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. 💕

All the ones about the terribly dangerous heavy breathing runners were doing.

I also believe this is true. We basically heard nothing from our politicans. It was all Anders Tegnell’s doing. But back then there was a time I shook my head watching him speak to the nation.
My DH is not Swedish and he had to take so much shit from relatives and friends. They were really angry with him for even mentioning he thought Sweden’s approach might be a good one.
But, next time who knows which approach will be right. Maybe new different virus, and our view would be a disaster.

Oh god I'm so sorry

I saw loads of those, leaked voicemails and emails 🤣 that was the thing that finally got me to leave FB, I couldn't cope, as if top government officials tell their wife's friend all the details of their confidential meetings.

My treatment was delayed by quite a few months so I did have a stroke and have lost the use of one of my arms now due to the delay, however I was very fortunate that I made a full recovery from the cancer, I know 2 people who weren't so fortunate and died within a few months due to the delays they had, which is heartbreaking, both parents, and both a decade younger than me as well. I didn't feel lucky at the time, but I do now.

When I suggested some skepticism around the stories of sad looking elderly men spotted in the supermarket clutching a shopping list with one item on I was told that obviously I hate old people and want them all to die.
I also got my arse totally handed to me when I espressed I was a bit worried about dropping some things off to my Mum in hospital (not for covid) when I had been warned by a nurse at the hospital not to do it. My sdad was going anyway but apparently my Mum was going to starve to death while wearing dirty clothes if i didn't go. There were many "cancel the check" type comments saying I could leave her some stuff at Reception when I had said many times that wasn't allowed.

Pasta became a means of currency.

Omg I still do this! A small birthday cake for blowing out candles and then i make tiny cupcake versions of the birthday cake to hand out!

I say it's because it's easier to store multiple cupcakes in the fridge than 1 large cake but actually kids are just gross and I don't want to eat their Germy breath with my delicious chocolate cake.

Being on this crazed mission to find antibacterial hand wash as it had sold out everywhere!

Things like toilet rolls and pasta being depleted in shops.

I got some horrid comments in real life after I took my children to the supermarket.

DH was working 8-7, 6 days a week, in the office. The one day off was random.
We needed food, after having to isolate as DH had returned from France just before lockdown (he basically isolated, then straight into that working pattern. He was working from home those first few days).

The comments...
I should have left them at home alone.
I should have left them on the village green so people could watch them from a distance.
I should have got a food delivery.
They should be in school as their father was a keyworker.

They were 7&8.

There was one particular poster who I will never forget (stripey animal…) who was everywhere, and furious at everyone and everything. On a thread about too many people in parks, I mentioned that I had to walk through one to get to the nearest big supermarket (London, no car) and apparently even that wasn’t a good enough excuse according to them 🙄 They kept saying “but is it worth the risk?” when I pointed out that my family needed to eat.

There was another really horrible one early on where a poster lived in an upstairs flat and had to take her dog outside to the grass verge to relieve itself. This, according to some, was not acceptable and I think someone even suggested that the dog should be PTS. Awful.

OMG I'd forgotten about those.

They are still hilarious.

The cabbage people! 😄

My local shop was selling the tiny bottles of anti-bac gel for £7 each!
Nowadays they have them on the counter for free 😅

Probably cake? 🪓

Hospitals in my area Oxon, once patients were allowed visitors for an hour a week, took any items off them eg biscuits, chocolate, shaving cream and quarantined them for 48 to 72 hours. This was on non Covid wards

Thanks for posting.
My evening is sorted going through these 🤣🤣

I like the title of this one.
They obviously thought no one would get covid because they live in The SouthEast 🤣🤣👏

Cake?

There was a thread about shortages in shops i.e. what's low in stock in your area. I commented a couple of things including that easter eggs were selling really quickly and early and that my local shop limited it to 2 eggs per customer, but we had 4 children so I had to wait a week to get the other eggs- it wasn't a moan just a comment! I was told I was putting my children's need for frivolous chocolate over the health of the nation, my kids were greedy to expect 1 egg each, shouldn't be going to shops just for easter eggs (I wasn't), and that by doing so I was killing people etc etc.

lmaoo

I remember posts like these

"I've just tested positive so I'm off to the supermarket to do a massive shop before we start self-isolating."

I remember the poor mum who took her children to spend the night in their summerhouse in their garden and someone called the police on them.

The washing of all food items in bleach (no, not just the packaging)

Before Christmas and before covid I do remember reading on MN many posters asking people if anyone knew if there was an illness going around with a horrible cough and feeling unusually ill. It did not feel like a normal flu. If it was just them feeling so ill for such a long time and what it was.
I told people at work that there seemed to be a new strain/flu in the UK, we are usually a few months after you in things like this. Then covid was confirmed. Weird.

I sent a friend a parcel to cheer her up. Paid for First Class postage, only for her to have it sat in "quarantine" in her garage for 3 days.
She would also bleach all the loose veg from the supermarket too.

My old cat came strolling back in, exactly as the clapping started. Naturally being a cat he assumed it was for him and happily paraded around the garden for the next few months, craning his neck to see who was clapping
he was gutted when it stopped

I deliberately avoided MN during the pandemic. I can’t take the stupidity on here at the best of times let alone during a global pandemic