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 don;t think that was lack of resistance.

I think it was a lot of people using a global pandemic to indulge their own shitty personalities and hateful attitudes.

I think most of them were adjusting the rules to suit themselves, or the rules didn't adversely effect them in any way but they took the opportunity to be self-righteous assholes when it suited.

There were a lot of posters who were furloughed in nice houses with nice partners and NT kids and personal gardens for whom it was as easy as 'just stay the f home' who were champing at the bit to report their elderly single neighbour for buying a newspaper every day or their friend/acquaintance who lived in a flat in that glorious weather of the first few weeks for taking her kids to the park more than once a day because 'rules!!'.

Sure, albeit I don't know that the numbers entirely complying even at the start were necessarily as high as one might think. It was just kept quiet. But what I mean is, that's not happening again unless there's a big sea change and it may be that we never get that sea change.

Not on here but my BIL (twat) sent a massive ranting text because I had been out to the shops. Apparently I was definitely going to kill DH (medically vulnerable). He said they were only getting online shops and bleaching everything.
But then he forgot a few days later and was going on about people he had seen in the supermarket.

I still see people in masks and gloves. DH has to wear gloves in work and says it’s a real technique to not contaminate yourself with them so are pointless.

I never did the stupid clapping, I stayed in which was of far more use to the people that had to be out and about.

New Zealand and the quarantine. Spots ended up being sold on the black market and multiple people suggested we’d ’lost the right to just choose when to visit by moving away in the first place’. Someone called me a plague rat at one point, that was nice. For a good while that whole country lost its mind, they really believed that Covid could’ve been stopped if only ‘everyone did what New Zealand did’

@OpalShaker
I think most of them were adjusting the rules to suit themselves, or the rules didn't adversely effect them in any way but they took the opportunity to be self-righteous assholes when it suited.

Agreed.
I had someone lay into me horribly, because I commented that we should have had a rule to allow people living alone to see someone else normally, like they did in the NZ lockdown. (This was weeks before the bubble rules were brought in). She was so viciously evil towards me, saying I obviously wanted vulnerable people like her to die, and that I must be a horrible person or I'd have had someone I could move in with for the lockdown. She was a newlywed living in marital bliss and I was someone losing my mind with the isolation. It struck me that she was a lefty type but didn't recognise her own privilege in the situation.

A great example of how the easiest sacrifices are always the ones people expect others to make.

I do think there's more awareness of that now, but yeah, at the time some people had no insight into the fact that their selfishness was morally the same as that of others, just expressed through different policy preferences.

@FedupofArsenalgame Blane the government of the day, as they had refused to fund sufficient medical places at that time, despite the desperate need, and despite doctors being unable to recruit. And, for that matter, despite the increasing age profile of GPs making iit obvious there was a shortage.

Huh? There wasn't a lack of doctors, they were merely refusing to actually see patients in person. The same doctors are STILL at the surgery 5 years later so your comment doesn't wash I'm afraid

@FedupofArsenalgame You are politically ignorant and bigoted, and know nothing about how the NHS managed during the pandemic. Your comment therefore doesn’t “wash” with me. I won’t engage with you further. I see it’s pointless.

@marmaladeandpeanutbutter many of us have bitter experience of elderly parents who were badly let down by their GPs during covid. My dad's hospital consultant wrote to his GP twice to say that die tp dad's complex co-morbidities combined with his deafness phone consults were inappropriate. The second time he wrote "I do not expect to see Mr X admitted again due to your failure to see him in person". Sorry if that offends you but some GPs were just shit.

The absolute cult of personality that surrounded “Aunty Cindy” 🙄