There are some social faux pas you don't want to make in the age of a pandemic.
Like maybe mistaking a COVID virus test and a pregnancy test for each other?
Though they do look extremely alike.
But that was exactly what happened with Holly Baxter, when her aunt mistook a positive SARS-CoV-2 antigen test for a pregnancy test.
She congratulated her niece with the best of intentions.
My poor sweet auntpic.twitter.com/cAc2Rwx55J— Holly Baxter (@Holly Baxter) 1639569504
Baxter posted the positive test on her Instagram story, to which her aunt replied, "Oh how wonderful."
"That is such lovely news for all the family."
Gonna name the baby Rona https://twitter.com/h0llyb4xter/status/1471087242772889605\u00a0\u2026— KaiBai\u270c (@KaiBai\u270c) 1639747287
Her name is Brenda the gays are screaminghttps://twitter.com/h0llyb4xter/status/1471087242772889605\u00a0\u2026— Chason Dailey (@Chason Dailey) 1639715859
This happened to someone I know. She posted a positive ART with \u201cOMG! \u201d and someone congratulated her https://twitter.com/h0llyb4xter/status/1471087242772889605\u00a0\u2026— Adhianto Suherli (@Adhianto Suherli) 1639668924
Ah bless wee Brenda's hearthttps://twitter.com/h0llyb4xter/status/1471087242772889605\u00a0\u2026— Claire Carroll \ud83c\udf84\ud83c\udf85\ud83c\udf81 (@Claire Carroll \ud83c\udf84\ud83c\udf85\ud83c\udf81) 1639641558
After informing her aunt about the misunderstanding, she and her aunt were amused about the whole thing.
“After a good laugh, I replied, telling her that I was in fact only pregnant with the viral particles of Omicron and she told me to get well soon, unaware that she was about to go viral in a different way on Twitter.”
Shortly thereafter, the original post would rack up over 337,000 likes.
The story also made it onto the BBC shortly after with the faux pas featured on a morning program.
How can we be nearly 2 years into this pandemic and people still don\u2019t know what covid tests look like hahahahttps://twitter.com/h0llyb4xter/status/1471087242772889605\u00a0\u2026— genevieve (@genevieve) 1639636279
What a powerful mixture of laughter and intense secondhand embarrassmenthttps://twitter.com/h0llyb4xter/status/1471087242772889605\u00a0\u2026— Chi-Hulud (@Chi-Hulud) 1639627753
Ay, you never know. Especially if there's nausea, fatigue... https://twitter.com/h0llyb4xter/status/1471087242772889605\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/RrcKVbPg2c— Corbyn was right. Again. \u270a\ud83c\udffd (@Corbyn was right. Again. \u270a\ud83c\udffd) 1639615462
The only truly British solution is to pretend to have a child for the next 18 years out of awkwardness— Holly Baxter (@Holly Baxter) 1639583395
Baxter said she was driving when her aunt "heard it discussed on BBC breakfast radio."
"She promptly texted me to say she was ‘laughing her head off,’ and had told all my cousins."
“I think everyone appreciated a bit of light relief from the Covid explosion situation, so I’m glad to have provided some.”
And then laughed unreasonably hard at thishttps://twitter.com/h0llyb4xter/status/1471087242772889605\u00a0\u2026— Cara \ud83e\udddf\u200d\u2640\ufe0f (@Cara \ud83e\udddf\u200d\u2640\ufe0f) 1639604690
As someone who\u2019s listened to true crime podcasts, I would never discount it— Holly Baxter (@Holly Baxter) 1639575744
Now that we're getting rapid test kits, please be mindful of your poor sweet aunts.https://twitter.com/h0llyb4xter/status/1471087242772889605\u00a0\u2026— Coprolite (@Coprolite) 1639603297
Bound to happen at some point https://twitter.com/h0llyb4xter/status/1471087242772889605\u00a0\u2026— S\ud83c\udf84R\ud83c\udf84 \ud83d\udeb4\u200d\u2640\ufe0f\ud83d\ude37 (@S\ud83c\udf84R\ud83c\udf84 \ud83d\udeb4\u200d\u2640\ufe0f\ud83d\ude37) 1639599254
Stay safe this holiday season—and hopefully you won't accidentally deceive any aunts in the process.
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