Most pointless covid restrictions you’ve seen by an organisation or workplace?

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Cordoning off every other toilet and sink in an attempt to enforce social distancing...meaning people are clustered tightly in a queue, chatting for longer

One way system in soft play... Just never gonna happen 🤣

Domino’s stopping their half and half pizzas. Because Covid.

No coeliac pizzas in dominos either cos covid

Local hospital insisting i take off my environmentally friendly, double layered reusable mask at the door and put on one of their disposal ones instead.

Shoe shop made DD put on a pop sock when trying on shoes yesterday! Told me it was 'because of covid'.

I live abroad, you have to wear a mask when not physically consuming your beverage or food . Like literally it's crazy sip your coffee then mask back on.

Our local Poundland had directional arrows on the floor and keep 2m safe distance signs everywhere, apart from the checkout area. In their wisdom 3 of the available 6 checkouts were in use. Not alternate checkouts but 3 right next to each other. Go figure !!

The government's Day 2 and 8 testing. Test on both days, isolate for 10 days even if negative. Unless you can pay for an extra one on day 5. You can stop isolating on day 5 if it's negative.

I saw a picture on FB of a list of rules a pub had made for customers. All the usual masking when leaving table etc but there was one that said you are not to make eye contact with people on other tables.

Closing the beach access roads and paths. This was done by the and people who encouraged us to get out in the fresh air.
A nighttime curfew. Because the virus only comes out at night.

Social distancing in a care home where I worked. How can we when we have to work close to residents to give personal care and some residents needed 2 staff members working close to care for a resident for more than 15 minutes. But we're only allowed in staff room 1 by 1

A doctor's office I called where the phone message states 'During the coronavirus pandemic we are only able to take calls between 10-1430.' I know for a fact this particular Dr has 3 full time secretaries sitting within 6ft of each other 9-1700 😂

@XenoBitch

I saw a picture on FB of a list of rules a pub had made for customers. All the usual masking when leaving table etc but there was one that said you are not to make eye contact with people on other tables.

😂 why??? In case you are overcome by passion and run over and snog a complete stranger?

I love the phrase "pointless theatre" and wholeheartedly agree that most Covid restrictions amount to this.

I remember back in the first lockdown there was a massive outcry in the beach resort not too far from us because residents were finding human poo all over the adjoining back lanes. The council obviously thought people would stay at home if there were no toilets open, the public thought otherwise haha.

Closing toilets was the number one most stupid thing to do in lockdown one, removing access to both toilets and a means to wash to your hands!

The woodlands at a nearby beauty spot were also similarly heaving with humans when usually they would be empty.

Do bears shit in the woods? Maybe. But humans in lock down definitely do!

A nighttime curfew. Because the virus only comes out at night.

DH and I were discussing this last night when we were watching Rafa play at the French Open - Rafa! - in a completely empty court because Covid curfew. Clearly all those spectators would have been absolutely virus proof a few hours earlier but once the sun set, they had to hurry home before they turned into little virus pumpkins or something

Last weekend at a farm type centre. I entered the garden centre bit - was asked to sanitise my hands. I hate that but duly did it. Left garden centre - asked to sanitise again. Was a bit but did it. Walked into the farm shop, it's next building along. Asked to sanitise my hands. I refused as ive just done it twice in the space of ten minutes

They actually called the manager down to discuss whether I could be allowed in. To say I was pissed off is an understatement

Well here in my country they banned the sale of cigarettes and alcohol.

Then they lifted the cigarette ban, but booze was still off the table. Then when the restrictions lifted slightly we were able to buy alcohol from Monday to Thursday.

Our cases are rising again and we were changed back to a higher level, and the queue at the bottle store was quite something, just incase it was restricted again.

I have just seen a sign 'Due to Covid-19 please do not help yourself to napkins'

Royal Parks removing every other swing at the outdoor playground. So people with two kids can't swing them at the same time. No idea what they were thinking. They banned cycling earlier on last year when they were feeling particularly enthusiastic.

The most irritating have always been the "2m distance" painted on the floor with arrows that are between 1m and 1.25m apart.

Dh teaches in a university where he uses old fashioned blackboards. Management decreed the blackboards should be regularly sanitised.
As well as being pointless because nobody touches them and the students sit several metres away, this made the surface impossible to write on.

Laughing at some of these, but you do worry about the intelligence levels and risk assessment abilities of some of these people.

Closing toilet cubicles and sinks is my biggest bugbear.

And having to wear a mask on an outside empty railway station platform when waiting for a train. Wearing a mask outside generally except in very crowded areas.

Also all the hand sanitising.

And my local Waitrose is in an indoor shopping centre. It has a very enthusiastic security guard who lets about 3 people in at once (I think it's a few more now) so people had to queue much longer than at any of the other shops - that would be fine if they were queuing outside. But I think it is actually less risky to allow people to circulate in the shop, rather than standing next to each other in an unventilated space.

In holiday in Wales and had to fill out a track and trace form just to get a takeaway coffee from an empty cafe. I was in there for about 3 minutes getting the coffee, but an extra 2 minutes while someone explained I needed to fill in the form to get a takeaway coffee and then to fill it in.

I thought of this thread whilst at a NT place today. They had closed the proper toilets in which there are about 8 cubicles, baby change and actual sinks with soap (and I assume similar in the gents) and replaced them with 3 portaloos for use by everyone with a massive thing of sanitizer on a table outside them. No logical reason for this that I could work out, plus 4 year old ds refused to use the portaloo so didn't do a wee all day.

Public Sanitiser dispensers in general, tbh.

often Empty

Often Electronic ones no one can figure out so they get touched lots by lots of people who can't get any sanitiser out of them

quick touch like that's gonna cover all your hand surfaces

strangely enough don't stop you breathing-coughing-sneezing on other people