Meet the Other Phone. Flexible and made to last.

Meet the Other Phone.
Flexible and made to last.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

What were you doing on November 13th 2020

666 replies

TeaAndChoccie · 23/05/2022 22:34

while the PM was partying.....?

OP posts:
1963andbewildered · 23/05/2022 23:21

Thedogscollar · 23/05/2022 22:55

Bloody hell 1963 that is shocking. How anyone with any sense can defend them/him I just can't fathom it.

Yes agree..I think the people who are so dismissive either are very thick skinned/ selfish or not very intelligent!!

rosiebl · 23/05/2022 23:21

Having a virtual 40th birthday party on MS Teams for one of my best friends 🤨

Daisycrown · 23/05/2022 23:22

Erm....I was at work.

ArtVandalay · 23/05/2022 23:23

No idea.

Also care not a jot if the people running the country during a pandemic were having a drink. I say that as someone whose mum died in peak lockdown, so we had no funeral or gatherings. So bored of the press hashing this out now.

Clymene · 23/05/2022 23:24

That was the week my sister and I decided it was too dangerous to meet outdoors as she's immunosuppressed.we didn't see one another for 6 months

kissmelittleass · 23/05/2022 23:25

That's the day I was discharged from hospital after nearly three weeks in there with no visitors it was a very scary and lonely time

jamimmi · 23/05/2022 23:25

Supporting my DH who had just been told his sight loss was permanent. Unable to get support from friends or family due to rules then had to go to work on a covid ward....

itsnotmeitsu · 23/05/2022 23:27

Thankyou @GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing.

Tront · 23/05/2022 23:27

Isolating at home as very unwell with covid which I'd caught from treating dying covid positive patients at work. Sorry to be a bore.

GoodJanetBadJanet · 23/05/2022 23:27

Was just about to say er, that's a random date to pluck out of nowhere but on reading comments seems it must be something to do with our shitshow of Do What You Fucking Like Government!
We'll have been on Tier 3, I think. Not far off going into Tier 4.
So I'd have probably been taking myself off for a walk or pottering around at home.
As I stuck to the rules.
Even though I'm now thinking why the fuck did I even bother. Seeing as it apparently didn't matter.

BigChesterDraws · 23/05/2022 23:28

It was a Friday so I would have been at work. Apparently it was pay day also. So we probably went to a restaurant that night or the following night.

lameasahorse · 23/05/2022 23:28

This reply has been withdrawn

Message from MNHQ: This post has been withdrawn

tobee · 23/05/2022 23:29

Nothing in a void of nothing. That's me, my Dh and my adult dc because my Dh is cev immunosuppressed; kidney transplant and on dialysis.

TeenagersandFurbabies · 23/05/2022 23:29

At work on the Covid ward.

Muppet2022 · 23/05/2022 23:31

I'd just moved house in extremely difficult circumstances, and that day according to my diary was in between two 11 hour night shifts (for the NHS). I hadn't seen my CEV parents since summer (they live about 30 miles away).

GoodJanetBadJanet · 23/05/2022 23:32

Also care not a jot if the people running the country during a pandemic were having a drink.
"Having a drink?!"
Seriously?
Sorry, it takes a lot to wind me up but stuff like this really does.
They SET the rules.
They made it law that we all had to stay at home, or get fined.
Stay at home, save lives.
You weren't ALLOWED to meet up with anyone outside your families.
Socialise with anyone.
But they can have a drink, have gatherings, it's OK?
No.
No, it's not.
It was either important to save lives, or it wasn't.

rainylake · 23/05/2022 23:32

I was with my just-turned 6 year old, to whom I'd had to explain that she couldn't even meet a friend in the park to celebrate her birthday as that would break the rules. (Only two individuals could meet outdoors, and she clearly couldn't go out by herself). She was very sad, and so was I, but it didn't occur to us to try to persuade another family to break the rules which we were told we were saving lives by obeying.

And I was about to celebrate my own birthday without friends or family the following week.

And I was missing my dad, who was dying of a progressive neurological disease, and I had barely been able to see for the previous 6 months due to restrictions on gathering (he couldn't easily go outside). I don't know how I'll ever get over missing that period of his life, when he was still well enough to make memories with but we knew how limited the time was.

So it is a fucking slap in the face to see pictures of the PM living it up and laughing about it. And another fucking slap in the face to be told that "noone cares", or "it's old news" or that "the restrictions were too harsh and noone really expected anyone to obey them". I felt like I could just about cope with living through those restrictions and the impact on my family by the idea that we were all in it together doing the right thing. But the idea that those of us who complied were played for fools by the very people who made the rules up, or that we are now being belittled by Rees Mogg et al for obeying, just makes me furious.

WhackingPhoenix · 23/05/2022 23:33

I was at home, with the Covid I caught from my isolation patient. Only one of us survived it, he and his wife both died within days of one another.

AiryFairyLights · 23/05/2022 23:34

It was my sons 27th birthday and I baked him a cake then left it at the bottom of his apartment steps for him with a card and presents! It was the first birthday I couldn’t hug him since he was born and I was recovering from cancer!
Boris - I just have no words tbh

Desiredeffect · 23/05/2022 23:34

I was working in a care home caring for residents who had covid and in full ppe working 14 hour shifts and seeing 12 residents die of covid in a few months. I now have ptsd and flash backs. Boris is a disgrace and needs to go

moiraandthebebe · 23/05/2022 23:36

Planning my toddler daughter's funeral after she was sent home from A&E as a 'precautionary measure' due to how rude Covid was. She died from viral bronchiolitis in her sleep.

I am enraged. We couldn't have many people at her funeral. We broke rules technically to have family support around us at the time of her death. And they were fucking partying.

moiraandthebebe · 23/05/2022 23:37

How rife Covid was, I should say.

Coasterfan · 23/05/2022 23:37

Feeling sad as DD had turned 13 the day before and we couldn’t do anything, no party, no meal out with friends, she just went to school then had a Nando’s takeaway and was so good about it. We also had to cancel our trip to Blackpool that weekend as the hotels and pleasure beach had to close. I was miserable for but DD took it all very well!

GoodJanetBadJanet · 23/05/2022 23:37

Boris is a disgrace and needs to go

Well said

EllaB22 · 23/05/2022 23:37

I would imagine I was at work. I am a teacher and our staff room was locked. We were put into bubbles and zones and not allowed to mix with staff in other zones and generally discouraged from mixing. We had some staff leave in December 2020 and they got a virtual goodbye as we had briefing via Teams.