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

The day before the first lockdown, I was working in a jewellery shop and a woman came in, deliberately coughed onto the counter and said “ I suppose you’re going to clean now”

I remember being really pleased when a shop near me had eggs....but slightly less pleased that there were no boxes for said eggs, they just put them loose into a carrier bag, which obviously went well, on the 15 minute walk home....🤣

I can remember when the government announced the first couple of cases and suggested no need for concern and that the risk to the general public was very low.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing and I’m yes I look back and smile at some of it. But at the time we had no idea how bad it was going to be, there were horror stories from Italy, perfectly healthy 20somwthings dropping dead, China refusing to give any info. Whilst I disagree with parts (parents separated from babies in nicu etc) I can see that the unknowns made it difficult if not impossible to plan correctly and to be cautious was wise til more was known. Imagine we had been blaze and the country was wiped out

Not on mumsnet but I remember one police officer not sure but a high up rank saying that they would be policing people's shopping basket so no buying Easter Eggs which were already on the shelves. Then I think he got a phone call from Priti Patel and next day had to eat humble pie or his own words that no policing of shopping baskets would be happening. Would loved to have listened into that phone call. No fan of Priti Patel but at least common sense prevailed.

Not on mumsnet but I once had my neighbours call the police because I had 2 friends round during the second lockdown. I was a single parent with only a 2 year old for company and going through serious mental health issues at the time having spent about a year on my own by that point and the police came knocking on to break up a "party" and give us a warning letter (i was already asleep at the time and my friend was brushing her teeth). The batshittery was rife

The tents and the rubbish 😱, it was awful

Oh yes, the isolating in their bedrooms of fairly young children was horrible.

I remember a lot of mentalists smugly asserting that they had been stocking up on loo roll and tinned goods for years in preparation for the apocalypse, and acting like those of us who hadn’t were actually the lunatics.

I also remember that the summer the local beach was properly opened, (Bournemouth) it was so overwhelmed by visitors the council had to declare a state of emergency. There was a thread in chat that went on for ages, with plenty scoffing about the "over reaction" . I was like, yep, council dropped the ball but it was absolutely necessary - I live here and my FB was full of the absolute chaos and carnage.

I remember a school getting slated in the press when schools had to reopen to everyone because they posted photos of hoops on the ground and taped off desks and stuff, total OTT stuff. Thread on here about the article was a total bunfight between those who agreed with the Head Teacher and those who didn't.

Hanging shopping on the line or giving it a light toasting in the oven
quarantining post
pensioners being called selfish cunts for taking a daily walk to buy a paper

Wasn't delightfully anything was bloody terrifying

In our city we had stickers on bins that said take your dog poo home with you to save dustmen having to empty them more often and therefore expose themselves to covid

I work in a Polics control room. It was absolutely depressing seeing what covid turned people into. The things people reported their neighbours for was awful

I’m not in the UK, and our schools etc kept being open. I remember writing a comment about it and I was absolutely slammed. It was basically my country’s fault if the world ended. But, in the end our children didn’t end up with MH problems and our economy is fine.

Although, nobody knew what the outcome was going to be back then and as I was watching the UK news I had a sinking feeling when everything closed down in the UK and we..just kept going nearly as usual. UK rules was terrifying, like a bad film.

Our Government took a huge step back during this time, and let our state epidemiologist take charge.

well here's mine - when you could meet outside DS and fiance came over. I'd managed to get two huge packs of loo rolls. They were short of them so I insisted on putting them in a huge bag to disguise them in case he was mugged!!! He's a strapping lad but was taking no chances. I am a sensible retired nurse and couldn't believe my luck when morrisons let you have 2 packs of 12 loo rolls. He kept saying " Mum I'll be fine" but I got my own way.

My son worked for a supermarket and he did home deliveries, he had a woman threaten to report him as he had a haircut during lockdown, he tried to explain that I had done it but she wouldn't stop, called the supermarket to complain too lol

Not on here, but was on FB.
A chap in one of my local FB groups (and oh my god, they lost their collective minds during Covid) lived opposite The Range, and developed a hobby of watching what people were putting into their cars, making a note of their car model etc and posting it online to "shame" them... because he deemed their shopping non-essential. Said nothing in The Range is essential.

I do wonder what people like him do with their free time now.

My husband had to keep working all over the country and often slept in his car due to lack of accommodation, I remember I used to make him strip off at the door and get into a dettol bath!
He loved it, the roads were quiet.

The maddest thing I saw was the police in Sainsburys car park at 8am the first day of lock down searching people’s bags to see if their shopping was essential or not.