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. 💕

I remember this. The poster also said that she worried that it would demonstrate to predators houses where children were not properly safe-guarded or something. Because they'd been allowed to paint a picture of a rainbow which is associated with perverts I guess?

Edit - here it is: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3858392-Please-dont-put-a-rainbow-in-your-window?postsby=RuffleCrow&page=2

Canada recommended glory holes to avoid spreading coronavirus during sex.

https://globalnews.ca/news/7204384/coronavirus-glory-holes-sex/amp/

Whoever came up with that had never met a woman, let alone had sex with one.

We got a good deal on post bags recently.

Discovered why today... they were originally for home Covid tests. Makes you wonder how many just ended up in landfill without ever being distributed, let alone the ones that are sitting unused in cupboards etc.

Thanks for that. I forgot the poster who warned us that putting a rainbow in window would lead to being targeted by paedos within weeks.🤣🤣🤣

In the anti-lockdown circles I moved in, there was a seamstress who refused, on principle, to make masks for children, and felt annoyed at the sheer number of requests for them.

And yes, with the test kits, all that plastic waste, moments after we were being preached at to use less plastic, to say nothing of the Perspex screens.

The company I worked for bought auto gel dispensers and gel for over 450 branches. Except the first lot of gel was too runny and dripped through constantly creating a slip hazard. So we bought a shed load more. In vast quantities the gel is a fire hazard on disposal so it cost £000s to have the runny gel disposed of. We couldn't even give it away to charities as everyone had panic purchased way too much. I think there are still a few hundred 5 litre containers in the warehouse.

My MIL did that...

I volunteer in a charity shop. Our staff loo is still packed with boxes of sanitiser gel, masks and gloves.

My mum was a food hoarder so was fine...however in 2023 when hospitalised for 6 months my stepdad threw away 16 bin bags of off food she had hoarded

She has a good quality of life prior, had friends, went to see live music etc and saw her nephews regularly. She was hysterically funny and mischievous.
My gran is absolutely mystified by it all.
I can't believe the difference in her. It's very sad indeed.

I’ve been reading a book about the First World War and there are various points where girls / women gave white feathers to schoolboys to shame them for not signing up. Reading this, my thought was “Who on earth would do that” but of course I know - it’s the same people who wanged on about how incredibly dangerous it would be to open schools and gave people shit for not clapping on their doorstep.

When Dominic Cummings had driven to wherever it was there was a long thread about it and one poster went ballistic and was predicting rivers of blood running through the streets as the population were going to riot and attack MPs homes.

Bit OTT.

While not going as far as the attacking MPs homes, I do think we should have been visibly angrier about Barnard Castle, Partygate, the fear propaganda, and the government deliberately frightening and gaslighting the public into accepting months and months of lockdowns and school closures, and the monumental damage that went with them, which they are now trying to pretend didn’t happen.

I recall that The Barnard Castle Affair led to some hilarious reviews on TripAdvisor. Along the lines of people driving 30 miles then couldn't see it. They had to stop reviews I think, but it brought much needed light relief to a situation where DC and those supporting him behaved despicably.

We were met with barrage after barrage of poor behaviour which meant each episode got quickly forgotten as we moved onto the next.
it’s the same as trump at the moment.

Exactly they’re all a bit quiet after their self righteousness. It goes to show most people's just go along with whatever government propaganda is feed to them. I worked illegally during lockdown, went to the shops daily and didn’t get the vaccine, neither did my son. We didn’t get Covid but we didn’t test. I never even wore a mask and got one of those sunflower lanyards. I think most people would’ve been absolutely fine and we didn’t need this massive and expensive over reaction.

I think people need to be told what to do by either a government or religion. They like it. It keeps the masses in line. The government demonstrated this perfectly. If the same happened again the same people would fall for the same propaganda.

Round here, people complaining about the unavailability of doctors, when there were doctors and they were working absolutely flat out.

This is exactly what worries me: the almost complete lack of any public resistance, and that it could easily happen again, maybe about a completely different danger the government decides to terrify the public about.

Well I can kind of get that as it was impossible to actually get a bloody appointment to see them. My mum has untreated heart failure as no GP would actually examine her. A quick phone call and sending SIX prescriptions of antibiotics to the chemist for a non existent chest infection doesn't cut the mustard

Same here. Dad ended up as an emergency admission to hospital because his GP wouldn't see him face to face and misdiagnosed a serious infection as osteoarthritis. Dad was really deaf and could hardly understand what the doctor was asking.

I just don't see it. People don't trust the government or authorities enough. If any politician tried to get us to lock down now, the result would be tens of millions of people laughing. Unless it was for something with colossal mortality, in which case it would be apocalyptic. Either way, it would not involve millions of people locking down whilst others carried on working outside the home to keep the lights on.

Not to say that couldn't change in the future. It might, especially if the next pandemic is a long way away. But the status quo is, no fucking chance.

I was totally into the lockdowns. Very vulnerable DS1. i was terrified for him. I also have multiple medical conditions and I was truly scared.

But- if I were asked to do another lockdown because the government said? - This time... I think I might be putting up a middle finger.

I meant, the lack of resistance early on. Now, yes: people are still angry about Partygate. But early on, very few people resisted the government dictats and clearly absurd rules at all, and those who did were shot down in flames.

There was one poor woman on here who had two children with a form of special needs. She was trying to get some extra help from school and one of the teachers (possibly the SENCO but not certain) said they wanted her to send in a video of them dressed in school uniform clapping for the NHS “to do their bit”. It was extremely weird.

Another one for the clapping. It was in real life though. We had 3 kids under 4 and our very much residential area had taken to banging whatever metal stuff they could get their hands on as loud as they could at 8pm every evening. But it was when the actual klaxons came out that we politely suggested (on Facebook, we should have seen it coming) that perhaps this was a bit overkill and we're sure we're not the only parents of small children who weren't huge fans of insane amounts of noise at 8pm EVERY NIGHT. We got absolutely annihilated by people up in arms because they somehow thought that nurses and doctors would be safer and less exhausted if these kindly noise makers religiously upset small children.
What made it worse is that they all stopped doing it the next week. I never understood how the positive effects of klaxons on the NHS could be dropped so quickly by so many people simultaneously when they were all so committed to it.