Whats your favourite covid memory

Getting to Work from home was a genuinely good outcome

Oh no it wasn't.

At the start when everyone was wearing plastic gloves in the supermarkets and washing their hands..no masks ..then you stopped hearing about handwashing and everyone started wearing masks...the streets being deserted to the point where a fox was pictured roaming Grafton Street...listening to the daily figures at the evening press conference...the likes of Zara King creaming herself if there was a spike....the scenes of music blaring in apartment blocks in Amsterdam and at home in Dublin,things like outdoor bingo...the army are being brought into the streets to control people rumour...the "hope you're safe" comment brigade on Facebook as if the bubonic plague was back in fashion...going to work became working from home and going to the pub became the home bar/shebeen that's now in so many back gardens...the people on about the fierce bad chest infection they had in December 2019 and how they believe it was the covid they had and it was in the country before 2020...when everyone called it Corona....the praising of essential workers that seemed to dwindle as time went on....my personal favourite was the people chatting online to each other and saying things like "oh I must meet you now girl for a drink when all this is over" ..The same people are now probably crossing the road to avoid each other.

Well done lads, we've all survived something that will now come to define a generation....prior to this I'd often thought the only remarkable thing I had lived through in my time was 9/11 this has surpassed that.

I can't wait to get into a nightclub and have drink spilt on me again.That and a foreign holiday I'm looking forward to most.

Seeing so many gardai on foot!

I wouldn’t describe it as my favourite memory but one that sticks out was the month before the first lockdown receiving a letter from the Central Bank in the company I was working in warning about a potential virus coming from China and recommending potential procedures to be put in place. I remember a meeting between all of the heads of business units lead by the head of risk to discuss the letter, it was dismissed as a non major risk and all of the information presented said that it would never happen. Little did we know that less than 3 weeks later everything changed.

another memory was the day of the first lockdown I went out for a walk. Dun Laoghaire was literally a ghost town and seeing people crossing the street to avoid coming close to another pedestrian. I will always remember it for the fact that I couldn’t go home and see my parents for close to 15 months. And weekly ignoring by me to zoom bingo/quiz nights.

We used play guess Today's numbers.

Also we almost stopped watching RTE.

It was also great knowing that you didn't have to tidy up for visitors or having unexpected ones.

I liked the first lockdown.

The working from home, the lack of rushing and racing with the kids to drop or collect from school, sports, friends houses etc.

The weather was great and we spent so much time outside.

And as another poster mentioned not have to get the house tody for short notice visitors or cleaning up after them.

That really struck me too.

There I was in a sports hall with all these cubicles, and staff, and organisation, and procedure and order etc etc.

A few years earlier I was in the same hall at a kids basketball blitz, but now it had turned into this great big military style operation to get people immunized against something that was just a small news item 16 odd months earlier.

And all of it so efficient and calm.

Working in a vaccine clinic back in February, first group of over 85s. The sense of hope and optimism was fantastic.

The absolute quiet with little or no traffic on the roads whilst standing out the back of the house in the evenings. Was like living in another century.

Yet another illustration (if one were needed) as to what an absolute prat fat Tony is

“Too fast”? When exactly was this? It’s been painfully slow and riddled with paranoid “caution”

I work from home anyhow pre Covid so I agree it is great. You need a level of experience and to be established in a career I think. Can’t imagine it’s great for young recent graduates.

I hope organisations don’t force staff that can work from home well back to the office and mind numbing long commutes just for the sake of it. I think that would be cruel on people that have made it work. I can see that happening though

Love this story. Brilliant to hear of a dog that’s been horribly neglected find his forever loving home. Dogs are very perceptive and probably picked up the kind vibes off you and once you fed him that was it. Would love to see a pic of him!

That very serious lockdown. Leaving the house to go to work at 9.15am and walking into the office at 9.18am.

BBQing and drinking/partying in my back garden with my folks during the sunny and warm spring of 2020 and blasting out Nussun Dorma on my blutooth PA speaker for the whole neighborhood to hear when we thought the world was coming to an end, for a few weeks it seemed like all every neighbor did was BBQ and sit in the sun (south facing back gardens)

Also passing my driving test

Really wasn't all bad tbh

We would regularly walk in parks and along the local riverside. With the lack of traffic on the nearby main road we discovered we could hear birdsong loud and clear. We felt we had never really heard it before so loud. That's a nice memory for us.

The odd fox was spotted walking down the path outside…. So weird it’s a pretty built up area of Dublin

peace and quite!