Mumsnet during the beginning of the Pandemic - please tell me your stories of the maddest comments you saw

Blimey I’m amazed that didn’t make the papers 🤣

My sister became obsessed with covid. She still wears masks and embarrassingly enough shrieks at people for coughing, even now to this day.
She's no longer speaking to her nephew, DM, me, and certain colleagues as they've refused to pander to her requests to wear PPE in her presence.
Covid has really really affected her mental health and I fear she will not recover.
She sits in establishments like cafes and say, Wetherspoons scowling at people and muttering "Why are we not still masking up, why don't people understand there is still danger!?"
It's caused extreme health anxiety in her and she's just not the same anymore.
She's an intelligent lady with a very responsible job, qualifications and a good work record.
She's hopelessly obsessed at this point.

@Idontjetwashthefucker lady across the road - woman on her own probably late 60s , very glam - stopping me coming out onto the pavement and asking ‘why are both not out clapping - ‘

I think I've actually got PTSD from how batshit people behaved. I find that far more frightening than another virus.

But yes we were also murderers for sending the kids back to school and nursery as soon as humanly possible. Even though we were essential occupations, needed on site and one of the kids has SN and was impossible to home school.

People who moaned about having to wear a facemask in public. Try working in a hospital throughout Covid and the PPE we had to use…

@OFHelp that's the part I thought was unbelievable. Who would abandon their dc ffs! The fact parents couldn't be with dying children in hospital is disgusting

My dss was with us for contact time when the first lockdown happened, and he stayed with us for a couple of weeks, until they decided the rules for kids between families.

One day I sent him and my da to the shop with a list - they got stopped by the police and had to provide the shopping list to the officers 🙄

I didn't post this at the time but reading all of these has just reminded me of when my ds who would have been 6 at the time had covid during the fairly early stages of the pandemic. We couldn't get his temperature down so rang 111 for advice and they told me to isolate from him within our own home!!. Literally put him in his bedroom with the window on the latch and the door closed and only go into him if it was absolutely essential and an emergency. I kept on repeating to the person on the phone that he was only 6 years old and actually very poorly and I refused to even consider their ridiculous suggestion. The operator said they had noted my objections on their system and would have to escalate as I was refusing to follow covid guidelines and i was a risk to myself and society!!! In the end I hung up on them. I received a few calls from an unknown number over the following days which I didn't answer and I can only assume was a a follow up to my phone call to check whether I was isolating from him. You honestly couldn't make it up!

Didn't someone moan on here about cucumbers not being essential?

We were there. It was fucking appalling.

The ones who knew who it was coming 4 years prior 🤔

All the comments along the lines of "I'm driving to work, the roads are choca, don't people realise we are in lockdown" etc

People who said you shouldn't have
had dc if you didn't like working & homeschooling.

Someone said they couldn't sit in their garden because a neighbour was coughing.

I didn't realise how stupid most of the population was until covid...

DS and I watched an old lady physically attack a young woman on Clapham Common for jogging past her too closely.

We were sat on a park bench (risking getting caught by the police but after a tough morning of homeschooling, what did we care), old lady toddling along when young female jogger jogged past. Old lady went berserk, chased her down and hit her across the back of the head! Young woman stopped, shocked. They both started shouting then old lady started pushing and hitting young one some more. It was mental. People were just standing, watching. Keeping to the 2m rule.

Young woman called police from her mobile and old lady scarpered. Next thing we knew, a riot van was steaming across the common and 6 police officers jumped out. 2 went running off after the old lady, the rest taking statements from all us bystanders. Old lady got taken off in the van.

I was sitting there the whole time wondering what sort of dystopian world I was now living in!

This wasn't on mumsnet but a local man had a 2m long stick that he would take out on walks with him. If you came close he would wield the stick at you to keep you at bay.

I just remember the complete lack of empathy (kind of normal from some I guess).
The fact that one MNer maybe able to WFH or enjoy furlough whilst the kids received home schooling and could play in the garden meant that anyone stuck in a God forsaken tower block or inner city dump with no green visible anywhere and no devices for the kids were perceived as some to be equal in lockdown

I had forgotten about the anti-dementor threads - bloody loved those!!!!!

YES i remember the PO who told a man he wasnt allowed in his own front garden

Not a thread but I worked in my local hospital during the pandemic in the scorching heat I think it was May, no air con or fans due to possible 'blowing' round the infection and windows that opened with the smallest gap it was an absolute killer. I was working on a dementia bay, one who tested positive so they had to 'close' the bay and patients could not leave. 12 hours on my own of creating entertainment for patients going stir crazy in the dripping heat was something else!😂 poor buggers

Their behaviour during the vigil for Sarah Everard

Police forces owe the general public a huge apology for allowing their officers to be such controlling wankers. I remember the video where a police officer was telling people they weren’t allowed in their front garden shouting “1000 people died yesterday!!”

We certainly knew it The neighbours were blasting Michael Jacksons Heal The World at full volume at 8pm every Thursday

People just lost thier heads a bit I think, media didn’t help. Yes it was diabolical, I know people that were hospitalised because of it. Some of the comments I saw on socials was crazy. I didn’t join mumsnet until end of 20 if I remember rightly. One thing that puzzled me was people only buying hand sanitizer or talking about washing thier hands because of Covid… I’ve been carrying hand sanitizer since I was about 16, washing my hand as you should… it was like a revelation to wash your hands all of a sudden 🤭

The AD threads (and subsequent spin off group) kept me sane.

It meant I knew when 8pm on a Thursday was every week.

I have a friend who is in the NHS and he told me to prep about 4 weeks before as he could see it coming.
I shared this with a couple of people and they really mocked me. I didn't listen and went to the supermarket each day and filled my car boot with essentials. I wasn't stupid and never took loads of any one thing but I felt very smug when DH (one of the mockers) saw how I had prepped

I remember seeing benches on Wimbledon Common with tape around them preventing people using them. And then, a little later, the same benches covered with stickers warning the unsuspecting public that said benches had not been disinfected.

I still remember the clapping. I am mortified.

In fact, I never went as far as some of the die hards described here - and definitely broke some of the rules - but I was definitely harsh on people and judged a lot.