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?

I was berated on a school WhatsApp for not going for a run wearing a mask. Massive pile on of 'parents who know better than me' saying running was bad because of how forcefully you breathe out. One (the deputy head) even suggested I go running after dark to avoid the crowds - I live walking distance from where Sarah Everard was taken and I get the fear every time I think about what would have happened if I'd have gone along with it instead of just giving up running (my only sliver of sanity at the time).

It’s so easy to forget how scary and unknown COVID was in 2020. It literally wasn’t the same virus then as well, pre vaccination- it was a lot more lethal. I’m sure with perfect information some different measures would have been taken, eg probably not closing schools for so long.

But no, I don’t find the way that people pulled together, followed the rules and made sacrifices for the collective aim of limiting the virus ‘cringey’. I think it was admirable. The fact our leaders couldn’t find it in themselves to do the same reflects badly on them not on everyone else for doing their bit. (Reporting your neighbours is still shitty behaviour though).

ICU Red Zone Nurse. It was real enough : I'd never seen anything like it. We lost patients on every shift, the youngest was only 18. And I lost two dear colleagues, both had young children.

My lasting memories are the exhaustion, shouting through full face masks and visors, relatives screaming down the phone, Imams performing the last rights to all faiths, the state of my face from wearing full PPE and picking a young nurse up from the locker room floor. She was shaking uncontrollably.

I get so angry when people tell me it was all fake and government BS.

Plenty of people died prematurely because of covid, my grandad was one of them . He had terminal cancer but wouldn't have died when he did if it wasn't for covid . Just because some people were dying anyway doesn't mean it wasn't covid that killed them .

Ah the wonky vegetables 😂

This a thousand. It's so easy to look back now and scoff but new information was coming out everyday. No one knew what was happening.

Following the "rules"'helped some people
Feel in control and safe

I agree. University staff were a case in point. Our son started Uni in September 2020! He deliberately went to the library in the evening when he knew it would be quieter. He was the only one in there and there was an airport style zig zag queue at the reception counter with no one queueing. He ducked under the barrier and the woman behind the counter went batshit crazy at him for not zig-zagging!

Likewise the campus security guards who wouldn't let him and his flat mates (8 in total living together), go out walking together - they insisted on splitting them up despite them having their key fobs showing they were living together.

It certainly made normally sane people into complete idiots just so they could throw their weight around.

I think that's a really interesting point about the future.

Wouldn't put a date on it myself, but can you imagine anyone trying in the next few years?! Memories are going to have to fade a fair bit first.

But that's exactly it... some of us DID know better because we weren't just soaking up the official narrative and actually thought for ourselves only to be ostracised, bullied and ridiculed because of it. So it's far from 'done'.

The voice of common sense..

Meanwhile the 'I didn't agree with any of that' brigade probably didn't lose a sister aged 39 with 2 primary age kids .. someone with no underlying health problems but working as a nurse .

You also fail to understand that the Covid vaccines were the game changer . There was a huge take up. 9/10 for first jabs and 7/10 for boosters .

But do not be easily fooled. Covid has not miraculously disappeared or stopped killing people. It killed my dad last year despite vaccination. Only it's no longer politically expedient to mention Covid - so his death certificate said 'chest infection' until I stepped in and demanded they tell the truth . Apparently the hospitals have been encouraged not to add Covid if 'unnecessary' ???

Last winter there was 5% excess deaths . That's an additional 26k more than expected. Covid and juvenile RV need to be kept and eye on and not ignored.

@HeraSyndulla same here. We’d have multiple deaths on most shifts including several work colleagues. We had a young lad who lost his mum just before Xmas 2020. We raised £500 for him and bought him some presents as dad was by her bedside most of the time.

You didn't know better, you were just guessing.

I think a lot if it was obvious tbh

We've got dead birds again. Being coastal Had so many last spring. Anyone out in a boat saw dead birds floating in the water.

On land At first they were collecting them in haz mat wear, then just gloves and bin bags. Then the council gave up and said put them in the bin. Why? Bird flu.

I don't know if this will cross over into humans but it's all being done in a very low key way at the moment.

I am pleased to say we never once clapped, stock-piled, nor quarantined or cleaned our shopping.

I think we live in a like-minded village as only 2 houses on our road did the bloody clapping nonsense.

Lunacy we did go along with was mask wearing and obeying the rules. My mum died and we didn’t go and see our heartbroken dad, other than to talk to him through a window. If I could turn back time I’d be ignoring those rules.

As I said, my relative didn't die of Covid. At no point were we told he had Covid. Yet there it was on his death certificate.
The only reason it wasn't contested was that his wife was in too much grief.

I hope the people on here who called those of us who couldn't wear masks all the names under the sun/said we deserved to catch covid (despite being very vulnerable to it)/said we should stay indoors and not go to work, hospital appointments, tale DC to school etc/said we were filthy, diseased, selfish, lying, super spreaders look back on the way they behaved and not only cringe, but feel thoroughly ashamed.

I hope the people outside of MN who physically attacked/spat on/threatened/shouted at/deliberately and theatrically coughed on those who couldn't wear masks feel similarly ashamed.

Lol obviously it did. Along with the virus only appearing after 10pm if you went to the pub.

I remember arguing with my husband about if we were allowed to go for a run and a walk in the same day 🤣 mental!

That's so tough. I can't imagine what it was like for you and colleagues.

@Nightblindness

Yup.

Did you see the scenes in the Italian hospitals? Can you remember ?

Did you mean like thhese, @midgetastic? (You'll need to scroll halfway down for the Italian one)

Bad enough that, as a PP said, we were fed fear after fear daily, but those doing it might at least have told the truth

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/52124740

Why was she not in school when her classmates were?

My autistic son got upset on the first zoom call so I just didn’t do them. He had a horrendous first year at primary school and his autism regressed over the covid period. I dealt with it. It was a shit time for many, many people in varying degrees, but that wasn’t the part that amused me. What amused me were the morons who thought they were experts in virology just because they couldn’t understand the rules and were a bit inconvenienced or upset by them.

As I said, my relative didn't die of Covid. At no point were we told he had Covid. Yet there it was on his death certificate.
The only reason it wasn't contested was that his wife was in too much grief.

Why would they have done that though?

Either error, or in fact your relative had swabbed positive for Covid. It may not have been mentioned but it doesn't mean it wasn't the case.

While you make a valid point that this isn't exactly correct, as the predominant cause of death was something else, you are wrong that this is specific to Covid - it often happens that the cause of death is given as one thing e.g. pneumonia when the main cause may have been an ongoing terminal condition. Or in the case of my dad, who had a multi-factorial neurological condition, one aspect of that (and not necessarily the correct one as there was a disagreement about diagnosis) was listed as the cause of death.

The poster who said that fatal RTAs were listed as Covid deaths is fantastical.

Lockdown sceptics 😂

Numpties