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 😂😭

I got a bouquet of flowers in the post and because I couldn’t really leave them in the porch for a few days, I washed them - still all tied together in a bunch - in a sink of hot soapy water. Incidentally, they came up lovely! I happened to have a tea towel with bizarre Black Death “cures” from Eyam on it and I dried them off on that whilst thinking how incredibly weird the world had become.

It’s called mass psychosis- worth looking at.
Mine was being given a thorough telling off by class WhatsApp group for asking for take away recommendations. Apparently getting a take away wasn’t safe.

My CEV friend didn't leave the house, even though she has her own private back garden.
Because CEV "shouldn't go out"

She stayed in her house for months. Mostly in her bedroom,as her sons were going to work/out for exercise etc, and she didn't want to catch covid.

She used to sit at the window of her bedroom (closed) looking out at the glorious weather we had that year.

Oh, behave! Nobody knew anything about covid at the time. It was scary.

You’re right, it was, but those of us who suggested washing shopping/setting up decontamination zones/dousing ourselves in Dettol every 20 seconds was over the top and who possibly went out of the house twice a day or sat down while out on our walks were often vilified.

It's unbelievable now really isn't it. Funny how quickly our mindset changes. I anti bacced my hands after going through gates, I find half bottles of the flippin stuff everywhere now and never ever use it.

Staying up till midnight to get a Tesco delivery slot.
Dettol wiping everything, including shopping and phones.
Changing clothes and showering after a visit outside.
Too scared to order a takeaway in case someone had coughed on it.
Crossing the road if someone was coming the other way.
The worry of not being able to buy things baby needed etc from all the panic buying and predicted shortages etc

Ohhh yes I remember the shopping washing and clothes off at the door

I had a baby five days before lockdown one, so It was quite chaotic...lots of guidance changing daily and information circuiting. My newborn had her one week weight check on my doorstep as the midwives back then weren't allowed in the home
I was so nervous even through she was my third. When I finally felt brave enough to go out I kept baby in her pram with the raincover over - the weather in April was glorious sunshine!

I remember keeping a timer for the daily walks and not walking too close to the local park for fear of being photographed -the local Facebook group had pics of bored families/ kids using the playpark and sandpit (which was eventually cordoned off) we didn't go near playparks for a long time after that.

And finally family driving by in their car to meet the newborn- they never got out of the car- we whatsapp called so we could talk instead of lip reading through the window - just a brief ten minute car pull up on the drive so neighbours didn't get the wrong ideas! I laugh now but it's all very sad.

Not what I did but the most bonkers thing I saw was a woman spraying anti bac into the air as she walked. For me personally it was washing the shopping

Nothing as such other than think it would be over on a month or so 😩

When we were allowed to sit outside with one person, my friend asked me to come and sit in her garden for a glass of wine. It meant me walking through her house to the back garden. She opened the front door, told me not to touch the door, and then I had to run through her house with a mask on! Back door was wide open to stop me touching it, then I sat on a garden chair outside well away from her. At least I was allowed to take my mask off then!

@Notdoingthis

This thread is scary. People are so willing to be brainwashed.

We need help on our covid ward, are you volunteering your services?

Great thread, it’s so going to end up in the Daily Mail.

I’m a bit of a germaphobe anyway so I drove myself mad worrying about Covid. Wore gloves to the shops, disinfected all the shopping and even parcels (not sure why), wiped down all door handles and when the nurse in the house came home from work I was frantic about what she was touching and where her uniform was and whether she was going to bring covid into the house from work.

If anyone outside the household came anywhere near me I saw them as a covid threat. Sounds crazy to think about it now.

I caught covid quite early on so I think my panic eased off a tiny bit once I’d had it.

Sprayed antibac on everything.
Wore a mask and vinyl gloves out of the house.
Stripped my clothes off the second I got in through the door and had a bath and washed my hair in case I had any covid on me.
Didn’t open any post for a week because the postman had touched it.

I did some lots of the crazy things listed upthread.

Sad thing is my parents still are doing it, I don't think they will ever stop being scared.

Strangest thing for me was going alone to get food shopping and not seeing another car for 10 miles.

