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

My friend is an experienced nurse but works in theatre on elective surgery which was all cancelled so volunteered to work on a covid ward. She mentioned on FB that someone got too close to her in the supermarket and one of her FB "friends" went on a rant about how she shouldn't be going to the supermarket and spreading covid and how she should be ashamed of herself! My friend lives alone so how was she supposed to eat if she couldn't go shopping? Also she had 2 showers before leaving hospital so was probably more sterile than the mad friend

I'm sure there was a poster who wiped her shopping down with bleach

I was actually going to reference the cucumber one

I remember reading on here about a woman who took her little toddler for a walk and let her play in the sandpit of a local playground, completely alone. Someone saw and reported her and she was approached by police and told to go home. I still think about that and how sad it was.

I remember someone isolating their young daughter (8 is in my head) for ten days in her room, including over her birthday. I think she made her a cupcake to eat in her isolation 😵

I also remember one where people got really upset with someone for only buying a cucumber! I can't remember if it was a poster who asked if they were unreasonable to go and buy one as she'd done a grocery shop and they were sold out or if someone had seen someone only buying a cucumber!

There was also one asking if she was unreasonable to have her DC in the car while she drove round to her DM to drop something off. The responses were hysterical, about her having an accident, paramedics having to treat the children etc.

MN was a crazy place for a while!

I remember people thinking they could catch it through the post and quarantining their mail for 48 hours. Also a guy I know would wipe all of his groceries over with an antibacterial wipe before putting them away.

I remember someone predicting their would only be 50 Covid deaths in the UK

Someone posted absolutely beside herself that her DH had picked up a bit of rubbish (paper wrapper or something) on a walk and put it in his pocket. He’d done this to reduce litter, and put it in the bin at home. But what had happened was he’d come in, washed his hands, and then put the rubbish in the bin and not washed his hands and had then obviously touched things in the house. She was furious that he’d basically sentenced them all to death, because what if the person who dropped this litter had Covid????

A Mumsnetter getting ripped to shreds because she started a thread moaning about how she wasn't allowed to visit her holiday home, at a time when women were having to give birth alone and elderly people in homes were looking at their families through windows.

Someone being told they should be arrested for Mumsnetting in their back garden 🤣

Way ott , but we didn't know what could happen. I still look at those 2 m marks outside the local supermarket and it all seems surreal But we had to lock down until the vaccines started to take effect.

Oh, the clapping - I did the clapping 😱. I regard it with the horror of looking back at my teen years and scaffolding my fringe to epic heights with back combing and hairspray.

Disinfecting mail by keeping it in the garage for a few days before opening and washing shopping.

It was all the bile thrown at those of us who questioned whether you were actually going to murder a granny by sitting on a bench with a packet of crisps. All the posters who were so horrible to people who broke their own version of the "roolz" by going out too long, or too often, or buying what some posters considered non-essentials.

People being told that they absolutely could not go to deal with a parent with dementia, or teenager isolated in uni halls, or any other sort of emergency because "what part of stay at home don't you understand"?

Some people were frightened and I get that. A large percentage though just revelled in being completely nasty and vile to other posters, patronising and mocking them, refusing to believe that they were actually exempt from wearing a mask or whatever and being backed up on threads by their fellow dementors.

I'd like to think that 5 years on they look back and think that actually they were pretty mean and awful. But I don't think they do.

Someone shouted at DH in Sainsburys (where he worked and had just finished a shift!) for buying coffee as it wasn’t ‘essential’

That was the one I was going to say! Definitely happened.

My ex (who worked in tech) was convinced that if he drove down the M1 to see the kids then he’d be stopped by the police. I showed him the “rules” which said that separated parents could transport the kids between homes but he was uncharacteristically obedient.

When rules started to relax, he thought it was irresponsible of me to let our teens meet their friends outdoors. No health issues btw but I’d do it again. Some of them would bring their dog so it looked like they bumped into my child during their “exercise”

I'd have been really shocked too when you said this. Surely everyone knows that Maltesers are essential
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I remember some of those. One I saw was around stopping to talk to someone in the open air and whether that made you literal murderers as well as law breakers.

also remember the two women with cups of coffee and Derbyshire Popixe saying that constitutes a pic-nic.

Mn just generally. So full on with pro lockdown stuff. Bar a few.

Someone literally never left her house and garden for 2 years and she had young children too. This was going to be the new way to live... remote work, eating Al fresco in your large rural garden, kids home schooled and playing on a lawn, no one wanting to live in a city flat, food delivery. Sounded really horrifying to me.

I swear I remember a thread about a women and her little girl blowing bubbles and they got shouted at by a passed by because how dare the little girl blow germs into the air
The batshittery was something else

I remember something about cheese in coffee too.

Lots of people seemingly worried about if you bought a necessity (say formula) and a non-necessity (Easter eggs ) then is that breaking the rules.

Lots of posts about selfish people being out and about when only half of UK jobs can be done by home and the people who stayed at home could only do so because people went out to work and delivered stuff, kept the utilities going etc.

The clapping - I mean wtaf was that about. The free food was at least practical for healthcare workers.