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

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mumofoneAlonebutokay · 23/04/2025 17:49

Inspired by chat on another thread - one woman was told not to pop to the shop for milk but to put butter in her coffee instead 😄

I wasn't on mumsnet then but would love to know the maddest comments you saw?

I myself went mad during the pandemic 🙈 and refused to leave the house and judged anybody that did, I'll admit 😬😄 - I wish I'd been calmer

Please share 🥰

Edit - I know how awful the pandemic was for those who lost loved ones, and how serious those losses are - this is just about the unnecessary hysteria and comments stemming from that, not to poke fun at those who lost someone or became ill. 💕

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Upstartled · 23/04/2025 18:10

TheKeatingFive · 23/04/2025 18:08

Oh also the poster who thought the army should be mobilised to stop people visiting their loved ones at Christmas.

Oh man, I missed that one. 🤣

TheKeatingFive · 23/04/2025 18:09

Upstartled · 23/04/2025 18:07

Mnetter queuing in a garden centre and managed to build an entire grievance thread about a toddler sneezing in her vicinity.

I remember that one. 😱

TheKeatingFive · 23/04/2025 18:08

Oh also the poster who thought the army should be mobilised to stop people visiting their loved ones at Christmas.

Upstartled · 23/04/2025 18:07

Mnetter queuing in a garden centre and managed to build an entire grievance thread about a toddler sneezing in her vicinity.

TheKeatingFive · 23/04/2025 18:06

The thread about sitting down on a bench in the park to eat a bag of crisps and how that made you a murderer.

Alltheoldpaintings · 23/04/2025 18:05

There was a lot of “literally crying and shaking” when I said DH had gone to the corner shop to get us Maltesers even though they are not in fact essential.

Summer2025 · 23/04/2025 18:04

I was accused of killing people cos I was trying to order a desk from ikea to wfh. The delivery lead times were very long and I tweeted ikea. Got this response instead.

ComtesseDeSpair · 23/04/2025 18:02

I remember some absolute nonsense-monger claiming that their DH “worked very high up in government policy” and insisting that he’d been given official instruction right from the top to (secretly, so as not to alarm anyone) start the widescale compulsory purchasing of nightclubs, arenas, music venues etc because they were never ever going to be allowed to open back up again, Covid was going to be far more lethal than any of us were being told, and he’d been advised we’d all be in full strict lockdown for at least the next two decades. It was delightfully bonkers.

MinnieCauldwell · 23/04/2025 17:59

Not at the beginning but when the vaccines were going to be rolled out a poster was terrified that the army was going to be used. think she thought there would be soldiers and tanks chasing you down the road and vaxing you. It was explained that the army have experienced medics...

RhaenysRocks · 23/04/2025 17:59

Later on when it was 6 people allowed to gather and furious debate raged about if a baby asleep in a cot upstairs counted.

And all the madness about Tiers /zones as well.

Dinosaurshoebox · 23/04/2025 17:51

I remember saying that DH and I wouldn't stop working in Hospitality (this is before furlough was announced) and I was accused of murdering people.

I asked how we would pay our bills and the answer was that lives were more important.

This went around and around.

In the end we had 2 (on and off) incredible years furloughed so I guess it all worked out.