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

Being named and shamed on a local FB group for not standing outside and clapping/banging fucking pans together.

I can’t, but the threads kept me sane!
My DM only leaves the house once a week still!! Aged her 10 years, she has never got her confidence back!
I’m going to read that thread again, pray for my blood pressure.

I remembered pre lockdown in the early days of Covid news and rumours I asked MNHQ for a specific coronavirus topic. Was probably Jan 2020. It was declined at the time as they didn’t think it was going to be that big a thing 😁

id had a bad feeling about it and was telling my close friends to stock up on tinned food and pasta! Though i didn’t predict loo roll being in such short supply!

I think she called it stunt Covid. Its four years since i read the book but i recall her calling it that

@Sillypigeon Do you remember the poster who tried to get the anti dementor threads deleted..............retrospectively!

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/site_stuff/4763622-anti-dementors-the-ads

Interesting. What does she say about it? Does she explain exactly what that footage was? It can't have been covid surely?

At last, a sensible post, we were going into the totally unknown and I can't help feel that whatever government had been in power they would be judged whatever they did or didn't do.

Munsnet was amateur madness compared with the actual government.

Doing better than everyone else in the world due to the NHS. What a shame the politicians forgot to actually fund it.

Just read up on that , I like that concept!

The only times I properly lost my shit, and my patience with medical staff were to do with my Mum's cancer treatment.

I remember I had to go up to her surgery as she'd had a phone consultation and needed to do a poo test (sorry Mum), so I had to get the pot, plus she needed a repeat prescription for her Fentanyl patches and I needed to get the paperwork.

Surgery made you wait outside in the car park for everything so I'm out there for nearly an hour, then I get to the intercom. The receptionist said I could only do one thing, then go back and ring in again to make an appointment to do the other thing. I explained Mum had literally just spoken to the GP who had actioned both things. Not good enough, those were the rules.

I lost it, and refused and created such a kerfuffle eventually the Practice Manager came out with both things and was quite sheepish and apologetic.

I then had to travel an hour across town and back to get said patches because pharmacies were out of stock locally, after having delivered the pot home to Mum. When it was filled, I then had to take it back.

The next day Mum got a call to do another one as the original had been "labelled incorrectly", allegedly by us. I pointed out that we had written her name and DOB on it as instructed, so any other labelling error must have been at the surgery. So we had to repeat the whole process again. That was 48 hours of my life that I'll never get back.

It then became obvious that Mum wasn't safe at home, she was having falks and very weak, so as we had a room with an ensuite, we were able to take her to ours. I couldn't stay with her as her flat was too small and "shielding" meant I shouldn't go out as her main carer etc. At ours, DP was able to do any running around.

We rang Macmillan to ask for help facilitating this and were told categorically no, it was against the rules. We then approached the GP who got her admitted to hospital for 24 hours that evening, as her falls were due to sodium issues and she needed a drip. I saw her off in the ambulance terrified I'd never see her again. We managed to get a local man and van so we could get her bed, and as much stuff as we could to make her bed room into a home from home, and of course discharge could only be safe and GP backed up we were safe. She was delivered to us that evening for the last month of her life.

Never saw a Macmillan nurse again until several weeks after her death, when one popped up to "see how she was doing". I was pretty blunt and rude tbh. I spent the last month of her lufe expecting SS to take her away just because we "broke the damn rules".

And people wonder why I have CPTSD.

I remember a thread that made me really sad, a lady wanted to drive 10 minutes to the next village to lay flowers on her dad’s grave on the first anniversary of his death and she got absolutely slaughtered.

Yep That was covered in the aforementioned A State of Fear by Laura Dodsworth.

I was so angry

I did hear her big gob screaming but didn't really take it in

She's the type that wants more-but doesn't see why she should have to work or pay taxes

She tried to phone the police on me for having adult ds round but what she didn't know is he's police himself and had come to ours (he lives 140 miles away) to stay while he did some course for work in the next town

It made his life easier,staying with us than staying in some hotel

Honest to God,she couldn't have rang the police on us any faster-she'd rang them 2 minutes after seeing him walk up our drive

I would have loved to have seen her face when it was explained to her that it was fine that ds was at ours and none of her business

Different name but I was on the anti- dementors threads.
I didn’t wash my shopping but I did wash my hands. Loved and miss cleaning the handle of supermarket trolley handle and free hand sanitiser.

Not the point, but I was damn annoyed that supermarkets refused to sell clothes and shoes for people ,they were damn essential, I just had to buy online instead, ridiculous.

Locally people complained on FB, about a local man, father of a child in our class, going out to the shops, as they’d watched him 🤣 Lunatic biddies.

I did hate the pan bangers, who also complained on FB, that their neighbours weren’t joining in ( the more sane residents of our cul de sac)

My mate’s got ‘I’ve had my dinner…thank you food’ as a spoof one on his 😂

As well as cutting the disability benefits of the people who were ill and disabled enough when it came to the lockdowns. So much so that they were used as tools to emotionally blackmail the rest of the population

Just had a thought. If anyone has kept their old sheilding letter could they use that at an appeal. Hoist The State by their own petard!!!!!

Totally agree

@Glindaa or as the scandis name it ‘janteloven’

Anyone who looks down on others I think does so from a place of deep insecurity about themselves and lack compassion and gratitude. Well adjusted people are wise enough to know no one is better than anyone .. Whether you’re a street sweeper or investment banker, it’s not about aptitude and cleverness, it’s about the cards you were dealt in life .
Some street sweepers do more for the world than some investment bankers .

Washing shopping might be viewed as madness by some on here but ... I continue to do this. I often see rodent bait boxes in supermarkets and can only imagine what these creatures get up to at night (sometimes broad daylight). Hantavirus is real alongside all the other germs that exist.

The most irritating aspect of it all was that we locked down for the NHS. They did not, and in some quarters still have not, locked back out for us. I lost significant respect for them.

The two houses opposite ours are owned by consultants at one of our local hospitals. Their clinics were cancelled in Covid and they didn't appear to be killing themselves. They also had family visit every weekend.

There are 8 houses where we live. Nobody clapped.

I'll never forget one bloke (customer) at work

For 8 hours,I had to stand at the door and ask people for their names and phone numbers (track and trace?)

99% of people did it with no issues

And then there was this one bloke-I asked if he'd mind writing down his name and number and he exploded

'I HAVE 18 KIDS AND IF YOU THINK IM GIVING YOU MY NAME,LET ALONE MY PHONE NUMBER,THEN YOU ARE VERY MUCH MISTAKEN!I DO NOT NEED THE CSA ON MY CASE!YOU CAN ALL FUCK OFF!'

Then he punched me in the face and walked off to order his burger

My ex boss (useless,evil and nasty cow) was more bothered about the 18 kids he claimed he had,than me,who was sparked out on the floor (I was fine but badly bruised)

Police did fuck all-more bothered about having a go at me for not banging pans on my doorstep

Track and trace was a joke-all those slips of paper went in the bin by the handful-they didn't even bother to put them through the shredder first

And the same fuckers who think low paid workers owed them that kind of sacrifice have now gone back to looking down on them

I think they were waiting for the vaccines though ?