First, it was my plans vs. 2020 followed by the toilet paper hoarding memes, and jokes about learning to live life via Zoom, confronting anti-maskers, vaxers, and whatnot, but the mess felt like escalating. Fast forward to today, and there’s a global birthday in town.
The pandemic has turned one. Like a restless baby, it’s been keeping us awake at night, pushing our sanity to the brink, making us question whether the world as we knew it before is even possible anymore. Except what's at stake is not your prenatal late nights fueled with pinot and carelessness, but our jobs, travels, and friendships.
But since we already have enough looming over our poor heads, let’s celebrate the pandemanniversary with what we know the best, the internet’s favorite memes and jokes that make the absurdity, stress, and sometimes sheer hell on earth somewhat more livable.
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If you don’t like wearing foundation and lipstick, can’t you stop wearing them even once masks are no longer needed? Asking as a woman who doesn’t wear makeup.
Load More Replies...I was the girl who never opened the door to the postman without make up on. Now I’m in my pjs that I had on since Saturday last week .
That's why I like being at home. I can strut around the house with my naked bits showing and feel the air on my chin with my nose hanging out. Ah bliss!
But, a lot of girls had to "up their game" with their eye make-up; and hubby didn't need to worry about shaving for days on end.
I won’t miss masks. As someone who is HoH it’ll be nice to be able to read lips again
For a second I was like "1990 cannot be ten years ago, can it?". I need coffee...
That’s because it wasn’t. 2011 was 10 years ago. Am I missing the joke?
Load More Replies...Past time is measured memories. When times are eventful, the brain has many new experiences to store; when things are more repetitive and predictable, there are few notable things for the brain to archive. The brain doesn't really have a large time-scale clock and likes to fall back on "memory/event steps" to assess longer periods. For shorter periods, and especially the passage of 'now', the brain can judge time spans much more accurately, but is also using "event steps" as a comparison and gets confused when they tick away faster than they should, or when the next tick takes ages to happen.
Lol. My brain totally tried to make that math work. I went the whole 8 seconds. I blame daylight savings time today
I only invited it cuz I was sick last Pi day... I don't regret it yet. Also, it not March's fault... It was January's
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Within a week, millions of people around the world stayed home in place for what we all initially thought would only take a couple of weeks.
Days went by, they turned into weeks, and then months. The world stood still in what became the biggest health crisis in recent history with the coronavirus becoming the main cause of death in the United States. Now, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, around 2,000 people die from the disease every day on average, which is already down from the high of more than 3,000 average daily death count in mid-January.
While many battled for the lives of their own and their loved ones, those who were lucky enough not to fall ill had to adapt to the pandemic world they never knew before. Remote work and education became a new norm, social isolation replaced face-to-face communication, and our leisure activities, like shopping and having a drink on a bar terrace on a sunny Sunday morning, turned into a distant memory.
1 month.... Those poor animals in Australia. The world has come together to help them! People are awesome! 6 months: People are arguing with basic science, and being totally selfish about it. I thought people were kinder and smarter. 1 year later: I'm so embarrassed to be a human being right now.
It feels like it's been that long that I'm expecting the Spanish inquisition
I've had to work through all of this. I don't miss traffic. I do miss having places to go to the bathroom.
During last March my favourite picture was bloody Wilson on a roll of toilet paper!
Load More Replies...I am proud to say my social skills haven't changed. I've always been like Wilson. Social anxiety is fun.
Reminds me of the vine where the guy is just like “noooo,ugh! Wilson! Where are youuuu!” Lol
I ran pretty close to feral in the best of times, I'm pretty much screwed now.
Been that way my whole life. Must be why I never left the house today...
With 20 million Americans who are now unemployed due to the coronavirus crisis, the pandemic now holds a firm grip on the worldwide economy as nobody is really sure yet when the mess is going to end. And although the vaccinations have made us all hopeful, they have been partly overshadowed by new mutations popping up out of nowhere from various places around the world.
