35 Times People Spotted Others Acting Like Morons During This Outbreak And Shared Pics Online
Our lives are changing and we’re finding out that adapting to the “new normal” is harder than it looks on paper. While most of us occasionally slip up, there are some people who have completely left rational thought by the roadside the moment the quarantine came into effect.
Internet users can’t help but poke fun at how some people are clueless about how viruses work, so Bored Panda has collected some of the funniest photos of people doing dumb things during the pandemic. Scroll down, enjoy the coronavirus stupidity, and upvote your fave pics, dear Pandas. And let us know in the comments if you’ve encountered any Covidiots so far.
Avoiding products that have the name “Corona” in them is one thing, but microwaving money to “disinfect” it (pro-tip: don’t ever do this) and disregarding safe facemask and glove use is a whole ‘nother ball game entirely.
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All The Beans At My Local Grocery Store Are Out Except This One
Fear makes us do stupid, dumb, irrational things. No matter how cool a cucumber you might be in fair weather conditions, once the coronacrap hits the metaphorical fan, your true character comes out. And the fear of the virus has created public panic in some places.
For instance, in China, there have been reported cases of people hunting down pet cats and dogs due to misinformation about how the virus works. Meanwhile in Malaysia, some citizens were busy spreading rumors that coronavirus patients turned into zombies.
Someone's Rooftop Party Is About To Get Raided By The Cops
Went To The Shop Last Night. Every Aisle Had Been Picked Clean Apart From This... People Are Idiots
Let's start calling it the toilet paper virus so people won't hoard all the T.P.
McDonald’s in China apologized after one of the restaurant’s branches in Guangzhou stopped black people from going inside. The company temporarily closed down the restaurant when it found out about the notice. Online rumors about the coronavirus circulating in Guangzhou led to hundreds of Africans being evicted from apartments and hotels just last week.
$5000 Canadian After Someone Using The Microwave To Disinfect It
We can judge all we want, but elementary human psychology tells us that fear changes the way that we see the world and react to things. In times of panic, we’re far more likely to conform and turn to herd-mentality so that we can feel safe.
If your friends, family, and neighbors are doing something, the odds are, we’ll be doing it as well. The best thing we can do is try to calm down and bring a bit of logic and common sense back into our lives.
So, My Work Had A Meeting About The Importance Of Social Distancing Today
She's Wearing A Mesh Bee Keeper Type Helmet. I'm Not Sure She Gets The Point
This Guy Was Eating His Food Wearing The Same Gloves He's Been Wearing Since He Walked In
Ewww! What the actual. Are people really this ignorant and missing the ENTIRE point of wearing gloves? At first I was amazed at the number of adverts and posters telling people how to wash their hands properly. As if people don’t already know but it wasn’t long before realising the horrible truth that people obviously don’t know!
Ladies And Gentlemen, The President Of Our Meatpacking Plant While Talking About The Plant's Safety Procedures During The Virus
I Don’t Think She Knows What “Quarantining” Means
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner Doesn't Seem To Understand How To Put On A Medical Mask Either. Mayor, Your Nostrils Are Showing
It Was Painful Watching This Happen
Yeah, cos I’m sure the kid being paid a shitty wage, being forced to go to work at the same time global news is urging people to stay at home as much as they can, probably working 12 hour + shift and the only protection they get from their managers is a pair of cheap gloves thrown at them at the start of the shift really cares by that point. And newsflash: if the gloves aren’t replaced after each transaction, there is no point in wearing them as they don’t offer any protection to the wearer or the people they are exchanging items/money with.
Someone Brought These Bills To The Bank They Tried To Sanitize In A Microwave
Well at least they didn't melt into 1 big blob like the plastic Canadian bills, but still who the hell put money in the microwave???
No, I Don't Use My Nose To Breathe
This is nothing. In some regions here in India people are even beating up the medical staff and stone pelting them for coming to their locality for testing.
