What’s something funny and/or embarrassing that you or someone you love did at the beginning of the pandemic that was over the top or ridiculous now that you look back on it?
Example: I once washed my mouth out with dish soap after bringing the mail inside and eating a potato chip with my unwashed hands. 🤦🏻♂️
Yep me too. Lysol or Clorox wiped my cereal boxes lol. Wore gloves and a mask. Whole shebang.
Right, and then you read the label and it’s like…”I’m wiping down my food with toxic chemicals in the name of safety.“
My annoyance issue was drying off the box in time before it ate through the cardboard lol.
Also as a person in their 30s, I was very much enjoying that I was buying cereal for the first time in over a decade lol.
I was wiping down canned/jarred stuff, taking everything OUT of boxes for storage or decanting, and washing other things with dish soap. Took time but I had nothing BUT time.
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I remember people started not using reusable grocery bags because they realized they never washed them and they were kind of gross and I actually thought that made sense. Three years later, I still don't think I've ever washed a reusable grocery bag. My laziness and forgetfulness outweighs something that's an actual good practice.
Go grocery shopping and spray down every item's surface area with disinfectant before putting it in the pantry. We all laugh now but this was serious business then and we've probably gotten too lax now in not keeping up with reasonable safety precautions. Aren't people still dying from COVID?
>Aren't people still dying from COVID?
Yep, but we don't care any more, too inconvenient.
Where I am, 2022 was by far the deadliest year for Covid, more people died than in either 2020 or 2021. We just gave up. This year we stopped reporting numbers altogether, so we can only guess at how many we're losing. But it's definitely still here. It was a meme from Trump era, that there's not going to be any cases if we stop testing, but that is exactly what they did just a couple of years later, completely unironically and with a straight face.
In the US a few hundred a few hundred people a week are dying of COVID.
Forbid nursing home visitors. And made them stay in their rooms. Yet usher in travel staff from all over the place who were working overtime in 3 other hospitals at the same time.
That's how we had our first few fatalities here.
People who wear masks in their own car by themselves with no one else inside.
I would actually do that myself. When I would need to drive my elderly mother to a medical appointment, I'd mask up my way to her home. I was doing anything I could at the time to reduce her risk of exposure. Didn't realize that anyone who might have seen me was judging me to be an idiot.
It makes sense to put on fresh mask and not touch it, especially when hanging out with someone with high Covid risk factors. That was the problem with masking in general, everyone wearing dirty masks thinking it was going to help.
As someone who wears glasses if you find that no fog mask fit you leave it the fuck alone till you get home.
I think I read a comment where someone said this helped with their hay-fever/allergies?
I wore a gas mask in public.
That's just cool. Better than a plastic bag. To be clear I didn't wear a plastic bag but I saw it in my local Walmart.
We were seeing awful things on the news every night, anyone who had one probably wore one. I mean what was the downside....having to laugh about it 3 years later on here?? I was frantically trying to get hold of one and eventually did. I never did wear it as I actually never went anywhere for a long time - collected groceries outside etc. Guess I'm going to fancy dress parties as pandemic guy for the foreseeable.
I just did it to hopefully make people laugh
We had a table outside of our door for deliveries. We would put on masks and gloves and wipe down every item before bringing it inside.
I also worked at the hospital, and my husband would bleach the soles of my shoes every night.
I’ve had a table outside the door for deliveries for years, started in the mid-2010s because that’s when I started working nights. Also, the signs reminding folk to not ring the doorbell.
But yeah, gloves and a Clorox Wipe on all surfaces of every delivery before bringing it inside.
True love.
Wore a mask outside while walking alone, because the government said they'd fine us if we didn't.
Constantly using Lysol and wiping down handles, light switches, anything we touch a lot. Wiping down groceries (like all of it, not just rinsing produce). I was also nervous to receive packages and touch mail and stuff..
I left packages on porch for 48 hours
I can't really think of anything, but I also cannot argue with results.
We did get into habit of handling mail much more carefully. I still wear a mask religiously, I don't touch my face without washing my hands, etc.
And you know what? Maybe it's a coincidence, but nobody has been ill with anything since 2019. That surpassed ALL records we ever had by such a huge margin that it's not even funny any more. Over 3 years without any flu or sniffle, in a house full of people (no kids though, those crotch goblins are just walking infection vectors, and schools are Petri dishes of Nurgle).
Disease has to come from someplace. Taking precautions really does work. Which is why you see doctors sanitizing their hands, wearing masks and PPE, etc. They wouldn't do it if it didn't work.
I still carry a mask with me but I now use it more for cases of bad weather or just being in places that are too crowded for my comfort.
Pasco Fl by the summertime nobody wore any mask anywhere, they would look at me like I was ridiculous for wearing a mask. Had me feeling like I was in the twilight zone. It's amazing how propaganda sways people
Some of the most embarrassing Covid precautions are still things we practice today, "Aerosol Generating Procedures" is an embarrassing low point in medical logic, yet it has yet to fully fade away.
I can't reply to your question in a for me satisfactory manner without breaking rule 5.
Nothing comess to mind but I do religiously wash my hands probably too much now as a result. I have to use hand lotion regularly now to keep my hands moisturized
I was telling people it was the end of the world and that you would need a vax card to buy and sell and that the vaccine was the mark of the beast. But it’s 3 years later and everyone is still alive and I never lost my ability to buy and sell, still can’t leave the country tho but oh well at least I don’t have heart issues at 21🤷🏽♂️
Because you don't live in China. Lol
Washing money in the washing machine. Canadian. We have plastic rainbow coloured bills. Came out all shiny fresh and smelled like Gain.
For the record, I still view COVID as a serious health concern, personally and for people I love and care for. That said… I no longer huff hand sanitizer.
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My grandma had his boys set up a motion sensor sprinkler outside her porch. Yeah, her sister was not happy when she visited.
Cleaning off my groceries with Lysol wipes… while wearing gloves
Looking back we didn’t know what we didn’t know.
Also wearing a mask and gloves for my mail and packages.
Like it was an anthrax scare.
But we didn’t know
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Getting the vaccine.
But,.it was either that or lose my job. It's okay though... It was for my own good.
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It wasn’t at the beginning, but I consider it pretty embarrassing that I spent too much time arguing with pandemic deniers and anti-vaxxers about science.
Walking outside with the mask on when not close to people, during lockdown I would sometimes go to a trail to run or walk through and would have my mask on
When we first bought our house (April 1 2020 - two weeks into lockdown) I wet-wiped down the boxes the washer and dryer came in. That's about it though.
It didn’t involve me but I will forever remember the women punching on for toilet rolls in the supermarket. It was all over the national news here in Aus. Fancy fighting over packs of toilet paper for a respiratory virus…. Lol
Id heat takeout/delivery food in the oven before serving it. No germs, hot meal, it was a win win. I haven’t done that since though.
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I put a mask on.
How is this over the top or ridiculous?
They are still wearing the same mask to this day.
What?
how's the sister/wife?
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I know it’s not wildly over the top-but washing off packages from the grocery store