What's the stupidest thing you've done this pandemic?

[platinumsage]

What's the most risky, illegal, stupid or otherwise regrettable thing you've done in relation to COVID.

I went to a packed church on the 10th of March and ended up sitting within 10mm of an Italian tourist who was sniveling. Apart from that I think I've done pretty well, although when our boiler was replaced neither us nor them wore masks, but that was in June with all the windows open and only one confirmed case in the city in the previous week.

 

[gentlegreen]

In my case, the risk was massively to me as a 60 year old living alone ...
Back in May, a neighbour asked me to help with his missis's pushbike (I've never actually seen her ride it since I gave it a full service for free )
And in the first instance he had me go into their house to see it - he's the sort of guy you can't turn down easily ...

 

[bimble]

Riskiest thing I’ve done is sit indoors and sing together with people. I didn’t even enjoy it so it was double stupid.

 

[Winot]

I visited a packed London theatre on Saturday 14 March (to see Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt) and then went to church the next day. A couple of days later my cough (which I hadn't really noticed) got worse and towards the end of that week I developed symptoms which suggested I might have Covid.

I think it's most likely now that I didn't have it (because I have it now, confirmed, and you seem very unlikely to get it twice, but, yer know...

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I went to take pictures of the second big loon protest in Trafalgar Square wasn't even getting paid for it

eta: you can see some of the pics at 2020-09-29 Anti-mask protest, Trafalgar Square if you like. You'll note that I wasn't stupid enough to dive properly into crowds, like I would normally.

 

[elbows]

My personal sense of risk and behaviours changed in February and never really changed back so far. But due to some unfortunate timing the last time I saw my Dad and brother down the pub was about 1 hour after Johnson first asked everyone to start avoiding the pub, some days before they went further and closed them (the first time, in March). But since it was a very large, well ventilated pub with high ceilings and we met for under half an hour at 6pm with very few people in there, to drink a single non-alcoholic beverage and stare around at the place knowing that it would be a very long time before I was in such an establishment again, this act did not explode off the end of my risk charts in the way it might of.

I've done shit all since then, may as well have been a brain in a jar as long as it had an internet connection. So I have to look elsewhere for the most stupid things I've done. Put on weight and repeated myself endlessly. Didnt get any sunlight. Failed to keep taking daily vitamin d tablets after the first week of doing so. Probably just as well my opportunities to become infected are minimal.

 

[planetgeli]

Sat in a badly ventilated room with about 30 other people not socially distanced at all.

My school.

 

[blairsh]

Travel all over the country for work.

 

[blairsh]

Talk to my neighbour over the fence, whilst massively off my tits.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Gave someone I work with a hug on Christmas Eve. We just kind of forgot, then realised after we'd hugged.

Luckily we both seem okay after it.

 

[Supine]

Agreed to go to a wake after my aunties funeral. Turned into a super spreader event - luckily only for a normal cold virus.

 

[Mation]

Told a group of my learners that it probably wasn't much different to flu. This was back in ~early-mid February, when I did believe that, but - looking back - didn't have any evidence to support it.

None of them got ill in the next month (after which all face-to-face teaching stopped), but it was the wrong thing to do.

 

[Looby]

On Friday 6th March I went out with my husband for dinner and got very very drunk. No distancing in tiny restaurant and tiny bar after. I chatted close to people, hugged people.
The only thing I did was wash my hands a bit more.

On the Monday/Tuesday I started feeling unwell but was advised to continue going to work. I was finally sent home on the Thursday or Friday when the advice changed about isolating.

I must have had Covid and now have some symptoms of long Covid. I have no idea how many people I could have infected in that time.
If I’d known better I definitely wouldn’t have gone out and I probably would have stood more firm over my work but that was the advice at the time.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

That period of March was so difficult Looby, we went to see Frank Turner about that time with hundreds of others because there was no real advice about, well anything at that time.

 

[Looby]

That period of March was so difficult Looby, we went to see Frank Turner about that time with hundreds of others because there was no real advice about, well anything at that time.