Only left the house to walk my dog, pick up click and collect shopping and go to maternity appointments. Didn’t go in a pub for a year. We were in an area of pretty much continuous local lockdown though and there was no vaccine at the time.

I’m still glad I did all of this as I’ve had covid since and wouldn’t have liked it when I was pregnant and unvaccinated.

I got up in the middle of the night to try and get an Ocado slot.

I debated for hours whether it was acceptable to go for a run and take my children out for a walk on the same day.

It feels like a weird dream, looking back.

I never washed my shopping because that was just a step too far but I do know someone who washed their fruit in Milton before putting it away.
I went to 6 different shops looking for toilet roll
My Dad managed to get one of those massige 24 packs from Tesco which was floral scented. That is their ever lasting memory of lockdown is the awful toilet roll scent 🤣🤣
We went for a weekend away in London in Feb 2020, the first UK case of covid was in the hospital there near parliament, we gave that hospital a wide berth 🙈

It was that scary though, no one knew what to do for the best and no one gave us any answers so we did what we did. I'd rather we were stupid and crazy needlessly than if it turned out we did need to do all these things and were still doing it 2 years later!!

The craziest was essentially holding DH hostage. In my defence dd (also pfb) born four days into lockdown one so I was freaking out that he couldn’t come to hospital with me if he caught it. Essentially from the day my mat leave started (2 weeks prior to birth) I didn’t let him leave the house. I went shopping as and when needed. When he asked why he couldn’t go but I could I cried that they had to admit me to hospital even with covid but they could turn him away. No idea how I thought I would have it and not pass it on in our 2 bed semi when I thought he would catch it by stepping foot outside 🤷‍♀️

Also crossed road when I saw people coming, & held my breath if we had to pass 🤦‍♀️

DH stopped at supermarket with DS to pick up a watermelon and came home with £300 of food! I’d just done a big shop day before. He said they walked in and it was crazy, people running about with whole trolleys full of toilet rolls. He decided to join in! Said to DS ‘quick grab a trolley’ and that was it, two trolleys full of tins, pasta and massive rice (which is still in garage). We also washed it all.

Next day our friend queued outside that supermarket for 4 hours and didn’t get in!

I then didn’t go in any shop (or anywhere) for over 6 months as I was with kids homeschooling and wfh and DH had to still go into work so he’d get food on way home. I remember one day he went to the butcher and got bread/eggs/milk/veg/fruit/meat as the queues were awful everywhere else and butcher had diversified!!

@Jay36
My DP is a paramedic. He was taking his clothes off at the back door and carrying them in a bin liner to wash them alone in the machine on a boil wash. His greens faded quite quickly!

We were saying at work today, ( We are teachers in a very short staffed school due to isolation) that originally it was a death sentence: now we hoped to test positive to get a few days off to regroup after a very stressful few days.

Booked a flight for Jan 2021.

Following the one way system round the supermarket, being so annoyed that if I forgot something on one aisle I'd have to walk down the next aisle to go back, crazy

Nothing!

Craziest thing I did was to wear gloves when food shopping, and I only did it a handful of times.

It the midst of the pandemonium, I had my grovelling ex back.

I was incredibly lonely, lived alone and could see no end to the madness. Out of nowhere and completely unexpected - he piped up.

I recall joking that he needed fumigating and spraying with the strongest sanitiser known to man, as I didn't know where he'd been. I turns out he did indeed need fumigating as he was riddled to the core with bullshit, lies and deceit.

A leopard never changes its spots, even in the middle of a pandemic. My energy would have been better spent locating precious online home delivery slots at Tesco, than entertaining that emotional parasite.

I mean yes, washing shopping is a bit OTT (I never did this). But I still antibac my hands between shops/after touching buttons on lifts and at crossings.

I paid £25 for 5 N95 masks before they were made compulsory, which I don't regret because DH and I managed not to catch it. I've been back at the cinema since it reopened and have been on several UK holidays, an overnight work conference, and 2 theme park trips, so am living "normally" now, but I don't really wish I hadn't been so careful in lockdown 1!

The craziest thing was queuing for an hour to get into Asda in gloves and a mask on a hot Saturday. That was the shortest queue of Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda.