yes, clothes were non essential too, weren't they?
Yet another way in which children's needs were trampled on. All of us adults had serviceable clothes of one kind or another, even if not the best ones for the occasion; but there will have been a lot of young children who were forced to wear uncomfortably outgrown clothes and shoes, because their parents simply couldn't buy them any bigger ones.
The report I read about the nurse who had her tyres slashed and was prevented from getting to work, after a nasty idiot neighbour with far too much time on his hands had seen her driving away from home every day and it obviously hadn't occurred to him that she might just be going out to work, let alone in a hospital.
He was probably one of those who banged saucepans 'in support of the NHS' and bullied any of the neighbours who didn't join in. In fact, I heard of a lot of NHS staff, who were still out at work or sleeping as they were doing unsociable shifts, who were criticised and shamed for 'not caring' about our NHS heroes. Apparently, banging saucepans (when parents are trying to get young children to bed) is much more caring and essential than actually providing medical care on the frontline.
The man I saw shopping in Lidl wearing a full oversized beekeeper's suit. So over-dramatic - and also clearly didn't realise that, whilst the holes in the mesh over his face would be effective in protecting from bee stings, virus particles tend to be a little smaller than bees....
On the first day of lockdown, I remember deliberately leaving my phone at home when I went to the local shop, in case I was suspected/accused of breaking the laws and discovered as a result of my phone being tracked. Paranoid, maybe, but it was all so new and unknown for everybody and none of us knew how heavy-handed the authorities would be. Probably routine behaviour if you live in NK, but not something I ever expected to even cross my mind in the UK.