To find the early COVID era nostalgic?

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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?

To imply that those saying they found lockdown okay (or even enjoyable) are therefore pro covid and oblivious that other didn't find it okay is just silly.

I found lockdown ok.
I am aware many people didn't.
I was responding to a post by someone else who also found it okay to say my feelings were the same as theirs

I’d you can be happy watching abuse and destruction, you are not a good person.

@EarringsandLipstick I'm glad it was a catalyst for positive action for you. I think a lot of people went through very significant transformations, for better or worse.

I don't think there's anything wrong with acknowledging that some people found COVID easier than others and for some people it triggered positive changes in their lives, it certainly did.

But the levity and self-indulgence of this post (and others) talking about having a "warm feeling inside" and the lack of awareness is nauseating.

I hated every minute of it.

You need to give your head a wobble! The deaths alone eradicated any 'fuzzy nostalgic feeling'

While I understand that people had different experiences, I guess I am baffled by people who could so divorce themselves from the suffering and deaths of millions that they could have found it in any way pleasurable. Guess we aren’t all burdened by empathy.

No, you're misreading entirely.

The 'in fairness' means that the stupidity of the tiers system isn't actually relevant to the OP, because that isn't the time she was talking about. It doesn't involve any comment at all about the period she is talking about. It's not a pro or anti lockdown point.

Not at all. I worked throughout. So did my husband. My lovely grandma had a fall and got poorly. Ordinarily we would have been able to visit in the hospital and in the nursing home but we couldn’t and she passed away alone plus we couldn’t give her the send off she deserved. Then I fell pregnant after a year and a half of trying and there was always this low level anxiety throughout the pregnancy. I had to order everything online. Wait in a 40 minute queue for the shops and couldn’t visit friends and family. But I guess that everyone will have had a different experience and so if you were someone who was furloughed and maybe didn’t have vulnerable relatives/dependents I can see why it might have been a nicer experience

I feel the same OP. I had a toddler then so didn’t have to worry about home school. The sunny days were glorious. We’d go for long walks all morning just the 2 of us so he’d be tired enough for a lengthy nap and I could get some work done. The work part was unbelievably stressful but it felt like a bonus maternity leave the rest of the time. He’s a 6 year old with an attitude problem now so I do look back so fondly on that first lockdown. It’s easy to just not think about the negatives, of which there were many.

This resonates with me, it is as if the part of me that was capable of feeling spontaneous and unalloyed happiness has gone forever, it was such a frightening time. I used to wake up in the morning and start crying by the time we were heading into Winter 2020, it felt so scary and so endless. i also went through something that I can't post about as it is too identifying, it was very serious and I do my best to try not to think about it. As well as that, a family member who has mental health issues had a relapse brought about in no small measure by the stress and isolation and having too much time to ruminate I still count myself lucky as I was not bereaved or ill, others went through unmitigated hell. I watched Partygate, the Channel 4 docu drama and hearing the voices and seeing the faces of the bereaved was heartbreaking.

Pp saying "wrongthink", OP has a right to express her opinion, and we have the right to respond. It's still as nasty and tasteless as me saying to an infertile poster "god I love being childfree" or to a divorcing poster losing half their assets "hey dumbass, this is why I don't want to get married".

Lob a hand grenade into a chat board? You get what you get, no point getting upset about it. Or trying to backpedal. The people who loved it are selfish and don't care about essential workers or low income folks. Just admit it, as I admit I look at the lockdown lovers with total loathing and contempt. You want free speech, this is how it looks.

Def think all the Partygate stuff has retraumatised some people.

My darling mum died in summer 2020 of covid. In hospital for seven weeks and we couldn't see her. Then a covid funeral. It was terrible and clearly people who enjoyed 2020 like the OP never lost anyone.

Does she feel sad for the teens who experienced a very different lockdown?

I was pregnant and didn't want to die or kill my mum

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Bugger off with that nonsense. Go ahead and sit in your garden and relive it on your own. I refuse to forget how terrible it was. NEVER AGAIN.

This is very true. The wrongness was so appallingly, desperately wrong, but nobody wanted to hear it then (censorship was a real thing) so we're going to say it now.

I was relatively lucky (hollow laugh) in that I only lost my income, and only one of my (then) teenage children ended up with severe MH issues. I carried on seeing my non-resident partner regardless, and I carried on seeing the few friends who weren't following the rules. I was stopped by the police several times, and told them that my journey was essential, because they couldn't prove that it wasn't. This is where being an anonymous-looking middle-aged woman comes in useful, because people like me clearly don't break rules.

If anyone ever wants to get away with a serious transgression, they honestly just need to be 50ish and female and look a bit harassed and tired.

Bluegreenseasoffoam

If you can be happy watching abuse and destruction, you are not a good person.

What a nasty comment. I have said that I am well aware that others found it a horrible experience, and that we were lucky to be unaffected. We didn't know a single person who caught covid early on, or was affected at all really. I didn't witness any abuse or destruction.

I am a good person, thank you 😊 I don't make judgements about people I've not met simply because they had a different experience to me. I wish you well.

Household mixing was illegal anyway. Not even fucking bubbles in lockdown 1 that OP is so nostalgic for.

This exactly. Everyone has the "right" to express an opinion. No one with any emotional intelligence would think trivialising this traumatic episode to the level of enjoying an old TikTok and expecting the world to laugh along with you was appropriate.

No

Honestly imagine thinking you'd kill your mum by giving her a hug or that you'd die because your mum hugged you. Crazy times. I never stopped seeing my parents and I'm glad.
What a number the government did on people. And the government weren't scared or why else did they have parties?

Me too. I will be permanently aware that they will enthusiastically do anything they are told to do. And wondering what they will be asked to do next.

I’m one of those weird people who can feel several things at the same time. I can enjoy walking my dog in the sunshine enjoying the fabulous views whilst also worrying about my DH who is dying at home.