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Dating was tough enough before we had a deadly virus to deal with.

COVID-19 has changed the face of dating as we know it, but that doesn’t mean that you have to put your relationship ambitions on hold. They just look a little different now.

Some of those who did venture out in an attempt to do things the old way quickly learned that staying indoors would have been preferable to risking the meet-up.

VICE rounded up five pandemic dating horror stories, but the following three really take it to the next level.

Ghosted, But With COVID-19 As A Parting Gift

The guy telling this story had been on a couple of dates with a girl and in his words “didn’t notice any red flags”.

Then, at the beginning of November, he went round to her place for drinks and they ended up making out. Two days later he messaged her and she said that she was feeling sick. Then he started feeling ill. They both got tested for COVID-19 and both tests came back positive.

When he messaged her after the test, she didn’t text back.

I sent her a message every couple of days to check up, but it seemed she’d gone MIA since finding out we’d both tested positive. I assumed she was too ill or embarrassed to text me back, and soon enough I got too ill to care, lol.

I still hadn’t heard from her after a month, when things started getting back to “normal” – I headed back to work, etc – so I decided to just text her saying I hadn’t heard from her in a while and I hoped she was okay.

She had blocked him on WhatsApp and Instagram.

Date With A COVID-Denier

The date happened outdoors because it’s easier to physically distance and the open air is safer than an indoor venue. Then the topic of the pandemic came up.

First he said he was undecided about getting the vaccine, that he’d “read some stuff” and didn’t want to put a “random chemical” in his body – that’s not how vaccines work, babe.

He then said lockdowns “obviously didn’t work and weren’t needed”. By the time we’d done our third round of the park I realised I was pretty much on a date with a COVID denier, made my excuses and left.

That’s not a ‘red flag’, it’s a tour of the red flag factory.

A Bra Full Of Vomit…

This person matched with someone on Tinder and she asked her to come over.

I assume the real horror of this story is that she thought that was okay during a pandemic.

Wait, no, it gets worse.

She was already drunk and wanted to do drugs.

Soon I realize she’s falling asleep. I took her arm away from me and she turns around and starts puking on me. After I try to control the situation, I lead her to the bathroom but she can barely walk, so after ten mins I go to the kitchen to wash myself and come back to the room.

The bed is full of vomit and so is the carpet and my bra; I steal a grocery bag to put my bra inside. She comes from the bathroom and just lays down on the bed with the vomit

Everyone in the stories above, except for the woman who ran for the hills when she realised that she was on a date with a COVID-denier, would benefit from a bit of Fauci-ing.

Perhaps best to stick to dating via video chat until those vaccines have been rolled out.

[source:vice]