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...?

Not much, we over bought and froze food at the start, which we didn’t need to do, and I wiped the shopping once before deciding that was a ballache I wasn’t going to ever repeat again. 😂

@greyspottedgoose

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

That reminds me. On my first lockdown Tesco trip I ended up with 12 yoghurts that were all about to go out of date. I had a sneaky look behind me to see if I could get away with putting them back on the shelf, but was being watched by the customer behind me. I picked up another 4-pack only to find they were on their last day too, then repeated the process with yet another pack with exactly the same results. Had to go home and persuade our two children to eat 12 yoghurts...

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

If it has a high enough alcohol content, which most of them do, it's effective against viruses

@lljkk

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'm with you!

Was worried about getting ill at the start, but just increased hand hygiene, and started taking vitamin c and d.

The level of crazy some got to was just nuts, and I suspect that level of anxiety will have repercussions for a long time. Still know people who are too scared to step out their front door.

"Yet, my friend was stopped by a matrix van and surrounded by police who issued him with a £30 fine because they had seen him walking his dog earlier that day. He paid it immediately. Didn't challenge it even after the Dominic Cummings scandal. He just completely gave up and was scared to leave the house for a long time after that. He already suffered with anxiety and PTSD.
We live a distance from him but my son travelled in taxis a couple of times to leave shopping on his doorstep. The sad thing is, there's both an asda and an aldi literally at the end of his street and a co-op and grocery stores at the other end. He just couldn't step outside his front door."

That is really sad to read. Your poor friend. He should have appealed the fine but appreciate that he may not have been in the right place to do so.

It makes me so angry that stuff like that happened. Complete misuse of the police and not within the law.

I hope he is feeling better now

Older person i know took their car to the beach and sat (in the car) to read the paper and look at the sea and people passing

She got told off by a police man and told to go home

She lived about a mile from the beach...she just couldn’t walk there

I did think that was sad

Oh god so many.
Telling my daughter she needed to eat every bite big her dinner because we were probably going to be on rations for the foreseeable future (in fairness I'm a veggie AND got diagnosed with gestational diabetes the week of lockdown and was finding it hard to get food I could eat).
My son seeing people bulk buy water in Lidl and just saying to me "That's insane,do they think they can get it through the water?!"
Having a near nervous breakdown about my upcoming c section planned in May 2020 as I had read that c sections wouldn't be allowed to go ahead and that gas and air for vaginal births was being rationed. Mental.

Thankfully once the baby was out,I calmed down.

I was convinced we were going to starve to death.

I rationed everything.

Every time I heard someone open the fridge I was there faster than Mo Farah to stop them.

Flying Leeds to Belfast on 30 January 2020, I wore a mask and gloves and had a tiny bottle of hand gel. I was the only one on the flight with any type of ppe but I had been watching the news closely and didn't like the look of what was happening in China and I was also leaving a hospital after a 6 months stay. I was looked at very suspiciously by my fellow passengers as apart from this I had 2 massive bags for life of medications with me on the plane.

@wonderstuff123. I think the water idea wasn't because people thought they could catch it through the water bu because people were worried that so.many people would die that basic services like water treatment would fail. Still bonkers to buy water because, if things really failed to that degree, a few bottles of water wouldn't last long enough.

@BeeDavis

I genuinely cannot believe people have been sanitising their post and their shopping. What a world.

Tbf I think back at the start, there was an "expert" on TV recommending doing just that.

[quote EmmaGrundyForPM]@wonderstuff123. I think the water idea wasn't because people thought they could catch it through the water bu because people were worried that so.many people would die that basic services like water treatment would fail. Still bonkers to buy water because, if things really failed to that degree, a few bottles of water wouldn't last long enough.[/quote]
If they had any idea what they were doing, they'd have some water purification tablets instead - which are tiny, very cheap, and last for years.

Going shopping with rubber gloves on then wiping all of the food down when I got home. The enthusiasm for doing that wore off very quickly 😂

Love this thread!

No judgement at all but I never bothered with quarantining parcels, wiping shopping etc. I figured that if it was that easy to get I would anyway, and indeed (long before a vaccine looked viable) that perhaps I should get it out the way whilst still youngish, healthy, off work, taking vitamin c and d etc, and whilst it was still acceptable to get Covid.

(I got swine flu in the 2nd wave and nobody wanted to know, they just rolled their eyes and I suspect they thought I should just get on with it when I got double pneumonia and post viral fatigue).

So I wasn't trying to get Covid but I wasn't trying not to specifically other than hand sanitising, social distancing, and I didn't break lockdown rules etc.

I'd see my friend out and about doing her daily exercise and once she literally ran onto the road to avoid a 12 ish year old walking past. That I do judge a bit, in terms of people so unable to do a simple quick analysis of risk vs benefit. Even back then we knew that walking past a 12 year old at 2m outdoors was less likely to cause death than being hit by a car.

We've had a few laughs about this since 😆