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Best covid 'brags' you've heard?

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EveryDayIsADuvetDay · 01/04/2020 23:30

My favourite was a friend talking about a neighbour that she doesn't even like very much.He is a part time assistant to a funeral director - rushed off of his feet, so brave, so busy...

I was so irritated I checked on line - seven covid deaths n the entire bloody county, none reported in that town.
And it's a large county.

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YeOldeNameChange · 02/04/2020 08:12

DH and I are police and in every force you will get the know lazy, work-avoidant officers who manage to make a career out of working in an office dollying about. Lo and behold my most hated example of this has placed the “I can’t stay at home I work for the emergency services” on FB. I am so close to writing “you may be employed by them but you don’t actually do any work”. He basically does a “created for him” job in a back office. He has sloped off early the whole time I’ve known him but is in the masons or something as gets away with it. Yet is insufferably smug.

IrisAtwood · 02/04/2020 08:12

@SteamingTheDoorKnobs And you know they would be useless because?

There are some mean spirited and nasty posts in this thread.

Kuponut · 02/04/2020 08:19

We have someone doing full school level themed seasonal displays on their house windows (no child involvement to make it look crappy) while home educating.

GoldBoo · 02/04/2020 08:19

None personally, but I have heard/seen a few people on TV claiming they haven't left the HOUSE for 2 weeks. Like not even for a 5 minute walk. Just looking at the inside walls of the house all day.

I’ve not left the house for two weeks either (except to go in our garden). I’m not smug about this, I wish I could go out for a walk, but I have massive anxiety about catching the virus so inside I stay.

Straycatstrut · 02/04/2020 08:19

What a privilege it was to home educate their 4 children. hmm I'm sure it was well meant but sick of having to read how wonderful it bloody is. Not for everyone mate.

Yeah, this. "Look at my happy kids aren't I great?, little Tiffany did 3 hours of equations this afternoon!!" - said by people with two of them to share the workload (even if one is a key worker, s/he comes home, you can hug/chat/support/plan what you'll do when this is over). Said by people with loads of money to entertain them with, no financial worries. Huge gardens. Lovely big houses.

I really struggling as a single parent. I can't even go out to the shops. I can't walk our working breed dog without bumping into people who will not distance and expect me to get out of their way. I feel suffocated and my kids are exhausting me and taking everything I've got. No one is supporting me - as usual. It's okay to say you're struggling. I feel like I'm going under - and there's possibly months to go.

I have throbbing toothache and I miss the long walks and swimming and the gym. I don't care if I'm moaning - it's much better than all the sickly sweet "isn't lockdown fun" posts.

Got to go now because "MAMMMYYYYYYYY!!!!"....

peoplepleaser1 · 02/04/2020 08:24

All the Facebook posts listing their bragging achievements in week one and two of isolation are driving me up the wall.

Baking, crafting, exercising together, family yoga, board games, complete house redecoration, garden transformation, learning a new language, perfecting the violin, seven course banquet, home pedicure. Whatever.

Also the arty pictures of the IT laden Work From Home stations that they have miraculously set up for each person and each child. Every person has a PC, printer (with paper), iPhone 10 (with charger), large desk in their own beautiful room. Lovely. Now F off!

RedRec · 02/04/2020 08:24

Some virtue signalling hand wringer on another MN thread taping thank you notes to the bins for the bin men because nobody thinks about them apart from her, enlightening us that they "worry the same as we do".

myusernamewastakenbyme · 02/04/2020 08:27

One of my friends is doing competitive cleaning...every day she posts about how much cleaning shes done...meanwhile ive taken root to my sofa !!!

Besom · 02/04/2020 08:28

I have someone on facebook who always tries to place herself at the centre of every crisis. I know that if I died or something she would be on there claiming to be my best friend and chief mourner. Of course now every post now is about how she can't go out but she has been up all night knitting some ICU nurses etc

She is a good person at heart though. Lacking in confidence I think so needs the public reassurance but without the insight to realise how it looks to others.

Sugarfreejelly · 02/04/2020 08:29

@middleager
Hope you’re feeling better soon. You don’t need to stay in for 14 days if you have symptoms. You need to stay in for 7 days from the onset and can go out after that as long as you don’t still have a temperature.

Ski4130 · 02/04/2020 08:32

None personally, but I have heard/seen a few people on TV claiming they haven't left the HOUSE for 2 weeks. Like not even for a 5 minute walk. Just looking at the inside walls of the house all day

Not a brag really is it? To not be able to leave the house because you’re immuno compromised? My mum has left her house since March 2nd. It’s not a brag, it’s a necessary choice to try and ensure she stays healthy. You might find it eye roll-y and be dismissive of it, but that’s the very real choice that many, many people have had to make.

