How has Covid turned your world upside down? (lighthearted)

[OutComeTheWolves]

Two things really stand out for me:

1. I fucking hate Piers Morgan. I think he's an elitist, misogynistic liar who was obviously rejected by a Meghan Markle and is now being creepy about it. Yet ever since March I've found myself agreeing with every opinion he loudly spouts. Has corona changed me or has it changed Piers? Who knows but it's freaking me out.

2. In a total role reversal from my teenage years my elderly parents are now the 'don't give a fuck' rule breakers while I look on in despair. They are absolute sticklers for a good rule so I didn't see this coming, but they now bend the corona restrictions as though they're invincible despite being on the wrong side on 70 with a number of other conditions.
   6 people meeting up means up to 6 adults, obviously they're not counting children too you can have as many of those in the group as you want.
   You can definitely hug and hold hands with your grandkids as long as you don't kiss them too. That's probably how it's spread.
   If someone has to go through your house to sit in your back garden, well they might as well just stay in the house and chat in the lounge.
   2 metres is about equivalent to 15 cms.
   When bojo said about using your own plates etc if eating in someone's garden, he wasn't talking about cups for drinking. You can definitely share those.
   You can obviously give random people on your street a lift if it's for something important & you open the window.
   And yesterday my dad (who has a car) got the bus without a face covering presumably just for shits and giggles.

I'm bored while dh is watching sport, so if anyone else has a similar tale, I'd love to hear it.

Agree to Piers Morgan. I don’t watch GMTV now because of his scare mongering.

Your parents

For me it’s realising that I need to delete a hell of a lot of family and friends of facebook as they have acted like complete donkeys through this epidemic

Can’t think of anything to add but had to 😆😆 at this.

“And yesterday my dad (who has a car) got the bus without a face covering presumably just for shits and giggles.”

I can imagine my mum doing similar.

@Carlotacoffee I haven't deleted anyone yet because I'm too nosy, but I've noticed a lot of people criticising others on Facebook for 'breaking' the rules (ie when the papers we're showing loads of people on Brighton beach or buying random shit from b&m) while totally breaking the rules themselves.

A relative has posted non-stop shite about all the blm protests and how anyone attending should be refused medical treatment should they later catch covid. He literally had a house party the other week. There must've been about 25 people in his house when I begrudgingly (at my mum's request) FaceTimed to check he was ok. I'm secretly gutted I wasn't invited too; it takes the sheen off my judgyness a bit when it just looks like sour grapes.

My parents too.

Back in March 'Yes, we've chosen to isolate... met Sheila at co op, she's isolating too'

'Yes, dad has stopped going out to work completely now.. he's only doing jobs in empty buildings'

'Why is anyone going to the shops, what do they need so urgently? When we were in Mark's and Spencer's yesterday a bloke leaned right over me...'

And so on, continuously. My dad is borderline diabetic, 75, had clots on his lungs last year and on blood thinners. Mum has a clotting disorder and is 74. FFS.

[quote OutComeTheWolves]@Carlotacoffee I haven't deleted anyone yet because I'm too nosy, but I've noticed a lot of people criticising others on Facebook for 'breaking' the rules (ie when the papers we're showing loads of people on Brighton beach or buying random shit from b&m) while totally breaking the rules themselves.

A relative has posted non-stop shite about all the blm protests and how anyone attending should be refused medical treatment should they later catch covid. He literally had a house party the other week. There must've been about 25 people in his house when I begrudgingly (at my mum's request) FaceTimed to check he was ok. I'm secretly gutted I wasn't invited too; it takes the sheen off my judgyness a bit when it just looks like sour grapes. [/quote]
My Aunty was actually calling for the army to be brought in because people were not following the rules in regards to essential travel only blush]

Then posted a picture of her and her family on a hill side with the hash tag #socialdistancingatitsfinest

Honestly I don’t think I’ll look at some people in the same light ever ever again after this

keep safe and sane- sometimes doing both together is harder than it seems

@ohthegoats

My parents too.

Back in March 'Yes, we've chosen to isolate... met Sheila at co op, she's isolating too'

'Yes, dad has stopped going out to work completely now.. he's only doing jobs in empty buildings'

'Why is anyone going to the shops, what do they need so urgently? When we were in Mark's and Spencer's yesterday a bloke leaned right over me...'

And so on, continuously. My dad is borderline diabetic, 75, had clots on his lungs last year and on blood thinners. Mum has a clotting disorder and is 74. FFS.

Oh crap.

That did make me laugh though!

