What's the silliest, most pointless COVID safety rule you've seen?

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Dumb rules wrote:
My silliest list:

1. One way running/walking around outdoor parks (e.g., must go clockwise around this pond).
2. One way aisles in grocery stores.
3. Wearing a mask outdoors, especially if you're doing the "pulling your mask up for 2 seconds to go by somebody then pulling it down again" thing.

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Luv2Run wrote:

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Dumb rules wrote:
My silliest list:

1. One way running/walking around outdoor parks (e.g., must go clockwise around this pond).
2. One way aisles in grocery stores.
3. Wearing a mask outdoors, especially if you're doing the "pulling your mask up for 2 seconds to go by somebody then pulling it down again" thing.

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Not sure if it is the silliest, but the grocery store aisles one is the most often ignored. Maybe in big urban areas where the density can be high, but in my grocery store (at least when I have done) people are pretty spread out. I seldom have anyone else in the aisle with me. If we are, we are passing one another quickly (and wearing masks).

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go to eat, wear a mask while Im walking to my seat, but once I sit down I can take it off. Im so glad the virus is gentleman enough to allow me to eat my meal, and enjoy conversations with my friends and will only attack me on neutral ground.

I just got Covid updates for a half marathon in the keys. Bring your own water bottle. No water provided on course. Race day temperatures routinely start in high 70’s with dew points matching.

So they don’t want anyone to get Covid, but they do want them to get dehydrated and have heat exhaustion.

The idea that a mask made out of an old T-shirt covering my mouth and nose can save me from a virus like I'm trying not to smell a bad fart in class.

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Dumb rules wrote:
My silliest list:

1. One way running/walking around outdoor parks (e.g., must go clockwise around this pond).
2. One way aisles in grocery stores.
3. Wearing a mask outdoors, especially if you're doing the "pulling your mask up for 2 seconds to go by somebody then pulling it down again" thing.

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Reduced opening times.

Where I live liquor stores are mainly ran by the government (there are private stores, but most are government) and in response to covid they reduced their opening hours.

Reduced opening hours means more crowding, which would increase the chances of catching covid...

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SummerSlogger wrote:
go to eat, wear a mask while Im walking to my seat, but once I sit down I can take it off. Im so glad the virus is gentleman enough to allow me to eat my meal, and enjoy conversations with my friends and will only attack me on neutral ground.

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In my state, you can go out to a bar to sit in a booth, but only if you're eating. So you order a couple apps and drinks, but if you finish your apps before you're done drinking you have to order more food to stay. Some places would actually enforce it, one place I go to just gives every table a plate of fries and says don't touch it if you don't want to order food.

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SummerSlogger wrote:
go to eat, wear a mask while Im walking to my seat, but once I sit down I can take it off. Im so glad the virus is gentleman enough to allow me to eat my meal, and enjoy conversations with my friends and will only attack me on neutral ground.

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Primo Numero Uno wrote:
The no reusable grocery store bags one in California was pretty stupid. Glad that one has been lifted.

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I love when people sit down on outdoor benches but not until they wipe them clean wish some kind of solution.

I guess you can get covid thru your clothes from a bench someone else wearing pants sat on before

Not a fan of those masks either, but filtering small drops filled with virus particles is actually a lot easier than a smell= gas.

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FartyMcpants wrote:
The idea that a mask made out of an old T-shirt covering my mouth and nose can save me from a virus like I'm trying not to smell a bad fart in class.

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Requiring a mask - no health exemptions accepted! - and temperature check (even though I told them what it was) - before being allowed to enter the building to renew my driving license in California.
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Senior shopping before 8 am at Costco and perhaps other places too.
I've heard the lines are long for that, and I rarely go anywhere before 2pm anyway.
Costco pointing the laser at your hand when the zap your card, which they've always done.
They freak out about touching anyone's card, then hand the receipt to you with the hands.
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Stores that spray all the carts with toxic sanitizers, soaking the handles.
I always get a cart from the parking lot and tell them I don't want that spray on me.
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Trader Joe's having people stand 6 feet back from the counter while they ring up the sale.
Then, even more dumb, they stand back 6 feet from the register while you're paying for it.
Then they grab the receipt in their hands and toss it in the cart.
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People who have their little children wearing masks <--- which is child abuse.

Bars allowed to open at 50% capacity. Everyone completely blew it off and packed in the bars. The rest is history.

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FartyMcpants wrote:
The idea that a mask made out of an old T-shirt covering my mouth and nose can save me from a virus like I'm trying not to smell a bad fart in class.

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south africa; banning alcohol and tobacco sales

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SummerSlogger wrote:
go to eat, wear a mask while Im walking to my seat, but once I sit down I can take it off. Im so glad the virus is gentleman enough to allow me to eat my meal, and enjoy conversations with my friends and will only attack me on neutral ground.

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