Our mental health has suffered too. The report “Stress in America™ 2020: A National Mental Health Crisis” issued by the American Psychological Association shows that “Americans have been profoundly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and that the external factors Americans have listed in previous years as significant sources of stress remain present and problematic.”
Thus the APA has announced an alarm situation: “We are facing a national mental health crisis that could yield serious health and social consequences for years to come.”
Me:*not touching my face*CDC:*don’t touch your face*me:*perfect opportunity to touch my face ig*
I went for my vaccine in my pjs and Ugg’s . The pharmacist asked if I was okay ... I just looked at him, over my mask. I think he knew the answer .
I always go to the groceries or the pharmacy in comfy clothes. I am too tired and ill to give a crap anymore.
Load More Replies...I really need this. Jeans ans other fancy pants are too hard on my abdomen and hurt too much. I really need to find "good looking comfy pants". Like jeans with a elastic waist. Any suggestions for a european?
I like leggings with a short stretchy skirt over the top. Comfort, coverage and movement!
Load More Replies...I did that yesterday... Ordered a dress, then realized I still haven't worn the ones I bought for last summer. I cancelled my order.
I did the same, but I couldn't bring myself to cancel the order, instead I have three dresses (granted, they are very beautiful dresses) arriving at my house tomorrow. I have a problem 😅
Load More Replies...Me also. I have 11 pairs of new shoes, new jeans in every colour and a few dresses that I’ll NEVER EVER EVER wear
Did this. Ordered a bunch of dresses on a whim for that one chance that I'll be seen (at home) on my birthday! I can dream can't I?
I wore a dres yesterday going outside for 20 minutes to the grocery store to get milk and Bread I felt like a movie star on the red carpet with a face mask on it was awesome
Load More Replies...I now only order comfy clothes fleece pj pants t shirts long sleeved,socks, hoodies warm woolen hats and shawls that I wear inside (I now realise i am turning into an 80 Year old)
Same here. It's my new hobby but I have so many things to wear for the first time.
According to the report, the pandemic has disrupted work, education, health care, the economy, our relationships, and some groups were impacted more than others.
The APA stated that the country’s youngest individuals, Generation Z, are the most susceptible to the potential long-term damage caused by the persistent stress and trauma. “Our 2020 survey shows that Gen Z teens (ages 13-17) and Gen Z adults (ages 18-23) are facing unprecedented uncertainty, are experiencing elevated stress, and are already reporting symptoms of depression.”
And then you have the idiots asking in reddit where they can go on holidays this summer... eye roll.
I guess that could depend on what country they live in and if they are planning on traveling within their state or country etc. For example Australia and New Zealand.
Load More Replies...Ugh a holiday, does that mean I have to pause my Netflix again . No not going
Yes! Booked a trip in October but only because everything will cancel with no fees until September
Yep. My smile has actually gotten bigger so I'm sure that people can see it in my eyes.
Load More Replies...Don't; it's only natural. And people can often see it in your eyes
Load More Replies...I quizzed my family to see if they could tell if I was smiling or mean mugging under my mask... Lol... It was 50/50
YOu know the classic Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times"?...
my grandchildren in class: one of the things they used as a coping mechanism was memes the only way they can laugh
Me in history class: wow, must've been crazy to live through, I can't imagine! Me now: No, historical events! Bad! You go back in the books!! Now!
And more cases. And an infinite amount of cynicism regarding the prevalence of common sense and the advance planning capabilities of those in power...
Where I live there is only on case in the entire province
Load More Replies...Do we though? do we? because I'm still using the thin toilet paper, only because I can't find the good stuff.(probably Charmin?) idk really.
For us March 2021 is very different to March 2020. I really feel for people in countries that haven’t been able to get a handle on the pandemic. I hope it eases for them soon.
Thank you! Still very nice to hear on news and here that some are getting better and can now enjoy a normal life :) ! In France it feels like it will never end...We currently have around 20 000 new cases and 300 to 400 deaths each day for months...The government doesn't want to decide on another lockdown mostly because presidential elections are soon and they want to make it seems like the country got better without having to go under lockdown and during that cute little promotion people keep on dying...
