To look back on the things we did in lockdown and cringe?

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Isn't it all just really cringeworthy when we look back?

The clapping on our doorsteps, all that false commradarie and "we're all in this together" and the drawings of rainbows in people's windows?
Condemning our neighbours for buying Easter Eggs because they weren't "essential" and wondering whether we would get arrested for sitting on a park bench?

At the time I, and probably loads of us, thought we were doing the right things but doesn't it all just look so false and hollow now when we look back and see that number 10 were having parties and Dominic Cummings was running around the country testing his eyesight? My kids missed out on so much while this was going on, my mental and physical health has still not recovered from the effects of lockdown, and for what?

Know what I mean?

Could you tell me a group, in particular a vulnerable group, that didn't face miserable restrictions? I can't think of any but perhaps there is one.

I do think the restrictions were broadly necessary at the national level and I do think that it would have been infinitely worse without them. That's not to say that every decision was right, it wouldn't have been possible to only make perfect decisions given the information available at the time even if we had had a competent government. But I don't think it was possible to get through the pandemic without pain across the board.

It's not quite clear. Which bit makes them thick, having had the vaccination or posting on facebook that they'd had the vaccination?

I haven’t admitted this before but I loved it. I’m autistic and have ocd about germs. Suddenly my behaviour was normal and acceptable and I didn’t have to go to work or socialise at all.

I haven’t reverted back. I gave up work in late 2021 (I get carers allowance for my dc who has a very long award for dla (till they are nearly 17) and then they’ll get pip and I still wipe clean all my shopping and it’s made my life so so much better, things are back to normal now but it showed me what I needed to do to not be living in a constant state of autistic burnout

I won't forget the Covidiots existed but I don't remember who they are or who I was, everyone has name changed 😂

I didn't get involved with the clapping or rainbows at the time and I thought it was cringeworthy then.

Didn't break any rules and my concern was not letting my dc miss out. She was a toddler and we spent months exploring the outdoors as a family, then got her into nursery ASAP and back to toddler classes immediately when they opened. Now in Year 1 and thriving as it was just a few months of lockdown that made affected her lifestyle. Those who kept their young children away from group activities and nursery for years have fared far worse.

I felt judged for having the roof down on my convertible if I had to stop at traffic lights and they were standing near the car. Also people jumping into the road if you passed them on the daily walk, there was more change of being hit by a car than catching Covid from walking past them.

listening to stupid rumours about not being able to drive somewhere to walk your dog

You were being unreasonable to do any of that crap in the first place.

We pretty much carried on as normal as much as possible, didn't get vaccinated etc.

I get angry thinking how much people were vilified for just carrying on their lives and doing their own thing.

Yes, I thought everyone was affected (except the rich maybe).

Having cancer or other serious illnesses then must have been beyond frightening.

But you benefited from others getting vaccinated.

God, this revisionism is annoying. No, there were plenty of people who didn't think the world was ending and that we needed to avoid sitting on park benches to avoid armaggedon. On Mumsnet we were berated for being callous people who were happy to see grannies dying in the streets. People had to start a separate thread to discuss what was happening without other posters being abusive to them!

How so? I caught covid as did my whole family and all of us were fine and dandy.

Yes we lost family members to cancer on both sides - diagnosed, treated and buried all under pandemic conditions. It was awful tbh, but so many families can say the same about so many different things.

I stayed with my ex. What a fucking mistake that was.

To be fair it was most of the world not just the nation. It wasn’t some project the uk took off on independently.

I’m going to rock the boat and say there were things I thought were quite healthy about it and provided a “ reset” for many. Not dismissing how hard it was for some, but simply saying it opened a lot of eyes to things that had gone off course in their lives.

I quite enjoyed the clapping! All the little kids on our street would make noise together and go bananas.

funding the service sufficiently so that they can do their jobs effectively?

Only after a radical look at how the vast amount of money is spent, far too much goes on things not directly concerned with health services.

My friend caught it and was not “ fine and dandy. And I know of several people who caught it and died.

And nothing to do with what I wrote!

The only silver lining to Covid for me was I finally figured out which common weight loss method works for me (mostly).

The flex to WFH is another one maybe, but my productivity was much higher pre-Covid when WFH was an unthinkable bar emergencies.

@Calliopespa and that is sad and I am sorry to hear it. However I do not feel that the vaccination of others meant that I benefitted. As an aside, this train of thought caused ructions within the wider family because we had ill people going through various treatments and who were annoyed we wouldn't vaccinate.

I think lockdown was needed but the other stuff clapping etc clearly bollocks and I didn’t join in.
As a clinically vulnerable person and as a retired nurse with friends still nursing I was grateful social restrictions were put in place and angry with the ridiculous Eat out to help out scheme.
It’s a tragedy that we were governed by clowns in a time of national emergency.

People forget that in the early days hundreds of people were dying- health workers, transport workers etc, hospitals were full of people on ventilators and couldn’t cope. The restrictions could be seen as totally OTT but there was a real crisis. 2 close relatives of mine in their 40s/ 50s died of covid complications, and yes it did scare me.

Apart from staying home I never did any of the other stuff. Husband stayed home for 3 weeks and then went back to work, 2 if my kids were at school full time. We missed out on a lot if stuff but thankfully we are fortunate that it didn’t affect us too much.

Mum died during the 1st week of the 1st lockdown. One of the (many) rules surrounding funerals at that time was that the few attendees allowed were to drive only themselves there and back and to go straight to their own houses afterward. I cringe for those who thought an 83 year old man with failing eyesight should be expected to not only drive himself to his wife's funeral, but to also be completely alone in an empty house afterwards ("bubbles" weren't a thing then). I mean, what went through the minds of people who thought that was acceptable. Dad came with me, and me and my sister (the only other people at mum's funeral), went back to his house afterwards....we gave no fucks about the roolz that day.