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!' 😂

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

Where's that, @DdraigGoch? Sorry to be dim but I can't work out what you mean.

There's a village called "Swine". And that should read 2009, not 2019.

Ah makes sense. I have spent a lot of time in that area but couldn't for the life of me think of a village with a COVID reference!

@Skysblue

Gavin Williamson, followed closely by Boris Johnson.

Rishi Sunak is way ahead of those two on the "most stupid" list. He's absolutely clueless.

How about nurses in a cancer day treatment unit who go patient to patient doing "obs" without changing gloves, without wiping the blood pressure cuff and without wiping the finger oxymeter? Then they wonder why covid and other diseases (like norovirus) spread like wildfire in hospitals!

Someone wearing 3masks.

I remember someone on here telling a poster than going out for MILK wasn't essential......

I think this was me! I was told that bread and milk were not essential and that I should do "one big shop of non perishable goods" (because going to the shop once a week is TOO OFTEN!!) and that if DS didn't like any of those goods well then tough

Someone I know spent all the the first lockdown ranting on social media that people should just STAY AT HOME!!! Guess who went to the pub with her husband on the day they re-opened?

A friend of mine had the police knock on her door because someone reported her for going to work when she had an isolating teen. The teen was only isolating because her school bubble had burst yet the police officer still tried to tell my friend she was breaking the rules

Dominos stopping half and half pizzas

The dominos reduced topping choice has been a blow.

The people at work telling me about scamdemic, lizards, chemtrails. Bonkers.

Dominos stopping gluten free! Like a pandemic magically cures coeliacs!

Definitely dominos stopping half and half.

Domino's reducing their menu full stop.

Why?

My Dad being seen by 2 doctors and a nurse (in his house) over the course of 72hrs and not one of them realising that he quite clearly had Covid symptoms. The last doctor to see him diagnosed a bowel perforation from standing at the bedroom door.

2 paramedics walking into the house not wearing any PPE despite me meeting them outside wearing gloves and a mask to tell them that my Dad was not only displaying Covid symptoms, but looked and sounded EXACTLY like I did when I had severe pneumonia.

He can't have Covid, doctor says he has a suspected bowel perforation.

Take a wild guess what was actually wrong with my Dad?

@FrangipaniBlue

My Dad being seen by 2 doctors and a nurse (in his house) over the course of 72hrs and not one of them realising that he quite clearly had Covid symptoms. The last doctor to see him diagnosed a bowel perforation from standing at the bedroom door.

2 paramedics walking into the house not wearing any PPE despite me meeting them outside wearing gloves and a mask to tell them that my Dad was not only displaying Covid symptoms, but looked and sounded EXACTLY like I did when I had severe pneumonia.

He can't have Covid, doctor says he has a suspected bowel perforation.

Take a wild guess what was actually wrong with my Dad?

Oh dear god.

Mentioned on another thread but I know someone (who I thought was a generally level-headed, rational person) who thinks anyone breaking rules should be charged with murder or manslaughter.

Bowel cancer screening tests not being sent out.

The sheer number of posters who so vigorously share their ill informed opinions of how the pandemic should be managed. Particularly those who I had previously had some respect for. I had never realised these were so many people so willing to broadcast their breathtaking ignorance.

@GrapeLipBalm

I remember people who were regular runners complaining about people going on walks during lockdown who didn't usually do so. As if running before lockdown gave you some sort of "using the outdoors" permit that other people shouldn't be entitled to.

Ah but do you know how much stick those regular runners are still getting now from people who usually wouldn't dream of walking? The amount of times we get accused of spreading our germs, the hysteria from some people because a runner got to close for a fleeting second. And this is from people who don't understand the rules for walking on unpaved back roads or get the concept of walking in single file or even moving to one side of the path.

That people get all worked up about the shit that is on here posted by anonymous people that could be anyone.

Shouted at and stick waved for walking past an old mans house “we are in the middle of a global pandemic” 🙄. It was June my 12 year old and I were miles from his house just walking along a country lane in the village I grew up in.

In the summer I was at a museum place and there were barriers to herd people to queue for the loo. Only the place was entirely empty so I ignored the barriers and walked straight into the loo. A cleaner shouted at me to use the barrier so I had to go back and walk along the barrier. In an entirely empty room🙄. Then she stood right in the doorway so I had to squeeze past her!

Some kind of running club in my local small park-about 10 teenage girls running in formation (3 abreast, shoulder to shoulder and about 50cm behind one another) with one middle aged woman bringing up the rear. And, on a narrow path with loads of other people, cycles, dogs etc.

This was London, tier 4, a few days before lockdown.

Any infected, almost certainly all infected.

My elderly neighbour who is clinically vunerable, who continues to pick up his key workers son's children from school every day and have them at his house until the son gets back from work. As if the support bubble offers some magical protection...

I remember someone on here telling a poster than going out for MILK wasn't essential......

I was told on mn that milk and bread were not 'essential'. Truly bonkers.

My seven year old GS not being allowed to bring in sweets on his Birthday in December ( as is usual in the class) due to possibility of cross contamination. The following day the teacher accepted a whole class gift for Christmas from the parents.

Libraries not letting you touch books, but shops and supermarkets are a free for all with people allowed to touch items freely and put them back.