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My wife and I have run our business from home for 7 years or so. Previously, a Zoom meeting meant that we'd basically be on a conference call and maybe share our screens. Suddenly it was a "Video call" with clients we had never seen before. WHY? We always just talked on the phone before! I've always been sitting here in a day-old t-shirt and some crappy shorts! Now you suddenly have to see me?! And don't even get me started on these hi-res cameras that pick up every flaw in your skin unless you have professional lighting and make-up. Let's just talk, like we used to do.
I remember when the only time I was on Zoom was for mid-week religious school. *sighs* Memories
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I am so glad we didn’t have to do Zoom therapy sessions for long. It was very difficult getting my son invested into what he was meant to be doing. He does so much better in the actual clinic.
Technically you weren't wrong. You did work from home for those two and a half weeks.....and then a bit longer.
Have you ever eaten Sunday lunch in bed ..Me: Yes , with extra gravy
I have discoverd that everyday is a hot chocolate and Whipped Cream day with cake and cookies
I got two canisters of Clorox wipes with my grocery order the other day. FINALLY had them in stock, an entire year later. Told my husband they were like gold and maybe we should display them on the mantel to show our wealth instead of actually wiping things down with them. (We've been using a lot of bleach water.)
dang, mine came in only a month, but in the form of 9 boxes of baby diapers, don't know how they messed that one up lol
Nope. 2021 is light years from 2020. We have MULTIPLE highly effective vaccines, the wannabe autocrat in the United States did not succeed in illegitimately seizing power, and there are moves - finally - to do something about the climate crisis. It's not the best year but it's far from being the worst. It didn't start with Australia on fire, either.
Ive been up for more than 28 hours+ bgthnyjkui...db2774.png
They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.
Oh god this is me. I have gained some 30 pounds. I used to be trim, lithe, skinny even. Now I am... decidedly not.
As an adult ive learnt that adults cry for no reason also , not just 4yr olds
Life seems to move in 7 year cycles...hopefully you're entering a new one soon
Load More Replies...I e also given up drinking, which I’m so proud of . I used to drink like a fish. Now, I just don’t see the point in it anymore. The smell of wine makes me want to vomit . I’m so proud of me. . My parents are alcoholics.... I will never be that person now .
Well done! You deserve to be proud of yourself. There's so much social pressure to drink in this world it's made harder to stop..
Load More Replies...good job bro (or girl i not sexist) it's better for you anyways to not drink and be sober than risking your life so you can drink kuddo to you
I quit in 1978, but still struggle with it. AND fatty liver disease is just as bad for you and comes from all that sugar and junk food.
Seems like you keep making racist and offensive comments on funny posts
Load More Replies...My partners boses are still like that :( Even if you test positive if you are two days without symptoms they make you go. And tmdont send the other workers for testing until they show symptoms either. Obviously they had a lot of cases.
Oh you can be certain that by 2022, this will be a thing again. People sneezing and coughing and breathing all over one another like a bunch of disgusting freaks.
indeed far more relevant. Sleeping B just skipped the whole thing, a privilege we didn't have.
Load More Replies...I had to give up on earrings. Now I just wear them on the day I have the most zoom meetings.
My formerly extroverted friend spent 15 minutes talking to me about her ten year old house shoes. She didn't even realize how far over the edge she had gone until I brought it to her attention.
2 years ago today, my friend at 3 am at a girl scout sleepover to me: "do you need to use the sleep?" "yeah maybe i do need to use the sleep"
I just about made it... the only thing keeping me sane was 2 rats. Well, I say that like it’s over. It definitely isn’t...
