Mumsnet during the beginning of the Pandemic - please tell me your stories of the maddest comments you saw

[mumofoneAlonebutokay]

Inspired by chat on another thread - one woman was told not to pop to the shop for milk but to put butter in her coffee instead 😄

I wasn't on mumsnet then but would love to know the maddest comments you saw?

I myself went mad during the pandemic 🙈 and refused to leave the house and judged anybody that did, I'll admit 😬😄 - I wish I'd been calmer

Please share 🥰

Edit - I know how awful the pandemic was for those who lost loved ones, and how serious those losses are - this is just about the unnecessary hysteria and comments stemming from that, not to poke fun at those who lost someone or became ill. 💕

I remember saying that DH and I wouldn't stop working in Hospitality (this is before furlough was announced) and I was accused of murdering people.

I asked how we would pay our bills and the answer was that lives were more important.

This went around and around.

In the end we had 2 (on and off) incredible years furloughed so I guess it all worked out.

Later on when it was 6 people allowed to gather and furious debate raged about if a baby asleep in a cot upstairs counted.

And all the madness about Tiers /zones as well.

Not at the beginning but when the vaccines were going to be rolled out a poster was terrified that the army was going to be used. think she thought there would be soldiers and tanks chasing you down the road and vaxing you. It was explained that the army have experienced medics...

You can read the exact posts, as they happened, here @mumofoneAlonebutokay.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/coronavirus?page=888

I remember some absolute nonsense-monger claiming that their DH “worked very high up in government policy” and insisting that he’d been given official instruction right from the top to (secretly, so as not to alarm anyone) start the widescale compulsory purchasing of nightclubs, arenas, music venues etc because they were never ever going to be allowed to open back up again, Covid was going to be far more lethal than any of us were being told, and he’d been advised we’d all be in full strict lockdown for at least the next two decades. It was delightfully bonkers.

I was accused of killing people cos I was trying to order a desk from ikea to wfh. The delivery lead times were very long and I tweeted ikea. Got this response instead.

There was a lot of “literally crying and shaking” when I said DH had gone to the corner shop to get us Maltesers even though they are not in fact essential.

The thread about sitting down on a bench in the park to eat a bag of crisps and how that made you a murderer.

Mnetter queuing in a garden centre and managed to build an entire grievance thread about a toddler sneezing in her vicinity.

Oh also the poster who thought the army should be mobilised to stop people visiting their loved ones at Christmas.

I remember that one. 😱

Oh man, I missed that one. 🤣

I remember something about cheese in coffee too.

Lots of people seemingly worried about if you bought a necessity (say formula) and a non-necessity (Easter eggs ) then is that breaking the rules.

Lots of posts about selfish people being out and about when only half of UK jobs can be done by home and the people who stayed at home could only do so because people went out to work and delivered stuff, kept the utilities going etc.

The clapping - I mean wtaf was that about. The free food was at least practical for healthcare workers.

I swear I remember a thread about a women and her little girl blowing bubbles and they got shouted at by a passed by because how dare the little girl blow germs into the air
The batshittery was something else

Someone literally never left her house and garden for 2 years and she had young children too. This was going to be the new way to live... remote work, eating Al fresco in your large rural garden, kids home schooled and playing on a lawn, no one wanting to live in a city flat, food delivery. Sounded really horrifying to me.

Mn just generally. So full on with pro lockdown stuff. Bar a few.

I remember some of those. One I saw was around stopping to talk to someone in the open air and whether that made you literal murderers as well as law breakers.

also remember the two women with cups of coffee and Derbyshire Popixe saying that constitutes a pic-nic.

I'd have been really shocked too when you said this. Surely everyone knows that Maltesers are essential
.

My ex (who worked in tech) was convinced that if he drove down the M1 to see the kids then he’d be stopped by the police. I showed him the “rules” which said that separated parents could transport the kids between homes but he was uncharacteristically obedient.

When rules started to relax, he thought it was irresponsible of me to let our teens meet their friends outdoors. No health issues btw but I’d do it again. Some of them would bring their dog so it looked like they bumped into my child during their “exercise”

That was the one I was going to say! Definitely happened.

Someone shouted at DH in Sainsburys (where he worked and had just finished a shift!) for buying coffee as it wasn’t ‘essential’

It was all the bile thrown at those of us who questioned whether you were actually going to murder a granny by sitting on a bench with a packet of crisps. All the posters who were so horrible to people who broke their own version of the "roolz" by going out too long, or too often, or buying what some posters considered non-essentials.

People being told that they absolutely could not go to deal with a parent with dementia, or teenager isolated in uni halls, or any other sort of emergency because "what part of stay at home don't you understand"?

Some people were frightened and I get that. A large percentage though just revelled in being completely nasty and vile to other posters, patronising and mocking them, refusing to believe that they were actually exempt from wearing a mask or whatever and being backed up on threads by their fellow dementors.

I'd like to think that 5 years on they look back and think that actually they were pretty mean and awful. But I don't think they do.

Disinfecting mail by keeping it in the garage for a few days before opening and washing shopping.

Oh, the clapping - I did the clapping 😱. I regard it with the horror of looking back at my teen years and scaffolding my fringe to epic heights with back combing and hairspray.

Way ott , but we didn't know what could happen. I still look at those 2 m marks outside the local supermarket and it all seems surreal But we had to lock down until the vaccines started to take effect.