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?

I wasn't on MN then, so most of this is new (and amusing) to me.

I had no clue that anyplace had banned alcohol and cigarettes from being sold. I mean, what did it matter if it was wine or toilet paper or an apple?

I am loving the stories though!

Honestly everyone got berated for everything.

What got me the most was the Christmas times.

I've taken a test, it was positive, but I took another 20 minutes later and it was negative, do I chance giving my elderly relatives consumption or no?
Answer from most, no.
Awww but Christmas will be ruined if I don't go and I didnt think ahead and buy half a shops worth of food. We will have to do Christmas dinner with just a tin of chickpeas for 10 people.

I had to hide thread after thread.

99.9% of it was completely batshit. The good news is, if it happened tomorrow people would be much less likely to indulge directions that make no sense, or bullshit from others.

Did we ever get a chance to PROPERLY thank that baked potato? Maybe a knighthood?

Coffee shops in Scotland..mask off to sit.
Mask on to stand.
Auntie Sturgeon and her daily propaganda slot
She definitely went on a power trip with it all.

Oh you may jest now but
"Stay safe.".

"The new normal" being used in every bloody Teams meeting. Ugh.

I drove 90 minutes to sit on my DM’s patio in a plastic bag, with an umbrella in the pouring rain while she talked to me out of her conservatory window.

Think it exposed the worst in human nature, everyone picking at each other, conspiracies, individualism.

And now we are heading for a world dominated by the likes of Putin, Trump, Musk, Farage.

Great.

Our son needed a cast off (broken bone), I still wonder how the MNer is coping who PM’d me to say if we took him to hospital to have an x-ray and his cast removed we would be personally responsible for infecting an entire hospital with covid as we would be entering from the outside. I did point out that every member of staff also enters from the outside, they swiftly informed me this wasn’t the case and that all hospital staff live at the hospital.

Someone else on here said if my dogs combined walk and toilet time was more than one hour a day we would either have to put him to sleep, or encourage him to wee and poo inside 🤣

I wonder if there are still people who still use the early 2020 toilet paper they filled their spare rooms with

We moved to spain during Covid. The restrictions here were much harsher than the UK. We had a 11pm -6am curfew. I can remember taking my dog out for a 💩 about 3am ( he had gastroenteritis) , and the dog park was a few mins walk away. I was sweatting bullets convinced I was about to be arrested, wearing my mask .
Crazy times.

I was presenting today sans clicker and involuntarily shuddered when I said “next slide, please”!

Also being perplexed why our government was giving presentations using a TV presentation screen like they were selling you the benefits of investing money into their mutual fund. Surely someone could have made it all a tad more suited to TV, or at least bought Chris Whitty a clicker.

DH and I taking a train journey that involved 2 train companies. One let you sit together using an aisle seat if in the same household, the other didn’t. A man on the latter train took great satisfaction in pointing that out to us, then had a drawn out meal so he didn’t have to wear his mask.

It definitely exposed the worst in human nature.

Paddington has gone back to Argentina and is taking part in a revolution.
The woman who wrote, "..the woman who wrote "and the people stayed home", has decided to become a person, currently undergoing surgery and will be staying at home for a long time.
That nurse who was roaring about bread in a supermarket car park is now on a gluten free diet and has had her tyres removed after they had been let down so often following her outburst.

It just seems longer...

My dental practice still sends emails asking us to fill in if we have any symptoms etc before we attend appointments!

Same for our NHS GP when filling out our online appointment request.

Db is a nurse and when people clapped he would jokingly tell me that he’d been out to take a bow.
Still makes me chuckle.

One of my work colleagues is still sanitising her shopping.....

I work in a call centre, we are so permanently understaffed (because no one wants to work in a call centre) if covid takes a couple of us down we are stuffed

Feeling so embarrassed when I popped to Tesco, joined the queue to get in and the staff calling me to the front - I had my work badge on as it was my lunch break. I protested but was told not to queue. I felt awful.

Watching other year groups go to school and crying because my teenagers were so cut off and home alone every day while I worked. That resentment and worry was horrible

I never shopped in Waitrose until the pandemic. I started to shop there because there was no one else in it. I have now developed a Waitrose shopping habit. I sometimes,wonder, how much richer I would be if I'd been brave enough for Tesco.

Had my parents over for an (illegal) outside firepit celebration of their 60th wedding anniversary. I anti-bacc'd the dog's head, declaring he could be a vector.....

The scotch egg row was funny , although it wasn't at the time. The word ' substantial' was used a lot and took up a lot of news time.
Has anyone been 'ambushed ' by a cake since ?
Loo rolls have definitely not been the same since , smaller cardboard innards