What's your most ridiculous covid moment?

[Iremembertheelderlykoreanlady]

Thought we could have a light hearted thread about covid (not intended to offend anyone. I know the whole situation has been awful and tragic and I can't wait for this to be over!)

Apart from a lot of jumping into bushes which i did early on, when walking past people in the fresh air, my most ridiculous moment came tonight.

After my son had his tea he came up to me and said "mum, that pizza tasted funny"

Cue a fairly major panic from me thinking, right, change in taste. I need to get him a test. Oh crap that means he'll miss dancing tomorrow.

Double crap we are supposed to have 2nd vaccine this week. That'll have to be rescheduled.

Triple crap! I've avoided covid this long and now I'm going to catch it 2 days before I'm fully vaccinated! (CV)

....then I remembered he had used corsodyl mouthwash just before (long story!)

Now I feel like a tit Anyone else...?

Going to the supermarket in April 2020 in a mask. I was the only one in there wearing one. I made it myself.

I should have bloody enjoyed and relished going to the supermarket without one when I had the choice!

Watching Contagion on the first weekend after lockdown.

I did a lot of these.
I also quarantined about 40 packets of crisps on the trampoline, they did keep falling off which was annoying.
Some friends ran a club and needed to get rid of them.

At about the end of February 2020 I was convinced people were going to go crazy, infrastructure was going to collapse etc - so I stocked up on torches, water purification tablets, tinned food. I’ll probably never get round to eating the tinned green beans.

I dodged most of the rest of the anxiety though, no quarantining deliveries or wiping things down, mainly through laziness. Having a teacher DH at school throughout probably helped, there was obviously no point quarantining a letter for 3 days and letting him through the door every day, although he did change clothes and shower immediately on getting home for the first few weeks.

Dd texted me from uni on a Tuesday a few weeks ago

‘Everyone in the house on Sunday will have to isolate’

Im 😳 dh and i have a jab on the saturday, that will have to be cancelled, i went for a walk with a friend on the Monday, ds2 will have to leave college and i wont be able to work

So i text back...why? Have you tested positive?

No reply

‘ have you had a test? Did it come up as positive? Answer when you can’

No reply, im getting a wee bit frantic cos obviously i need to start telling people!

‘ i know i said answer when you can but can it be now’

Than she texted back ....she had a test, it wasn’t positive but shed been told by the hospital she needed to isolate from THE FOLLOWING SUNDAY

So id got myself in a frenzy for nothing AND I’d obviously forgotten she was having the OP so was showing my bad mother credentials

I've observed the rules but nothing else. I work from home. I am fully vaccinated, twice (was in a trial last year). Socially distanced, been nowhere except walking the dog and stayed away from people. So how, just how, did I catch a bloody cold!

I've done absolutely nothing

When all this kicked off I didn't even wash my hands more & I've never had COVID!

A close friend of ours was like everyone on this thread though and doing bonkers stuff like quarantining mail and wiping down shopping & they both ended up floored with COVID.

Crisps on the trampoline

I stopped the wiping down the shopping thing when I nearly set the house on fire trying to sterilize the (delivered) newspaper in the oven.

Ladies and gentlemen we have a winner!

March 2020. DS clears his throat 3 times in a 24 hour period so I lock the entire household down for 14 days. The included a fun 2 days living off random crap in the bottom of the freezer because we’d run out of food and couldn’t get any delivery slots or anyone to shop for us.

It was DS’s mild seasonal allergies starting up. Just like they do in March of every other year.

Buying "essential" items whenever I brought alcohol just in case I was questioned by staff or stopped by police 😂

I wore a mask shopping in February last year. People thought I was mental. Didn't care tbh.
I worked in a hospital
I knew what was coming
I bought my masks before they were £35 for 50 (if lucky)
I wasn't ott with cleaning.
My habits didn't really change, I had always showered post shift
I just didn't let anyone near me until I was clean
I was probably more on it this yr when our ward became a covid mau and we had at least 4-5 cases a day. I had covid but husband hadn't (and still hasn't) but that was just spraying door handles 🤷🏻‍♀️

Mine was ridiculous for the opposite reason to most of these.
On 1st March last year I travelled by train to a one day crafting course. Trains were practically empty on the way, no worries. The person teaching the course had a second hand inkle loom to get rid of (sort of wooden frame with sticking out pegs) which I bought from her. On the way back the trains were really crowded and I was trying to avoid getting within 1m of anyone so I thought to myself ‘Never fear! I shall hold my inkle loom out in front of me to stop anyone getting too close and it will protect me!’
Of course we now know that if you are crammed into the end of a railway carriage of unmasked people, one of them coughing for the entire journey, breathing the same air, the fact that you have a magic inkle loom to stop anyone coming in 1m of you probably won’t help.

