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. 💕

@Sendcrisis2025 I'm so sorry you went through that.

If he’s wearing an N95 mask it might be.

I wouldn't join in the clapping. I would go shopping on a Thursday around teatime (when I was advised the queues were shorter), come home, shut the kitchen door behind me to muffle the sound which was about to start and get on with cooking. It always reminded me of some words attributed - probably falsely - to Shostakovich about the apparently swaggering and triumphant, but it seems ironically so, ending of his fifth symphony: 'It's as if someone were beating you with a stick and saying: "your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing". And you arise, shaken, and go shuffling off muttering: "our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing".'

Remember how if anyone had anything the response was "it must be covid". If you had a broken nail or a bruise from a horse treading on your foot there would be dome idiot insisting you needed to test because covid sometimes had that symptom or made bruising more likely or something.
I love to tell the tale of BIL who had his covid vaccine and within hours was in ICU fighting for his life to see if people immediately assume it was because of the vaccine or ask what happened. It's a useful idiot filter. The real reason was he had an accident doing something of Darwin Award level stupidity and nearly bled out but a scarey number of people jump straight in with assumptions.

This actually did make me laugh out loud 🤣

That's what dh said. No just a probably minging normal one.

Exactly.

Everyone in these perfect 'other countries' was too worried about their own country and their own government's response to care about a damp little island in the North Sea.

Yes! You’d have threads that went: “I just fell down the stairs and landed on my shoulder, and now my shoulder really hurts” with responses like “have you tested for Covid? My cousin had shoulder pain when she had it” 😂

Don't get me started on those minging cloth rags! Yuk.

I remember posts on here calling for stricter lockdowns. I was like "have these people even seen the news reports from counties with strict lockdowns? How barbaric those lockdowns were. Forced evacuations too, abandoned pets left To starve. No way . The UK government may not have handles the pandemic well at all but we are a civilised country (except those idiots at number 10 with their parties)

I remember being in a supermarket at Easter and a woman shouted at someone else for picking up Easter eggs because they weren’t essential. But the woman had a trolley full of food so was obviously doing her weekly shop, so what was the problem adding some Easter eggs?

Yes, a friend living in France later told me their daily walks were restricted by law to half a kilometre from their homes.

not on here but our village facebook group had a woman that would post pictures of people in co-op who had bought what she deemed to be non essentials. Every day she would post so she was either going through her food at a ridiculous rate or she was going in purely to take pictures and post them trying to shame people for buying shampoo (not essential as we weren’t allowed out so why did we need clean hair according to her)

What was happening all over the globe was horrifying and barbaric. I am not done Little Englander gammon, but I think we showed ourselves a civilised land in comparison to many

But it would of course have been fine to order shampoo online, thus devolving your risk to pickers and delivery drivers. Magically goes away then!

People in our class WhatsApp were insisting that children who returned to school would be made to play on their own in squares painted on the playground. I think similar was suggested on here.

The admin of a mental health support group I am in on FB pinned an announcement about not ordering online at all unless it was for medical reasons. So no craft supplies from Amazon or anything like that.

Some people really did enjoy the power trip.

I live right on the boundary of two counties. I was due to meet friends (outside) for coffee but my area was put into stricter measures. I couldn't meet them despite them only living 50 yards away from my house. I had been at home for weeks and broke down in tears as I was so looking forward to it.
I honestly kick myself now for putting up this this stupid bloody charade all while the idiots in power were having sodding parties.

I will never forgive the treatment of children during the pandemic. Their developmental, social and educational needs were treated as an afterthought, not only by the government but also by a large proportion of posters on this site.

My dd was made redundant at the start of lockdown. She found a job on the phones at a covid helpline centre, giving out advice to the public on the usual covid questions, staying safe etc.
There was absolutely no distances maintained, screens between operators. Hot decking the whole time and no cleaning of work spaces, phones etc after finishing your shift. Awful place to work!

I was panic stricken because I touched my own phone in Asda and then convinced myself I’d spread Asda germs onto my phone screen which I’d then brought back into my home thereby condemning my entire family to certain death from Covid via iPhone.

If she is serious them health should include mental health. Hobbies are needed to stay sane during lockdown. I don't say that lightly.

Oh yes, I agree. But she was admin of a group where a lot of people took her word as gospel.

She seems ignorant of mental health issues. I really hope she was just saying what she would do and not telling everyone else they had to follow that rule .

No, she was telling the members of the group that they were not to order anything online that was not medical supplies.