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!' 😂

After I put my mask on to enter a supermarket, a young woman rolling her eyes at me laughing and saying to her 3 friends "I'd rather get coronavirus".

Did ye, aye?

@TheLeastBit
I think it was butter ... fucking batshit ..who the fuck has actually used butter as an alternative to milk in tea or coffee I’d rather go without to be honest ..

I’ve just had a don’t be twats and mass gather post today ... hunbelievable from someone that’s done nothing but mix all Christmas.. then was told off for posting a long rant about their twattishness

Our local police Facebook page (Tandridge) posted in the first lockdown about a man who'd driven his dog to his local park to walk it. Obviously must have a lot of time on their hands.

My sister's employers ( a small family firm) were named and shamed for keeping their "non-essential production going" and for "not allowing their employees to wfh". This was a firm making body bags at the time with industrial size sewing machines and a work force who voted to not wfh as they didn't want the products there.

There was also the day (in April), I was called out for giving my dad a lift in my car. I was taking him to mum's funeral at the time but apparently "he should have driven himself there", he was 82 years old and grieving but some people just did not care and it upset him deeply. Funnily enough it was those same people who were full of sympathy and condolences when he died in November.

MN is the stupidest thing I’ve encountered in this pandemic

People on here not believing what is happening in ICU at the moment and attacking a doctor for talking about?

That's awful trapped. I'm really sorry for your losses

Can I go and visit XYZ in another tier on repeat.

@TheLeastBit
I think it was butter ... fucking batshit ..who the fuck has actually used butter as an alternative to milk in tea or coffee I’d rather go without to be honest ..

Apparently this was a "thing" in olden times but it sounds revolting to me.

The Welsh Government, followed closely by the UK government.

[quote HaveANiceFuckingDay]@TheLeastBit
I think it was butter ... fucking batshit ..who the fuck has actually used butter as an alternative to milk in tea or coffee I’d rather go without to be honest ..[/quote]
Ummmmm.......It's called Bulletproof coffee? A staple on keto.

But every day at work. So many calls from dipshit neighbours about a 'party' next door. Using Covid as an excuse to harass them. We get there and it's a normal family having their tea, or it's the middle of the night and everything is quiet and in darkness. Just why?

trapped that is truly twattish behaviour. I'm so sorry for your losses, it must be so hard losing both parents in a year

I've had butter coffee in Tibet and it's delicious. I wouldn't try it with Nescafe and Flora though!

My personal highlight was a thread something like "AIBU to be really enjoying lockdown?" Cue lots of pp bragging about how they've had a perfectly lovely time with their naice little family in their big house in the country with a huge garden, with lots of jabs about how they couldn't possibly understand why other people are struggling, they're all whiny snowflakes with no resilence who are just being melodramatic for attention. Other posters were literally posting stuff like, "I'm a single mother in a one-bedroom flat with a toddler, this is hell" or "My industry has ceased to exist I have no idea how I'm going to pay the bills or what my future will be" and were still being called attention-seeking snowflakes.

I very politely asked if the people wealthy and privileged enough to be unaffected by lockdown could please celebrate their good fortune without attacking those less fortunate. One poster threw an almighty tantrum and posted a string of posts calling me bitter and vindictive.

The posts on here about people only being allowed outside for an hour to exercise even if you lived in the country/had a big garden and were not going to see another person never mind come anywhere near one. No logic at all.

Yes, apparently rural stile are one of the main transmissions sites. What are MNers doing to stiles, licking them?

There was about a 20-page absolute bunfight of a thread because a poster who was struggling with MH problems wanted to go and sit in an empty field with two friends. Much debate about whether the friends should come in one at a time then swap places (while the other waited on the road), or whether the OP should place them in different parts of the field and go between them, or if the OP was killing old people by going into a private field in the first place.

@DBML

The Welsh Government, followed closely by the UK government.

Hey, Uk government are surely worse ?

@Redbrickwall

I was put on a Facebook shaming post for driving my children to a car park to practice their bike riding without stabilisers. I was shamed because I had driven and at the time, you could only exercise within walking distance from your home.

One of my children had a broken foot hence me driving. I live in the village. There was no other fucker around.

People have lost all their reasoning skills.

This is ringing a bell to me, did you post about it on mumsnet? If not then I think we may live in the same area full of the FB police

Bojo saying on live TV that “some people were going to die” as an excuse to do fuck all and let the virus rip through the country.

@herecomesthsun

Well, it’s a tough one. But I base my order on the fact that:

1. The Senedd don’t like to make decisions. They often pass the buck to LAs.
2. Mark Drakeford constantly blames everyone else and is so damn boring to listen to, I’m surprised anyone makes it through his Covid updates.

Many of the complaints I have about the Senedd are the same as the UK government, but on top of that I hate how Welsh gov criticise the UK gov and then perform equally bad or worse. For instance the firebreak, which turned out to be completely pointless.

So as I said, a tough one, but being in Wales, I expected more of our leaders.

@draughtycatflap

Bojo saying on live TV that “some people were going to die” as an excuse to do fuck all and let the virus rip through the country.

Add to that "our thoughts are with their loved ones"...I just wanted to scream "that you expect to grieve alone with no help and no thought for their mental health". Being told we couldn't get together after Mum's funeral and dad was expected to be left on his own was like a kick in the stomach....that was one rule we broke. Wakes were allowed for dad's funeral, but if they weren't we would have broken that rule as well.

I've seen loads of people doing idiotic things and posting on social media about it, but what really made me despair in humanity was watching another customer in the petrol station pull his mask down under his chin, then sneeze into the open - no attempt to cover his face at all. Then put his mask back on properly

I agree with the Sage scientist Professor Susan Michie tweeting that BJ saying schools are safe is pretty stupid
"PM Boris Johnson says today that schools are safe. This is untrue & prevents the necessary measures that need to be taken to make them safe eg. ventilation & distancing (which requires space in unused buildings & extra staff). See plan for safe schools from
@IndependentSage

DH and I used to frequent a local climbing/bouldering wall until closed for various tiers and lockdowns in September time. I saw a middle aged gentleman who wasn't wearing a mask at all, coughed violently into his hands, wiped them on his shorts and then went and climbed putting his hands all over the wall and climbing holds. We left shortly after, washing our hands an excessive number of times.

@sqirrelfriends
Yeah I posted about it on here .