It changed so quickly didn’t it. I remember the chatter in the office on the Monday and the room was divided between starting to worry and that it was all ridiculous.
I don’t feel that bad about it, but it was silly. I sort of sensed it might have been a last hurrah for a while.
I even talked about not smoking any more in case it put me more at risk, whilst starting a new pack of 20.

 

[dessiato]

Drive to a different municipality during the lockdown.

 

[souljacker]

Shook Craig Charles' hand outside a hotel in Manchester when Manc was in a high tier. I kept an eye on his twitter for a few weeks after that, praying he didn't say he had Covid.

 

[Pickman's model]

Paid too much attention to what some no-marks have been saying

 

[stavros]

I thought the government might get better once Cummings was gone.

 

[kalidarkone]

What's the most risky, illegal, stupid or otherwise regrettable thing you've done in relation to COVID.

I went to a packed church on the 10th of March and ended up sitting within 10mm of an Italian tourist who was sniveling. Apart from that I think I've done pretty well, although when our boiler was replaced neither us nor them wore masks, but that was in June with all the windows open and only one confirmed case in the city in the previous week.

Going to work, giving patient care in a hospital.

 

[Aladdin]

Told a group of my learners that it probably wasn't much different to flu. This was back in ~early-mid February, when I did believe that, but - looking back - didn't have any evidence to support it.

None of them got ill in the next month (after which all face-to-face teaching stopped), but it was the wrong thing to do.

I'm afraid I did similar. Only because one SEN student was absolutely freaking out telling everyone we were all going to die. This was in January. She was so clued in online that she had storied about China and Wuhan and was straight out telling us all that this was it...curtains. she even created havoc at home not wanting to come to school at all.

 

[BigMoaner]

organised a rave in a warehouse just outside of london that 4k of people attended last month.

didn't really.

went to a comedy club mid summer i think and there was about 200 people there, hardly any social distancing!

 

[tufty79]

Ran round town with a group of mostly street drinking PTSD herd galloping women, and hugged one of them a bit too often for my liking. The correct number of hugs should have been none

Today I bumped into someone I knew, and we properly socially masked up distanced in the big outdoors while catching up, I think that was ok
He's got a diabetic sister that he was on the way to support, and seems like a responsible enough human. I hope...

 

[Cid]

Friend came over from the Netherlands during the summer lull... Mid July, so cases here and there were both as low as they've been throughout. But yeah, that's probably it.

 

[frogwoman]

Went to a religious event back in March with around 300 people really close together, about 11th March when people weren't taking it that seriously. I think back in early February I was telling my dad whose s bit of a doomsday prepper not to worry and it would be just like bird flu which didn't become a massive pandemic. I went to the pub a few times too in like September etc. Apart from that nothing really.

 

[Cloo]

I was ill with something early March that 111 assured me wasn't COVID and I went to sing in a concert and read a Torah portion in synagogue while not feeling 100% because I didn't want to let people down and none of my symptoms were what we were told was COVID at the time. I kept my distance from others and washed hands a lot anyway because I was feeling fairly rough. In retrospect I think it was Covid. But I also think that, if so, I wasn't very contagious - mainly as my choir has a lot of older and several clinically vulnerable people in it and no one has been very ill or died and I suspect that might have happened if I were shedding infectious droplets everywhere.

 

[kalidarkone]

Going to work, giving patient care in a hospital.

The most risky activity to date, but not regrettable at all.
Actually, maybe its not....I hooked up with my ex in July.......

 

[wiskey]

Allowed clinical staff to leave some samples on my desk for me to send to path labs .... Didn't realise they were unbagged covid swabs ... That never happened again

 

[xenon]

Nothing. Well, no doubt have done some things that a few might tut at but I'm not joining this confessional

 

[Looby]

Actually yeah, going into multiple houses each week with no ventilation in a flimsy mask with the other people there wearing no PPE at all.

A hell of a lot more risky than an ill advised night out in March.