My son thinks that children were evacuated during the pandemic

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Jourdain11 · 27/01/2023 21:06

Today my DS7 was learning about World War 2 in 'topic' and they covered evacuees. Apparently he stuck his hand up, "Oh, so they were sent away from London to the country to keep them safe? Just like we were in the lockdown?"

The teacher said that, no, children were not evacuated during lockdown. And he was quite incredulous that neither his teacher, nor any of his classmates, could remember this mass evacuation.

I have explained that he was not evacuated - he stayed with his grandparents for around a month (not in the country). But he is sure in his own mind that he was in fact evacuated for the duration. "Maybe for about a year."

I suppose he was only 4 at the time. But it got me to thinking that a lot of youngish children must have some fairly weird memories of Lockdown Britain!

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itsjustnotok · 30/01/2023 07:34

My DD was 7 and thought that anyone who went to hospital unwell died. Not great when both DH and I work in A&E. When he got covid he had to go for a swab for work. She noted the room he was using empty and asked where daddy was so I said he’d gone to the hospital. She broke down crying that I sent her daddy to die and she never got to say goodbye. She had panic attacks for a while after this.

Icanbuymyselfflowers · 30/01/2023 07:56

we went in to “ shielding “ before lockdown. MY DC consultant rang us and told us as a team they has decided that I should collect the kids from school and remain home until further contact .. do not leave the house. I remember the kids being so confused when I collected them from school and that was it we didn’t leave the house again for however long it may have been. The week after schools shut and then after that lockdown happened.
we had some really good memories to, one day I had to hang out window to wait to grab a random straingee that looked like they were heading to the Tesco at the end of the road 🤣 casually have the poor women a list so the kids could eat and have art supplies !

piesforever · 30/01/2023 09:53

The madness is, I've heard more than one group of NHS staff say this week, it was weirdly better in lockdown! Less pressures from the rest of the hospital, less patients angry with you and genuinely more team spirit. It's very sad.

Curlygirl06 · 03/02/2023 21:10

Curlygirl06 · 28/01/2023 14:59

I worked through lockdown ( retail) and it was bloody scary at the start- no screens, no gloves, no restrictions on numbers in the shop, panic buying, customers being complete arseholes sometimes. I'd take my uniform off at work so I didn't take germs home; my son in law would strip off in his garage and run upstairs in his pants to shower before he greeted my daughter and the children(he's a postman).
I remember going to work the first day of lockdown and it was surreal, no traffic, no one about, people jumping into the road so as not to get close.
The worse thing was my grandchildren and not seeing them. I had my grandson twice a week since he was a baby, and when he started school I picked him up twice a week, that stopped. My granddaughter was 4 months old at lockdown and I never got that time with her that I had with him, as my daughter was worried I'd be a risk to them, especially the baby, due to me being with the public at work. I had to make do with brief doorstep visits when I dropped off shopping. When we were allowed garden visits, my grandson was so pleased to see me but had to be stopped from cuddling me, that was horrible.

My daughter was returning to work in September and the plan was for me to look after the baby but she didn't really know me, poor little bugger. The day I went to her house and she picked the baby up, plonked her in my lap and said "well you'll be looking after her all day in 3 weeks so might as well start now" is burnt in my memory. Cuddling her, smelling that baby smell, holding her chubby little legs- amazing. When my grandson came downstairs and was told he could cuddle me it was fab. He's not a cuddly child but he was that day! I thought I'd snap him in half, I was holding him that tight. With him, we were resuming our relationship but I had to start from scratch with his sister, without the benefit of the months that had been lost due to the pandemic. She's 3 now and we have a lovely time and she'll never remember the pandemic. I must ask my dgs his memories of it- he was 6 1/2 when it started.

I asked my grandson today about his memories of the pandemic, he can only remember playing games and lots of walks with his family, doing school work

Curlygirl06 · 03/02/2023 21:14

Pressed too soon! He can't remember not seeing me, apart from the brief doorstep visits, or how lovely the weather was. His baby sister will never remember anything.

ThisGirlNever · 03/02/2023 21:33

All these fond memories of lockdown reminded me of this article.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/12/03/lockdown-has-left-children-like-arthur-labinjo-hughes-risk-serious/

I'm still angry about the evil that was enabled by all the lockdown fanatics.

Why were children left to suffer, just so that an elderly person with multiple preexisting conditions could live a bit longer?

My son thinks that children were evacuated during the pandemic

RedAndBlueStripedGolfingUmbrella · 03/02/2023 22:10

Lockdown just seems like a bizarre memory now.
I know everyone's experience is different, and appreciate that a lot of people really struggled whether financially/emotionally/both etc, but for me the first lockdown was a godsend.
I was a SAHM and It sorted out the stress and worry over the eldest teen's school refusal and constant contact with school as he didn't have to go any more as they shut.
It sorted out money worries temporarily as got a refund of hundreds of pounds as a school trip got cancelled as couldn't travel anymore
It sorted out constant stress of overbearing, undermining from a family member as we legit couldn't mix households anymore.
It affected everyone in different ways.
The second one I think was the hardest, as there just didn't seem to be a way out and like it would be with us forever.
Shutting businesses like they did just seems like madness now, people just couldn't survive.
I don't think there'd be the same level of compliance now, now we know what the Gov. were getting up to whilst telling us not to mix and fining us 😡

Tandora · 03/02/2023 22:12

OnlyFannys · 27/01/2023 21:23

It all feels like a bad dream now

A really really really awful dream.

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