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IYHO who's been amazing during covid confinement?

101 replies

greenstream · 11/06/2020 11:19

  • All those local farms and markets and indies (who home delivered)
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber (show must go on)
  • All NHS frontline, risking their own lives
  • Jamie Oliver (keep cooking)
  • Chris Packham (springwatch live)
  • All the 3d home or lab printers (who made shields)
  • mumsnet (who kept us chatting)
  • world wide web (needed for mumsnet & 1 million other things!)
  • all the volunteers (who set up local village & community supports)
  • Saferstreets and Medecin sans frontier (homes for homeless)
  • M&S (food boxes)

what else?

OP posts:
Booph · 11/06/2020 13:23

Prison and probation workers dealing with positive covid prisoners confined to cells for 23+ hours a day, with absolutely no recognition because they deal with a forgotten part of society.

emmathedilemma · 11/06/2020 13:33

Utilities Operations teams - no one notices them until the power goes off or water stops coming out of the taps!

pinktaxi · 11/06/2020 13:38

Postman
Local village community who have started a scarecrow festival, gruffalo walks, hungry caterpillar trail and lots of other community events
Local Facebook page organiser
Gp

OneNewName · 11/06/2020 13:45

Nice thread.

A flippant one - Amazon delivery people carting hair dye to us all.

Twothousandzerozero · 11/06/2020 13:46

CBeebies Grin

Iceland

Anyone who works in a supermarket, anywhere

Delivery drivers

Myleene Klass and her music lessons

Gogglebox

Agree with all the previous posters, some lovely answers. Great thread. Smile

TumbledGlass · 11/06/2020 13:49

At least two power companies that I know of had made plans for staff to live at work. Bearing in mind they’ve never had to before, so literally no proper facilities in place .
It would have been two core groups living there 24/7 for as long as necessary, each working 12 hour shifts. Not able to have any visits from family in case the virus was then passed to staff.

Thankfully it hasn’t come to that. They haven’t been offered discounts or freebies or much in the way of recognition so a big clap from me 🙌🏻

blackpeonies · 11/06/2020 13:49

Hahhaha @onenew about the hairdye

Notlostjustexploring · 11/06/2020 13:51

Our IT department has been bloody amazing.

My husband. We still seem to like each other after the full time/childcare combo, which makes me think I've really picked a good'un.

To be honest. Everyone I know. Everyone has just being trying their best to do the right thing despite personal misery, stress and death of loved ones.

blackpeonies · 11/06/2020 13:53
  • my local pharmacy which i admit i’d never stepped foot in before who had paracetamol, masks and hand gel in march and april (when our boots store and online had nothing)
blackpeonies · 11/06/2020 13:55

what @notjust said : everyone who’s just been trying their level best to do the right thing despite personal worry

BournvilleGreen · 11/06/2020 14:08

My local baker's who have been open throughout, who after lockdown was announced started local deliveries each day for those shielding, sold eggs, flour, sugar, butter when the supermarkets we're stripped bare, sells utterly delicious cakes and scones and always has a smile and a kind word for everyone coming into the shop (one at once only!).

Care home workers. Yes, I know NHS staff have had to deal with similar illness/death rates but care home workers are losing people they know, not just patients. It's their community that is grieving. And they're paid a fraction of what nurses and doctors are paid.

School staff (ooh, controversial!). I cannot praise highly enough the staff in my children's schools and how they have made a difference to our family. It's not just what they have done in this crisis (which has been above and beyond), but also about what they did before that enabled my children to be confident and take charge of their own learning, to be disciplined and keep to their routines, and allow me and DH to wfh full time.

frozendaisy · 11/06/2020 14:08

A bestie doing Friday night disco Zoom (still doing) for the nippers every week, with brilliant playlists.

Local pub formed a Whatsapp group (no me the Mr) and send each other inane jokes to cheer everyone up.

These are the trivial digital communication ones. Many others with more vital roles.

blackpeonies · 11/06/2020 14:10

Ooh cool - zoom disco

  • local community choirs recording songs where everyone is at home
blackpeonies · 11/06/2020 14:11
  • the bakeries and market stalls which sold flour (and delivered/posted the parcels)
totallynotchanging · 11/06/2020 14:14

Zoom. Radio 2 presenters and teams. Poco Drom's FaceBook ukelele lessons and fun music. Circe du soleil show on YouTube. Teachers. NHS, posties, refuse and recycling collectors. People from council who've picked up all the rubbish left in our local park on the regular. Supermarket staff and delivery drivers. All frontline staff, natch. JK Rowlings free book. Mumsnet.

blackpeonies · 11/06/2020 14:17
  • waitrose
  • keir starmer qc for talking at the pm/gov’t like i’d like to Grin
  • the places setting up online summer clubs for teens for those loooooong months ahead
totallynotchanging · 11/06/2020 14:20

Oh, and Martin Lewis (moneysavingexpert)

MurrayTheMonk · 11/06/2020 14:27

The staff in my care home. They can, like all staff teams, do my head in at times but they have been absolutely great through this and I couldn't be more proud of them.

MurrayTheMonk · 11/06/2020 14:27

Also Richard E Grant for reciting a line from Withnail and I every day on Twitter which has made me laugh.

blackpeonies · 11/06/2020 14:35
  • was about to say duke & duchess of cambridge for the mental health work, bingo etc but then remembered they left London for second home in Norfolk countryside for lockdown, which seems unjust as many of us would’ve like to leave city for countryside if could have
  • all the teachers who opened school for key worker children
  • the opera houses around europe which streamed live opera, plus glyndebourne on now
Gazelda · 11/06/2020 14:37

Facebook local group admins. They thought the brexit debates were a nightmare to deal with - lockdown has been a whole new level of whinging, bitching, complaining, pisstaking and more.

Utility providers.

Posties.

Delivery drivers

Supermarkets.

Our lovely butcher who's been open throughout and whistles all day long.

Our local M&S who donate stock about to go past its sell by date to charities. Some donations have included Colin Caterpillars, beautiful flowers, gorgeous bakes as well as vital basics.

blackpeonies · 11/06/2020 14:44

Yes @gazel good old M and S - so innovative and thoughtful - and the posties

blackpeonies · 12/06/2020 13:38

reviving this just cos I like it, and in case any mumsnettas can add more over the weekend.

pigoons · 12/06/2020 13:41

Delivery drivers
Supermarket workers and pickers and those who work in food production and distribution
Local cafes / bakeries that have offered delivery services
Charities that have stepped up to help vulnerable members of the community

ohthegoats · 12/06/2020 13:45

Frank Cottrell Boyce reading Brocoli Boy on Instagram
PTs from my loca gym doing youtube workouts every day
Teachers at my own school, and child's school in all ways
Pubs doing takeaway and delivery beer and cocktails
Local company doing icecream deliveries
Delivery drivers in all ways
My postie John
The Daily Mash, thank god for the Daily Mash
Have I Got News for You - genuinely funny again
Grayson Perry's art club, just lush TV
Chris Packham's monologues at the opening of Springwatch - read the mood perfectly
Joe Wicks (even though we gave up early)
My local swimming lake sorting out swimming again
My MP, despite not being my choice, worked in the emergency food delivery stuff a lot