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?

Yes, ds, my mum & I were all staying together, it was nice to have quality time together, ds went from Y11 to having left school in the space of 24 hours. Ds was in charge of any shopping that needed physically fetching from the shops, I was in charge of online shopping, we planned meals together, always sat down to listen to Boris on the 5.00pm bulletin together. I can just remember the silence the first night we were in lockdown. It was lovely not having to think what to wear, it didn't matter if you had pjs on all day. I never wore makeup for at least 9 months.

Was terrifying, especially during the first lockdown, as it was still new. Also being locked at a cluttered house (DP is a hoarder) and DS with NVASD. Also stressful. We were lucky that we had a garden and sort of lucky me and DP were still working.
The constant conspiracy theories were scary too (spread by smug 'enlightened' people who have 'done their research - the other fear mongerers).
And the COVID hypocrites. It was okay for them to be out and about but not other people. Moaning about people not wearing masks, but going shopping mob handed themselves.
Also losing working hours at work to make way for furloughed people.

It's not something I have happy memories of. Parts of it I don't care to think about. But people are entitled to their feelings, and there's no denying that some did like lockdown.

Absolutely not, I still feel broken from homeschooling a 7 year old and looking after a 1 year old while both trying to work from home. I remember trying to teach DD1 how to tell the time while DD2 clung onto my legs and screamed. I now work from home most days though which is the only positive to come from the lockdowns.

Very selfish and strange attitude.

Are you for real?!

My attitude is 'selfish'?

The poster spoke blithely about how happy her days were in lockdown. I didn't experience much of what others endured, like close family death, or working in healthcare, or suffering redundancy - but I appreciated others did, and even if I hadn't had my own struggles, I couldn't be so tone deaf not to be upset & concerned about what so many endured. That's why I object to the 'happy days' glibness.

HTH

Most people I know didn’t spend those months ‘enjoying time in the garden’. I work for the NHS and we were all working our butts off in unprecedented circumstances.

My heart breaks for you. That is unbearably sad.

I hope you are doing as well as you can be now. 💐

I'm with you OP!

I wasn't working, DH worked from home. loved homeschooling. We didn't know anyone affected by covid thankfully, so it was weeks of hanging out in the sunny garden, games nights, movie nights, cooking new things, the bliss of not having to go anywhere or do anything we didn't want to do. A slower pace of life with so much quality time together. I often miss it when life feels too hectic. I didn't even agree with lockdowns but accepted it as it was a positive for us.

It was very personal circumstances dependent though, I get that it was horrendous for many people: those who lost loved ones, those who worked outside the house and had to wear ppe, those who were financially affected ❤

Trying to be reasonable here ... it would be perfectly possible for people who enjoyed lockdowns to do some of the things they enjoyed without there needing to be a lockdown. If you think your children are doing too many activities and you're run ragged with to-ing and fro-ing, then ditch the activities. If you want to listen to Radio 4, then listen to Radio 4. If you want to go on family walks, then ditch the swimming/judo/football classes, and go for family walks instead. Have sleepovers in your sitting room, spend weekends doing crafts and baking. Turn the dining table into a tent for soft toys, and make mud pizzas in the garden. That's what I did with my DC in the late 90s/early 2000s because that's what young children enjoy. Not because the government told me I couldn't leave the house.

Other people don't have to be fucked over for you to change the things about your own life that are less satisfactory.

I loved the first 6-9 months. Peace, quiet, not having to do anything social… pure bliss

I was suspended too, I think for referencing a protest, but left for a long time due to personal attack posts.

again, posters do posts like this every so often to create trouble. But it gives me a vent I guess.

imagine if i started a thread on the infertility section about the joys of being childfree. These posters want the same reaction.

I remember the calm before the storm, & how peaceful it was.

Feeling lost when they removed the arrows from the supermarket.

The clapping.

Yes I feel nostalgic about it sometimes too. The weather was incredible. I was looking through my photos for something and found a load of photos of empty shelves in the supermarket I took back then.

I lived alone and it was quite a reflective time for me. Wish I'd done more with my time. My friend managed to do a PhD while working 4 days a week by saving so much time not commuting.

Really good point.

The thing is though, you don't have to do anything social now if you don't want to.

Don't forget the children like Star and Arthur and others whose parents took advantage of lockdown and used it to kill their kids while nobody was watching. Shocking.

I did love the extra time with my kids and not having to rush to work etc but I wish it hadn’t been under those circumstances. Watching Partygate on Channel 4 with some of the original news footage brought some of those emotions back and I remembered just how terrifying it was, I hope there is never anything like that again.

Thank you. We're doing ok now. DD is still much more clingy to me than she should be but we're a good little team.
Despite all the awfulness we also had many acts of kindness, some from very unexpected people.

This!!

People talking about being in a lovely family bubble and not having to socialise - you can choose to do those things if you want.

Hiding this. It has actually made me remember things I want to forget ever happened

They can. But they can't expect everyone to agree with them, and anyone with half a brain would know that they would be upsetting huge numbers of people by starting a thread like this. That person with half a brain might then think: to what end? What am I going to achieve by starting this? What do I gain by upsetting a load of people?

Hiding this. It has actually made me remember things I want to forget ever happened

Hiding this. It has actually made me remember things I want to forget ever happened

Despite all the awfulness we also had many acts of kindness, some from very unexpected people.

I'm so glad to hear that. You have been through so much.

Some people are able to enjoy things whilst also recognising that others had a truly shit time.

If people weren't allowed to post positive stuff when others had/are having a different experience then there would be no MN. I mean, you wouldn't be able to post about buying Christmas gifts etc because others are living in poverty, can't post about a new home because others are in temporary accommodation, can't post about children because others can't have them when they desperately want them....