I've had coronavirus, I'm still wheezing when I cough.

I have a couple of novelty, balaclava style masks, a handmade cotton one from Etsy and some 'surgical'style ones from Aldi (of all places ) - I'm now prepared for all social occasions

I can't get decent sandpaper for love nor money

The trips to and from work are like something out of a dystopian future, where only those of any use are allowed to travel.

There are no shops open, no ads on the billboards, except about Coronavirus, thanking NHS and key workers and 'Is your journey really necessary? and barriers and police everywhere

The skin on my hands is hard and dry from all the handwashing - my phone doesn't recognise my fingerprints anymore as I don't have any

Netflix is throwing up some interesting choices

My SM friends are glueing crocheted flowers to cards, photographing dandelions and taking more and more photos whenever they walk their dogs.

I'm agreeing with Piers too, OP!

@ohthegoats that made me laugh;your parents sound very similar to mine. Who would've predicted the over 70s becoming the anarchists!

@universally on a serious note I think you're right. Unless you're a major introvert, a lot of the measures designed to help us aren't great for mental health at all. I think that's the reason behind all of the rule bending. Everyone is just trying to find their best way through this.

Pre pandemic I had become pretty sure that my MiL suffers from health anxiety as she makes such a huge fuss over any slightest possible health issue and obsesses over where anyone might have caught x cold or y virus, how long it would last for and whether medical advice has been sought. Understandable, as she suffers from poorly controlled asthma and various auto-immune disorders.

However, guess who has regularly been visiting friends throughout lockdown? She claims that she has barely been out of the house but has slipped up from time to time and revealed more than she planned. The last thing was giving us a tonne of ingredients saying "You use these up. I bought them for a recipe but won't eat them myself". Oh yeah, just who have you been cooking for then? We also arranged for her to have food delivered and for us to shop for her at least once a week, but the last time she spoke she was able to give us a critique of the local food shops in her area and which ones did or did not make her feel safe.

I still think that she has a degree of anxiety, but I also think that she can get a hold of it when it suits her.

It gets worse in our family.

100 year old grandmother is staying in to be safe, by walking down to the shops EVERY FUCKING DAY.

When we questioned it she just said 'you have no idea what it's like to be over 90, over 90 is just different.. so shush'

I never thought that going into the office would be such a treat! Or that I’d be so pleased to be stuck in a traffic jam because it was a sign of normality.

I can identify several breeds of bird that previously, if I’d even noticed them, I would have lumped together as ‘sparrows’.

I could understand it if my parents were natural rule breakers but they went through the 60s and 70s without a hint of rebellion.

I don't know why but I just love the fact that all the teenagers and younger adults I know are being really careful and all the older people are just doing whatever the fuck they want. My mum is the type that usually agonises over 'rules' for everything, even made up ones - no jeans in church, is there too much cream in this dress to wear it for Sue's wedding, a lady doesn't walk up to a bar, a lady doesn't drink from a pint glass. It's just giving me a bit of joy to finally see her wild side!

Nex18 you're so right. If someone had told me in January that a trip to the shops on my own or a day in work without simultaneously looking after my own kids would be a lovely treat, I'd have thought they were crazy. Yet here I am sitting in the Tesco car park on my phone to eek out a few extra minutes out the house.

@Saucery

I can identify several breeds of bird that previously, if I’d even noticed them, I would have lumped together as ‘sparrows’.

To be fair, I think that's quite impressive!

I was excited to see an aeroplane in the sky yesterday. I live really close to an airport and it's been really weird not having them flying over.

Outcome I saw a plane too on a walk the other day. I was really confused at first and it took me a few seconds to remember what it was .

I've turned into such a rule breaker. Not major things, but the completely pointless nonsensical stuff like nit going out more than once a day when we live in the country, driving more than 5 miles and walking at a distance with a friend before it was allowed.

I am not missing 'air kissing' which some of DH's extended family seem to enjoy.

@Orangeblossom78 I'm with you on that one. I'm only really comfortable with hugging very close family members. I have always felt awkward about all the hugging and air kissing with extended family and friends. Have preferred meeting friends and keeping two metres distance from them rather than feeling obliged to do hugs and kisses.

My parents are more worry than the kids. Mid March, so when the virus was swilling around, my dad came home from hospital after having cancer surgery on the bus?! Wtf! Despite me and my sister being on stand by to collect him. The 2 of them were then strolling round the shops on a daily basis despite having a fully stocked fridge for things like rolls and corned beef! Thankfully after I told them off they got a bit more sensible!