# Share your Covidiot stories **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [April 29, 2020, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854 "2020-04-29T22:21:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 29
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/561 "2020-11-27T05:31:59Z")
> **[Oregon State Capitol protesters eat Thanksgiving meal, defy Gov. Kate Brown's...](https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2020/11/25/oregon-state-capitol-protest-kate-brown-restrictions-thanksgiving-meal/6429078002/)** > > More than 250 people gathered at the Oregon State Capitol Wednesday for a Thanksgiving meal in defiance of Gov. Kate Brown's statewide "freeze." ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/562 "2020-11-27T15:40:44Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > Because the thing you most need to do in an out of control pandemic is spend time with other folks from all over the country who also don’t give a shit about their fellow man or overwhelmed medical personnel. Look at the bright side: somehow FL is not one of the leading COVID states this week. Depending on which state Sis is from, she may be going someplace safer than home. 😉 But if so, she’s part of the horde importing extra COVID into FL. As a FL resident myself, it seems we’re determined to regain our number one spot even if we have to cheat using outsiders. The new FL state motto: > We’re number one! We’re number dumb! We’re number one! We’re number dumb! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/563 "2020-11-28T05:20:08Z")
> **[B.C. hotel worker suffered heart attack after being spit on by man refusing...](https://bc.ctvnews.ca/mobile/b-c-hotel-worker-suffered-heart-attack-after-being-spit-on-by-man-refusing-to-wear-mask-manager-says-1.5204469)** > > A hotel worker in Nelson, B.C., suffered a heart attack shortly after a confrontation with a patron who refused to wear a mask and wouldn't leave the hotel's coffee shop. Man refuses to wear mask in hotel. Hotel employee comes over and tries to get him to wear a mask. Man spits on hotel employee. Hotel employee has heart attack and is in ICU. Man charged with assault. 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2020, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/564 "2020-11-29T03:10:58Z")
A meme an acauaintance shared on social media: > "It’s hard to imagine a more sanctimonious, sneering, and just plain stupid reaction to Americans having a family dinner: > > [Washington Post headline] “World watches with dread, disbelief, as Americans gather for Thanksgiving.” Because yes, it’s stupid to be appalled by people so stupid they regard disease-spreading events as “a family dinner.” You want to know why this pandemic won’t quit? It’s because of Covidiots like these. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2020, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/565 "2020-11-29T03:49:49Z")
In the Adelaide area of South Australia, they’ve been having an outbreak - not too bad yet, around 30-ish people contracting COVID. Then some nitwit [breaks quarantine to visit several stores.](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-29/sa-issues-list-of-coronavirus-hotspots-infected-man-visited/12932438) > A large number of South Australians are being urged to get a coronavirus test — even if they do not have symptoms — in the wake of an infected man leaving quarantine and visiting several shops and businesses in Adelaide last Sunday. > The man, aged in his 30s, is [believed to have caught the virus as a casual contact at the Intensive English Language Institute](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-28/two-new-coronavirus-cases-in-south-australia/12931288) (IELI) at Flinders University. > SA Health said people who on Sunday, November 22, were at Big W Brickworks between 12:15pm and 12:50pm, Foodland at Norwood between 1:20pm and 2:00pm, and Kmart at Kurralta Park between 2:45pm and 3:00pm should urgently get a COVID-19 test. Big W is the Australian equivalent of Wal-Mart, Foodland is a large grocery store chain, and KMart is still a going concern here. Basically, the guy picked just about the worst shops to visit. There are worse places for him to have been, but this is not good. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/566 "2020-11-30T06:38:52Z")
Update: [Shopper who tested positive for coronavirus was not told to quarantine, SA Health now says](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-30/sa-health-authorities-defend-man-over-coronavirus-quarantine/12933326). > Authorities now say a man who attended several shops before testing positive for coronavirus did not breach quarantine, as he was a casual contact and not under a quarantine order. So, the guy was not in the wrong - I withdraw the covidiot label, at least for him. Anyway, that cluster remains at 33, and there are no new cases in South Australia, at least today. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/567 "2020-12-02T18:06:53Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Man refuses to wear mask in hotel. > > Hotel employee comes over and tries to get him to wear a mask. > > Man spits on hotel employee. > > Hotel employee has heart attack and is in ICU. > > Man charged with assault. > > 🙄 I’m not sure who the rolleyes is aimed at. The guy? By the way, your sequence is slightly off. He spat on the employee, they called the police, he was arrested - they are looking at assault charges, but haven’t laid them yet - and then the lady had her heart attack. The arrest was not related to the heart attack, but to the act of spitting. And I say good. Charge that fucker with anything you can dream up. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/568 "2020-12-08T02:59:34Z")
Two passengers on the transport van taking me to dialysis today. One was not wearing a mask at all and eating and coughing. The other was wearing his like a chin diaper. They were both talking and spewing droplets everywhere. This was in spite of a clearly stated mask policy and a sign at the front of the van. The driver apparently made no effort to enforce the policy. The company’s policy says that drivers can deny rides to anyone who is not wearing a mask. I didn’t make a big deal out of it at the time. I’m lousy at confrontation and the two people were far enough away and not facing me, fortunately. When I got to dialysis, I called the company to complain. The dispatcher took my information and said they would speak to the driver. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/569 "2020-12-08T11:40:46Z")