I have a turtle that honestly isn't doing me much good. I also have an obnoxious dad who's trying to look over my shoulder all the time and be involved in my school life (he doesn't live with us, he and my mom are seperated, and I really just don't like him). My mom doesn't give a quack about him and what he's doing. My sister moved out, my brother and sister in-law moved out some 2 years ago, and the brother that lives with me isn't super great. This is a perfect representation of someone who's surviving COVID like a boss :'')
i got my puppers in the middle of it to keep me and the fam sane, i think he just broke us all even more lol
I don't know what 2 of those things are, but because I've owned a dog for the last 9 years I'm about to become homeless, so
This is super judgemental. What helps one person, may not help another. No reason to shame
I'd not have made it through if I had a dog; I'm scared of them.
The bear was mad that he threw away the stuffed bear so when they met it was like WW1
I’m wearing jogging trousers and oversized paint-stained hoodies after the pandemic. I don’t give a f**k what people think of me anymore. Comfy always wins.
Oh I’ve started to wear sports bras, I tell you they are the best thing I’ve ever discovered
I just bawled my eyes out watching this movie last night. My dad could hear me crying from downstairs and had to come check on me.
I LOVE not having to wear a bra, in spite of the fact that I'm now a 44 knee
I love not wearing a bra. Even when I go shopping. I am wearing a mask they don't know who I am. Lol
No, reusable would be an awesome gift
Load More Replies...First anniversary gift is "paper". If we're not careful, second anniversary is "cotton".
I hate how so much people doesnt care anymore :( As a person that probably would have a terrible covid it really angers me.
I hate how people who have been following lockdowns and social distancing only loosely now complain that 12 months of restrictions have been useless.
Load More Replies...I hate how the people complaining about closed businesses and schools are more often than not the reason why they are closed. Sit your ass down. You have netflix, delivering, internet... it was never that easy to stay put but some idiot needs to drink with 10 buds in close quaters or go on demonstrations without mask and wonders why everything is closed.
People are selfish and many have learned to live in a world where their "opinion" is all-powerful. They think you can have "opinions" on things like whether a virus is contagious, along with a whole lot of other things. It's tiresome and dangerous. Particularly when climate change is going to make covid look like a complete cakewalk.
I calculated it this weekend and I spend 12 hours a day on the computer.
No, you'll still have to work through you're 60s and 70s.
Load More Replies...WAIT THE VACCIENS DONT WORK??? EDIT: yall downvotin this i was just confuseDD SOrru ;-;
The person is a Karen saying vaccines don't work and when they wished vaccines worked nothing changed because they already work
Load More Replies...i've got a 5lb bag of black beans that i knew i wouldn't actually cook. i'm planning on being cremated with them when the time comes
Load More Replies...My mom bought so much food during those first two weeks that our basement looked like we were getting ready for a hurricane or something.
Before I went home before the quote on quote two weeks my friend said “will this last a whole year” the teacher said no ( now) are you so sure about that
Got the Johnson and Johnson... Mild symptoms and I don't need to worry about trying to schedule a second shot around my work schedule
Actually according to the other comments he was an idiot who didn't wear a helmet, hurt it, and is now not the same. But that was the best burn so I will let it slide.
Load More Replies...Gary Busey. Exercised his "right" to choose no helmet, cracked his unhelmeted head open in motorcycle accident, never the same again. Hmm. Sensing a pattern.
nope, in the movie, they were actually 3 years apart. just tossing that out there.
Load More Replies...They are different--one's smiling smugly while the other was the expected mess that it is.
speaking of, did they cut all his hair off, or did they wig/CGI it?
I used to be the banana bread baker in our house...then COVID happened... My boyfriend has taken my recipe and combined it with several others, tweaked and tampered with it... and slowly over the lockdown year it has evolved into banana-nirvana. I can't even make mine as a treat for us now because it is of inferior lineage. I'm both sad and elated. One day I will return to the office with banana-nirvana, claimed as my own, and the white shirts will weep with joy and I will be immortal.
Don't see why alcohol is considered a "cool" and "funny" way to cope with situations, it'll just make bigger problems for you later on.
Am currently working my way through the seven stages of grief. It's taking awhile, because I keep circling back to anger.
