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. 💕

@StClabberts oh I think so too - the difference for us being in Copenhagen for 2nd one was palpable - it was far more reassuring , far less anxiety provoking- and not once in public society did I see anyone berating anyone else, and as I mentioned earlier I never queued once for a supermarket

Both me and our son (then 19) were apparently CEV and should shield. We weren’t informed until after shielding had begun as people with our blood condition weren’t initially added. We were each called by the practice nurse who said that catching Covid would be ‘catastrophic’ for us. I went into a complete meltdown, especially when the official letters arrived and we were advised not to leave the house, to stay 2m away from others in the household, try to use a different bathroom, eat separately and to get fresh air through an open window.

We both chose not to shield but were careful. Our son couldn’t work from home but as he was officially on the shielding list he couldn’t go into work as he was there when the nurse called and she told him to go straight home so obviously he had to inform his manager.

I did some research and found an article by leading haemotologists who’d decided that shielding wasn’t necessary for certain conditions and the one we have was listed. I spoke to our GP who felt it was overkill and agreed and he wrote our son’s employer a letter stating that he felt he wasn’t at any extra risk and he was able to return to work and carry on with his apprenticeship.

The amount of parents condtantly washing their children's hands with anti bacterial soap until they were cracked and sore.

Your next door neighbour is crazy b*itch and the type that would turn informant on a neighbour for any old reason if we lived in a dictatorship !
so sorry for what you all went through .
Boris and party gate was an absolute insult to anyone who’d followed the rules even with loved ones suffering / dying .

I wish I had refused the vaccine. After I had 2 jabs it triggered psoriasis. And now I’m stuck with it. I’ll be on medication for the rest of my life.

Holy crap that’s awful . Didn’t know vaccines could trigger such auto immune reactions

@Poppymeldrum we had the reverse out in Copenhagen - a double fridge groaning and flights cancelled out from UK 3 days before Xmas so our guests couldn’t come- we wasted about £140 of food - froze what I could - but blimey our wine and champagne supply kept us sane for months

Yes NHS hospitals were under pressure. In fact they are under pressure every winter due to a surge in flu cases, I’m sure you’ve seen the headlines every year.

The issue with lockdowns is that you have to open up at some point, and so they may have temporarily suppressed the number of patients needing hospital care, but as soon as lockdown lifted, pressure intensified again. Unless we stay locked away forever, this is just something that our health service has to deal with.

I remember that by the Christmas where people were by now thinking the government was talking out of its arse - Boris announced restrictions just a few days before Xmas that didn’t kick in for 48 hours but told people not to try and travel before that.

I remember going outside afterwards with my suitcase and throwing it in the car. I turned to my left and my neighbour was doing the same. We gave each other “the nod” and both went about our business.

The initial lockdown had destroyed my mental health (not that any help was available on the NHS ofcourse. I got a call the following summer that I had reached the top of the waiting list - after which time I had been seeing someone privately for months) and like fuck was I going to let it interfere with Christmas with my family too.

Thanks. Unfortunately I was very unlucky. It took a long time for the consultants to prescribe an effective medication.

I remember seeing a sign at the doctors which said not to go if you’d been to china, a specific region of Italy and one other place but I can’t remember - madness! I can’t believe how often I get auto email responses now still referencing it and signs/ stickers still dotted about (mostly in nhs places)!

Did any of the much trumpeted Nightingale "hospitals" actually get used?

I think they were waiting for the vaccines though ?

And the same fuckers who think low paid workers owed them that kind of sacrifice have now gone back to looking down on them

I'll never forget one bloke (customer) at work

For 8 hours,I had to stand at the door and ask people for their names and phone numbers (track and trace?)

99% of people did it with no issues

And then there was this one bloke-I asked if he'd mind writing down his name and number and he exploded

'I HAVE 18 KIDS AND IF YOU THINK IM GIVING YOU MY NAME,LET ALONE MY PHONE NUMBER,THEN YOU ARE VERY MUCH MISTAKEN!I DO NOT NEED THE CSA ON MY CASE!YOU CAN ALL FUCK OFF!'

Then he punched me in the face and walked off to order his burger

My ex boss (useless,evil and nasty cow) was more bothered about the 18 kids he claimed he had,than me,who was sparked out on the floor (I was fine but badly bruised)

Police did fuck all-more bothered about having a go at me for not banging pans on my doorstep

Track and trace was a joke-all those slips of paper went in the bin by the handful-they didn't even bother to put them through the shredder first

The most irritating aspect of it all was that we locked down for the NHS. They did not, and in some quarters still have not, locked back out for us. I lost significant respect for them.

The two houses opposite ours are owned by consultants at one of our local hospitals. Their clinics were cancelled in Covid and they didn't appear to be killing themselves. They also had family visit every weekend.

There are 8 houses where we live. Nobody clapped.

Washing shopping might be viewed as madness by some on here but ... I continue to do this. I often see rodent bait boxes in supermarkets and can only imagine what these creatures get up to at night (sometimes broad daylight). Hantavirus is real alongside all the other germs that exist.

Anyone who looks down on others I think does so from a place of deep insecurity about themselves and lack compassion and gratitude. Well adjusted people are wise enough to know no one is better than anyone .. Whether you’re a street sweeper or investment banker, it’s not about aptitude and cleverness, it’s about the cards you were dealt in life .
Some street sweepers do more for the world than some investment bankers .

@Glindaa or as the scandis name it ‘janteloven’

Totally agree

As well as cutting the disability benefits of the people who were ill and disabled enough when it came to the lockdowns. So much so that they were used as tools to emotionally blackmail the rest of the population

Just had a thought. If anyone has kept their old sheilding letter could they use that at an appeal. Hoist The State by their own petard!!!!!

My mate’s got ‘I’ve had my dinner…thank you food’ as a spoof one on his 😂

Not the point, but I was damn annoyed that supermarkets refused to sell clothes and shoes for people ,they were damn essential, I just had to buy online instead, ridiculous.

Locally people complained on FB, about a local man, father of a child in our class, going out to the shops, as they’d watched him 🤣 Lunatic biddies.

I did hate the pan bangers, who also complained on FB, that their neighbours weren’t joining in ( the more sane residents of our cul de sac)

Different name but I was on the anti- dementors threads.
I didn’t wash my shopping but I did wash my hands. Loved and miss cleaning the handle of supermarket trolley handle and free hand sanitiser.

I was so angry

I did hear her big gob screaming but didn't really take it in

She's the type that wants more-but doesn't see why she should have to work or pay taxes

She tried to phone the police on me for having adult ds round but what she didn't know is he's police himself and had come to ours (he lives 140 miles away) to stay while he did some course for work in the next town

It made his life easier,staying with us than staying in some hotel

Honest to God,she couldn't have rang the police on us any faster-she'd rang them 2 minutes after seeing him walk up our drive

I would have loved to have seen her face when it was explained to her that it was fine that ds was at ours and none of her business