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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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Stupid Mask
Well, Thank Goodness The Virus Can't Move Sideways
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.
Just Your Typical Walmart Shopper
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.
Someone Tell Snorkel Lady That It Won't Work
$5000 Canadian After Someone Using The Microwave To Disinfect It
5G —> Death = Science
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.
Well
To Make This Safe
If You Can’t Smell It, You Can’t Get It
So, My Work Had A Meeting About The Importance Of Social Distancing Today
To Shield The Face
She's Wearing A Mesh Bee Keeper Type Helmet. I'm Not Sure She Gets The Point
Social Gathering At St Kilda Beach Today
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!
How To Protect Yourself From Coronavirus
How To Put Your Mask Correctly
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
To Protect Against COVID-19
Wife Said To Wear A Mask In Public Areas?
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 s****y 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.
I Don't Believe This Is Proper Glove-Wearing Protocol
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
N95s Filtering Improves If You Wear It As A Headband
There Was An Attempt To Use A Mask
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
Apparently, We Have All Been Doing It Wrong
Wrong Type Of Napkin
Not a horrific idea in a bind. Some people can’t get masks so they improvise!!
You Touch 4 Doors Before The Time Clock. This Is How Management Is Protecting And Caring For Us
A Group Of Friends Still Getting Together And Partying Regardless Of The Quarantine Rules. Obviously Standing Less Than 6 Feet Apart But It’s Okay Because They’re All Wearing Face Masks
Not Sure This Counts As Social Distancing
I've Honestly Never Read The Instructions, But I'm Pretty Sure This Isn't The Most Effective Use Of A Mask Right Now
My Local Albertsons Trying To Keep The Buttons Clean... I Don’t Think They Get It
hopefully its so they can spray it after each use and not get the electronic part of it wet?
You’re Wearing Your Mask Backwards
Tell me again how America isn't bigoted. This hurts my heart... I can't understand the vast ignorance, the callousness, the hate.
Wears that cap every day, still wears his dog tags. His life peaked 30 years ago when he was bullied in the army for 2 years before he dropped out.
He was a paratrooper so he was in more than 2 yrs. Most likely a retiree, but there is no excuse for that bulls--t.
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This is the kind of a*****e who thinks they are American. This is NOT the America I'm a part of.
This is not the America that a lot of us are a part of. It's morons like this that all Americans a bad name.
Load More Replies... It isn't just Americans. Members of my family, New Zealanders, are talking about how China is a filthy race, they need to pay all other countries for this.....the list goes on.
That makes me sad. I upvoted your comment because it's a good thing to keep in mind- people in any country can be horrid- but it's sometimes hard to upvote things that make you sad.
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Our local Trader Joe's has been limiting access to the store making people line up six feet apart outside the store. Two spots behind me is a guy saying "Well thank you F***ing Chinese! F***ing Commies. I hope the world goes after these guys and makes them pay! Now the rest of the world is sick because of them." I'm thinking "Because the lack of preparedness had nothing to do with it."
I’m hoping that is some devious troll using very clever photoshop skills. How can anyone wear a mask with those words on it in public? And you can tell he’s clearly smiling in the photo behind the mask. If I was a Chinese person and I saw someone wearing this at the store, I’d be so upset and hurt.
What an a*****e. AND he's proclaiming he's retired military with that cap? This is NOT how our service members should ever act. He's a disgrace not only to our military, not only to our United States, but to humanity itself.
He's got dog tags so looks like he really was military. Probably has a big American and confederate flag on the back window of his truck. Ok say it again, the American flag has made me uncomfortable when I see it now. It no longer stands for what I believe in. If someone says "then move to another country", give me the money, I'll gladly go. I can't get ahead here in America.
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Should we tell him that the history of vaccination owes much to China? That Europeans aren’t free from spreading disease, and purposely nearly decimate a whole continent of natives? Your ignorance and racism is a far crueler and harmful virus. It stays and harms long past the body’s immunity to any virus. Instead, write “wash hands” on your stupid forehead.
Play the blame game to advance (learn and to remove those causing further harm and spread of misinformation) and avoid another mistake, not to defend and rationalize your racism.
Load More Replies... Maybe everyone who's racist should just start doing things like this, then we'll all learn who to actively avoid in every day life.
Sorry, i guess i am just naive. Can someone please explain the racism on this one. I honestly don't recognize the word. what does it say?
C***k is a racist term for anyone who has Chinese blood. It is very rude.
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Cracker doesn't offend anyone... I've never understood why people thought it did.
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Sad man can’t get over the fact.... you’re not in the army anymore. Move on looooser
That's the beauty of the 1st Amendment... We ALL have the right to say whatever we like, whenever we like, whether someone else likes it or not... don't like what you see or hear when someone else expresses their thoughts (especially when they EARNED the right)? Simply jog on...
Actually...masks function in 2 ways....blue out to protect yourself from getting germs, blue in to protect others from getting your germs
and racism out to show people that you're a s*** excuse for a human being.
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Hey. It's like this. There are bad peeps everywhere. Insulting bad peeps is good. It doesn't mean you are insulting everyone who YOU think might be in the category. That's actually racist. Some of us believe the bad peeps deserve the insult while the blameless innocents are totally cool and equally awesome with everyone else. This is why SJWs get such a bad name. They feel so good for attacking racism even when it's not racism but particularism. Stop being so high and mighty little SJWs. If that is even possible because by definition, well...
Calling all Americans racists and small-brained/minded isn't racist? Wowwwwww, standards!
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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.
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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.
Hey, thanks for your comment. We've removed the photo in question.
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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.)
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🤦 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.
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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.
Load More Replies... 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.
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.
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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!!!!!!
Load More Replies... 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.
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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.
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.
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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
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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.
Load More Replies... 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.
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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 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?
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!
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.
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.
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".
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.
Load More Replies... 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.
Hey, thanks for your comment. We've removed the photo in question.
Load More Replies... 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.)
Load More Replies... 🤦 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.
Load More Replies... 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.
Load More Replies... 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.
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.
Load More Replies... 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!!!!!!
Load More Replies... 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.
Load More Replies... 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.
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.
Load More Replies... 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
Load More Replies... 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.
Load More Replies... 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.
Load More Replies... 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 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?
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!
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.
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.
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".
