To find the early COVID era nostalgic?

[Acco]

I’m mostly talking about the pre-lockdown and lockdown 1 era mostly but just 2020 in general to a lesser extent (but not 2021, I still hate it and it doesn’t seem that long ago). I haven’t thought about COVID for ages but I was taking about the toilet roll hysteria with my in laws tonight and then I saw a TikTok throwback to all the 2020 trends and sounds and it gave me a warm feeling inside. It’s an era I’d never want back but I remember the lovely sunny days in the garden in April and May 2020.
Anybody else feel this?

Yeah, that post wasn't a dig at OP it was just a reminiscing of the whole thing!

Locking up law abiding citizens is wrong, period.

Wrong in March 2020, wrong every time since.

I think a lot of people feel they won't be the same person again.

This is true for me. One slight positive - I really had to face up to how lonely I was and how little support I really had. It forced me to stop waiting for this, and take control of my life a bit more. I stopped being so afraid of my ex & pursued divorce, started to make plans for the future & break these into smaller steps. And start to come to terms with the lack of interest from my family & learn to live with it.

My young people were all stuck in their bedrooms throughout while we worked from home, but as least we were there for lunch, breaks, teatime walks. I feel for you, your your teen and the many many thousands like them 😔

Of course. But maybe not be blind to those who not only 'didn't have great time' but who endured horrific & terrifying consequences of this period.

It was completely mad. They closed schools for months; expected kids of five to wear masks. Told old people they'd die if they went to the shops.
I can't imagine why anyone would be nostalgic for it. Depressing actually.

Not sure how that relates to my post?

Yep. Smug, self-congratulatory posts from people from affluent, two parent families living in large houses banging on about the joys of rediscovering their gardens and so forth.

I still find it highly triggering now and I was (relatively speaking) one of the lucky ones. God knows what this sort of stuff must have seemed like to someone working in the emergency services or in a supermarket or someone who had lost family members to COVID.

I find it pretty breathtaking, after all that's emerged over the past three years about the levels of incompetence that happened in the highest levels of our government and the huge levels of suffering which people went through, that anyone could actually get a warm and fuzzy feeling because they watched an old TikTok.

Nope. Too many people dying around the country for me to long for the halcyon days of covid.

Sconehenge absolutely, "wrong think" indeed. It was clear from the thread title what it was about, no need to open it and read it if you knew you'd find it difficult.

No. This was abuse.

Would it be ok for you if people celebrated what Stalin did in Ukraine or Mao on China or Kim Jong Il?

Sounds like you had a very different experience to us. My DS missed out on Scouts, martial arts, DofE expedition, school language trip, scout summer camp, celebrating his birthday with anyone other than me, seeing grandparents for three years. We were very aware of what we were missing.

You said I fairness to OP she was talking about 2020 as though it were somehow ok on 2020

I kinda agree with the OP. My son was 2 years of age and it was great I got to spend lots of time with him as I couldn't go to work and he couldn't go to nursery. We had lots of walks in empty parks in the sun. The saddest though was for him not seeing grandparents and they missed him lots. Would I want a repeat though- no way!

Some things are so very wrong that we can’t get over them. It’s impossible to change you but we can’t help but try.

No, that's not what it means. It means that OP wasn't talking about the tiers period. The person I was responding to gets that.

And people are allowed to call out OP for being of poor taste and express this, along with their experiences (which for a lot of us as painfully at odds with OP).

@Sconehenge

If you had a really shit time from start to finish perhaps you can just realise this thread isn’t for you rather than contribute to a pile on to the OP for committing “wrong think” in eyes. People are allowed to have different experiences of life events.

People are indeed allowed to have different experiences of life events but anyone with the faintest degree of self-awareness would realise that a pandemic in which millions of people died and most of the population of the UK was at best severely inconvenienced was probably going to be something of a trigger.

And that casually starting an "oh what fun we had" post about it was likely to upset people.

Bluegreenseasoffoam there's absolutely nothing wrong with people having a different view or feeling differently from others. Pretty scary to presume you can tell others how they should feel.

It's fine for those who didn't find lockdown tough to say that, whilst also acknowledging others did find it tough. Making an analogy with Stalin et al seems very silly to me

@Thepeopleversuswork

I agree so much with every word you've written here.

Like you, I was certainly lucky.

But I remember in early 2021 (second lockdown, Ireland) having an awful week, where I didn't leave the house, worked all day but couldn't eat & couldn't even cook dinner for my kids. I was like a zombie.

I remember trying in the end to contact my brother who lives near to me, feeling totally incapacitated. He didn't even get what I was saying. Funnily enough he's a doctor - but actually had the easiest time of his career in Covid, as his speciality mostly wasn't linked to any frontline activity, all elective procedures were cancelled, but his daily life was normal in terms of going to work etc. he seemed able to get exemptions to all the rules too.

I did eventually give myself a shake & finally address the bigger issues myself, so there was that I guess.

No. I worked all the way through it. I spent the first few weeks panicking like mad I'd pulled by the Police for being out in my car, even though I had a letter stating I was a carer. I dreaded coming in from work just in case someone was in the communal hallway and I'd potentially put them at risk. Trying to wash my uniform each night on a 60 degree wash and get it dried for the following day was a nightmare. Going to the shop after finishing a shift and having a choice of a scratty bag of lettuce or a tin of low sugar spaghetti hoops, not being able to get toilet roll and having to make the decision to come off my medication cos I didn't want to risk having the shits. Not being able to see my Grandma cos we didn't want to take the risk with my job and then she died. Only being able to see my OH if he delivered to where I lived and then we were parked at opposite sides of a lay by him in his Truck and me in my car shouting across to each other. Anything we wanted to give each other meant one of us leaving something in the middle of the lay by getting back into our vehicles and then the other person picking it up. Not being able to hug each other. Panicking like mad when my OH got covid. Not knowing if I would have to spend xmas day by myself. Trying to reassure the people I was caring for that their families did love them and care about them it was just that they couldn't visit them at the moment because of the virus.

Horrifying and terrifying consequences that have not gone away.

There were positives for us in that we had a beautiful new baby and my other half was furloughed so had an extended paternity leave. Older child was at home so we did have a lovely period of bonding and the weather certainly helped.
Obviously it was a hellish time in so many other ways and the uncertainty about the future was frightening.
I think I can't dwell on the negatives as I refuse to darken my daughter's first years of her life.

By implication you meant the first period was ok. It wasn’t

I totally agree with you, my teenage daughter recently said she feels sad for people that'll never experience that first lockdown. She talks of the lovely time we had together at home without the usual commitments.
We loved the various quizzes and zoom chats and meals.
We made popcorn and sat in the garden threading it on string and hanging it like garlands in the trees.
I apologise to those that lost loved ones I'm sure your memories are very different.