Protesters Against Quarantine Back Again At The Ohio Statehouse
I Don't Think That's How It Works
And they call Americans idiots...at least now we know Covidiots, which are the worst kind of idiots, exist in all countries
Good To Know Coronavirus Only Travels Forward And Backwards
Seen Today In The Atlanta Airport - Babies In Comforter Bags
He's A Little Confused But He Got The Spirit
Note: this post originally had 43 images. It’s been shortened to the top 35 images based on user votes.
I fear for the world. The massive amount of idiots that think this a joke or a hoax, that disregard safety measures or all around are selfish pricks... they will be the death of us. These are the types of people that say it's just the flu, and don't grasp how the R0 works, and why SIP is bringing down the numbers. My husband was gawked at by some boomer broad at Publix the other day because he was wearing a mask and she was not. Like chic, he's doing it to protect you, and our immunocompromised son.
The thing is, as long as most people do the right thing, it helps. No policy will be cool proof. Laughing at it, shaking heads and showing the world however is informative enough to even push that percentage of people who understand what to do a little further. The scary part is when leaders set the wrong example.
Yes, like someone who "just doesn't see himself" wearing a mask. Asshat.
I've tried educating people on this issue. Trying to explain how statistics work, what the R0 is, how mortality rate does not account for the entire population right now... It's exhausting. Given how many people think this is fake, because those of us that are staying at home are bringing the numbers down, is insane. They are what will bring in a second wave, and for what? Many are asymptomatic, so, when does it end when these people could kill someone that did the right thing?
You're not looking at this correctly. The dumb ones are getting a BIG dose of chlorine in their gene pool.
It may not be a hoax, but look at the numbers compared to other pandemics and the media coverage/government responses, and you'll see how it is a joke.
Average Joe, fine, but the people in charge don't even know masks cover the nose? It's not just one or two either. Maybe a good culling isn't such a bad thing.
Downside to that is the increased risk to dedicated medical staff.
I was shopping yesterday and watched someone with mask and gloves on lift up their mask, get tissue from up their sleeve, blow nose and then put tissue back up sleeve, classic!
I stopped at #2, people are attacking the Governor of Michigan for putting in stricter measures to protect Michigan citizens, but that photo was proven to be old. Ol' Teddy Cruz deleted his tweet about that photo with his tail tucked between his legs. How about BP put a photo up of the Michigan stay-at-home protesters who blocked streets to Sparrow Hospital.
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The biggest issue here is education. HELP those uneducated people to understand the risk and take good measure. Just taking pictures of peoples inappropriately protected to make fun of them makes me thing the real idiot is on the other side of the camera.
And hey -- if you think you've explained it well, go ahead a dumb it down an extra few notches just to make sure the idiots in the back get it as well. (All countries have idiots, and we need to watch them like hawks.)
That sounds like a good way to get shot, since it's mostly moronic Trumpies who are refusing to quarantine.
Exactly. 100% of the protestors this week are republican trump lovers who will cause more illness than we in the medical field can handle
🤦 these people are hopeless.. I wish covid19 virus will choose these people but I know wishing someone bad is not good..
I know what you mean. Inside a lot of us are thinking that it would be great if we could get rid of all the purely horrible bigoted people, but we can't.
Says the person bigoted against bigoted people, right? ;-)
I noticed a lot of these were in Walmart! :)
IF YOU ARE WEARING GLOVES/(non-homemade) MASKS INCORRECTLY, YOU ARE USING UP RESOURCES THAT OTHERS NEED. Hard-stop. Almost every single one of these posts shows how people's stupidity is causing even greater PPE shortages than we already have. A nurse could have used that mask to save a life.
Being in the medical field I want to agree with your comment, but then again must say this: most of my family & friends have very few masks or gloves to use. We are all reusing what little we have, sanitizing masks & gloves so we can re-wear them. Which may be the case for some of the folks in these picss. But, idiots who aren't wearing them properly, their noses, mouths not even covered by their masks! Now that is a waste.
