# 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:** 33
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/641 "2021-01-16T14:51:37Z")
I just saw a 15 second video, which I won’t link to because I don’t want to amplify it, but it shows a woman who looks like she is standing on a shaking floor or something, trying to make it to her bed from the bathroom. The poster claims “This is what the vaccine has done to my mother!” My usually level headed sister in law is sharing this stupid video on fb. 😩 ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/642 "2021-01-17T04:35:12Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > 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. Not so! There was Samson. ETA: What other diseases are mentioned in the Bible? There’s leprosy, senility, the plagues of Egypt – what else? Are polio, smallpox, multiple sclerosis mentioned anywhere? ---
**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 17, 2021, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/643 "2021-01-17T05:19:50Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > multiple sclerosis Nitpick: nothing remotely contagious about multiple sclerosis. Did you mean meningitis? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/644 "2021-01-17T05:22:31Z")
Nobody said anything about contagious. (Did I miss something?) Just diseases that don’t exist because they aren’t in the Bible. Senility isn’t contagious either. (Or is it?) ---
**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 17, 2021, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/645 "2021-01-17T05:29:42Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Nobody said anything about contagious. (Did I miss something?) No, but maybe I did. The prior diseases in the sentence were polio and smallpox, which are notoriously contagious. I may have jumped to a conclusion. At least it wasn’t an assumption. And no, senility isn’t contagious, although I was tempted to to say “yes, you catch it from your kids”. ---
**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 17, 2021, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/646 "2021-01-17T11:38:16Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > And no, senility isn’t contagious, although I was tempted to to say “yes, you catch it from your kids”. Once you turn about 70, don’t let the kids come over; you’ll catch it every time. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/647 "2021-01-21T03:14:19Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Wish you’d thought to ask her which passages talk about the Internet, cars, and the Kardashians. Or tomatoes. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2021, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/648 "2021-01-21T04:19:28Z")
Or AIDS. HIV can’t exist because it’s not mentioned in the Bible, right? ---
**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 21, 2021, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/649 "2021-01-21T11:56:50Z")
Better yet, ask her how Americans can exist since they’re not in the Bible. Tell her that her simply being alive is therefore blasphemy. The only way to reconcile this dilemma is to simultaneously confess her sins and kill herself. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/650 "2021-01-22T15:43:15Z")
Not sure if this belongs in the workplace thread or the Covidiot thread… I’ve just been informed that next week (when I’m in the office) I’m expected to join two managers in paying a visit to a local electric shop to find out if their equipment is suitable for our testing needs. The manager who has proposed this trip exposed four employees to Covid last year when he insisted on driving the whole group to lunch in his truck. 😫 I’m not pleased at all with the idea of visiting this shop in person (I’m of the opinion that if they can’t describe their testing setup either in an email or over the phone, it’s likely they won’t be able to meet our requirements), and given the general attitudes toward Covid where I work it’s very likely that tempers will flare when I refuse to get into a vehicle with other people. ---
**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 22, 2021, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/651 "2021-01-22T16:53:03Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > when I refuse to get into a vehicle with other people. Then don’t surprise them with that next week. Lay it out right now. They may well decide you don’t need to go. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/652 "2021-01-22T17:00:59Z")
Why not just tell them you’ll go separately? Or if you think that will be controversial, claim that you need to run a side errand on the way back. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2021, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/653 "2021-01-23T02:58:30Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Better yet, ask her how Americans can exist since they’re not in the Bible. The Mormons seem to have the explanation for this. (Native Americans are the ten lost tribes?) ---
**Author:** ![FigNorton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fignorton/32/5619_2.png) [@FigNorton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FigNorton)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2021, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/654 "2021-01-23T04:07:38Z")
Or you could tell her the bible is a collection of stories meant to to describe God’s vision. It’s not an encyclopedia. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2021, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/655 "2021-01-28T11:22:17Z")
Covid deniers storming hospitals in England and endangering patients and health care workers. > **[Hospital incursions by Covid deniers putting lives at risk, say health leaders](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/27/hospital-incursions-by-covid-deniers-putting-lives-at-risk-say-leaders?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other)** > > Healthcare and police chiefs also say online activity is channelling hatred against NHS staff > [@](#): > > In the footage, a man behind the camera remonstrates with a consultant, who tells him that a patient will die if his oxygen tube is removed. When asked about what treatment is being given, the consultant explains that the patient has coronavirus pneumonia affecting both of lungs and is being treated with steroids and antibiotics. > > The man behind the camera says that patient should be brought home and the treatment replaced with vitamin C, vitamin D and zinc, but is told by the consultant: “None of those are proven treatments for coronavirus.” ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/656 "2021-01-31T14:31:17Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > The Mormons seem to have the explanation for this. (Native Americans are the ten lost tribes?) Nope. Jews from 600 BC. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/658 "2021-02-08T20:07:54Z")
Here’s one from [Notalwaysright.com](http://Notalwaysright.com) > **[“Know-It-All” Is Code For “A\*\*hole”](https://notalwaysright.com/know-it-all-is-code-for-ahole/227092/)** > > Coworker: “I don’t understand. Why do I have to wear a mask and stay indoors? I’m healthy. Why can’t the old people just keep away from me?” ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2021, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/659 "2021-02-09T02:07:20Z")
Just wanted to note that I saw, the other day, a really nice Spanish-language equivalent to the term “Covidiot.” According to Gustavo Arellano, it’s “Pandejo.” 😄 > **[The 'Pandejo' Movement Destroyed California’s Pandemic Progress](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/why-southern-california-got-so-bad/617830/?fbclid=IwAR05OxVlUh6IYIUFY4ai4shwd9-5lcFTT0-_O5b5DkpHBB9rCkKZ03_EypA)** > > A cautionary tale about what happens when municipalities lift restrictions too soon ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/660 "2021-02-23T15:04:09Z")
This article includes several accounts of vicious maskholes. > **[Is This the End of Tipping? (Published 2021)](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/21/business/pandemic-restaurant-tipping.html)** > > The restaurant industry is in crisis. But some see how bad things are for servers — including “maskual harassment” — as a unique chance to make life better. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/661 "2021-02-23T15:06:09Z")
“Pandejo” — that’s perfect! (“Pendejo” is a term somewhere between ‘jerk’ and ‘asshole’). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854.md?page=32) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854.md?page=34)