# 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:** 32
**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:** [January 1, 2021, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/621 "2021-01-01T19:51:06Z")
Can’t speak for other states and professions, but my board does fast emergency license suspensions to protect the public. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/622 "2021-01-01T20:48:35Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > The pharmacist has admitted to deliberately leaving out the vaccine, knowing it would be ineffective and that people would think they’d gotten an effective dose when they had not. Thread here: > [@FORMER Wisconsin hospital employee deliberately destroys \>500 doses of COVID vaccine](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-wisconsin-hospital-employee-deliberately-destroys-500-doses-of-covid-vaccine/929323): > > I sure hope whoever did this, regardless of why, gets the book thrown at them - jail time, license revocation if applicable, etc. Over the years, I worked with a few people who might have done something like this, because reasons (and possibly gotten away with it, too). If you don’t believe in it for yourself, that’s one thing. This is quite another. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2021, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/623 "2021-01-10T17:53:29Z")
Co-worker is a borderline virus denier, he thinks it’s real but not the threat it’s made out to be. Co-worker’s wife has multiple medical issues. Over the holidays co-worker and wife had large family gathering with people flying in from other states. Guess who all has COVID now? Worst part is, co-worker’s wife was scheduled to have major, necessary, potentially life-saving surgery last week that’s now been postponed indefinitely. Hope Christmas was worth it… ---
**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:** [January 11, 2021, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/624 "2021-01-11T16:14:43Z")
Lots of people seem to have a need to touch a glowing stove before they’ll believe it’s hot. Your cow-orker seems to be someone who believes it necessary to jump into a bubbling pool of lava before he’ll believe it’s hot. One wonders how many of the other guests at the family gathering are also lava-touchers. If the wife is one, I don’t feel too bad for her. But if she’s not a denier and was railroaded by family pressure into being exposed, well I hope the husband spends a couple of _months_ hospitalized in abject misery while being told daily of another dead relative he caused. Followed by him going over too. I’m not a believer in afterlife, so it’s essential these people get their complete come-uppance in this one. It’s not too different from firing a machine gun in a crowded mall\*. The harm is palpably foreseeable. * * * \* BTW, does anyone remember what a "crowded mall" is? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/625 "2021-01-12T01:03:07Z")
From what I know of his wife she’s a religious zealot who thought you could pray it away. I think most of the family is like that. Co-worker seems to be the most reasonable of the bunch which is frightening. Co-worker hasn’t had any symptoms and wife seems to be recovering but with her health issues who knows what could come up down the road. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2021, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/626 "2021-01-12T01:12:35Z")
I have long hoped for a disease that would specifically target the irrational. It appears my wish has been granted. Unfortunately there are a lot of rational people who are collateral damage. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/627 "2021-01-12T01:20:53Z")
> [@Dr.Girlfriend](#): > > From what I know of his wife she’s a religious zealot who thought you could pray it away. I don’t know which is worse, this or the “I have _an immune system_” idiots all over Twitter and comment sections. We all had immune systems, bud. How many bubble boys do you think there are?? ---
**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:** [January 12, 2021, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/628 "2021-01-12T19:11:21Z")
Not even a little bondage can protect you from curfew fines in Quebec. > **[Quebec couple hit with curfew-violation fine after wife walks husband on a leash](https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-couple-hit-with-curfew-violation-fine-after-wife-walks-husband-on-a-leash-1.5262178)** > > A Sherbrooke husband and wife were handed sizeable fines for violating curfew, despite the wife's protests that she was walking her dog and the fact the husband was wearing a leash. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2021, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/629 "2021-01-12T19:40:58Z")
Probably her emotional support animal. Don’t take him on a plane! ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/630 "2021-01-12T20:02:00Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Unfortunately there are a lot of rational people who are collateral damage. So your wish just wasn’t specific enough. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2021, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/631 "2021-01-12T20:49:01Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > So your wish just wasn’t specific enough. Apparently not. Reminds me of the story of the guy who asks the genie for a penis that hangs within a couple inches of the ground. Turns out the genie has a wicked sense of humor as he magically chops the guy’s legs off at mid-thigh. Oops. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/632 "2021-01-12T22:39:13Z")
😬 The one I heard was the wish was to be made irresistible to women – he was made an infant. A glowering infant. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2021, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/633 "2021-01-12T22:55:49Z")
I think I know a glowering infant. But not so irresistible to most women. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/634 "2021-01-14T00:59:54Z")
Well, you know, the praying it away worked so well for all her other ailments… it’s gotta work one of these days, right? 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![Newtosite](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/newtosite/32/8623_2.png) [@Newtosite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Newtosite)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/635 "2021-01-14T07:06:48Z")
Today in a medical office I overheard a girl say, “Covid isn’t real because it’s not in the Bible. If it were real, it’d be stated in the Bible.” ☹ ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/636 "2021-01-14T07:13:23Z")
> [@Newtosite](#): > > Covid isn’t real because it’s not in the Bible. If it were real, it’d be stated in the Bible She must have skipped over all the parts with plagues. Exodus comes to mind. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2021, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/637 "2021-01-14T15:33:35Z")
Maybe we can convince her COVID is spread by locusts. Or frogs. What we really have today is not a plague of COVID. It’s a plague of Stupidity of truly Biblical proportions. ISTM they left that out of the Bible too. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/638 "2021-01-14T23:45:16Z")
Wish you’d thought to ask her which passages talk about the Internet, cars, and the Kardashians. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/639 "2021-01-15T23:54:01Z")
Or electricity, for that matter. That’s my standard comeback for those who bray, “Evolution is just a theory.” She should stick to oil lamps. ---
**Author:** ![Bonum\_Legatum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bonum_legatum/32/6183_2.png) [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/640 "2021-01-16T14:13:56Z")
The classic response to “That’s just a theory.” is “Oh, just like the theory of gravity.” Unfortunately, the person making the original statement would probably not understand why it is called the theory of gravity. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854.md?page=31) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854.md?page=33)