Dumbest thing I've seen was the t-shirt on a family member at the hospital just today: "HOAX19". They sniggered an dsneered and laughed openly at the questions and the mask and gloves and soap and water, mimed wiping their butt before putting their hand on a door, and that, btw, was before they got past the *lobby*. Security ejected them. Person then raised a huge fuss about his "rights". Yeah, well, we hav ea right to *live*, thanks... Oy.
Reminds me of that NBA player who touched all the mics as a joke, then got it.
I can not say this enough: COVID19 is real and it is very serious. Please stop joking around and having to hang out with your friends and just stay home. We will get through this a lot faster if people would just do what is asked of them by health professionals. Unless you have to be out, just stay in your house.
Y E S!!!!!
Easier said than done. We can't just shut down our lives
Kids may be able to survive virus. Can they survive parental stupidity?
Well, they have for years and years... :/
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Next step: People control other people and sort them out in good (responsible) and bad (not responsible). I don't know if I fear more Covid or the degenaration of public life. The real character shows itself in need.
Absolutely. Stalking and judging all the time..This is what we see even here.. I am speachless!!!!!!
Yes, I hate how people will call the police on their neighbors
It's ironic how the same people who call cashiers "heroes" are quick to judge them and call them morons and eagerly take photos of the, how stupid they are for not using the safety equipments as intended (because maybe they've been wearing them for the past 10 hours continously).
Experts have stated that the point of wearing masks is to keep the wearer from SPREADING the disease, not getting it. Covering your nose with anything less than an N95 mask doesn't do anything. Most of those shown with noses uncovered are wearing surgical or dust masks but by covering their mouths they are keeping others safe. btw- a Lancet study showed that asymptomatic carriers can be contagious by up to 8 weeks.
Well the upside of the covid-19 virus is that its helping to weed out the stupid.
That's the thing- it kills far more than the stupid. The Vox has a great article and video explaining how the virus transmits from person to person.
The most important rule to follow to prevent the spread of this (or any just about any other) disease is to isolate yourself. If you're sick, stay at home - not one single person out there wants your pestilence no matter what the payoff. Conversely, if you're not sick and for whatever reason you don't want to risk infection, stay at home - your mileage may very, but contagious individuals tend not to just wander in your door. Maybe now people will start acting courteously when they have a cold or flu and stay the hell away from me.
This virus really brings out the stupid/idiot people.
People seem to think gloves are either magic or somehow kill the virus on contact. They don't, they're just an extra skin that pick up the virus in exactly the same way as your own skin.
Exactly! Sanitize gloves immediately, even while wearing them, before touching other items! Use any qualified hand sanitizer, hell, use bleach! Kill the germs on the gloves, and I hope everyone knows how to safely remove the gloves, otherwise no sense wearing them.
You need to remove the pictures of Houston mayor and Congress woman. The captions are 100 percent fake.
The stupidity of people knows no bounds and/or the information being provided to these people is useless.
This reminded me why the stereotype of Americans being plain stupid exists.
A bunch of these pics feature the metric system, non-US currency...so sorry, but stupid people are everywhere
It’s sadly true...There was a study showing 11% of American adults can’t point out the US on a map of the world.
Please show a link to this supposed "study".
I'm very surprise, Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro didn't appear on this list!! That man should be arrested for what he's doing down there in Brazil.
Like most Brazilian presidents, he will end up in prison.
Some of these are a bit snide. Most people can’t get access to proper PPE right now, making some attempt to restrict access to their mouth and nose might be the best they can do because they have no option but to keep going to work. Especially in America where basic worker protections and welfare provisions are non existent and you can get sacked for trying to organise.
The overwhelming majority of posts here are either examples of protection that WOULD work, if used correctly, or of improvisations that completely miss the point.
No wonder we can’t stop this pandemic.
This is actually nature's way of killing off all the stupid people. A blessing in disguise.
Some of these were unnecessary and insulting to the people pictured. More kindness is need in this world.
This pandemic has shown me how common truly stupid people are.
This list is missing a couple of Ron DeSantis ones.
