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 😂😭

None of this. Washed my hands a bit more, that was all. DH and I sat on a packed tube train (very limited service) twice a day. Then worked in close proximity to dozens of colleagues, no masks available. Had to come home to DD who’d been sat on her own all day doing home schooling, for months on end, poor sod. Would trudge up the hill while people were having the 8am NHS clap/ excuse for street party and wanted to shout that they'd lost their fucking minds.

A mass hysteria descended. When the second months long lockdown started I felt a murderous kind of rage.

@starfro I am CEV. I wasnt scared of dying, I was scared that it could make my condition permanently worse - a real possibility before I was vaccinated.

@Messilia

Took my teenage son grocery shopping with me when the first lockdown came in and everyone was panic buying

Not to help carry it, but in case he needed to fight

This is hilarious. Really got me giggling. They were weird times, weren't they?

Hmm some of these 'crazy' things really aren't that crazy.

What if Fomite transmission had been more of an issue? Then wiping surfaces and washing groceries etc. would have made total sense. We only know in hindsight that it was less of an issue.

What if transmission outside was possible? Then avoiding walking past people with Covid would make sense.

etc. etc.

I did use to give the shopping a wipe. Then I realised how utterly mad it was, gave myself a shake and stopped.

@msc6199

Crossed the road to walk on the opposite pavement if somebody was walking along my current stretch of pavement!

I still do this 😂

Transmission outside is possible, it is just far less likely.

I think the only crazy thing I did was stock up on loads of cupboard/frozen foods "just in case"
I was never bothered about catching covid as it was pretty obvious from early on the demographic who were getting seriously ill.
I dont know anyone who went crazy bleaching/decontaminating but then I find the amount of health anxiety on here is crazy and not my experience of folk in general.
I do wonder if there is an element of folk trying to outdo each other?

@Notdoingthis

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

I couldn't agree more. I can't believe people did any of this stuff. How could they let themselves be so brainwashed?

@MrsBerthaRochester I think people who are vulnerable/CEV are more likely to spend time on social media.

I was bored and I needed a leg wax so I tweezered the hairs out one by one

Brainwashed my eye, it was just taking precautions until we had more information. It was a novel situation and we are only in the position of making fun of it now because of the vaccine.

Was it that crazy? Before the surface thing got downgraded… I’m sure there was a stage where transmission wasn’t so loaded towards by air

I find looking back at this less crazy than the long lockdown stages which left more of an impact

I was paranoid about people getting too near me even momentarily outdoors. This culminated in my seeing someone who was getting FAR too close to me. Did they want to kill me??!! And worse, would they succeed???!!!Did they not know about social distancing???!!!... Then I looked again, and realized that the non-social-distancer was MY OWN SHADOW!

Still feels too soon for me to be reflective on this stuff. Felt so awful and dystopian to take my 3 kids out for their exercise and have others leap off the pavement to keep their social distance. It was a truly awful time, kids missing their friends and school, no definite end to lockdown, queues for supermarkets, essentially people seeing each other as a health threat. Personally not ready to be nostalgic for lockdown 1

@stairway

We bought nicotine patches when French doctors thought smokers didn’t suffer so much from covid. I tried one and it made me so queasy.

So you tried to take up nicotine? 😂!

I carried my allotment holder's contract in my bag whenever I left the house! The council told us to do it in case the police challenged us during lockdown if we were in our way to water plants/feed chickens!

Feel like a total nutcase now!

Oh, I also had a really useful box of food that my five year old could probably open by himself and gave him lessons on how to open food packaging, in case DH and I both got very ill on the same day (whilst DS was still OK as he was so young) and couldn't get out of bed to feed him for 24 hrs. This had very nearly happened twice previously in his life but was saved by grandparents, who were not available in covid. I didn't tell DS about the box so I didn't scare him as I felt it was likely we'd have enough time after starting to become ill to do a briefing.

@Workinghardeveryday

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?!

I haven't touched cash for 2 years! My car now does about 1000 miles a year as I'm still WFH and don't really go anywhere I'm back to avoiding supermarkets again at the minute

The most crazy thing I did was to assume in March 2020 that Covid would magically disappear around about June 2020!

I took a lot of other precautions- some of which still make sense (e.g. wearing a mask early on in the pandemic) and others which don't now (e.g. wiping shopping) in retrospect but as a sufferer of severe OCD including a contamination obsession I identify with a lot of the behaviours and anxieties listed above as part of my normal everyday life! March 2020 was like 'Contamination OCD-lite' (believe me it can be worse) for a lot of people.

@HippeePrincess

Stood outside my step grans house and put shopping on her doorstep standing back from the door once or twice a week for months.

Stuck to "the rules" for the most part, didn't see family for months.

Met up with 4 family members outside in the middle of fucking nowhere for a walk and we walked in a 3 and a 2 swapping over every so often because of "the rules"

This makes me so sad. My friend did that with her family, and her dad eventually got Covid and passed away.

It wasn't brainwashing though. In March 2020 we knew very little about Covid and we were being told, every day, 24/7 on news bulletins that it was exceptionally serious. The coverage from Italy was just terrifying. The stay ay home, the don't kill granny.

I had to ban myself from watching the news, had to disable all the alerts on my phone and limit my viewing to fluff like antiques roadtrip and say yes to the dress as I just couldn't cope with the FEAR the main news channels were putting out. The coverage was designed to scare and to induce compliance with lockdown. Being scared by it all was not a personal failing.

I totally get why we all did unhinged and daft things in March 2020.

Not me, but one of my friends was quarantining her shopping and post, antibac wiping it when it came in the house, wearing disposable gloves if she went out.

She cringes at the memory now.

If I was out walking the dog, I’d regularly see people practically throw themselves in the hedgerows or road to keep a distance 😂

Filled the car with petrol right before lockdown 1. WE WEREN’T ALLOWED TO GO ANYWHERE.

Gave birth in a mask.

We didn’t know anything then. It was at the beginning. It was fucking hideous.