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!' 😂

The only walk for an hour a day brigade

Our local ( 2 minutes walk from the house) beach being absolutely packed during first lockdown with people exercising. The council had closed all car parks and public toilets so the roads were a nightmare. We ended up walking the dog in the city centre as it ws very quiet there.

Wow reading some of these I feel lucky to not have encountered such madness! 🤣 I'd probably say myself back in March/April having constant arguments with DP when he brought the shopping in shouting to scrub his hands and dettoling absolutely every item of shopping 🤦🏽‍♀️

People wanting jogging and cycling banned. Claiming people going running were killing people. The drama of someone eating a packet of crisps on a bench. Someone on here arguing that bread wasn't essential and people should make do with crackers.

Second to all of that the Dominic Cummings saga and all of the ministers backing his story.

The government’s new plan to allow close contacts of covid cases to go out every day and mix with 60 other people with no social distancing or masks. This is ok because they’ll self-administer a test which has a 50% failure rate even when used by medical professionals. You couldn’t make it up, could you?

The exam marking fiasco with the computer algorithms and the resulting U-turn after A level results day. I fear there might be similar this summer 🙁

The man in Tesco who pulled his mask down, coughed, then put his mask back on. 🙈

People disinfecting their shopping! Quarantining items at school. The lack of critical thinking.

the shutting gyms but keeping open takeaways...when obesity is a major risk factor for Covid. Why wasn't there a campaign to get people to lose weight over the last 8 months or so...

My adult DD was in our local Tesco express. She was having an ongoing spat on Twitter about their shops not enforcing mask wearing.

Two separate people, behind in in the queue to pay were not wearing masks. DD asked shop assistant why they weren't displaying the mandatory mask poster (she'd been assured on twitter, that all their shops had them and displayed them).

The person behind her piped up and said that people are not legally required to wear a mask in shops ( they were/ are unless exempt). The next person chimed in saying, no it's not legally required, it's only mandatory.

D D opened her mouth to explain the legal meaning of mandatory and then decided you cannot argue with stupid so just shrugged and contacted the local manager who confirmed she hadn't actually received the poster.
She continued spat with Tesco HQ

Stupid woman having a massive go at DH when we were out for a walk the other day, because he wasn’t wearing a mask. Outside. There was hardly anyone about, it was incredibly rural, and she moved closer than 2m to have a go at him! 🤦🏻‍♀️

@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.

@Redbrickwall I remember you posting about that at the time! Absolutely ridiculous, hope your DC is better now.

Oh and on the other side- extended family taking my 92 year old grandad out for a pub lunch before tier 4 kicked in, to “lift his spirits”. So glad we’ve been running ourselves ragged to keep him safe since March now 🙄

People.

Someone called me mental for not banning DPs children from our house until we'd been vaccinated.

In the first lockdown when Tesco's had a one way system, it's a massive extra store and I don't shop there often so wasn't sure where everything was, I was looking for the bacon but realised I had gone passed it and it was behind me on my left, as I tried to reverse back to it I got shouted at by the guy restocking at the end of the empty aisle, he insisted I had to go to the end of the aisle down the next one which was actually busy and then back round 🤷‍♀️ so I walked passed 15 people instead of taking 5 steps back.

Also tried to go into matalan, I wanted a sheet for my spare bed and knew exactly where it was in the shop, but got told I had to follow the arrows up and down every aisle rather than go pick up the item and just pay for it. I walked out, and won't be going back.

Oh, also one of my friends told me I was irresponsible for not getting a covid test after I mentioned that I felt tired following 3 nights of bad sleep.

@Nohomemadecandles

Primary school isolating Christmas cards for three days was a good one.

@Nohomemadecandles what the?! I laughed out loud at this.

I just saw a FB post from someone slagging off all the people in Tesco today....don't they know we are in Tier 4 and its New Years Eve etc.
How did she know it was so busy.....because she was in there doing her shopping

My next door neighbour saying she bad stuck to all of the rules late on in the summer having sunned herself silly in the garden, while my kids did online learning. She looked like a baked bean.

She also used to 'police' the Thursday night clap and comment if you did not turn up 😁

In September she fucked off to her second home (abroad) and came back last week and went out the following day and has proceeded to break her self isolation/quarantine

People, stupid people, from this unable to distance, to those who are acting like it's the end of time... but in general is people

Just to show we're not the only bonkers nation, this one's from another European country. At the school concerned, children were kept in their classes and didn't mix at break/lunch etc, similar to our primary schools.

Not allowed - school library, due to "risk of transmission between classes via books"
Not allowed - PE, due to...who knows why?
Allowed - chess club, which involves various children from different classes sitting opposite each other at fairly close range for about 30 mins, then sitting across from a different child. Wtf?!

The 'schools are safe' mantra.

One of the funny things I have noticed was in the early days hardly anyone was wearing masks. Nobody bats an eyelid at all the maskless people walking around
In July the government decide to make them mandatory indoors. Suddenly everyone feels "not safe" around a few exempt people not wearing them

At no point was one hour specified as the allotted exercise time and I don't know why anyone thought it was. People got very grumpy when others went out for a walk for a couple of hours in our village!