What's your most ridiculous covid moment?

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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...?

The pandemic has left me mentally destroyed. Had health anxiety anyway but now it's completely ruined me.

I think mental health services are going to be even more overwhelmed for a long time.

Believing the mass hysteria on MN during the January peak.. I honestly believed people who were getting covid from their shopping bags or from going for a walk outside. I didn't leave my house because I thought I could get it from walking outside.

Wiping down cutlery and plates before eating in restaurants last summer..

It was roasting here early last summer, i drove through the local town with windows up in my car, sweltering, rather than risk catching people's germs in the air from other cars. Mental.

I bought a guitar in April last year but was so worried I quarantined it in its box for five days. My logic was that I couldn't antibac it and I didn't want to have to wash my clothes as well as hands if I used it sooner. When I finally opened it I discovered it was faulty and had to go back for an exchange! When the new one came I went through the whole quarantine bollocks again.

DH used to hold his breath whenever we passed anyone on our state sanctioned walks, until he realised he was getting dizzy from holding his breath so much

The best I heard though was a poster on here who used to put everything that came into her house in a 'low oven' for five minutes to kill germs!

@Ohcrapbags

The fucking palava of a takeaway arriving.

Could've cooked a three course meal myself in the time it took to get the pizza from the door and onto plates with much hand washing and wiping of surfaces inbetween each stage like the box carried the Black Death its self.

Did that twice and then it was back to pizza out the box straight from the door.

I could've written this myself!

Get delivery person to leave boxes on front step
Take boxes in, wash hands
Decant pizza/curry/whatever onto plates, wash hands
Take boxes straight to outside bin, wash hands
Wash and sanitise surfaces boxes had touched, wash hands
Eat tepid takeaway
Wash hands

I could do this routine in my fucking sleep

(Stopped by June/July last year though)

Stripping off grown up dd1s clothes in the porch and putting straight in washing machine when she came to visit us from massively infected East London. Unfortunately her earpods were in her hoodie pocket. We all laugh about that now.

We were walking along a canal towpath and had stopped right by the edge so that a group coming the other way could get past. Everyone did this in the first lockdown as the path is quite narrow. As the other group walked past us, first a cyclist and then a runner came zooming through the gap that we'd left between us, and I shouted at them both! It was because it was so inconsiderate and rude rather than out of any actual anxiety, but I do cringe looking back. I don't normally shout at people and I must have come across as a bit of a nutter

Myself and my OH were both key workers but in different sectors. The only precautions I took was to wear a mask and wash hands. OH's work was sprayed with an anti bacterial mist every 3 months and they've never worn masks. I didn't quarantine my post, wash my shopping or spray my children with anti bac. We all didn't catch Covid unless we had it without symptoms. Since December I've had to take weekly tests all have came back negative. I do have anxiety but our household tried not to worry too much about it all.

Not covid related, but I used to sterilise everything religiously when my PFB was a baby. Even dummies, teethers and cutlery. Until one day I caught him licking the wheels of his pram in the porch and realised it was pointless

Me too. I used to sterilise spoons etc too. Until someone gently told me that he was rolling around on the floor and was at nursery too! Oh well. Other parents used the dishwasher but we didn't have one at the time. :)

Like PPs, I also bought a very expensive bottle of isopropyl alcohol in a panic to make my own hand sanitizer in March. Right before lockdown, where we spent months not leaving the house except to walk to dog. I just threw it out a few weeks ago.

I constantly watched and listened to DH's slight cough that he gets due to his Ramapril blood pressure medication, I was absolutely convinced he was getting covid, he would sit at his laptop cough, cough and I sat on the settee watching him waiting for the cough and saying have you got a cough. I didn't really notice it before and don't now come to think of it.

February 2020 I saw a man walking down the street wearing a face mask and rubber gloves. I messaged my DH in shock and we both had a good laugh about it....

I kid you not, one of our patients very early on last year asked if he could have COVID as he'd had a Chinese takeaway the night before.

Don't know if this counts or if I just gave a few people their odd moments. Early on before we had lockdown I was wearing a mask in the shop(had a close relative in hospice and I didn't want to risk bringing anything in there). Good few people giving me odd looks/wide eyes. I didn't care so didn't think much of it. Didn't realise until I got home that it was probably a combination of the mask and a 'Protect and Survive' tshirt that made me look a bit mad...

During the first lockdown an Amazon driver was leaving a parcel at my door when I opened the door. He stepped the 2 metres away from me and into the road. A passing truck missed him by literally a few centimetres.
He then looked quite shocked by what happened so I went towards and asked if he was OK. He then stepped away again into the road and this time very nearly got hit by a car. At this point I thought it safer if I just said thank you, picked up the parcel and went back inside.

A paramedic friend of mine went to a house where a man have suffered a severe heart attack. Anyway they stabilised him but he was still in a bad way / touch and go.
They explained that they would need to take him to hospital when he got very agitated saying he didn't want to go because he might get Covid.
My friend un more diplomatic and polite words explained that whilst there was indeed a small chance he might get Covid but if he didn't go to hospital then there was a very strong he would die of the heart attack.

Not me, but my DC's cellophane-wrapped gifts for their classmates (it was DC's birthday) were quarantined for 72 hours this week by the school .

At one point after the height of it all, one of our pet rats sneezed in my mouth (not envy) and my brain shouted "THE PLAGUE!"

Reader, I lived longer than the poor girl did. Miss that little bugger.

Also using dettol wipes to wipe down a newly bought pack of dettol wipes. And a sealed cucumber. My mum raised an eyebrow at me then and we both got the giggles

waving at the new arrivals from wuhan in the accommodation blocks of our local hospital, laughing at the local hysteria and thinking this will all blow over soon........

The opposite of this, I bought a pack of 3 blue masks this time last year, thinking I was being a bit ridiculous and they were a waste of money.

I’ve got a million now, in every bag, every coat pocket, glove box. I’ll be finding them in strange places for years to come.

@MyGhastIsFlabbered

I kid you not, one of our patients very early on last year asked if he could have COVID as he'd had a Chinese takeaway the night before.

Gosh yes you’ve reminded me of the nasty fact that Chinese takeaways /Resturants were almost boycotted at one stage weren’t they. Ridiculous

Some of these are brilliant! I also remember the endless threads of what was considered an essential item when shopping. In particular the “milk is not an essential item!!!!” hysteria and I almost could hear the yells of the posters and feel their blood boiling. They were probably more likely to have a heart attack with how stressed they got about someone buying 2 cucumbers (there really was a thread criticizing someone got buying 2 cucumbers) than suffer badly from COVID. I had to smirk to myself, here in a state where the list of essential items/businesses included marijuana farms and shops and liquor stores. We were all getting high and drunk but back in the UK people were losing their shit over cucumbers.

And what was the obsession with anti-bac everywhere? What use is that against a virus?

I work in a supermarket and early on in the first wave of panic buying a customer told me off as people pick things up and put them back on the shelf, we should enforce having to buy everything you touch. I asked how he would enforce this, was he offering to roam the aisles? Which obviously didn't go down well, then explained that the products where touched by at least 1 other person anyway as a member of staff would have put things on the shelf in the first place, and we couldn't make the nights team buy everything they touch there is a 3 item limit