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.

Well you nearly finished me off with the ‘plague-bearing witch-cunt’. I think some of my coffee just came out of my nose I laughed so hard.

The joy of people’s self righteousness. I sort of miss it. Remember the Easter egg police in Wales?

😂 This is my favourite thread in a while.

I don’t miss it at all and wonder how those posters can live with some of the stuff they went on about.

But the phrase made me laugh too

Good thread this

Well, exactly! How selfish 😱

It was the people who lived in lovely rural places on the news whining about the commoners from the towns dating to walk on THEIR local public areas/footpaths that got me. I suspect they are the same people who support uncontrolled immigration but would be fumeboats if any got placed in their village

I work for a bank looking after the branches and we had a few instances of cleaners being told their journey to work was essential. Yorkshire police were particularly bad for this.

They were everywhere. Even on the news. Very hard to avoid, unfortunately.

My daughter went to school just over the English/Welsh border. One of her classmates was regularly stopped by the Welsh police as to why she was travelling to England.

Does anyone remember hearing about the outdoor event supposed to be held at Chester Football club that had to be cancelled because the toilets were technically in Wales?

My heart used to sink at the words ‘new normal’

Same here! Yet some people seemed really gleeful about it.

You have a wonderful mother!

Everything here is what terrifies me.
Imagine if the restrictions had continued because government refused to give up this new power they gave. So many people happily curtain twitching, taking notes and informing the authorities.

The power from authoritarianism is non existent if most of society refuses to comply.

The idea that there was a "hierarchy" of death

My mum "sadly" died of covid whereas a few months later my dad died (not "sadly" though apparently) of cancer.

To think there were people who actually thought like that makes me cringe for them.

Anything fun/educational/community spirited that we were supposed to.

No thanks. I just want to go and enjoy the golf course without any golfers.

When we were allowed to play tennis again the club rule was no hand shakes at the net at the end of the game. So we bumped rackets instead. Curiously we've stuck to that, realising I think that shaking sweaty palms is unpleasant at the best of times!

Today was the first day in NZ with no mandates.
History will one day judge which country had the right plan. While I believe we were right to shut down in March 2020. What we lost I don't think was worth it.

Teen mental health
Babies developing a good amune system so it left them vulnerable
Those isolating lose core muscle strength so can no longer live the way they had.
So much fear.
Hopefully I won't have to wear a mask anytime soon.

I was labelled severely vulnerable, well still would be I suppose, but I continued to go into school and teach. Did this for two years with children getting it all around me and most of my colleagues. Go to 2021 and over a week two thirds of my class and my TA got it. I finally tested positive on the Friday. I did get it badly but not too bad I suppose.

I just remember those months of worrying, being off isolating due to close contact. Cleaning tables three times a day, spending the whole day just with my bubble, checking the figures at 2pm. It was not an easy time but somehow I avoided it for two years!

Now I look back and I can still see how some of it affects me still. I am a bit of a hermit just going to work and coming home. Weirdly travelling somehow still seems wrong! Does anyone else still feel like this?

Something similar happened to me once when I was out for a run.
Always made sure to keep at least two metres distance to others and had no issues, but then came across this one woman who flattened herself against a wall and stared at me as if I was some maniac who’d jumped out of the bushes.

It was incredibly frustrating how blinded people were and how quickly they followed the 'instructions'. I live in a rural area with plenty of space where if you wanted to go for a walk you would be unlikely to bump into many people (they were only out walking because they too were stuck at home!) yet my nurse friend was busy insisting that I should only go out for an hour and what if I was to 'catch covid' from touching a gate post/stile. Her husband had covid early on (and she made a huge deal of it locally!) so realistically she knew that if you got Covid you weren't about to die instantly! Going out was an important part of our day because my almost 16yr old daughter needed to actually be doing something since she'd gone from 100miles an hour 'it's GCSE's very soon and you need to do this and this and this ' from school to suddenly nothing. The masks were crazy, the queuing outside the supermarket was crazy- in fact it all was! It still amazes me how people 'test' themselves for covid if they're a bit unwell- no one tested themselves for anything like that pre covid, and if you have got covid then presumably you're not going to go anywhere and spread it since you're unwell in the first place!

Also people were buying bikes, it was impossible to buy a bike online , sold out everywhere.
Me ordering a hand gel for a shocking price from Amazon, like £12 for a tiny bottle of 50ml.
I remember sellers on EBay were also selling these very expensive.

I love this story.

All the stuff that people got wrong

"Only people over 80 need to worry about it, it's just a cold for the rest of us"

And what was it about children? They couldn't get it, then they could get it but they weren't a factor in passing it on or something.

I just remember Jenny Harries barefacedly chatting some old nonsense flying in the face of the fact numbers always went up after the schools went back.

Eat Out To Help Out should've got us a Darwin Award.

People actually being fired from their jobs if they didn't have the Covid jab.

Which is insane when you think that now due to the waning effectiveness anyone who hasn't had a booster in the last 12 months is in the same position as someone who has never been jabbed. So the majority are effectively unvaccinated, yet now it's all OK.

All the posts on here appended with '(socially distanced of course!)'. Used to set my teeth on edge.

All the public toilets being locked. The number of walks we went on where you'd see areas covered in bits of loo roll and the reports of people shitting in parks. Ugh.

@Iam4eels

The story of your wonderful mother and her thoughtfulness is like sunshine on thread of head shaking craziness.

The daily “Shag, Marry, Avoid” group WhatsApp chat with friends that accompanied the Covid briefing and the in-depth analysis that followed a friend announcing she would shag Matt Hancock.