Best covid 'brags' you've heard?

[EveryDayIsADuvetDay]

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.

The classic one is ‘to all the people helping the elderly/vulnerable etc. SOME OF US were already helping them WAY before all this happened. I just HOPE that after all this ends, all you new people will continue along with those of us who were ALREADY helping them’

AvonBarksdale99 I have to admit I’ve secretly thought that on several occasions. I’ve got the sense not to post on social media about it though as I think it’s good that at least people are doing nice things now

Omg @bluechangling I'm horrified and fascinated by the woman posting a picture of her manky feet on Facebook!

“I’m coming off Facebook because of all this awful negativity- drama drama”

Just snooze the worst culprits and keep carry on. No need to be a drama llama.

I deactivated my NextDoor account recently cos I was so fed up with the posters on it.

I'm a mental health nurse in the NHS, expectedd to work throughout the lockdown. (On annual leave this week.) I normally am based in the community, but likely to he redeployed to Home Treatment Team or the wards as all outpatient appointments are cancelled at the moment.

I normally go by train to work but dug out my bike as the services are reduced. The brakes needed to be tightened, so I put a shout out explajjning I was a nurse needing to go to work, could anyone help? Nothing, no response, no offers of help, no advice, no 'i can't, but my brother's next door neighbour can.' Meanwhile, the next street was 'let's all bang saucepan lids together for the NHS ' Another thread was like "let's all send pizzas up the hospital for the NHS '. I asked had the hospital asked for this, and suggested that, actually, sending food to foodbanks or supporting charities worki ng with homeless people would be better, and if they wanted to specifically support the hospital, some pocket sized hand gels for travelling to and from work, and some hand creams, would be better. Some woman was like "Oh it's easy enough for us frkkm the comfort of our own homes, we should be supporting the NHS, you dknt know what its like."This was before my AL and she looked pretty stupid when I said i was at work....as an NHS nurse. I also did have a rant on that thread that while noone was actually listening to suggestions from an NHS nurse, when i actually asked for one small favour, or so me advice on how tkk tighten my brakes, it was totally ignored. But you know, just carry on sending pizzas up and banging saucepan lids together, that will really help the NHS.

Apologies for the typos there.

@wrongsideofhistorymyarse
Yeah, like a 6 year old really talks like that.

I did hear one man interviewed on the radio, poor chap. He was in fine health, retired and on a 'good pension'.

He was quite content in lockdown as he wasn't having to spend very much as all his clubs and classes were cancelled so, y'know, silver linings and all that...

Spidey66 yep, seeing a lot of hypocrisy. Last week on one of the many threads about the “clap for NHS” some NHS staff came on and said they felt weird about being clapped for and that it risked people feeling like they were “doing their bit” when actually there is a lot of concrete practical things that actually need doing. They were completely torn apart and called all sorts of names... by the very posters that made such a song and dance about needing to “support the NHS”

This could've been a decent thread without chicken ruining it with the first reply

Of course many people aren't leaving the house ffs

I know someone on FB who works in a supermarket and has moaned about it endlessly.

Then suddenly she posted that she was in the extremely vulnerable group and was on 12 weeks paid leave was looking forward to lots of time in the park with her pets and ordering loads of new clothes online.

She claims asthma but it's def not true. I'd say she was prescribed an inhaler at some stage for a cough and used it as proof. She even posted the listing from the supermarket for the conditions included and it said extreme asthma requiring hospitalisation and there is NO WAY she has this - if she did she'd 100% have bored us all to death looking for sympathy on FB.

She's taking the piss and happy to do so. And she has form for it.

It's a spectator sport for me now

Can you for one second put yourself in the shoes of those of us being told to stay home for three months as we’d likely die? So it’s fine for everyone else to be scared, to discuss the situation and how things are for them but those of us being shielded need to shut the fuck up or we’re boasting?

This. Jesus.

I think I last left the house on around 12th March. I had symptoms and then received a shielding letter.

I rarely use Facebook but I’ve spoken about receiving that letter on there because it’s an easy way to talk to friends. My husband is in a hotel working front line NHS and I don’t want to scare my children by telling them my fears, so I mention it on Facebook.

I hope my friends and family don’t think I’m bragging about finding an official letter asking me to stay at home jarring and a head fuck.

Ableism on Mumsnet is out of control.

@Unbridled You say you know someone with fibromyalgia who is self isolating? Well, I am too. Did you know that when we get illnesses that others shrug off, we tend to get them quite severely and it causes a flare of fibro which leads to massive problems including severe pain?

