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. 💕

Sorry about bringing more death to the thread (You've seen my username though, right?) but my DF 85 passed away last Thursday night.

He was ECV and took it all extremely seriously. Until he could secure delivery slots for groceries, I did his and SMs shopping, at Sainsbury's of course on a Saturday morning. He was ex navy, and very organised, so not only did I get cash close to what his projected list would cost, a very specific list "two carrots, one onion, etc" I also got a floor plan of the supermarket so I could locate everything in the quickest most efficient way possible, and ..... a pound for the trolley.

I would then take it to their house in a taxi, put the bags on the doorstep, retreat to the garden wall and we woyld shout muffled pleasantries to each other for a few minutes until the nervousness kicked in and they scuttled back indoors while net curtains twitched all around.

God, I'm going to miss that man. So much .

I was the same 😄

I remember being berated on here because I mentioned that my husband had been to the only shop in our village for essentials that we needed and they had none, so he went to the next, slightly larger, village 3 miles away and managed to get what was needed from their two shops.
The absolute horror and disgust that he’d been in three shops!

Not on here but locally my husband and our son were out for a run together and someone stopped his car to shout at them for not social distancing, they obviously shouted back that they lived in the same house.

People defending the ridiculous decision by the Welsh government to stop people buying what they termed “non-essentials” including books, birthday cards and bedding which were taped up because it wasn’t “fair” that the small shops had to close when supermarkets could be open. As if everyone who could wouldn’t head straight for Amazon when they got home and those who couldn’t, who only had cash for the month and nothing in the bank had to go without. And people on here actually defended this decision and even thought that it was a good idea!

I did the clapping and still think it was good. It's not so much the thanking the NHS (although that too) but in a time when you were feeling so lost and helpless it was a positive action. It was also for a lot of people near me the only time they saw anyone so it created a human connection.

My partners mum died unexpectedly in November. London went into tier 3 or 4 shortly after the funeral before lockdown. Christmas was absolutely dire and in fact that lockdown in particular saw my mental health really deteriorate. It went on so long.

Agree @XenoBitch

Imay have followed everything else, and more but the clap for the nhs was bonkers. Watching people from different households standing side by side with their neighbours defeated the point.

My neighbour texted us asking why we weren’t clapping.

The next time I opened the window of the room I was painting and the whole window fell out. We still haven’t fixed that. 😳
Didnt try again.

@Coldbacon I am so sorry this happened. I still think of the young boy - I think he was 13 - who died alone in hospital because of the 'no visitors' policy. He was also buried alone because it was before small funerals were being permitted. Dreadful. Just heartbreaking. And to think those fucking twats at Number 10 were quaffing champagne and having 'non parties'. Sickening.

Just so dreadful. It wasn't even 8 hours in front of a screen for my DC, it was longer because doing childcare and WFH was inefficient so I had to do more overtime to make up the time. I ended up being up half the night and permanently snappy and exhausted.

I cried tears of joy when DC went back to nursery. I still find it traumatic to think of that period of state-mandated neglect of my child's basic needs.

The thing is, by May 2020 was had a pretty good idea what covid was all about. We knew who was most at risk, what the transference rate was, that for most people it was just a cold, and that yo-yo lockdowns didn't flatten the curve just delayed things and as soon as we "opened up" it just ran again.

Ultimately, we knew it wasn't the deadly disease we thought it could be in February/March. But by then the world was in full blown panic and the Daily Death Show just emphasised it to the public and spawned the kind of crazy we're discussing here.

The lockdowns devastated my DD’s already fragile MH. She has never recovered, and life is such a struggle. She has multiple physical and mental health issues. Makes me so sad.

For me it was the incredible selfishness abs hypocrisy. We worked through a lot of it and for instance let's call her Joan, insisted on having all windows open, mask's whatever else, pushing us all to maintain good hygiene.

I was totally on board with this she had a very elderly mum at home I was and am fully behind fresh air.

However once her mum had the vaccine she's shutting windows,her masks too much etc.
We had others in the office with vulnerable dependents who were still worried??

I could not believe the switch from one day hounding us one way to hounding us the next!!

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/coronavirus/4368149-Peoples-behaviour-in-London

I remember some approval on MN for this idiot:

news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-police-backtrack-after-chief-threatened-to-search-shoppers-trolleys-11971269

The reason I stopped MN for a Loooong time. It’s was crackers

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/3961016-not-bothering-with-a-bra-during-lockdown

The Irish government playing a blinder when they decided booze and power tools were essential items, but not children's shoes.

Turns out no women were in the room when that decision was taken 🙄

@PandoraSoxx rifling trollies for what??

Of course, the most bonkers thing about covid was the BLOODY WEATHER!!

Amazing sunshine from March, all through summer and we weren't fecking allowed out!!

Haven't had such a protracted period of sunshine since.

100% agree. If I were a pettier person I’d call them out by name and ask if they feel rather silly now

Facebook covered in sanctimonious posts of people's profile pictures in a digital NHS rainbow frame with the words I'm Staying Home.

Fucking Hell. Smug as well as complicit.

ps. I did this.

I'm really sorry for your losses, @MooseAndSquirrelLoveFlannel &

@MistressoftheDarkSide 💕😞

Absolutely.

And let's remember that this government when they were in Opposition were constantly calling for longer, harder lockdowns (hilarious given how much they are struggling to cope with the economy as it is)

@SlightlyJaded
we walked the dog round and found the garden. We didn’t go further afield at all because everyone decided the fields near us was the place to take their dogs.

Then there’s the cars turning up at all hours down our country lane. Parking incognito. Two cars. One gets out of car A, goes into car B. Car B starts rocking, bit steamy. Everyone gets back into their own cars and drive off. And repeat.

I know everyone local that’s into dogging and having affairs after Covid lockdowns 🤣🤣🤣.

Or the frame about being vaccinated. Still see a lot of people using that one 😂