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 just think the whole giving the NHS a round of applause instead of PPE or pay rise was the most insane thing the media got people to do.

I mean you all did this once a week, pots and pans the lot but I can’t remember why that fizzled out?
Did Boris mumble on tv that was quite enough appreciation now or something?

Still can’t get over that and the cute little lay rise the nurses actually got in the end 💆🏼‍♀️ Like nurses managed to pay their bills with a weekly clap.

But at least the Cons had a good few knees up’s bless ‘em.

I wiped the doorbell and letterbox down each day after the post or a delivery driver had been.
I cleaned the boiler cupboard before the gas engineer came...

I also committed the sin of taking my children to the supermarket with me in late March 2020. I made them wear wooly gloves (as I didn't have any plastic ones their size) and they weren't allowed to touch anything. Some people reacted like I had taken my pet lion and polar bear with me...

Do you remember the 2m lines on supermarket floors?

I had no idea how much toilet paper we used each week because I had never needed to know. I used to add it to the shopping list and buy it if it was on offer. I didn't panic buy in the first few weeks but then the shops were empty and I started to panic a bit. No loo roll anywhere. The newsagents in our local small town had packs of 2. I had parked over the road and when I came out with my precious treasure I hid it under my coat and ran to the car. It was when there were reports online of people being mugged for toilet roll. I didn't want anyone to take it from me. If someone had told me life would be like that 2 years ago I would gave thought they were bonkers.

[quote AllThePogs]@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?[/quote]
Yes, I was convinced we were days from a WW2 food stamp system! I was worried both about the idea of no food and the certainty that indeed society would break down if food started to run out. It seemed to me a certainty that if that happened we would be in a lord of the flies type scenario (but part of me knew that there would be warehouses somewhere with chickpeas or something). Considered buying dehydrated hiking food.. lucking all of these lines of thought lasted no longer than a week until the reality of homeschooling hit!

Most of my worry went on trying to stop my business from collapsing. There wasn't much time or headspace for decontamination zones, pickled carrots or similar.

I did do a stint as a delivery driver and tried sanitising my hands after every house. Unfortunately this soon dried out my hands so much that they started bleeding, which I considered a health hazard of another variety, so I stopped sanitising so regularly.

The idea you shouldn't sit down on a park bench because you might spread covid always simultaneously baffled and enraged me. I remember spotting a couple of police officers roaming the park when I was walking the dog, so I sat down on a park bench and willed them to come and speak to me. I planned a debate on reasonable adjustments for [invisible] physical disabilities. I was gutted that they went off in a different direction .

I still know some people who are extra extra careful even now (double jabbed and boosted and in their 30s) and still avoid people in general including family.

Highlight of week was getting the online shopping slot/food delivery
I didn’t wipe down the shopping, but I did wipe a few items from the corner shop!
Wore disposable gloves to go to the supermarket.
Sat in freezing cold in my own Garden so I could see friends - this was more in second lockdown as weather was worse
Crossing street from others in first lockdown

I wasn’t mega paranoid, but it was such a strange time. I think that’s the end of lockdowns now unless something really crazy happens. I kept a diary throughout covid- because no-one would bloody believe what we went through (and how shite the govt have been).

@00100001

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.

That’s what the CEV letters said first of all ‘you may get fresh open from sitting at an open window’… I freaked out at that. Like being under house arrest. ‘You are at extremely high risk of death or severe illness from this virus’ was another phrase that will stick with me.

@ThinWomansBrain

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.

Hmm. Stocked up on extra tinned food that could be eaten hot or cold, in case the power ran out. Most of such foods are things that neither DC nor I actually like, so the tins went to the food bank after a couple of months. (I was afraid of the government deciding to shut post offices, which were, at that point, the only place you could top up meter keys).

Spent a lot of time thinking about what, exactly, I would put in our bug-out bags. (I was afraid of Fucko the Clown declaring martial law or allowing the most unhinged sections of the police complete free rein to do what they liked.)

Come to think of it I do remember finding a new consignment of loo roll in Asda and texting all my friends to ask if they needed some.

Two did, and I did too, so I got some very dirty looks for buying 3 packs of loo roll at once

When restaurants opened up for outdoor dining, sitting in the bone chilling cold wearing ski gear, hat, gloves, three jumpers and snow boots just to see my mates and eat a meal not cooked by me.

@Alayalaya totally off topic but your name is very close to my daughters name and i havent seen anyone else with it..

Starting to think I may have been a bit blasé about the whole thing....

I didn’t hug my mum the night before she moved 600 miles away, to be fair I was working on a Covid ward and didn’t want to take the chance.

Remember the horrible atmosphere during my weekly shop, I used to cry in Tesco a lot because it just seemed so surreal.

I hope mask wearing goes for good soon, except in clinical settings, I was thinking about this today, my 4 year old doesn’t know a world in which all adults wear masks, this must be affecting their abilities to learn how to read social cues.

Disinfected door handles and panic bought boxes of wines 😆

@YouBoggleMyMind

I still know some people who are extra extra careful even now (double jabbed and boosted and in their 30s) and still avoid people in general including family.

Presumably because they dislike people, particularly their families!

@00100001 The government were sending texts telling people not to go in their garden and saying they could sit by an open window. People were also told to pack a bag in case they had to go into hospital. Getting those kinds of daily texts was going to scare people silly.

@SnottyLottie

Disinfected door handles and panic bought boxes of wines 😆

I read that with Brexit wine and chocolate...and other things would be hard to get. I panic bought wine and chocolate and did stockpile. I didn't worry about anything else though.

In the first lockdown there was a bank holiday to commemorate VE Day. At the time we weren't meant to have visitors in the house or garden but we invited DS and his GF round to do a BBQ. But we sat them at opposite ends of the garden and we each used a separate disposable BBQ. Then when they had gone I went round the garden and tipped hot soapy water over the chairs and the gates to sanitise it!

I bleached the letterbox!

@Sebastianthecoo

I didn’t hug my mum the night before she moved 600 miles away, to be fair I was working on a Covid ward and didn’t want to take the chance.

Remember the horrible atmosphere during my weekly shop, I used to cry in Tesco a lot because it just seemed so surreal.

I hope mask wearing goes for good soon, except in clinical settings, I was thinking about this today, my 4 year old doesn’t know a world in which all adults wear masks, this must be affecting their abilities to learn how to read social cues.

@Sebastianthecoo

I have noticed when I don’t wear a mask, children look at me like I have 3 heads, just realised this is why.

When things had calmed down a bit, and you wouldn’t cross the street to pass someone, but they’d cover their nose and mouth with their hands as you passed them as if you’d done a particularly nasty fart.

Bit confused by this post as covid is still around. I still sanitise hands regularly and wash hands when I get home and get the children to do the same. Wouldn't say its bonkers just good practise to keep yourself and everyone else safe???

Made a written inventory of all our food, shopped with gloves on, wiped down front door handle and letterbox daily, made the children change clothes every time they came inside the house