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

I used to live just off the parkway and there was a ridiculous amount of police presence.

Hardly any when stabbings or other crimes were being committed in the same area, but a concentrated amount just for focusing on people who were trying to get to work or the the supermarket.

@PyongyangKipperbang I remember a few Sunday mornings, me and DH starting on Bloody Mary’s at 9.30am while doing1000 piece jigsaw puzzles. I was drunk a lot. No regrets though as it got me through it!

Wasn't there someone who claimed they had 3 previously healthy young colleagues who'd died of it?

You know absolutely fuck all about Covid I’m afraid.

Oh I quite agree. It wasnt the drinking that was the issue as far as I was concerned it, it was (as other have mentioned) the sanctimonious and smug who posted in disgust at those us hitting the wine out of desperation, boredom or both.

Did I mention this was outside a church. !

Needless to say we ran out of popcorn

I can’t remember where I read about people putting their groceries in the bath to wash the tins etc.

Not online, but I work in a school and had to hand out covid testing kits to our students. One parent returned them to me with a very rangy message that the cotton wool bud things that we had to stick up our noses were a concern for causing cancer, and that I was endangering students by sending the kits home.

anyone that did know anything would have been silent anyway

I was reading these and finding them funny but then the anger and hatred for my fellow man started coming back so I can't read any further 😤

There were plenty of posters who enjoyed stirring up negativity and fear. They were clearly telling outright lies.

NannyAndJohn I remember with particular loathing. Her message was constantly things like "This isn't going to get better, I'm afraid. Get used to a quiet life at home, because that's going to be all there is."

That phrase "I'm afraid" made me feel stabby.

@PyongyangKipperbang to be frank if I was trying to work from home in a too small house with several ‘home schooled kids’ plus a partner also WFH ( and possibly getting on nerves) and worried elderly parents phoning to discuss it every day , then wine o clock would be pretty understandable in the circumstances.

Oh i remember that one. It was awful.

There was something very unsettling about that poster, as if she knew exactly what she was doing to people's state of mind - and was really enjoying it.

It was completely and utterly ridiculous. The pounding of chests and the tearing of hair.

Covid was new and unknown. It killed a very small number of people who were particularly vulnerable to it at the beginning. The numbers did not stack up to make it a plague which would kill a high proportion of any society. Most died with not from Covid. The percentage of those who died even with covid was infinitesimal.

The scientists who questioned the propaganda were silenced. Whitty and Vallance, imo, shoukd have been stripped of all honours. The fabric of society, particularly the abused, the poor, the ill housed was ripped up and the act of doing so was reprehensible.

The cashiers at the supermarket did not disappear. They carried on despite seeing vast numbers of members of the public. The evidence was before our eyes. I know three people who died with covid: a gentleman who was terminally ill, a very elderly gentleman who caught it in hospital having been admitted afyer his third stroke and a neighbour who was on end of life care. They all would have been dead within weeks if they hadn't caught covid. I do appreciate that a tiny number of fit and well people died and some got long covid. It was not, however, equivalent to a plague.

Every time I pointed out the statistics I was told I was a murderer and wholly wrong. Time will prove that the lockdowns and propaganda did more harm than good.

We kept to the rules but didn't agree with them. I still don't.

The hysteria on a site that values its intellect was absurd.

The uproar around nurseries remaining open in January 2021 was also bonkers. The media were breathlessly salivating that under 5s mixing was going to result in millions of deaths.

Starmer campaigned to get them closed.

N&J was either a complete lunatic or a Troll.

Ha, I do remember the people whose husbands either worked or knew someone who worked very high up in government and had some kind of scaremongering insider.

Thing is, we DIDN’T know

We did know a lot fairly early on, though. We knew who was at most risk and who wasn’t. We also knew that outdoor spread was very limited. In light of that, it’s indefensible that children’s lives were restricted so severely and for so long.

I thought the vast majority of it was absolutely mental at the time. I could have worked from home but chose not to and I quietly broke lots of rules. Reading some of these is making me cross all over again.

I remember the thread about the poor mother whose adult daughter was having a breakdown in London. The father wanted to drive up and bring her home—this was just before lockdown was formally introduced. She was told that it was selfish because they might need to stop and use motorway service station loos and infect them.

I hope she followed her instinct.

@StClabberts I confess that we took to actually having an every 2 week delivery from majestic

My local big Tesco would force people to queue to get in, and queue again inside... starting in the alcohol aisle.

The main thing I remember from lockdown was how pissed everyone was, me included. I posted my espresso martini recipe, with iirc, the suggestion to drink it lying on the lounge floor as that where you will end up anyway.

Seemed that the crazy got crazier the more alcohol had been consumed. Wine oclock got earlier and earlier and the words "Fuck it, got the wine out, nothing else to do" seemed to be common. It also increased the sneering about people who cant cope without a drink or suggesting that someone who had a glass of wine at 5pm was a problem drinker.