To miss the first lockdown?

It was disastrous in my household, then to cap it all, the dog died.
I was NHS and worked right through, as did my DP.
It's effects are still to be seen in my DS, and the relationships in our family.
However, if you had a great time, YANBU.

again, why do you bother reading the thread when you can see from the title where it's going.

you are being ridiculous.

I think it’s shut down when there’s no consideration to the fact it was 5 years ago. I read a post recently that tried to blame a young person’s lack of social skills on lockdowns. Restrictions lasted 16 months from start to finish in the UK (March 2020 to July 2021). It’s like, what else has happened in this person’s life in the last 5 years? Don’t just jump to Covid for everything.

Nobody thinks that, Avidreader, but it was OK for some, including me. I wasn't unaware or indifferent to those who found if difficult, I was actually able to be of help quite a lot to others. However I appreciated the solitude and the peace. It suited me at that time. My husband died in 2019 and had he been alive, it would have been extremely hard for him and for us as a couple.

I think that for some fortunate people, the brain plays tricks on us and manages to gloss over the awful stuff and just recalls the beautiful weather and the "back to nature" feel if it all. I know that when I think of that first lockdown, my first thought is of early morning walks, sunshine and lots of flowers. But then I delve a bit deeper and I remember the fear, uncertainty and worry.

I work in a school and in our 2025/26 reception intake, 14 children already have EHCPs in place. To have enough evidence at that age to get an EHCP is unusual. These children were all born during the lockdowns. Surely that's not simply coincidence?

the clue is in the title of the thread.

It's triggering for you, don't read up!

Again, I though it was utter shit but I was still VERY privilege. People are still allowed to express opinion or their own experience. Since when should we dictate what people should feel or say?

I'm not the board police: I can't censor anyone. I'm just suggesting that if people want to post something thought-provoking or insightful they try a bit harder than showboating their own privilege under the figleaf of "simplicity".

It's triggering and deeply vulgar. As I said before, I could live with this if it were original but its a desperate cliche.

Tosh, it’s as unoriginal to talk about how awful it was, as it is to have had a positive experience. Long may it continue to hear people say that lockdown wasn’t a tragedy for everyone. Those people don’t have to withhold their thoughts to spare the feelings of others who feel differently.

That’s life.

I really think some people must be deluded. Do they really think loss of liberty, people dying, losing jobs, not seeing loved ones, daily gaslighting by the government but celebrating making banana bread with a quick daily walk in nature is something to be held up like some kind of uptopia god I need more drink to get through this thread.

It definitely won't for quite a while, at least!

I know what you mean about not feeling real though, I think people disassociate from it.

Given that most of my life has been an utter shit show (including homelessness in hostels with a child in tow, using food banks, walking with almost no sold left on my shoes etc, losing all of my belongings, domestic abuse, poverty) I’ll be as self indulgent as I like. Actually feeling enjoyment and peace gof a short amount of time in the past 30 years.

Lock down was easier for me than for many

But I struggle to comprehend the "I'm all right Jack" mindset of celebrating lockdown when it was so awful for so many

As someone who's naturally introverted, I LOVED lockdown.

Homeschooling, however..dear God...never again!

That said, I imagine for people working the front line with the necessary PPE, it was a very very different story. Or for people who need to socialise for their mental health and re-charge their batteries, or not being able to see loved ones, must have been very difficult.

You literally said “Sorry, you can feel as you feel but please keep it to yourself” @Thepeopleversuswork . That’s censoring @TidyOchreReader!

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I still do my best to block out all memories of it, I was working in mental health at the time which is tough enough under normal conditions. I live alone and it was the worst time of my life and even now if I start to think about it, i do my level best to block out the thoughts. I had a family member who became suicidal and used to ring me at all hours (and I was very willing to listen to all that they had to say) and that was very challenging. I hated it, I was scared, I was lonely and I was always aware that I was bloody lucky compared to many. I think it took a terrible toll on the mental health of many of our young people and took the lives of people who would probably still be with us had it never happened.

How could you 'enjoy' or 'love' it with the horror all around?

No you're right, I don't have the right to censor anyone. But I do have the right to criticise anyone posting something which is both a) incredibly insensitive and b) desperately unoriginal. And I'll keep doing this until people stop banging on about it.

This level of thinking is what allows dictators and tyrants to gain control of entire nations.

YANBU for feeling nostalgic for a time you enjoyed, but it was a very Marmite event, people either had a wonderful experience or an awful one, and for me it was the latter.

It’s an internet forum. If you don’t likd Whats posted, scroll on.

I am also observing that for the past 5 years after the lockdown ended, if anyone posted anything about Covid etc on here it was quickly shut down. Many/most people couldn’t bear to even talk about it - were desperate to forget it, but you have had so many people sharing their feelings and experiences this time op.

It shows some recovery/processing is taking place for most people.

Oh and this sentiment isn't particularly new or insightful. There were a slew of similar self-indulgent bleatings on here at the time and have been several a year since the pandemic ended. I could perhaps tolerate posts this insensitive if they were new or eye-opening in some way but they're not, they're an unbelievable nauseating cliche.

Why should @TidyOchreReader keep her views and experiences to herself @Thepeopleversuswork just because they don’t accord with yours?! By all means disagree, but you don’t have the right to
censor her.