People Are Recalling The Weirdest Things That Happened At The Start Of The Pandemic, And I Honestly Forgot A Lot Of These Things
While it's wild to think that the pandemic started in 2020, Reddit user u/thenostalgiabird asked: "What was the weirdest part of the pandemic?" and a lot of people recalled incidents that happened in the beginning. Here's what they had to say.
1."I don't remember 2021 at all."
"My sense of time was skewed. 2020 blended into early 2022. I still have to think twice about when certain events happened."
2."Any type of 'party' on Zoom."
3."When a bunch of celebrities sang a John Lennon song thinking it’d inspire people or some shit."
4."I was so afraid of sneezing and coughing in public spaces 'cause people normally started to give you some weird looks."
5."I remember some of the restaurants near me started selling groceries during lockdown. It was so weird walking past a high-end restaurant known for its oysters only to see stacks of toilet paper, six packs of beer, non-perishable foods, etc. in its windows."
6."I live a block away from a very busy highway. While I never really noticed the sound of the highway, when it was gone, the silence was amazing!"
7."I never understood the sourdough starter craze. We get locked in our homes for a few weeks and suddenly everyone’s baking bread?"
"People wanted to bake, but yeast was hard to find so a lot of people turned to making their own sourdough, which utilizes wild yeast. I fell into the trap. I got quite good at it (for a while anyway) and still have my rye sourdough starter that I made in 2020 named Rye-an Reynolds. I had one made from all-purpose white flour I named Betty White. But like the real Betty White, she died."
8."Toilet paper hoarding."
9."Working in COVID ICU and everyone around me telling me COVID was fake, meanwhile I was having nightmares every single night and couldn’t eat. We lived very different realities."
10."Waiting in a lineup outside of the grocery store. Everyone had to stand on a sticker to stay properly distanced from one another, and security would wait until someone left before letting another person inside. No such thing as a 'quick shop' during those times."
11."Tiger King."
12."How the wildlife started walking through towns as soon as the stay-at-home orders took full effect."
"And the pictures of all the cities. No cars on the roads, and the skies were actually clear blues instead of smog."