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 😂😭

Carried home uniform in bag that went straight in washing machine then stripped off in communal hallway so clothes that had been in hospital (only from ward to door) went straight in the washing machine. Left shoes outside for next shift.

Carried about a pen lid to press button at pedestrian crossing.

I remember in Scotland there was an announcement that from 4pm grandparents could hug their grandchildren and we all sat in the garden until 4pm. Baby (that one grandparent hadn't met) woke up at 3.55 and my MIL looked over at me to get permission before she went to get him because it wasn't technically legal yet.

I remember alternating my run with taking my dc out for daily exercise. I did this for a couple of weeks before thinking this is crazy my going out twice for exercise is not going to cause the spread of covid . I think it was a combination of doing the right thing and worried people would notice , I’m not sure why I’d give no shits now .

@doodleina

Held my breath any time I had to walk past someone ... in the park ... outside... a considerable distance away from them ... 🤣🤣

I did this!

I washed my shopping once. I had not before because I thought it was over the top. But then a friend who is a scientist said she was washing her shopping and I thought I should as well. I only did it once.

Wiped handles after put shopping away

Had some convoluted method for putting it away in cupboards / fridge

Bought some hand gel from chemiphase still 3/4 full

3am Ocado shopping

‘Quarantined’ post in hall before opening

Gloves a few times

Feels nuts looking back but not as bad as remembering the full on lockdowns. I stopped doing above fairly quickly

I could only get a food delivery from a firm that normally delivers to restaurants, so all our food was super sized. It was a mission to fit the 5kg block of cheddar in our tiny fridge. And because I don't learn from my mistakes, the next time I ordered a kilo of goats cheese.

When I braved the supermarket again I bought and quarantined new bags each time in case the bags gave us covid that they'd caught off the trolley.

Used antibac wipes to sanitise all my shopping, then used a wipe to clean the pack of wipes!!!

This thread is weird for me! I still wash all my shopping, don’t put petrol in the car - because I don’t go anywhere.

Don’t see family or friends other than dp and kids and haven’t all this time. No one has been in our house apart from tradesmen and I stayed upstairs the whole time.

Stayed home for Christmas - again.

Daft thing is kids are at school and loads of kids off with it.

I am CEV so I don’t know what else to do?!

Sterilised DP's hair clippers with Flash anti-bac before giving them to my brother.

Washed shopping twice (same timeframe as hair clipper debacle).

Came to my senses pretty quickly. I have done my bit in getting jabbed and boosted, but I can't ever imagine going back to that. It's like a different world.

When supermarkets were asking people to shop alone in the early days, me and DH would go to Tescos together but go in seperately and do half the shopping each (I would do the fresh veg and fridge, DH would do everything else). We would pretend we didn't know each other and ring each other if we had a question rather than speak to each other in person.

Absolute bonkers behaviour although it did take half the time so there was some benefit to it!

Also, stopped shopping in Aldi as it was small and cramped and went to a huge Tescos as it was more spacious. Cost us an absolute fortune over the 12 months before we felt brave enough to go to Aldi again!

We live on a country Estate that iras at least 200 acres of woodland. DD and I did not leave here for 10 weeks. DP was working and doing the shopping on his way home.

One day he said you need to come and see (our very busy tourist town) with its empty streets, so we went to get fish and chips . I was so petrified we would be arrested for a 'non-essential' journey even though it was in the rules. When an ambulance in the same road put its sirens on, I was convinced it was the police coming for me!

@firecracker69
Sorry to hear that. It is amazing what loneliness can do. Hope you threw him out with the trash. It's brilliant that you value yourself and didn't put up with his nonsense.

Was genuinely angry at myself for not having secured an independent means of food production. Began to seriously consider buying seeds. This was mid-March when we had refused to engage in stockpiling but then I had a dawning realisation that I was actually in a disaster film and that the ones who had protected their own would survive. (Still didn’t stock pile)

@gettingolderandgrumpy

I remember alternating my run with taking my dc out for daily exercise. I did this for a couple of weeks before thinking this is crazy my going out twice for exercise is not going to cause the spread of covid . I think it was a combination of doing the right thing and worried people would notice , I’m not sure why I’d give no shits now .

