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

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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. 💕

Yep That was covered in the aforementioned A State of Fear by Laura Dodsworth.

I remember a thread that made me really sad, a lady wanted to drive 10 minutes to the next village to lay flowers on her dad’s grave on the first anniversary of his death and she got absolutely slaughtered.

The only times I properly lost my shit, and my patience with medical staff were to do with my Mum's cancer treatment.

I remember I had to go up to her surgery as she'd had a phone consultation and needed to do a poo test (sorry Mum), so I had to get the pot, plus she needed a repeat prescription for her Fentanyl patches and I needed to get the paperwork.

Surgery made you wait outside in the car park for everything so I'm out there for nearly an hour, then I get to the intercom. The receptionist said I could only do one thing, then go back and ring in again to make an appointment to do the other thing. I explained Mum had literally just spoken to the GP who had actioned both things. Not good enough, those were the rules.

I lost it, and refused and created such a kerfuffle eventually the Practice Manager came out with both things and was quite sheepish and apologetic.

I then had to travel an hour across town and back to get said patches because pharmacies were out of stock locally, after having delivered the pot home to Mum. When it was filled, I then had to take it back.

The next day Mum got a call to do another one as the original had been "labelled incorrectly", allegedly by us. I pointed out that we had written her name and DOB on it as instructed, so any other labelling error must have been at the surgery. So we had to repeat the whole process again. That was 48 hours of my life that I'll never get back.

It then became obvious that Mum wasn't safe at home, she was having falks and very weak, so as we had a room with an ensuite, we were able to take her to ours. I couldn't stay with her as her flat was too small and "shielding" meant I shouldn't go out as her main carer etc. At ours, DP was able to do any running around.

We rang Macmillan to ask for help facilitating this and were told categorically no, it was against the rules. We then approached the GP who got her admitted to hospital for 24 hours that evening, as her falls were due to sodium issues and she needed a drip. I saw her off in the ambulance terrified I'd never see her again. We managed to get a local man and van so we could get her bed, and as much stuff as we could to make her bed room into a home from home, and of course discharge could only be safe and GP backed up we were safe. She was delivered to us that evening for the last month of her life.

Never saw a Macmillan nurse again until several weeks after her death, when one popped up to "see how she was doing". I was pretty blunt and rude tbh. I spent the last month of her lufe expecting SS to take her away just because we "broke the damn rules".

And people wonder why I have CPTSD.

Just read up on that , I like that concept!

Munsnet was amateur madness compared with the actual government.

Doing better than everyone else in the world due to the NHS. What a shame the politicians forgot to actually fund it.

At last, a sensible post, we were going into the totally unknown and I can't help feel that whatever government had been in power they would be judged whatever they did or didn't do.

Interesting. What does she say about it? Does she explain exactly what that footage was? It can't have been covid surely?

@Sillypigeon Do you remember the poster who tried to get the anti dementor threads deleted..............retrospectively!

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/site_stuff/4763622-anti-dementors-the-ads

I think she called it stunt Covid. Its four years since i read the book but i recall her calling it that

I remembered pre lockdown in the early days of Covid news and rumours I asked MNHQ for a specific coronavirus topic. Was probably Jan 2020. It was declined at the time as they didn’t think it was going to be that big a thing 😁

id had a bad feeling about it and was telling my close friends to stock up on tinned food and pasta! Though i didn’t predict loo roll being in such short supply!

I can’t, but the threads kept me sane!
My DM only leaves the house once a week still!! Aged her 10 years, she has never got her confidence back!
I’m going to read that thread again, pray for my blood pressure.

Being named and shamed on a local FB group for not standing outside and clapping/banging fucking pans together.

I remember seeing benches on Wimbledon Common with tape around them preventing people using them. And then, a little later, the same benches covered with stickers warning the unsuspecting public that said benches had not been disinfected.

I still remember the clapping. I am mortified.

In fact, I never went as far as some of the die hards described here - and definitely broke some of the rules - but I was definitely harsh on people and judged a lot.

I have a friend who is in the NHS and he told me to prep about 4 weeks before as he could see it coming.
I shared this with a couple of people and they really mocked me. I didn't listen and went to the supermarket each day and filled my car boot with essentials. I wasn't stupid and never took loads of any one thing but I felt very smug when DH (one of the mockers) saw how I had prepped

It meant I knew when 8pm on a Thursday was every week.

The AD threads (and subsequent spin off group) kept me sane.

People just lost thier heads a bit I think, media didn’t help. Yes it was diabolical, I know people that were hospitalised because of it. Some of the comments I saw on socials was crazy. I didn’t join mumsnet until end of 20 if I remember rightly. One thing that puzzled me was people only buying hand sanitizer or talking about washing thier hands because of Covid… I’ve been carrying hand sanitizer since I was about 16, washing my hand as you should… it was like a revelation to wash your hands all of a sudden 🤭

We certainly knew it The neighbours were blasting Michael Jacksons Heal The World at full volume at 8pm every Thursday

Police forces owe the general public a huge apology for allowing their officers to be such controlling wankers. I remember the video where a police officer was telling people they weren’t allowed in their front garden shouting “1000 people died yesterday!!”

Their behaviour during the vigil for Sarah Everard

Not a thread but I worked in my local hospital during the pandemic in the scorching heat I think it was May, no air con or fans due to possible 'blowing' round the infection and windows that opened with the smallest gap it was an absolute killer. I was working on a dementia bay, one who tested positive so they had to 'close' the bay and patients could not leave. 12 hours on my own of creating entertainment for patients going stir crazy in the dripping heat was something else!😂 poor buggers

YES i remember the PO who told a man he wasnt allowed in his own front garden

I had forgotten about the anti-dementor threads - bloody loved those!!!!!

I just remember the complete lack of empathy (kind of normal from some I guess).
The fact that one MNer maybe able to WFH or enjoy furlough whilst the kids received home schooling and could play in the garden meant that anyone stuck in a God forsaken tower block or inner city dump with no green visible anywhere and no devices for the kids were perceived as some to be equal in lockdown

This wasn't on mumsnet but a local man had a 2m long stick that he would take out on walks with him. If you came close he would wield the stick at you to keep you at bay.