To ask what the most COVID bonkers thing you did about

[Jay36]

First off this is not a COVID denier thread.

But I’m wondering what was the weird things you did at the start of the pandemic because you were worried about CV. I’ll go first;

Left my shoes outside the house as was worried about bringing the virus ‘in’ in case someone had coughed on the pavement !

Bleached the door handles daily.

Feel like I was a bit crazy now 😂😭

@Middersweekly

I’m still cringing at myself wearing gardening gloves and home made mask in the supermarket when the first lockdown commenced. The amount of people wearing marigolds and wrapping fabric round their face was a sight to behold! Someone wore a scuba 🤿 mask and snorkel round Lidl at one point! In order to give everyone a chuckle there were locals dressing up in full T-Rex costumes to take their bins out. I also remember some bonkers man hanging out of his window shouting at me and DH to go home when walking our dogs less than 50m from our house.

Oh goodness, yes! This reminds me of my friend telling me her 20 year old son was challenged by her neighbour when he came home one evening as to whether his car journey had been really necessary!

The shielding letters terrified me. Getting texts from the gov warning me not to touch the bins for fear of germs. We shielded, I didn't leave the house/ garden for 3 months. Never, ever again.
But I still haven't got back to normal, I need to force myself into taking the kids back to swimming lessons. The kids still have to put uniform straight into washing machine etc.
I did get covid once double jabbed & ended up in hospital with covid pneumonia and secondary infection. Convinced I would have died if it were not for the jabs.

Bought 147384 tins of beans....

Wiped down all door handles and touch points in the house with neat zaflora before bed.

Moved the surplus dry goods from the utility with its external door to boxes on our wardrobe at the height of panic buying in case of looters (surplus due delivery cock ups not panic buying - my mum came over to watch the kids while we sorted it on 22nd Feb and we found 4x3k bags of pasta amongst many other things).

Wiped down all the shopping. After getting changed and having a shower naturally.

Wouldn’t let the kids touch anything while we were out for walks, and if they did they got squirted with ‘hanitizer’.

Crazy behaviour now I look back. I was telling my youngest about the queues to get into supermarkets this morning when we walked a different way around the car park at Aldi and they saw the stickers on the floor. They didn’t see the inside of a shop of any kind for a good 6-8 months. I’m lucky they got to go back to nursery 2 days a week from the July and seem relatively unaffected by everything.

Any time dh went out to a shop he'd come back, strip off, I'd wash all his clothes on a 60 and he would have a full shower. I was 13 weeks pregnant when we went into lockdown and was petrified, particularly as I'd had a miscarriage beforehand.

I needed to get money from the cash machine at the beginning of the pandemic. I didn’t want to touch the buttons so I took a pencil with me to use to press the buttons which I then threw in the bin .

I used to come home for showers between work and picking my son up. I dettolled all the handles!! I used to anti bac my keys and phone

I worked from home but for the first two weeks that DS was back at nursery I insisted on stripping him down in the porch and putting his clothes straight in the washing machine.

I can remember going to the supermarket before masks were made mandatory and seeing a woman wearing marigolds and a scarf tied round her face.

DP still won't touch door handles or petrol pumps and always uses hand sanitiser when he gets back in the car etc.

We didn't wipe down shopping or post etc but it definitely made us a lot more aware of how easily viruses and germs can spread.

@KindergartenKop

I pickled carrots in leftover gherkin juice in case the supermarkets ran out of veg

😅😅

We took a lot of long lonely walks.

Saw a £10 note, on the ground in a deserted field, and left it there, in case it had germs on it.

I didn’t do anything extreme but when you look back at ‘Da Rulez’ it was just crazy wasn’t it?!

I didn’t do anything as I knew it was all media spin.

Both my DDs( 22 and 24 at the time) were living at home, in long term relationships and were not able to see their other halves except socially distanced. It nearly broke DD1 - her mental health was on the floor so her BF isolated in our conservatory for 10 days in May 20. We have a downstairs bathroom which he had to go outside and through the front door to access. We used the back door for all that time and had a barrier up so he could use the bathroom but not come into the house!

DD2's BF did the same thing a few weeks later and the two of them lived with us for nearly 4 months. Probably against the rules at the time but kept my DDS sane. Was rather nice actually- they all took it in turns to cook and we had lots of games nights- I actually look upon that time with real fondness as we couldn't really see anyone.

I was 8 months pregnant at the first lockdown, my partner banished me to the house on 12th March. Washed every item that came into our house with bleach. Every item !! Letters the lot! I left the house on 16th April to have a C-section, returned on 20th. I didn’t leave the house then for 4 months! Honestly I didn’t leave, we have a garden so we were outside. Only my partner went to the shops and washed his clothes on return. I look back now and can’t belive I didn’t leave home for over 4 months!

@Nidan2Sandan

The most bonkers thing I did was try to argue with the Mini Hitler Wannabes on here who were sobbing and shaking because a MN'etter decided to go buy a Twix.

I quickly realised it was shouting into a very insane void. So glad I found a sane group of ladies on here in April 2020.

Oh yes, I can remember the shame of watching Dh come out of the local supermarket with armfuls of just chocolate in the first lockdown. It was essential supermarket visits only and I had the classic ‘what will the neighbors think’ moment. To be fair it did feel quite essential at that time🤣🤣

We went on a lot of walks and became familiar with a few cats that hung out in the same place. At one point I wouldn’t let the kids or myself stroke the cats incase they had been touched by someone with covid or incase we gave someone covid. Transmission through cats.

I work in a school they were extremely through with their covid cleaning very ott with the door handles and steaming toys twice a day. However for a long time there was a huge splat of bird shit on one of the outside toys that never got cleaned up. I remember thinking how silly it was that they were so concerned about the toys etc and not about the kids catching any bird shit related illness.

Nothing really, as I've never been that paranoid about catching Covid. Probably got into the hand sanitiser more than was necessary, but that about it. I do find myself noticing people coughing and sneezing more now, which I never used to, so have clearly been slightly affected.

Cleaned the food shopping.. daily walk very early to avoid people .. masked my son while out walking. Bought my body weight in dettol in wash detergent .. made every one strip if they had been out and have a shower.. bought a air cleaner .. disinfected all high touch areas daily..
Defence was we have a small boy who was on sheilding list as ECV and were scares to death of him being ill

Nothing really. I wiped the shopping once; or started, got bored/frustrated and stopped.
We started taking the parcel wrappings off outside but that was more because the recycling bin is by our letter box!

Hand sanitiser when shopping, and whoever snippily replied to @Notdoingthis at the beginning of the thread asking them to volunteer in a covid ward; I did volunteer actually. I drove a huge chunk of the U.K. to test patients in their own homes in April and May 2020.

Rotated news paper, was delivered daily, put in cupboard for 3 days!! Did that for about 5 months!

Thankfully in this instance, dad had dementia and Alzheimer’s so he had no idea what day it was.

Oh! And post was also quarantined!

The police taped off the car parks at our local nature reserve as you weren’t supposed to drive for exercise. Someone had broken the tape to allow them (and others) to get in and park. I was so outraged that they would so blatantly flaunt the rules that I collected each end of the tape, pulled it tight and tied it back together, locking them into the car park forever. Mwah haha, that’ll teach them!

I also remember shouting to DS, “quick, into the road, there’s someone coming along the pavement!”

Kept working on the NHS front line. My colleagues and I are all broken