Microblog Memes

I manage a produce department at a grocery store and was always front and center with the hordes of people coming in. At the start of the pandemic my wife and newborn were stuck at home, so even if I wasn't worried about myself, there was always this background anxiety that I was going to bring it home and potentially cause the death of my wife or daughter. Any illness we did get was especially weird or aggressive, and always thought "Ah, shit, this is it.", but somehow never was. To this day we've somehow never tested positive for COVID, though I know statistically we've probably had it.

Those early days were bizarre, though. I remember ominously gathering in the stockroom at work shortly before things started getting weird. The owner explained what was going on, how it would change things and what we would be doing differently going forward. He predicted all of the shortages, especially toilet paper. Funny enough, we always had a huge supply of that shit downstairs, but idiots would buy it up so fast it always looked like there was a shortage. You can only fit like 3-6 packages in a large shelf space at any given time. People would show up before the stock guy could get more out and wind up depleting all of the napkins and paper towels instead. Bet their assholes felt great.

The best were people who bought up a bunch of Lysol, thinking that shit was like a convenient and instant disinfectant. Yeah, if you want to spray down every inch of your home and leave it sit for thirty minutes..

Strange days.. Though I suppose at the heart of it, stupid or not, everyone was just worried about their families.

If I had to eat out, favoring hot, greasy food over cool, dry food. The logic was that the viral walls of Covid weren't actually that strong and were less likely to survive wet, oily, slightly acidic and hot foods. That's if I ate out. Really tried not to and just made healthy foods at home.

I also preferred conformable work/mechanic gloves over latex gloves. I figured being able to wear them the whole time would be safer then getting annoyed at sweat buildup and trying to take them off constantly. Same goes with wearing a full face shield over a mask sometimes. A lot of infections were from getting spite in the eyes without knowing it.

I work outside and by myself most of the time, so my day to day life didn't really change at all. Got vaxxed and boasted when available and never caught covid once.

edit: oh, just remembered what my friend's plan was. His wife was going to make fabric masks with pockets that accepted swiffer pads. I told him that it was a terrible idea and found him the SDS for those thing which listed skin irritation as a possible. Dumbass was going to be breathing that shit in and selling them.

The only thing that really changed for me was that I wore a mask when going to a store or something. I didn't need one at work since I worked alone and outside at the time.

The one time I thought I had caught COVID, it turned out to be just a gnarly case of strep throat. Never once lost my sense of smell or taste from strep throat before, but 2 home tests and 1 actual doctor test all showed negative for COVID so... 🤷🏻‍♂️

I then had an allergic reaction to the amoxicillin given to me for the strep throat so that was fun.

this is so fucking wild to me, here in sweden we just put up hand sanitizer bottles in stores and plexiglass in front of the cashiers, and told everyone to pwease keep their distance and not use public transport (and then acted surprised when the public transport use decreased)..

Ironically because of Joe Rogan I was among the first people in my friend group and family to take the threat seriously

Not much, I'm already kinda germophobic so it was easy to treat every surface as dirty. And now that people stopped cleaning everything, it's easy to see that everything IS dirty. Still haven't caught it lol

I was working remotely and not receiving stimulus checks.

Basically the 2nd week of the pandemic they announced that fomites were not a vector of infection.