Despite the BBC boldly extrapolating from a new study that the “mental-health crisis from Covid pandemic was minimal,” those on the internet, still very much washing the taste of bad homemade sourdough from their mouths, beg to differ.


Over the past several days, the fine people of Twitter have mass quote-tweeted the BBC’s recent headline, using the study as a reason to take a masked, socially distanced walk down memory lane, recalling just how batshit everyone went while trapped inside for months on end during the pandemics’ first lockdowns.


Alongside the signature pitfalls of early-pandemic life — the bad remote work setups, even worse DIY projects and our unrelenting obsession with everything Joe Exotic — others got real weird with their time alone.





From plier funerals to pet weddings to the Ratatouille musical and whatever the hell this Post-it Note monstrosity was, these vast experiences were more than just a coincidence — it may have spoken to the study’s limitations.






As several Twitter users noted, the study in question featured a fairly narrow scope, focusing mostly on the Gal Gadots of the world as opposed to those who were actually horrified by the whole “Imagine” ordeal — and the death toll of the pandemic itself (the only thing worse than Gal Gadot’s “Imagine”).


The product of analyzing “137 studies, most from high-income European and Asian countries,” the latest research had some notable gaps, per the BBC. “The review did not look at lower-income countries, or specifically focus on children, young people and those with existing problems, the groups most likely affected, experts say, and risks hiding important effects among disadvantaged groups,” the article continued.


Huh. Interesting.


Now if you’ll excuse us, we’ll be attempting to forget all the lyrics to “Wellerman”