Tell me the stupidest things that you've encountered during this pandemic

[Mommabear20]

So here's mine:
I look after my niece one day a week and last week it happened to fall on the day our grocery delivery was due, it arrived without my dogs food and we'd run out that morning, so loaded my DD and niece (6 month old and 1 year old) to the supermarket, literally went in, both girls in pushchair so she wasn't running wild, grabbed the dog food and headed to the till, she'd been very good so I grabbed her a individual packet of chocolate buttons as a treat from next to the till, only for the lady behind me to tut and say 'that's not exactly essential shopping is it! Idiots like you are the reason we're in this mess! You should be ashamed of yourself! Then again what do we expect from girls like you that have nothing better to do than keep popping out kids for the benefits!' 😂 I love people's assumptions!

1. Only 1 is actually mine,
2. Both girls we're planned and very much wanted,

And 3. I'm 26 and married 😂 I loved the look on her face when I turned round and informed her 'and I'm pregnant again!' 😂

@Springersrock that gentleman sounds like one of the MoP I have to deal with in my work. Are you in Kent by any chance?!

On Christmas Day we mixed with the 2 households as allowed.
Not seen since the summer one of the households dh sibling.

Dh sibling in the evening relative a friend , his wife and her brother round . We wasn't told they just knocked on with drinks all pre arranged me & dh were like wtf .
We were getting ready to go anyway but my dh in particular wasn't happy at all , not seen his sibling for so long and thinks it ok to invite other households round .

Schools being shut

People who don't understand why sometimes schools have to shut.

In July when Craig Whittaker a Tory MP claimed the virus spike was due to Asians and immmigrants mixing, not socially distancing and refusing to take the pandemic seriously.

Wonder which community the racist fuckwit is blaming for the current spike.

During first lock down dp overheard two women retuning clothes in the supermarket....... because they were made in China.

People who called covid it the "China Virus" complaining about the new more infectious strain being called the "English Variant"

Two -same person
Ex/colleague when it was the Thursday clapping would post that neighbours were bringing out crisp/snacks Proessco to share......(warm spring evenings...) The one organising it lived with her 93 year old mother...
Same person (London T4) often has visits from her exdh who lives in an houseshare on the Isle of Wight (was T1-now Tier 4-wonder why?) -most recently for Xmas and their three adult children from various places congregated there. Heard yesterday she has Covid symptoms, which she is describing as due to being ‘run down’. She works in a hospital( admin, not medical) and told friend that if she is still feeling bad on Monday will get a test at work.

I think it's reasonable to call it the Chinese virus... after all it did start there. It is more unreasonable to call the Spanish Flu the Spanish Flu, because that did not come from Spain.

And I know a few people who are boycotting Chinese-made items as it does seem a bit off that their economy is roaring along whilst we are going to be in ruins.

The modern thinking is not to name new germs after places where they arose. This is considered stigmatising and stigma doesn't reduce transmission. So A) the virus has a proper name to use instead B) the only reason to latch a placename onto its name is to express explicit vitriol at that place. Bad form.

'friends' on Facebook wearing masks round their chins and taking selfies and whilst hugging other 'friends' in indoor venues...presumably they then put their face masks back on after exposing themselves and each other rendering it completely useless, at least others around them will hopefully not be affected by their stupidity. Just wear the damn mask!

@yeOldeTrout

The modern thinking is not to name new germs after places where they arose. This is considered stigmatising and stigma doesn't reduce transmission. So A) the virus has a proper name to use instead B) the only reason to latch a placename onto its name is to express explicit vitriol at that place. Bad form.

In that case, a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire must have felt rather upset in 2019.

Both mumsnet posts

The poster who had paid 100k extra to live in a particular area who was furious that people from other areas were exercising in her village. Apparently they hadnt paid the 100k so had no right to be there. Arsehole

And the poster who didnt know how to handle a school gate mum who would always scoop her baby out of the buggy for a hug. During covid times.

I sent someone home from work because she had symptoms. She said she would just call into the car park office on the way out to sort out her parking issues. When I told her to go straight home and not to go anywhere she looked most offended. Fuckwit.

People donating crocheted face masks to hospitals.

A friend arrived to visit her mum to find she had died at home. She performed CPR while waiting for the ambulance to come. Ambulance arrives, friend is ushered from the room, then paramedic declares her dead. Friend is not allowed to go back into the room to say a final goodbye to her mum "because covid" - despite having performed CPR on her for half an hour already. 😡🙄

Oh and even more stupid - my friend had covid too, hence why she was the one checking on her mum who also had it.

@SeasonallySnowyPeasant

People donating crocheted face masks to hospitals.

that has to win the thread surely?

Tell me the stupidest things that you've encountered during this pandemic

Us4Then

Manager decided half way through 1st lockdown that she wanted to start visiting her parents again even though they were shielding due to COPD. We all get pulled into a team meeting only to be told that we need to limit OUR outside work interactions because we were her 'work bubble' and therefore she would blame us if one of them got sick

Oh god think it was my son started licking the pole on the bus some lady started sighing really loudly and giving me daggers. 🤦🏽‍♀️

Swimming pool was limiting numbers allowed in the pool. So people had to queue up---close together in a completely unventilated corridor. It was just ridiculous.

I remember a post from someone who was begging for permission to make the daily "walk" more interesting for her two small children, by doing a kind of mini treasure hunt---ie. where the kids would have to scout around and find a pebble in a particular color or a particular kind of twig or leaf or what have you. She got a bunch of posters shouting at her, "There is a PANDEMIC ON. You are not supposed to be TOUCHING THINGS." Yeah, because a respiratory virus is totally going to be spread by someone touching a piece of bark in an open-air park.

People who called covid it the "China Virus" complaining about the new more infectious strain being called the "English Variant"

That one cuts both ways. There have also been people huffing and puffing about how linking the virus to China in any way is vaguely "racist"---who are nevertheless quite happy to talk about this as being the English strain, Plague Island and all that.

Personally, I think we should avoid geographical linking of any virus to the place of origin. It stigmatizes the region in question.

Boycotting China is a different matter. There are plenty of reasons for doing this, including China's horrific human rights record.

The number of people pulling their mask down to talk to people in shops.
The number of people wearing their mask under their nose.

Strange how many people were "exempt" at the beginning. Here maybe only 2/3 of people were wearing masks when it first became mandatory, now I hardly ever see anyone not wearing a mask. Weird!

Do you gals seriously think there aren't difficult variants emerging in other countries, with huge populations and uncontrolled spread, like Brazil or USA. Come on. Don't be daft.