Same here! But then I got into an argument with a runner friend who doesn't have DC, and she said it wasn't fair that I was getting to leave my house twice a day just because I had children and she didn't, so then I felt really awful about it.

I stripped off my clothes and had a shower and washed my hair every night when I got home from work and left my shoes just inside the door in a carrier bag. To be fair I did work in a hospital and was scared I’d carried it home.

In first lockdown, we worked with nothing. We asked for hand sanitiser or masks in communal areas and were told no, we didn’t need it. We weren’t clinical.

I had been queuing around the car park to get into Sainsbury's for more than half an hour. Everyone was impeccably observing social distancing until a young woman who was probably a student walked past while engrossed in her phone.

She got way too close to me so I asked her politely to keep her distance. She stood there looking blank & giggled nervously and I’m ashamed to say I lost it and absolutely tore into her : ‘What the fuck are you laughing at? People are dying and this pandemic is not a fucking joke!” The poor kid looked terrified. I felt so guilty later and I wish I could apologise to her now. Fear does odd things to people.

I feel almost as if my mind just totally disassociated during this pandemic. I work in a non clinical nhs job. I washed my hands more and wore masks when they were enforced. I didn’t wash down shopping or quarantine Mail. I continued to go into work in health care setting 5 days a week. I did get my shopping delivered but sometimes queued for what seemed ages to get into the shops. I didn’t bulk buy anything. The saddest thing for me was not being able to hug my own mum who lives alone for months !

Almost called the police non emergency line when i saw a group of kids playing soccer in the park (far away from each other). (DH made me realise I was just having a bad day).

Stocked up on paracetamol because we were told not to use ibuprofen.

@asaa I always thought if we really could not buy food, that society would break down anyway. I didn't think that would happen though.
Anyone remember the calls on here for rationing to be introduced?

moonflower12 haha yes, I dropped some things off at exs and stood at the front door while chatting to him. Police turned into the street and I remember practically running away because I thought I would be hounded for a meeting of two households!

I had all my colleagues round to work in the basement, then in the evening they all nipped across the road and got some wine and pringles, then we had a work meeting in the garden.
Dreadfully sorry and all that, etcetera, but it was definitely a business meeting because I didn't see the bloke with party poppers and making farty noises with balloons in the corner.
Oh, erm someone said I didn't see him because it was me, Yar, well, right, thats really splitting hairs, but dreadfully sorry and all that.
Well anyway, the woman that bought the pringles is doing an independent inquiry, so that will clear it all up.

I Dettol sprayed my post as it came through the letterbox. I read wet letters for weeks before I realised I was acting insane

@OfCourseIDontMind

After not being able to leave S.E. Asia for 14 months because of covid, we finally managed to get flights home. The threat was very real. Few people were vaccinated, including us and there isn't the medical infrastructure there like there is in the UK. We were dressed like this. We weren't the only ones. We might have looked like Lego people but we didn't catch the virus. Had to travel through 4 major airports to get home because flights were being cancelled and airports were closed all over the world.

Good for you. I know of dozens of people who contracted it after flights. And before I’m challenged pp who wfh- flew and tested positive on the 2/5 day regime.

@Changemaname1 I was the same. Walked out of the office thinking it would be a few weeks.

Remember telling my manger who had a holiday booked in the Far East not to cancel as it probably would be over by then

Genuinely not scared about covid ever. The repercussions maybe. Not a denier, followed the rules more or less, vaccinated etc. just no point in being scared about something outside of my control. Always thought that I would deal with it when it arrived. Which for me was after vaccinations luckily.

I suppose the shopping washers felt that this gave them a measure of control. We're all different.