I see people wearing gloves at the supermarket to grab items and push the trolley..... then go in their pocket and touch their phone.

When the local police shamed a man on Facebook for driving to the park to walk his dog rather than walking there

DD2 did check earnestly with the GP right near the start of it all (GP wanted to see her face-to-face) that the Easter Bunny was Covid-Secure and could deliver her Easter eggs.

GP gamely played along with it.

That's probably about the most extreme thing - DD2 got very very anxious and mentally messed up so we've HAD to keep things very low key to protect her - things like distancing were done "so we don't make other people feel worried" out of politeness.

I didn't worry about contaminated shopping or post but I have been careful to follow the rules and do all the basics. Last summer we had a long overdue day out and were able to walk around the attraction mask less as outdoors. I nipped back in the shop at the end and totally forgot to put my mask back on. Honestly I felt like the devil incarnate and really beat myself up about it! My husband chased after me the children were mortified, I've come to realise we are not a family of rebels!

@Torvean

I've opened my mail or any other delivery when it arrived. I've never washed my food shopping after I got it home. I've taken public transport and been in hospitals and clinics.

Socially distanced and wore my mask.
Never had Covid.

Same here, except I did catch covid from my son who got it from school in December. So sanitising post really wouldn't have made any difference

@Sunglasses2

When the local police shamed a man on Facebook for driving to the park to walk his dog rather than walking there

That's so sad. People including police etc have gone bonkers over the last year.

When the full details come out in years to come including who died (the initial wave of deaths were sadly caused by people being sent from hospital to care homes) and how much risk there really was for most people we will look like we were crazed with some of the precautions taken. Children denied education during March onwards period for months. Awful

@SusannahSophia I had the same experience - we had a couple of online shops cancelled at the beginning of the first lockdown, and when I went to the supermarket to do a replacement shop I found a queue three hours long, a friend coming out saw me in the queue and told me not to bother, everything was gone. Thankfully I had quite a stash in the cupboards and we went for nearly a month living off cupboard stuff - the meals got a bit weird towards the end and we were drinking a lot of black coffee and tea! My mum shrieks about how overstuffed my cupboards are still, but honestly I have a bit of a fear now about not having a stash and I've become fanatical about saving leftovers and using up every scrap of food. I think my kids will be talking in years to come about how the fridge was always full of mystery leftovers and potato peelings to be saved up and fried as a snack in case we can't get crisps, the way we talk about people who lived through the war saving broken things for spare parts or bits of string.

On a more light hearted note, the only time I cried was the day before lockdown, I went to Majestic and bought wine (super essential obviously!) We were supposed to have had a party that weekend which was obviously cancelled and as I piled months' worth of booze in the cart I burst into tears wondering if we would ever have our friends over for a party again!!

Chucking all my clothes in the wash because a friends dog brushed past me and I thought it might have Covid on its fur.

Not me but a friend of my mum's put a birthday card in the microwave to sterilise it. Nearly burned the house down.

[quote Iremembertheelderlykoreanlady]@Remmy123

We had a similar situation. My MIL sanitised EVERYTHING. Barely left the house, even last summer when we could meet in gardens. The most she did was walk the dog around the block.

She got a (thankfully mild) dose of covid. How the hell that happened I don't know but it did make us all think if you can be that careful and still get it then what's the point?![/quote]
People don’t understand that outdoors isn’t magically protective. So walking past someone with covid who’s just breathed out and you breathe in means you get it. Hence all the people saying “but I washed my shopping” but would talk within 1m outside to the neighbours as the government did a great job convincing us outdoors was magic. Just think smokers in the winter how far their breath travels. Same with covid.

Some of us got yelled at by MNers for trying to say that a lot of the covid-avoidance behaviour (read examples on this thread) was highly unnecessary. I don't suppose there will be any apologies for that angry scolding?

fwiw, I was never afraid of virus but getting crazy criticised is rather unpleasant. I'll hide this thread on the presumption that I'm going to be yelled at again, tbh.

I set up go bags for every member of the household in the early days of lockdown that we kept by the front door.

Where we were ever going to go I've still no idea.

What baffles me even further was that upon emptying them a few months later I found a roll of toilet paper in each.

I rationalise my actions with it was a very traumatic few weeks during which I was convinced my mum was going to die. Mercifully, touch wood we appear to have made it out without the need for go bags with a few ridiculous stories for future telling.