Ski4130 · 02/04/2020 08:32

Hasn’t left her house, not has!

Wiaa · 02/04/2020 08:35

I've not left my house in 14days as that's the isolation period if someone in the house gets symptoms. Dh had symptoms, he's been back to work for 3 days but today is the first day myself and 2dc are allowed out. We'll have a walk as a family early evening

Toddlerteaplease · 02/04/2020 08:38

@irisatwood. No one in our children's hospital had been redeployed as yet and at the time of the post there were no cases in peadiatrics!

AhoyMrBeaver · 02/04/2020 08:40

"I've lived through a war."

Translation: I am immortal, I will do as I please.

drspouse · 02/04/2020 08:48

Well, I've lived through a cholera epidemic and I learned that you need soap and water to survive.

Seeitsortit · 02/04/2020 08:51

The only one that’s bugged me is the woman bragging she’s lost 8lb - now THAT’S something I could have done without seeing (looks in mirror and regrets it emocon)!

Sceptre86 · 02/04/2020 08:51

My mum hasn't been out of the house at all even in the garden for two weeks now. She is high risk. I have told her she is technically allowed to use her own garden and could hang clothes outside rather than using the dryer but she feels safer indoors, so faith enough. I think a lot of people are staying indoors completely.

dentydown · 02/04/2020 08:54

People saying they have the virus then doing various stuff that involves effort. The doctor thinks I have it and I am exhausted all the time! I made the kids food last night and just couldn’t be bothered to eat. Everything feels like I am climbing a mountain.

Someone on instagram is posting nice photos of homeschooling etc. Her daughter messaged my son on his iPad. It was chaos! I felt sorry for her.

Captaindobbin · 02/04/2020 09:02

Anyone with a cough or a fever hasn’t left their house for two weeks. It’s not a brag nor that unusual.

Ohtherewearethen · 02/04/2020 09:09

I work with an insufferable braggart, the absolute worst person I've ever had to work with. Everything that comes out of their mouth is just to say how wonderful they and their children are. It is vomit-inducing and tiresome. They've now put on Facebook a piece of writing, apparently by their child, about how wonderful the NHS is and urging people to stay home. They've done a gushing pre-amble to it, explaining that it reduced them to tears, so proud, etc, and they've set it to share because it's such an important message beautifully written that they know people will be asking if they can share it so they've saved them the bother. Apparently 'Twitter have been in touch as they want to share it with the world', all they ask is that they tag them in it so they know their child is getting the recognition they deserve. Unbelievable. Oh, they're also, of course, doing full on science experiments, brushing up on French verbs and family orchestra every evening.

Thurmanmurman · 02/04/2020 09:09

People posting pics of their home baking on FB. One bloke posted a pic of a spag bol his wife had made, praising his wonderful wife! Really??

Sn0tnose · 02/04/2020 09:16

How can you not leave the house in 2 weeks? Don't you need food? Aren't your bodies seizing up? I have knackered lungs and a couple of other bits & pieces. I very much doubt I’d be front of the queue for a ventilator if it was required, so I’ve stayed indoors because I’d rather my body seized up than gave up. DH works in a supermarket so doesn’t have to make any extra journeys for shopping or prescriptions.

@loubieloo4 I’m so glad you posted. I appreciate that this might sound a bit stalkery (not intentionally!) but I’ve been thinking about you and your DH and hoping that things are as well as they can be in the circumstances. Fucking awful disease 💐

Roomba · 02/04/2020 09:21

No one, no one, has been as brave or as ill as my ex, who has been very ill and confined to bed for a week until yesterday. I'd received some very alarming texts from him and was worrying if I needed to prepare our kids for the worst...

Then his wife told me that he had a bit of a headache last Sunday. That's it. No temperature, no cough, no aches or pains, nothing. Just a mild headache for a couple of hours. That's why he took to his bed for over a week! You'd think he'd been to hell and back reading his texts. God help him if he ever does catch covid 19...

loubieloo4 · 02/04/2020 09:27

@Sn0tnose

Thank you for thinking of us. We had good news last month. The cancer hasn't grown, which means no chemo for now (safer due to corona) obviously we would prefer to carry on with the chemo but the risks are to high.

Like yourself dh wouldn't be given a ventilator if he caught CV-19 and due to the spread of cancer in his lungs he would probably get very sick very quick.

However it's not all doom and gloom, we've had lots of lovely family time and dh is mainly well.

Take care Thanks