reasoning that “they missed so much during lockdown, I don’t want them to miss anymore”. Which is fine for them, but my other kids miss a lot when their sister is in ICU… not to mention what she goes through.

It’s made the world more selfish, which I understand, but it’s made it much smaller and dangerous for people like her. That I’ll never forgive the politicians for as we’ll never get back to pre covid ways in people

Daily walks needed by those who would normally drive their car to the end of the street rather than walk a few paces