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 had to take dd to the hospital, I've forgotten why now

I had her under the raincover the entire time and didnt touch her 😔

Cucumber and beach might have been me under other user names, unless this was a common theme in covid times.

DC has ARFID and due to the anxiety of lockdown reached a stage where they'd only eat Birds Eye Chicken Dippers and cucumber slices, nothing else. Our online shop subbed the BE Dippers for Turkey Dinosaurs and they are very much Not The Same Thing, cucumber didn't turn up at all. I went to two different shops, got the nuggets in one (and bought three bags of them like a "selfish hoarder") then got cucumber in the other (bought two of those as well). Got slated for it on here.

Took DC to the beach one afternoon too. We live within walking distance of it, ten minute stroll away, but DC goes through phases of can't walk-wont walk so I drove there. We needed fresh air and I needed him to run before one or the other of us ended up doing a little murder. Got slated for that too. I was selfish, would infect people, if I crashed the car then I'd be using valuable NHS resources blah blah blah.

I remember people being rabid about the "ONE HOUR OF EXERCISE PER DAY!" even though it was never actually a rule. Where I live is rural, even now I can go out and walk for several hours and not see a single person but I was called selfish for doing this during lockdown.

I remember a lot of kick off too about people wanting to holiday in tourist areas and people who actually live there pointing out that public toilets, holiday parks/hotels, play parks, facilities, etc weren't actually open again and the infrastructure for tourism hasn't resumed yet so it would be hugely damaging to suddenly have a massive influx. Lots of people telling residents they were selfish for trying to hoard these lovely areas for themselves.

Don't be ashamed, it had good intentions in fairness! I didn't like the clapping and banging though and refused to take part, but I remember walking to the shop one day, forgetting it was 'that' time and as I walked towards some houses with people clapping an older man was walking past the end of their gate with his shopping, and the woman really aggressively screamed at him..

WELL FCKNG CLAP THEN!!!!! IT'S FOR THE NHS!!!!

He almost dropped his shopping in fright! Then he hurried off, I remember thinking at the time how crazy it had gotten.

I can understand that ,hospitals are cess pits of infection, but this woman had one for walks in the open air!

We used to get this on our town fb page like the person posting was obviously the only person who had a proper valid reason for being out 🙄

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I remember a thread where OP was worried about "Covid bubbles" being blown into her garden from the kids next door.

I posted that I was driving 3 miles to a quiet wood to walk the dog where I didn’t see people rather than do pavement walks in my busy village and people went crazy. No common sense that actually my plan meant seeing less people.

My friend lived in Doncaster and travelled to Sheffield to work (he was an essential worker) he got pulled over twice on the parkway by the police asking him where he was going

I remember someone who wanted to know if she was being unreasonable to ask her neighbours to agree to a garden rota so that everyone wasn't outdoors at the same time because either side of the fences was less than 2m apart.

My dd is autistic, but she was one then

I can't imagine how we'd cope now, omg

Its so funny how the hysteria adapted itself to various people's needs - ie needing to be a tourist 😄

I did judge my neighbours trips outdoors 🙈,

I was just thinking about it over the Easter weekend as I was tucking into my hot cross bun, remembering the thread where people buying bread and milk were ok but if they’d added hot cross buns to their basket then they were murderers. One poster kept saying how much it had genuinely upset her that people were still planning on buying hot cross buns - maybe even trying some different flavours!

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The maddest thing I saw was the police in Sainsburys car park at 8am the first day of lock down searching people’s bags to see if their shopping was essential or not.

Omgg

My husband had to keep working all over the country and often slept in his car due to lack of accommodation, I remember I used to make him strip off at the door and get into a dettol bath!
He loved it, the roads were quiet.

Not on here, but was on FB.
A chap in one of my local FB groups (and oh my god, they lost their collective minds during Covid) lived opposite The Range, and developed a hobby of watching what people were putting into their cars, making a note of their car model etc and posting it online to "shame" them... because he deemed their shopping non-essential. Said nothing in The Range is essential.

I do wonder what people like him do with their free time now.

My son worked for a supermarket and he did home deliveries, he had a woman threaten to report him as he had a haircut during lockdown, he tried to explain that I had done it but she wouldn't stop, called the supermarket to complain too lol

well here's mine - when you could meet outside DS and fiance came over. I'd managed to get two huge packs of loo rolls. They were short of them so I insisted on putting them in a huge bag to disguise them in case he was mugged!!! He's a strapping lad but was taking no chances. I am a sensible retired nurse and couldn't believe my luck when morrisons let you have 2 packs of 12 loo rolls. He kept saying " Mum I'll be fine" but I got my own way.

I’m not in the UK, and our schools etc kept being open. I remember writing a comment about it and I was absolutely slammed. It was basically my country’s fault if the world ended. But, in the end our children didn’t end up with MH problems and our economy is fine.

Although, nobody knew what the outcome was going to be back then and as I was watching the UK news I had a sinking feeling when everything closed down in the UK and we..just kept going nearly as usual. UK rules was terrifying, like a bad film.

Our Government took a huge step back during this time, and let our state epidemiologist take charge.

I work in a Polics control room. It was absolutely depressing seeing what covid turned people into. The things people reported their neighbours for was awful

In our city we had stickers on bins that said take your dog poo home with you to save dustmen having to empty them more often and therefore expose themselves to covid

Wasn't delightfully anything was bloody terrifying

You weren't unreasonable, toilet paper wars were a real thing then 😄

Hanging shopping on the line or giving it a light toasting in the oven
quarantining post
pensioners being called selfish cunts for taking a daily walk to buy a paper