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

Tbh that is peak teen selfishness but also delightfully thoughtless 😂 that you could of added more to the basket and still got the hair dye.

When people were ordering food in Wether spoons that they never eat because they could only go to the pub if having a meal. People were saying why would they let it go to waste? They could give it to the homeless. After it's been sat on the table for a few hours with people breathing over it.🤔🙄

Omg thats awful! I hope she remembers that and treats her mum with the same care and attention when she ages.

I do confess to wiping over door knobs and the letter box every day with anti bacterial wipes - the 2nd lockdown for us was really hard as we had moved to Copenhagen only 5 weeks before - so no chance to get into our stride - however they didn’t do queuing outside supermarkets or if they did I never hit any queues - however once vaccines kicked in they had Covid passports so hospitality kicked back in much quicker but you had to show either vaccination or testing x 2 a week on your app to go in anywhere

It wasn’t a case of ‘if old people die so be it’, it was a case of - let’s not lock down entire society for a virus that has a fatality rate of less than 1%. The damage lockdown did is immeasurable.

To be honest, I kind of miss social distancing. I like my personal space, 2m was a nice distance.

In film, a virus such as COVID would have caused societal collapse.
I thought people managed brilliantly, bar a few who went bat-shit crazy.

Ah man, I always go back to the "State of Fear" threads, where some of us were just trying to while away the hours talking about all aspects of virus origins, transmission, lockdown, etc etc. There were about 7 when it all got taken down as there was an absolute pile on from someone who screamed "far right" about anything that wasn't from the government hymn sheet, and there were fears we were plotting civil unrest because of a flippant, frustrated comment about not being opposed to a revolution if they changed the goal posts one more flipping time.

Yes, there were some tin foil hatters who popped up, but you couldn't even say WEF without screeches of "conspiracy theorist". Alot of us were convinced the 77th Brigade were involved, and I still wonder. ...

Also had a long debate about the definition of airborne - ie was it "in the air" all the time, or just when someone coughed / sneezed. Fascinating.

Bonkers

Anybody travelling anywhere would definitely get into a terrible accident, thus taking up valuable emergency services resources.

I think MN was the first place I read opinions on an online forum, which basically led to “If the elderly die so be it” type of sentiment, and again later justifying the daft tiers and eat out to help out. Of course, far later we learned of the “let the bodies pile high” from Boris. It was such a crazy time, so many bonkers threads at the time.
I often wonder how the world would seriously respond if we were to face another pandemic.

Ha. DH and I were also accused of murdering old people by his ‘best friend’ because we went to a pub the night before lockdown (sitting in a corner on our own not interacting with anyone). Goes without saying they are no longer friends.

I remember people being berated for the following:

Taking their child with SEN for a walk on a deserted beach because they would have to drive to get there

Allowing their Covid-positive child to make fudge

There was also the poster who queried whether she should make her 10-year-old isolate within the house - lots of people seemed to think the child would suffer no ill effects from this (there was talk of ‘creating a wind tunnel’ by opening doors and windows).

Not to mention the reaction to those of us who dared to suggest prolonged school closures might have negative effects…

Gluten free cake?

Brioche..?

Ah yes "But it's the RULES" applied with zero logic.

Want to go for a walk in a private field, which led to a small woods, where you never met a single person.... TWICE in one day?

But the rules are ONE outing a day, you're incredibly selfish and putting people at risk of death... You know the people that you never come across, they might get COVID from where you touched a gate.... In the private field that nobody uses...

Lots of ascertaining that it was definitely the people in B and M and the Range spreading covid rather than waitrose

It was crazy wasn’t it? I remember losing my shit with then teen dd. I’d been trying for days in vain to get a Tesco delivery slot, staying up till midnight each night. My ECV DB (who is a Dr) was living with us and he wouldn’t let us leave the house (he has an immune disorder) or we’d kill him. (He is also extremely clinically neurotic).

One day I heard the doorbell ring and when I answered I saw a Tesco van pulling away, and a Tesco bag on the doorstep. I picked it up and it contained a solitary hair dye (ordered by dd who evidently had bagged a slot). I swear to god, I didn’t calm down until around April 2023.

There was someone who was told that going to the stables to look after her horse wasn’t essential and therefore wasn’t allowed. That the horse needed food, water and grooming wasn’t of interest to them.

During The Great Flour Shortage there were MNers proudly claiming that using flour to make home made play dough was more important than it being available for people who needed to make bread. I remember being told to eat something really bizarre in place of bread (but frustratingly I can’t remember what)

I seem to recall that someone started a post about they were "literally crying and shaking" at the sight of people walking past their front door.

The butter (or sometimes people say it was cheese) story is apocryphal/ urban legend. No-one seriously advised putting butter in your coffee (aside from the hard-core low carbers who start their day with bullet coffee but they were on that pre COVID!). The original comment was during a dispute about popping out to the shops and what constituted "essential shopping" Vs a trivial / for fun trip to the shops in the early days of lockdown 1 (the middle ground common sense answer to this is obvious now in hindsight as with so many things but it was quite febrile and confusing back then and you were always at risk of accidentally breaking the rules). One relaxed poster said that they were popping to the corner shop regularly for fresh milk top ups as needed for for hot drinks. One fairly hard line poster said that that was too often/too much shopping and running out of milk for your tea (as opposed to baby formula) wasn't an emergency/essential and you should wait to do a weekly or monthly big shop. Someone else chipped in with surely dairy is an essential food group so therefore milk is an essential item, and the hard-line poster said no, if you have other forms of dairy in the house like cheese, yoghurt or butter you have the essentials for nutrition covered and no need to go to the shop purely to buy milk. There was no (serious) suggestion to put the butter in the tea. Obviously the tea/coffee drinking crowd leapt on this as ridiculously OTT and I think hindsight probably says they were right but it wasn't as ridiculous an argument as people are now making out (unless there was a separate thread/comment I missed!)...

Lockdown with severely disabled children was one of the worst parts of our lives. I'll never forget the "all in the same boat" people. In the end we just did what we needed to do to survive.

It was absolute bonkers wasn’t it a family friend made a cuddle shield from an old shower curtain so she could terrify hug her grandchildren

I did that...