To ask (lightheartedly) what’s the most bizarre or confusing “because of Covid” you’ve heard?

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My next door neighbour has had someone else walk her dog for her since lockdown “because of covid”. Never goes further than her garden. Such a shame because daily walks have never been banned and I’m sure the change of scene would benefit her and her dog would love her to take him!

Just wondered if anyone else has come across bizarre things being done or not done “because of covid?”.

Disclaimer - this is a light hearted thread just to help see the funny side a bit for my own sanity. It’s not meant to be dismissive of people’s genuine experiences or fears.

I bought a new car, and the dealer came to collect my old one under part exchange. I was instructed not to fill in the V5 details "due to covid" Even called DVLA to check... "yep, don't fill it in, just hand it over, it's to reduce risk of transmission". Mate you're about to get in a car I was driving until this morning??

Our local council decided to make one through road into two cul-de-sacs to "help with social distancing". They said it would make it safer for people to walk in the road to keep apart. But the road in question is fairly quiet for pedestrians and happens to have unusually wide pavements so it's really not hard to keep out of people's way I think they just wanted an excuse to get rid of what they perceive to be a car rat run.

Oh, I also loved the car park at a farm that had blocked every other space with a bollard (so that the cars could keep 2m apart, I presume!)

“@tabulahrasa grin it travels faster than 20!“

I’m figuring so... under 20 can’t catch it, start going 25... boom, lol

“Is it so drivers are less likely to kill the people who step out into the road to avoid other pedestrians ? The number of times people have randomly stepped out into the traffic without even looking to allow social distancing is scary around here.“

I doubt it tbh, they’re not large towns or particularly busy - and people don’t seem that great at social distancing outside anyway also it’s the entire length of them, so not just where it’s likely to be busy.

I kind of suspect they just wanted to and it’s a handy reason tbh.

All of our local libraries are still closed "because of covid" but the ones 30 minutes away in the more affluent towns have managed to open. There could be an innocent explanation for this... but it really annoys me.

Assuming that the neighbour is Clinically Exteremly Vulnerable and therefore was advised to shield, then I don't think it is bizarre. The guidance for sheilding was not leave the house at all, and that included for exercise. Dog owners therefore had to get someone else to walk the dog for them.

Sheilding has now been paused, whatever that means, but the virus is still there. The messaging from the government is muddled to put it mildly. So the neighbour has on one hand been told that leaving the house in March could kill her, but now she can leave the house despite the virus still being there. I suspect that she is just frightened and trying to be as careful as possible.

@nancy75 I thought it might be that, but for department stores over a certain size it’s really not necessary, shops are not that busy! I understand counting in and out of smaller premises, but a ?500,000m2 department store?!

I've had a ppi claim going on since Jan 2019, the company regularly need a kick up the backside to do anything. I've even made a complaint about them, to them, and got £250 as its been upheld.
But NOW the reason they haven't resolved it is yes, 'because of covid'. The fact they hadn't resolved it in the 14 months previously seems beyond them to realise

Gluten free pizza bases have disappeared in dominos “cos of Covid” I didn’t realise that a pandemic cured coeliac disease!!!

@Kungfupanda67

I ordered a dominos last night and couldn’t order a half and half because of Covid - as though the mixing of my Hawaiian left half and Texas bbq right half might spontaneously generate coronavirus

Yeah, it's kind of getting my goat that public libraries can't open now schools must. Libraries are far calmer, quieter and naturally socially distanced.

Nothing bizarre about staying home because you have health concerns?
Sorry, don’t find anything remotely lighthearted about this whole thing.

@linerforlife

I bought a new car, and the dealer came to collect my old one under part exchange. I was instructed not to fill in the V5 details "due to covid" Even called DVLA to check... "yep, don't fill it in, just hand it over, it's to reduce risk of transmission". Mate you're about to get in a car I was driving until this morning??

This is beyond bonkers

In my local park we weren't allowed to let our dogs off the lead because of Covid. I was willing to comply with this for several weeks, but now everyone is bored of it and I notice dogs off the lead everywhere. Perhaps the virus has mutated in some way so that the doggies are no longer spreading it?

Our county is opening libraries. The bigger ones, where distancing is possible. I think out of 44 libraries in the county, 20 are now open.

A neighbour is now homeschooling her son because of covid. They both work fulltime, go to restaurants at least twice a week and the child does wrestling and rugby, and they have parties in their house regularly (i.e. at least weekly).
Nothing wrong with homeschooling if you want to, but Covid is not the real reason in this case

At the nursery I work in the children are allowed to play together, play in the sand tray together, so messy play together etc but they can’t do water play together because of germs.

On our return as volunteers to a charity shop we were given a health and safety briefing with the following gem.

If the fire alarm goes off, and if there is a fire in the shop, you MUST maintain social distancing while evacuating.

Yup, because when everything's going up in flames, the immediate danger is Covid. And the disabled/vulnerable customers and staff can just fend for themselves.

That and bleaching your post.

@kungfu I was going to say the same! Really dominoes?! Makes no sense.

Oh... dead early on...

I got an email from my ISP, telling me all the things they were doing because of Covid and reminding me to clean my router...

Not sure what that was for, in case I was downloading Covid?...

Kids aren’t allowed to bring books or work home from school unless it’s been quarantined for 72 hours “because of Covid”. Yet the kids themselves who have been touching said books aren’t quarantined when they return home every evening

@Allmyarseandpeggymartin

Gluten free pizza bases have disappeared in dominos “cos of Covid” I didn’t realise that a pandemic cured coeliac disease!!!

Where I work we've had to take certain things off the menu and from behind the bar because some suppliers are still running on low staff and will only deliver so many times a week regardless of what we need to order or are out of stock themselves and telling us their supplier is also out of stock, for the amounts we need of some things going to a shop for these things just isn't practical so they've had to be removed for now. Not sure if the suppliers are taking the piss but they're saying 'because of covid' as the reasons why. 🤷

Not being able to try on shoes in shops.

We are in another European country.

DS1's school has no first aider "because of COVID"

I mean, presumably they would administer first aid if someone's limb was hanging off. but when he fell and got gravel in a wound they got him to call me to come and collect him, deliver him to the paediatrician who got it out and then it was too late to go back to school. They wouldn't clean it for him, but it was fine for his friend to wash it under a cold tap in the toilets and put the plaster on

One lane has been blocked off on a busy route into a local shopping centre to maintain social distancing. How easy is it to catch Covid from someone driving past in an enclosed car? It's not as if it's to cater for cyclists because they get to use the blocked off bit, so are actually forced into closer proximity with pedestrians and each other.