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. 💕

Fair enough.

Though I definitely remember plenty of talk of “variants” and mutations. We got lucky; I think, rather than it was always obvious we’d be fine.

And because of it people will be utterly impossible next time.

"THOSE OF YOU SITTING ON A BENCH EATING CRISPS - YOU ARE THE PROBLEM."

Some charmer telling me that if my business couldn't survive for x number of months with no money coming in at all then it deserved to go under anyway. And I shouldn't begrudge it because people were DYING.

The pile on to the exhausted woman living in a flat with the autistic kid who wanted to just take him to the beach for a run around. It was truly disgusting.

The Awfully Clever pandemic and vaccine experts who told me I must be stupid for believing the Astra Zenecca researcher who was on the Today programme when they said that by Easter 2021 things would be back to relative normality because of the vaccine. Because as everyone knows, vaccines aren't designed to stop people getting ill. (That's funny because that's what we had always been taught about vaccines). It was pure gaslighting.

They were fucking bonkers, along with Zebra lady!

Not me but I witness someone trying to argue that being a teacher was exactly the same as being a medic in terms of risk and their sacrifice to the public. In fact, she argued teachers were worse off than nurses because “nurses chose it”

I think I would have been as enraged as you.

You have a great way of writing though.

I will forever be bitter that my daughter missed her final fortnight of year 6 at school because 1 child tested positive in the class. At the same time England were in the euros football final and the crowds on the tv were huge. It was such a shame for the children

One of my neighbours used to bang on my door at clapping time.
Everyone was out with pots and pans, beeping car horns. Someone on my local FB group had a massive brass instrument they got out every Thursday.
I remember when it started.... NHS staff on my feed posting videos of the hospital car parks.. so proud to feel supported. About a year later, they were begging people to stop.
Performative nonsense.
I still see a few very faded posters in people's windows... thanking the NHS.

1 year after lockdowns when everyone, who wanted to be was vaccinated and Covid was really not a thing, I needed to go to the dr (nothing vaguely related to Covid) and a friend was insistent that i needed to do a Covid test as otherwise I would probably kill the dr and any other patients. She had been at a festival the night before and had no fears of killing anyone. I said that Covid caused more deaths through hospital treatments and appointments that were cancelled. She still insisted that ‘it is a simple test that will prevent you killing someone. She is an ex friend.

Oh god, really?

Ps this wasn’t a thread. Just a response i made on a similar thread to this one. About covid craziness.

We did that.

We were hugely cautious - DS1 has multiple medical vulnerabilities and I have 2 auto immune conditions that I knew about at the time and a further third that was diagnosed later.

I don't regret for a second the multiple precautions we took. It made me feel slightly more in control and slightly less fearful. Maybe some of it was OTT, but truth is, we will never know. I know people who died. I was scared.

I really thought there'd be some sort of horror afterwards at what "we" let them do. More outrage that such inhumane behaviour was just accepted.

DH was admitted to hospital by ambulance and we didn't see him again for 3 months. During that time he was told, alone and by telephone that his cancer was terminal. He never met his oncologist because the doctor was shielding. He'd call me in the middle of the night crying in pain and I couldn't speak to anyone to find out what was going on, and because his death wasn't imminent, I wasn't allowed to visit.

He eventually came home to die, unrecogniable from the man who'd left and had 3 months where he wasn't allowed to see anyone, although by that point I took the view that anyone who was willing to visit was helping with care and therefore, it was allowed, but many people still felt they shouldn't.

In what world did "we" not only allow it to happen, but so many seemed to relish it.

I do think that we got lucky 🥺

I've learned my lesson to make sure I have lots of essentials in and to not trust the government, who will advise in accordance with what most suits the economy first and the appearance of public order second

I had a baby in September 2022 who was hospitalised for months, there were still restrictions on visiting at the hospital and nurses had it very fresh in their memory mums not being with their own sick babies.

People were scared, scared for their loved ones, scared for their children, parents and livelihoods.

the government didn’t know what we were dealing with. It’s easy with hindsight calling it bat shittery now. I look back at the closed playgrounds thinking it’s fucking bonkers we did that. But that was because we didn’t know, we just didn’t know what it was, how it was spread or who was next.

God help you if you didn’t go full throttle on support for captain Tom.

Absolutely and of course Covid was a disaster with people were dying in large numbers horribly.
Anything that runs rampant through the human race killing off people at the rate Covid did needs to be contained and people need to support that.
I disagree that precautions were unnecessary no matter how everyone acts like they weren’t now
Without them people on here may not be on here.

Tbh if a pandemic that affected the young more came to the UK I wouldn’t act any differently. I’m not ageist. Everyone deserves the right to protection

I'm so sorry, that's awful. We really lost our humanity during these times.

Its the hypocrisy really

I am going to come clean - I was a bit hysterical

Washing several bags of food shopping in warm soapy water before wiping down with anti-bacterial wipes. It was a fucking faff and I would run to another sink in between items to wash my hands otherwise I was just re-transmitting.... 😳

Coming home from walking the dog in Richmond Park and breaking down in heavy, snotty sobs because I had accidently pushed open one of the heavy metal gates and carried on walking without remembering to use my hand sanitizer. I couldn't remember if I'd touched my face but was giving myself around a 50% chance of survival.

Didn't a load of slebs film themselves singing imagine by John Lennon.

That phrase ‘what part of stay at home don’t you understand’ or ‘STAY THE FUCK HOME’ posted really aggressively on some threads when people were just trying to do their best.

Gawd, it was really stupid wasn't it. Boredom does some odd things to people doesn't it?
And let's not forget 'captain Tom' and his heroic stroll round his grounds of his mansion, with his daughter walking round like Don King with dollar signs for eyeballs...🤣

HearHoovesThinkZebras

She wouldn't go out even at night. She thought that literally everyone in the world who complained they were finding it hard was SELFISH because "WHAT ABOUT MEEEEE, I'M CLINICALLY VULNERABLE ". Every silver lining must have a cloud as far as she was concerned.

I honestly think some MNers wish lockdown was still happening. Despite the that that it was destroying people’s MH and livelihoods, so many people were furious when restrictions were lifted. Lots of “I’m alright Jack” attitudes