Anger at the virus or the governments that failed to protect their people, or the people who refuse to protect other people?
Load More Replies...I feel this more than ever as the whole thing started on my birthday. I'm 50 this month and I think I'm just going to sleep through it
Happy big 50th from me, a March baby who also just hit 50!
Load More Replies...umm for number one I was sick and number two I actually enjoyed somehow
I think that people were expecting to kick out March
Load More Replies...I'd say it's more proof that humanity is inherently selfish and can't follow basic instructions
Load More Replies...One year ago I was 7 months into a relationship, and had just been told I'd be working from home for 2 weeks. Now a year later, the relationship ended 1 week ago, I've been partially vaccinated and I'm still partially working remotely.
One year ago, I finally took the leather punch upstairs to make additional holes in my belts (because I had lost weight). When I will finally start wearing pants with belts again, I will have gained so much weight that I wouldn't have needed new holes in the first place.
I feel this one. I had successfully dropped a full size and was considering buying new clothes that would fit better. Now I'm barely able to fit into the clothes I would have gotten rid of..
Load More Replies...Extracts of an email I sent to a client in March 2020: "an office around the corner from us has discovered that one of their employees has been infected with the virus...we have been asked to work from home...it should be safe for us to return to work soon, so I may be able to proceed with this matter properly next week."
This article was so relatable. Sometimes, when I react on something on BP, my comment randomly is added to other reactions I wasn't responding to. I've seen this with other people's reactions, too. So, if you see a comment of mine and it seems weird and out of place: I just didn't spot it in the 'wrong' place. I'm sorry for any inconvenience!
Have you ever seen the movie 'Blast From the Past'? Right now there are people living the first part of that movie. They've locked themselves in their basements a year ago with some food and tons of toilet paper and have no idea who won the election.
I've seen many folks say 2021 was supposed to be different. Guys, this is the year of the ox. Why are we surprised it's full of bull? That's my terrible coping motto anyhow.
From March to August 2020 I went to my workplace exactly 4 times. From September to this day it's 0 times. Before all this s*it remote work was common practice but only for like 1 day per month. In December I moved and now it's 300 kilometers to my workplace. Some permanent changes are happening. Hope that virus is not one of those permanent things.
One year ago I was 7 months into a relationship, and had just been told I'd be working from home for 2 weeks. Now a year later, the relationship ended 1 week ago, I've been partially vaccinated and I'm still partially working remotely.
One year ago, I finally took the leather punch upstairs to make additional holes in my belts (because I had lost weight). When I will finally start wearing pants with belts again, I will have gained so much weight that I wouldn't have needed new holes in the first place.
I feel this one. I had successfully dropped a full size and was considering buying new clothes that would fit better. Now I'm barely able to fit into the clothes I would have gotten rid of..
Load More Replies...Extracts of an email I sent to a client in March 2020: "an office around the corner from us has discovered that one of their employees has been infected with the virus...we have been asked to work from home...it should be safe for us to return to work soon, so I may be able to proceed with this matter properly next week."
This article was so relatable. Sometimes, when I react on something on BP, my comment randomly is added to other reactions I wasn't responding to. I've seen this with other people's reactions, too. So, if you see a comment of mine and it seems weird and out of place: I just didn't spot it in the 'wrong' place. I'm sorry for any inconvenience!
Have you ever seen the movie 'Blast From the Past'? Right now there are people living the first part of that movie. They've locked themselves in their basements a year ago with some food and tons of toilet paper and have no idea who won the election.
I've seen many folks say 2021 was supposed to be different. Guys, this is the year of the ox. Why are we surprised it's full of bull? That's my terrible coping motto anyhow.
From March to August 2020 I went to my workplace exactly 4 times. From September to this day it's 0 times. Before all this s*it remote work was common practice but only for like 1 day per month. In December I moved and now it's 300 kilometers to my workplace. Some permanent changes are happening. Hope that virus is not one of those permanent things.
