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

I personally feel the mental health of the country has been hugely affected by the whole thing. Its ironically damaged community despite the clapping etc

and cuddled her dad using a clear plastic sheet
Wtf??!🤣🤣

You can still see remnants of the one way tape stuff on floors in some shops, and even city centres (am looking at you, Cardiff).
And some shops still have a big bottle of anti-bac hand gel to use before you go in.

I remember the “I’m afraid” brigade who took great delight in morosely telling us all through the pandemic that life as we knew it in 2019 was never coming back, we would only ever see our loved ones online, school would be virtual forever and the entire population would be online.

I often think of those posts and wonder if the authors feel slightly silly now?

I work at a school and late November and into December, we had staff off with terrible flu, but again felt different to normal flu due to the immense fatigue

It did bring out the craziness in people

Mate was routinely wiping down her shopping

Madness

My DD was in hospital. When I went to the toilet I had to turn right out of the door and follow the one-way-system around the whole floor and through the packed waiting room. I was told I was NOT allowed to turn left out of the toilet to go back to her room (less than one metre) distance, I HAD to follow the one way system. MADNESS

There was a thread about two women who were fined for bringing a take away coffee to a woods to go for a walk because it counted as a picnic and they hadn’t travelled to the nearest place to go for walk, but one that was a bit further away. Anyway, this brought up the subject of what counted as ‘local’, as local can be open to ambiguity. Anyway, someone said that local should mean within your own postcode. I pointed out that half my town was one postcode and the other half another. This would mean that half the town could go the park, and the other half could go to a supermarket. But you can’t do both as that would mean traveling to a different postcode. Which would result is someone’s nan dying.

’Some’ bad consequences? Like women giving birth alone? Going to scans and being told they’d miscarried, alone. Children dying in hospital with only one parent by their side instead of 2? The elderly shut into care homes unable to see loved ones? Thousands of businesses collapsing, livelihoods lost and people committing suicide? Kids unable to go to school? Domestic violence rising as women couldn’t leave the home? Children so deprived of socialisation that they started school without basic skills? People’s mental health absolutely destroyed? The government spending billions on a furlough scheme that has created the economic mess we’re in today. The list goes on.

I’m sure it was extremely difficult to have loved ones die of Covid, but actually it was quite clear from the early data that it was not anywhere near as lethal as the government / media were suggesting. It was mass hysteria, and it sounds like you bought into every word of it.

This remends me of the moaning that people didnt have a spare room to isolate in by ppl that suppoerted the bedroom tax!!!!!!!

I had to continue working, front line. I was shit scared, but we had vulnerable people who relied on us daily. Rest of family were furloughed. I did not look at MN during the pandemic.
I did the food shopping.
I ended up in a real mess at the end of 2020, near suicidal. Breaking down in tears, every day.
The government, more so Bozo Fu#%wit, Dominic Cummings et al did not help the situation, and felt the U.K. were being laughed at. Brexit was going on; Ursula Von de Leyen being very brutal, threatening the U.K. as vaccines had been procured before the EU……daily figures of deaths and infections heightened anxiety, but the EU seemed to be managing so much better than UK.
DH got diagnosed with MS in 2021, god the feeling in the pit of my stomach. The neurologist also wrote in the appt letter that I could attend appt which rang alarm bells beforehand.
My poor Aunty (who was more like my mum) was diagnosed with lung cancer. She had no help from Dr’s, just handed morphine meds, she died of Covid caught in hospital 6 weeks later.
Anyone who says they had a nice time on lockdown makes me feel sick.
I feel sick now, tearful, looking back,

The JV show stirred up a lot of batshittery. Especially that Dr Sarah woman who washed her shopping and cuddled her dad using a clear plastic sheet. And there he was able to work when many others couldn’t.

I swear my whole family had it after a trip to Dubai in October 2019 half term. I remember pinching my ds inhaler as I got so out of breath walking the dog, the horrible cough, the sweating. I also remember having a bust up with the head of year as my eldest ds could be right as rain one day and relapse missing school as be literally couldn’t get up saying “I don’t know what the hell my boy has but it’s the queerest virus we have ever had” when he was having a pop about his attendance. None of us ever caught covid during the actual pandemic.

I remember trying to 'defend' myself against someone telling me I was killing people by not taking the vaccine. This same person was all over social media befor and after the pandemic talking about how childhood vaccines cause autism and how her child hadn't and wouldn't be having them..make that make sense 🙄 🤣

We laugh about covid now, but in some countries, like Spain, children were banned from going outside under any circumstance. Pets could be walked, but children had to stay indoors. It was barbaric to do that to children. It is no laughing matter.

Someone on my FB said that unvaccinated people should have to wear a badge so people know to avoid them.
It seems that no one really trusted the vaccine to protect them if they were so scared of unvaccinated people.

I am not vaccinated (severe needle phobia). Was called all sorts on here. Including "needle phobia is just something kids have", I need to "grow up", I need to get used to staying at home because only the vaccinated will be allowed out etc.

Yep and the ones screaming "far right" hadnt even read the bloody book that the thread was about.

I don't think the daily press conference was a good thing either, but suspect it did the job it was intended to do. The anxiety was a feature not a bug.

My sons Nana (ex’s mum) told my 6 year old son that she was going to call the police on his step dad (my husband) because he’d had that nhs tracker alert to tell him that he had to isolate for 10 days as he’d been near someone with covid - and god forbid he hadn’t locked himself in a bedroom and stayed away from my son.

I also think that over time, it brought about a great many positives for us as a society.

That's interesting - what do you think have been all the positives? I think the opposite - that it was an opportunity for a bit of a reset, and it was absolutely squandered and the harms it did were enormous. People have become meaner, more selfish, more impatient, more completely insular in my opinion.

Yes, my office had that in January, We were all so ill (mind you, there were only 7 in my office). But although we had heard about the illness in China, we had been told it was not in our area yet.

I remember just before we all went into lockdown two of my colleagues had a screaming match about covid. They were both worried and saying the same thing but were so angry with each other that they did not understand they were in agreement. I recall one of them screaming at the other; 'YOU DON'T BELIEVE ANYTHING. YOU DON'T BELIEVE THE GOVERNMENT. YOU DON'T BELIEVE THE MEDICS. YOU DON'T BELIEVE THE QUEEN' . It was so bizarre.

Then one of them slapped the other one across the face and we all went back to our desks only to be told about half an hour later to pack everything up because we were going to WFH for a bit. I managed to snaffle the office spider plant and took it home with me.

It was horrible how people were forced, shamed and guilted into taking a vaccine.

Mooseandsquirrel My mum died of cancer in a hospice in May 2022. She’d been hospital a good proportion of April.

Covid restrictions still existed whereby 2 visitors max and face masks.

I remember in the hospice when we had to wear face masks and thinking she was dying getting covid wouldn’t matter but of course it was about not giving it to staff who could pass it around vulnerable patients.

both my parents had cancer and were on Chemo in March 2020. I remember everyone going on about baiting people and thinking I see my parents a few times a week when I deliver their shopping to their doorway and talk to them form the end of their driveway.

Ig was horrid for people who were ill and vulnerable and the restrictions did make people’s last moments even worse.

I send you all the hugs in the world experiencing it