To miss the first lockdown?

I can't even recall this "second lockdown", to me it just all felt like one big shitty time, where come the June-ish time we were allowed to do a bit more than we had been doing, but not a lot.

Everything I did, I felt guilty about. Guilt at going out. Guilt that I may not be following the rules correctly. Guilt that was I wasn't as easily able to cope mentally as others were. For two solid years it felt like a bad dream. I still don't believe there was ever a time when we were actually told we could go back to normal. More that restrictions and U-turns stopped happening. But never a sounding of the all-clear.

Why did you edit your response which said that my comment was unnecessary?

Well, I enjoyed mine as I spent it drinking outside with my neighbours. Had a great time, it was like being 18 again. But I'm aware most people did not have the same experience, plus a lot of people died, and our economy's fucked. So I think on balance my fun time summer probably wasn't worth all the awful, and I wouldn't do it again.

she's probably a lot less hypocritical than a lot of other posters. who are pretending they care about the general picture when in fact, it's how it affected them personally that is shaping their views.

No one is buying that you would have had a great time personally, but you are so upset because of the greater suffering. That's not that at all, is it.

No need to try to make nasty and patronising comments to the OP.

Genuine question, what people? I have never heard anyone speak like that.

Yep.
She got to sit in her garden and bake banana bread.

OMG this. The affront to our civil liberties was immense.

You 'miss' the biggest affront to civil liberties in our history which resulted in lasting damage to a generation of children? Bloody hell OP.

No it was awful. I’m thankful that I had job which required me to be there so my life didn’t change a lot. What really irritated me was everything else - social distancing, useless face masks and more litter created by discarded masks.

Believe me, people won't take it a second time. The government won't even try to impose it, unless a very large amount of time has passed. It was an utter nonsense and by the end of the second one, I don't know anyone who was even following any of the rules anyway.

The experiences of the last lockdown, the bill and Partygate are why we're not doing one again, not for a good long while at least.

It was awful. I had to close my business, DH was posted away for months to set up nightingale hospitals, leaving me homeschooling two teenagers - one unsure whether GCSEs would happen or not and separated their friends, activities and everything they had planned. I spent the mornings homeschooling GCSEs and the afternoons and evenings working for NHS England speaking to people who didn’t want to speak to me. Worst year ever.

For those who lost income and had to home school young children whilst trying to work- no, I bet they not miss it.

I don't know. Before the first lockdown, people were saying it would never happen here, and schools would NEVER close. They would never accept the restrictions. Look how that worked out. People talk a lot but don't do much.

In some ways there were positives on an individual basis in the sense we’ll never get a chance to spend that sort of family time together again.
But in work terms there were parts of it where I’ve never been under more pressure and I wouldn’t go through that again.

YABVU. It was dire and it should never have been implemented. If there is ever another pandemic, there won't be a lockdown. I don't think people will stand it.

Lockdown was awful , it affected so many :( my nan had to die probably scared and confused in hospital because we wernt allowed to go and see her . Infact we wernt allowed to see her for 5 weeks before she died. She had dementia and did not understand the lockdown. She probably thought her loving family had abandoned her and didnt care anymore
A kind nurse took the time to hold her hand as she passed so she wasnt totally alone
We then couldnt have the funeral she deserved. Only 10 people allowed,no cars, no singing,no flowers, everyone distanced,no hugging no wake
Then i find out boris and hos cronies were socialising and drinking at the time my nan was kept from.her family
It is disgusting how we were treated and lied to .i miss my nan she didnt deserve to go like that

It was difficult and scary but the alternative would have been worse. I felt relatively safe since DH moved to WFH and my self employed work was impossible to continue. DH and I found it OK but we're introverts. My teen DS found it a bit difficult, but they seem fine now.

Instead of looking back, look forward to how you might reclaim some of that. Personally, I hated the way I couldn’t connect with those I loved.

AIBU to feel nostalgic for that time?

In a weird sort of way I understand what you mean, but I think YABU.

Just a big fat nope will suffice here.

During lockdown I had a toddler, a young primary school aged child who needed home schooling, a stressful full time job, my parents had to fully isolate so I was responsible for all of their shopping etc, plus had to take on caring for my grandad as my mum usually did so. My grandad in the end died alone of COVID in hospital. Despite this, I have some really fond memories of the first lockdown. When I shut my door at night and it was just me and my wee family, it was bliss. It was horrendous in a way, but I do miss some of it!

I miss my life before Covid. The pandemic wrecked my finances and my quality of life. Knowing what I now know, I would never have stayed in and I would never accept another lockdown.

Try 35 years ago on a Sunday afternoon. That's what it was like where I lived, and I live in a hugely populated large city. It reminded me of being a child, only with the crippling anxiety that any one of us could die at any point and that life would not be the same again for years, if indeed ever.

I don't think trying to rewrite history, and trying to deny half a story is ever useful.

Everybody had different lockdowns, even negative or positive, there are naturally different degrees of anything.

It's also very easy to criticise the decisions of the time. It was obvious then that whichever choice was made, it would be criticised anyway. Insight is a wonderful thing.

Whatever your lockdown was, people have a right to tell their story.