It's been five years since the pandemic and I have questions

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• will Paddington ever be investigated for his role in the departure of our dear old queen?
• was the woman who wrote "and the people stayed home" ever taken to task for her contribution to the awfulness?
• what about that nurse who was roaring about bread in a supermarket car park? Hopefully shunned and avoided at least
• how do you all feel now about protecting the NHS?

In these unprecedented times… on every single bloody advert.

I’m pretty sure there’s been global pandemics before, with much bigger death tolls. Black Death, anyone?

I had one for breakfast today. I was starving by lunchtime.

You want one of those M&S ones. They’re huge, will last you as long as a Mumsnet roast chicken I believe.

"These unprecedented times" is still on the answering machine of my GP surgery.

Exactly how many Grannies did I kill during my second walk of the day on a deserted beach?
How many people passed whilst I lifted the red tape to get some non-essential forks?

Am I just a simple sinner or a mass murderer? How do I live on without knowing?

My vets still has its automated answering message as 'due to the extra demande on our services at this time we ask that you be patient and treat our staff with respect'
Over 4 years I've been listing to that bloody message, it gives me the rage every time.

Same. Shoulda left the news reporting to the locals 🤣

I know I'm being pedantic but it's not 5 years yet.

There are stay apart paint signs daubed all over the cliff path between my two favorite beaches in South Wales. Unforgivable. They could have clipped a sign to the railings. This is just vandalism in my opinion.

How did the southerners they say it? I've always said something like BAR-nud Castle.

They pronounced it BAHHRNAHHHRD

To rhyme with COWARD

Bar-nARd. Baah-naad if they were really posh.

Bar-nud or Barney, surely.

My optician's voicemail still asks that we wear masks!

"we are experiencing unusually high call volumes in these unprecedented times. Please bear with us while we watch Tiger King and fail to do any fucking work whatsoever."

Glad he didn't go to the North East Chichester. My radio wouldn't have survived it.

Does anyone remember one of the posters on here berating someone else for buying hot cross buns during lockdown ?

😂 I still wipe down my shopping when I'm putting it away. In my defence, I haven't had any cold type viruses since before covid and only caught Covid once after being stuck in an airport for hours.

I'll keep wiping down my shopping with Dettol spray forever 😆.

Is anyone still singing 'Happy Birthday' as a way to judge whether you've washed your hands for long enough?

I still wipe down my shopping, though I’ve never quarantined it on the doorstep (not even during the most frenzied parts of lockdown).

People sneeze into their hands and touch things on the shelves. I don’t want to eat from a bag of sneezy popcorn and then put it on the sofa.

Whenever I use the toilets at work (I am rarely in) I'm taken back to that time I had to sneak a roll of their cheapo, rough, wafer thin paper home in my bag because there was absolutely none left at home or anywhere nearby. Fun times.

@Delphiniumandlupins we're one month shy of 5 years so yeah, you're being pretty pedantic.

I remember a member of staff in our local Tesco loudly chastising someone who had just moved a few steps in the wrong direction (against the one-way system) because they had forgotten to pick something up.

Apparently you couldn't get Covid if you went in one direction in there but could if you went in the other.

I also remember driving along a major trunk road near us and there were signs up saying "BEWARE, COVID 19" as if it was going to spring out of the roadside straight in front of the car!!

Madness!

Stay safe at the end of every conversation, email etc

Why do all call centres have such bad covid outbreaks that they can’t staff their phonelines, when the rest of the world seems to be ok now?

Why was the weather so bloody glorious and where the hell has that gone? Did the sun get long covid?

How the hell did I ever get anything done around the house when I had to go to work 5 days a week before covid?

Investigate Paddington? I think not!
But Liz Truss's handshake of doom? 🤔

Has it been five years???