A simple flu protection jab caused me to flare and left me bedbound for six months, and i developed shingles amongst other things. The GP said it's quite common. People with fibro tend to have extreme immune responses to illnesses which makes most of us desperate to avoid catching anything.

My mum who is in her late 60s also looks after me and my DD a lot. It's shit and I feel so guilty. The fact is, she is healthier than I am.

You clearly know little about the condition and it's taken years for it to be established that it's a proper neurological disorder with immune response implications. It doesn't help when people minimise it as if it's nothing.

Your post was ignorant and hurtful.

'Everyone in the street thinks my Whatsapp group is a brilliant idea. I think there's only you who hasn't joined yet'
............No, now the finished list has been sent out there are fewer who have joined than haven't.

'The whole street is going to be out clapping for the NHS- now they all know I'm a nurse. I knocked on all the doors and everyone was saying things like 'Now you've told us, we'll all be out clapping especially for you' "
..............No, there were 4 people out there because it is quite a small, isolated street and you work part-time in a GP practice and have been off-sick since Christmas with a bad back.

'We are all having a huge street party to celebrate the NHS when this is over. Everyone is up for it and thinks it's a really good idea of mine'
...............It's a small, quite isolated street with very few residents. If you got us all together there wouldn't be 20 in total.

My favourites are the competitive types who had Coronavirus before everyone else.

"I came back from Italy in December and came down with with a terrible cough, I'm sure it was Covid-19."

"Yeah, my son went to China in June and got ill, it's obviously been around for much longer than they're saying."

"My grandad died in 2013 and he had the exact symptoms!"

etc

@wrongsideofhistorymyarse I really hope that was satire.

have you actually done the bike brakes cos I can probably tell you how if not?

@user1471565182
thanks, but I've got it sorted. I went onto a local FB group and someone there recommended a bike repairer, who gave th he bike a service and gave me a discount for being a nurse. Now that was the kind of support that was needed, not banging saucepan lids together and sending pizzas up which they probably didn't have time to eat!

@SteamingTheDoorKnobs

A bloke on our local fb covid mutual aid group expecting hero status cos he's made 100 (and still going)PPE face shields from his 3D printer and is donating them to the NHS. They look little more than an elongated sun visor and would be useless as PPE wear

I think happening here is that he is printing the headband part of a face shield, with the transparent part added later from a sheet of Perspex. (Printing a transparent object js difficult, and unnecessary when it’s easy to add later

Source: my son who is also printing the same thing but with less hoopla, except for the mandatory 18 hour ‘making of’ video with full orchestral sound and special effects via Hollywood

Think there is some misunderstanding here.

No is saying that posting on FB or wherever because they need support at this time is bragging, only an idiot would suggest it was.

Its the Attention Seekers, who are apparently the only ones doing anything and arent they just wonderful?! My cousin is like this. She has to make sure that every single little thing goes on there. witha load of hashtags. If you saw her FB you would honestly think that she is single handedly saving the whole fucking world, whilst also homeschooling her primary kids to GCSE level and knitting lentils.

These are the same people who mark themselves "safe" during the terrorist bombings despite never even visiting the town or country concerned. They have to make it all about them.

Or saying "OMG it could have been me!! I was thinking about going to London/Paris/Manchester" The irony being, as the nurse PP mentioned above, they are nowhere to be found when someone needs to actual help and support.

Lots of people on FB declaring that they clapped. I didn’t, the cat is scared of the fireworks so I have closed the curtains and turned the TV up loud.

DH is in the very high risk category and has been WFH since the start of March. He will not leave the house again until it’s safe, or he’s had an antibody test or there is a vaccine.
My friends response was that she has decided her and her children are all now ‘high risk’ as they have asthma. She has never in the years I’ve known her used the asthma word, even when her DC have stayed over at my house.
She half suggested I could do some shopping for them. I am doing very very limited shopping. She said she doesn’t want her DH to go to protect them. I think she thinks my DH isn’t actually important at all then.

I could throttle the twit who decided to just bray on their car horn outside instead for 5 minutes and woke the kids up terrified because someone else decided to squeal instead as that's louder than clapping

Maybe some people don't want to brag, but have been told to? I volunteered to be redeployed to support on a ward... my manager asked me to send a group WhatsApp to reassure our colleagues that

a) the work is vital and worthwhile, and
b) if they are forced into redeployment (which may eventually happen) its nothing to worry about

My message probably came across as 'bragging' but I was just following instructions from above 😁

DH was grumpy about the clapping as it woke him up. He is keyworker on nights, and also a cumudgeon. I thought it was lovely But do also feel a bit ambivalent because generally my own working life has been a struggle and a pretty thankless task (social care).

Shame that six year old didn't teach his mum spelling . Utter bollocks.