I keep seeing those silly plastic sneeze-guard masks, the ones with a strip of clear plastic about 3 inches [7.5 cm] tall jutting out from the chin at least an inch from their face. They provide little protection to anyone because they are completely open. “See, I’m wearing a mask.” Some of those people seem incredibly smug. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/570 "2020-12-08T13:26:22Z")
Did you ever play the “I’m not touching you” game in the back seat of the family car with a sibling? Best enjoyed during a long road trip? You look up front of the 1968 Ford Galaxy to see that one vein in your dad’s forehead throbbing? Your mom tries to get your sibling to stop, to no avail? The stupidvisor people are the “I’m not touching you” instigators. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/571 "2020-12-08T13:41:41Z")
I live in the land of covidiots and freedumb. Here is a published article on an entire town and area of covidiots: > **[Freedom from face coverings comes at cost of rising COVID-19 cases in North...](https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/dec/08/lakeland-covid/)** > > RATHDRUM – What pandemic? ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/572 "2020-12-08T15:40:41Z")
> [@Kevbo](#): > > There have been empty shelves for a number of items, and generally with the online order, you are not informed of missing / substituted items until pickup. Given that the shortages are because those are the very items people most want to buy, it may be that people want to be in a position to make substitutions like pinto beans instead of black beans without having to go through the hassle of another order/pickup cycle that may not work either. If you are in the store, you can substitute something, or ditch that menu plan completely, which may mean you don’t now need the 2-3 other ingredients that went with the missing item. QFT. With all of the crazy things that have been out of stock, it seem every time I go to the store I have to adapt on the fly because the store is missing items. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/573 "2020-12-08T16:03:38Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I didn’t make a big deal out of it at the time. I’m lousy at confrontation and the two people were far enough away and not facing me, fortunately. When I got to dialysis, I called the company to complain. The dispatcher took my information and said they would speak to the driver. I know it’s a pandemic and unusual circumstances but unless the driver is the shift supervisor, it is the manager’s job to enforce policies - not a peer. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/574 "2020-12-08T16:26:58Z")
That’s why I didn’t complain to the driver and kicked it up the food chain. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/575 "2020-12-08T16:31:40Z")
My point was that the manager should have dealt with the guys rather than bumping it down to the driver. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/576 "2020-12-08T17:34:36Z")
This starts elsewhere, but ends up at Covid. My parents are infirm and have a constant series of home health aides at their home. In addition to the reformed addict who’s presence always corresponded to missing medicine, and the one who didn’t believe Mom was a fall risk (and let her hit the floor twice in her first and only day at their house) they got the following: After watching a handyman repair a bunch of buried PVC pipe, the aide asked what all the white tubes were. Dad replied it was part of their irrigation system. Her response was to ask what “irrigation” meant. Next their meal conversation turned to the upcoming vaccine. Since she was a health worker, dad asked her when she could get the vaccine. She replied there was no way she’d get it, as it was very dangerous. Dad asked why, her reply was that everyone knows it’s dangerous, you can read it on Facebook. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/577 "2020-12-08T17:37:01Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > My point was that the manager should have dealt with the guys rather than bumping it down to the driver. And how would the manager do that? Pay those people a visit at home? They were off the van before I got to call. For better or worse, all they can do is to advise the driver to enforce the mask policy or not let the people ride without a mask. The manager can’t realistically deal directly with the passengers. The driver is right there, the manager is in some remote office. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/578 "2020-12-08T17:40:48Z")
Oh OK. For some reason I thought the others in back were employees like on an ambulance. Am I allowed the excuse that I posted before coffee? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/579 "2020-12-08T17:43:26Z")
Others in back? There are just passengers and a driver. It’s not an ambulance, it’s like the city bus company, except you schedule the van to pick you up at your door if you’re unable to physically get to a bus stop. ---
**Author:** ![thdudescar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thdudescar/32/4638_2.png) [@thdudescar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thdudescar)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/580 "2020-12-21T21:52:05Z")
About a month ago, my wife, 2 of my daughters, sister, and granddaughter drove to Lafayette for a family wedding. I wasn’t feeling too sparky that day but trudged on, By the time we left the wedding, I knew something was up. Monday I went to the doc and got tested. Positive. By Thursday everyone in the car had tested positive, save my granddaughter. I was basically it over by Monday. My wife and one of my daughters and sister were almost asymptomatic. One daughter had a rougher go of it. She ran a high fever for several days. My symptoms were mostly achiness and shortness of breath. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854.md?page=28) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854.md?page=30)