This post has left me feeling really wound up and angry! The sheer stupidity of some people who don't give a fk about their loved ones let alone others is beyond belief!!
hi there. I am from Malaysia. may i know which source(s) you get the rumours from about covid19 patients turning into zombies?
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hi there..I am from Malaysia but i dont recall we Malaysians have any rumours on covid19 patients turning into zombies. may i know which source(s) you get that info from?
I have to wonder if some of these are just random photos taken pre-virus and stuck with a caption.
Unfortunately this planet has a good proportion of idiots who think Social Distancing and wearing face masks doesn't apply to them. Until EVERYONE does what is expected this virus will remain and change from a pandemic to endemic. Why is it the minority always ruin it for the majority!
The coronavirus is the stupidest thing ever.
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If stupidity was a currency, there would be no poverty...
You can't fix this kind of stupid, but perhaps the virus will, temporarily
The comments on these are golden. My fellow boredpandians, I'm proud of you.
So.. if there was still ANY doubt. Humans are the problem. I don't mean that like "we are the virus" (even though we are) bu I mean, the reason the virus spreads like crazy, is because humans can't even do the simplest thing right.
This is why the virus is up and doing its thing cause of the stupid human beings on our planet! Geez, I wouldn't be surprised if any of these ppl have gotten the virus. Hope not, but wouldn't be surprised.
Regarding the masks not covering the nose - when I'm talking for a while, the mask tends to slip down under the nose, and I have to readjust it. I was just talking about it with a colleague who has the same problem. That could be the case with some of the people in these pictures. Of course, it's hard to tell from a still image whether that's the case or they're actually just wearing the masks improperly.
Quit making excuses. If your mask doesn't fit properly ADJUST IT so it does.
No excuses. It happens. I'm not sure how you would adjust the mask, because most aren't adjustable. The thing to do is just replace it to where it was positioned, and repeat if it happens again.
I actually can see the dumbasses in my grade doing this, and thinking they are "cool" for having friends over while calling it "quarantine".
All I keep thinking while scrolling through this, is "Were all gonna die", closely followed by, "Maybe we deserve this virus".
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I fear for the world. The massive amount of idiots that think this a joke or a hoax, that disregard safety measures or all around are selfish pricks... they will be the death of us. These are the types of people that say it's just the flu, and don't grasp how the R0 works, and why SIP is bringing down the numbers. My husband was gawked at by some boomer broad at Publix the other day because he was wearing a mask and she was not. Like chic, he's doing it to protect you, and our immunocompromised son.
The thing is, as long as most people do the right thing, it helps. No policy will be cool proof. Laughing at it, shaking heads and showing the world however is informative enough to even push that percentage of people who understand what to do a little further. The scary part is when leaders set the wrong example.
Yes, like someone who "just doesn't see himself" wearing a mask. Asshat.
I've tried educating people on this issue. Trying to explain how statistics work, what the R0 is, how mortality rate does not account for the entire population right now... It's exhausting. Given how many people think this is fake, because those of us that are staying at home are bringing the numbers down, is insane. They are what will bring in a second wave, and for what? Many are asymptomatic, so, when does it end when these people could kill someone that did the right thing?
You're not looking at this correctly. The dumb ones are getting a BIG dose of chlorine in their gene pool.
It may not be a hoax, but look at the numbers compared to other pandemics and the media coverage/government responses, and you'll see how it is a joke.
Average Joe, fine, but the people in charge don't even know masks cover the nose? It's not just one or two either. Maybe a good culling isn't such a bad thing.
Downside to that is the increased risk to dedicated medical staff.
I was shopping yesterday and watched someone with mask and gloves on lift up their mask, get tissue from up their sleeve, blow nose and then put tissue back up sleeve, classic!
I stopped at #2, people are attacking the Governor of Michigan for putting in stricter measures to protect Michigan citizens, but that photo was proven to be old. Ol' Teddy Cruz deleted his tweet about that photo with his tail tucked between his legs. How about BP put a photo up of the Michigan stay-at-home protesters who blocked streets to Sparrow Hospital.
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