It wasn't crazy - it was fucking evil at times.
I recall local to us someone had called the police to report a lockdown breech - a couple of family members had walked up a garden path to collect a bag hung on the front door handle... the bag contained shirts for the family members to wear to go and bury their father.
People were awful. On here, people were awful with time on their hands and a keyboard to hide behind. I barely left the house for 6 months once masks came in because of the insults and accusations on here (we saw them earlier but MN actually had a pair of balls and pulled them) about people claiming exemption... I'm autistic - I can't even deal with the sensation when a duvet comes up above chin level rebreathing moist warm air... I've had to fight over a couple of years to build up tolerance to a point I can have some semblance of a career left from the damned things.
And the responses to children suffering - on here they were foul. DD2 lost most of her language and was absolutely a wreck - to the point where she was having such severe headaches they were concerned about possible brain tumours, and she couldn't sleep, couldn't eat or anything because of how depressed she was... and on here I was accused of wanting to murder teachers and that she needed to learn resilience. She lost that amount of language and development DESPITE having a communication rich house with a parent who had a very good skill set to support - but who was never able to be a class of 30 separate 7 year olds with that level of interaction. Absolutely fucking foul on here the way desperate parents were treated. I remember spending night after night trying to contact any organisation or help desk I could for some advice how to support the decline in my child's mental health - no one was either answering their phones, or their responses were that they were seeing this time and time again and couldn't do anything to help but it was definitely "a thing"... it was only when the class teacher spoke to DD on the phone and heard the massive deterioration in her that school listened at all to how badly she was being affected (as a child with SEN as well so she should have been on their radar) - and she basically went to war with the head teacher to get her a school place. DD1 coped "better" - if by better you mean that she was completely thrown by the boundaries between school and home blurred to the point she was physically violent to those trying to enforce home learning - largely me, who would spend my nights trying to work out ways to support them, and my days trying to do my own degree, support home learning and getting the shit kicked out of me by a child.
Incidentally I'm still working picking up the consequences of it all - vulnerable people who were so terrified into not leaving their rooms (or indeed are still randomly confined to their rooms for a week + at a time when there's an outbreak in their care homes) and lost so much of the groups and activities that they would go to that they now won't leave their home at all and spend their days with alternative activities - like smacking their heads off brick walls and similar. We spent months and months convincing them that the bogeyman was around ever corner - and now, not surprisingly, they're struggling to reconcile that with expectations changing yet again that things are relatively OK. Not to mention that in lots of cases these are people with limited communication, who rely on things like facial expression and routine to support their understanding - who found all that gone, and are still surrounded by masked faces all day every day (although most of the times the masks seem to be protecting the wearer's chin mainly these days).