Which specific moment from this will stay with you forever?

[RosieLemonade]

Positive or negative.

Negative - the initial Boris lockdown speech. Still makes my blood run cold. The uncertainty of that moment. Positive - Getting married by a vicar wearing a mask. I will treasure the pictures which show this. A little moment in history.

When they announced the school shutdown in January, and the kids had gone to bed before the announcement and I'd already warned them that it was likely that schools weren't going back... and I walked into their room to check on them, saw them there pretending to be asleep and just burst into tears at how sorry I was for them - and DD2 gave me a huge hug, and DD1 gave me her bestest unicorn to comfort me and we just sat and cried about how angry and sad and cross and upset and everything we all were in the middle of the bedroom - my beautiful girls, slightly less beautiful me, and a giant pink fucking unicorn squashed in the middle.

And how absolutely vile some on here have used this pandemic to be toward others.

@trappedsincesundaymorn yes often in grave situation people have a prophetic moment. That includes the look

Realising how cruel some people could be.

@ArchbishopOfBanterbury

Lost my auntie to suicide during the first lockdown. 5 of us, immediate family, socially distanced at the funeral. No singing, and no hugs.

That evening, watched the news with Dominic Cummings in the rose garden, justifying his trip to Barnard Castle.

DC and the Barnard Castle Caper enraged me. I had friends telling me to get a grip and everyone was making too big a deal of it, for political reasons, blah blah but I kept thinking of the poor 13 year old boy dying alone and the unhumanity of this and everyone else who was dying and struggling and cummings treating the nation like idiots.

So sorry to everyone who has lost someone and been through dark times

I remember meeting a man in a deserted car park to buy 2 sacks of potatoes like some sort of drug deal at the start of Lockdown #1.

Yes when Boris went into intensive care, I hardly slept that night as I was fairly certain he was going to die. I don't even vote for him!

Realising how easy it was for the government to make a lot of people beg for them to remove everyone's freedoms including seeing family in your own home.

[quote HeelsHandbagPerfumeCoffee]@trappedsincesundaymorn yes often in grave situation people have a prophetic moment. That includes the look[/quote]
Absolutely. There were a thousand words "spoken" in that brief moment.

The first lockdown announcement Boris made then waking up the next morning half expecting a soldier to be stationed at the end of our cul de sac ushering us back inside.

Also my dad's birthday when we all met in his garden for the first time since it started (June) and he'd carefully measured two metres and placed little deckchairs and tables for us all to sit at.

*inhumanity.

I am so so sorry about your DAunt Archibishop

I completely understand.I don’t underestimate the intensity of it for you both

I live rurally on the outskirts of a village, on a lane that is quiet but attracts a few local dog walkers.
The day after the first, strictest lockdown was announced last March it was absolutely thronged with people. I had never seen anything like the crowds marching along the road.
I was gobsmacked, hundreds of people every few minutes. It was like a demo! Truly astounding.

The week before the original lockdown. We all got sent home from work with whatever equipment we could take.
I went to grab some food shopping and the shops were pretty much empty.
I called my parents and begged them to stay home as my dad is very vulnerable.

It was such a scary, uncertain time. Never known anything like it. We have been very lucky that none of us have got covid or lost jobs etc but I'll never forgot that day and the way it made me feel.

@trappedsincesundaymorn I completely understand.I don’t underestimate the intensity of it for you both

Sorry for your v recent bereavement

The day I had to cancel my wedding.
The call that confirmed my new job after 9 months of very little work (self-employed, no gov assistance)
When my Dad his first vaccine shot.

@LizzieSiddal

My DD having a baby, she had a bad time; not being able to go and visit in hospital and hug her, will stay with me forever.

Me too. Exactly this. I wanted to be near her so desperately.

Losing my job was a low point as well

Still it taught me a lesson. Don’t bother slogging your guts out for a job, it gets you nowhere, they’ll bin you to save their own ass and if you dropped dead they’d just divvy out all your work in the blink of an eye. That even people you thought were good bosses and people are like this. Never again will I be taken for a mug at work.

Listening to a daughter crying down the phone to me after she had visited her Mum who had dementia and was in a care home..

She had done a window visit with her but her Mum who could not understand why she could not come in and was crying and crying trying to find her way out to give her daughter a cuddle.

Positive- The first lockdown when I spent it with my partner and his kids, we had a lovely time and it bonded us all even more.

Negative-
In early March watching the news and hearing 'Many of your loved ones will die.'
Boris Johnsons first briefing when he told us all to stay at home. It was terrifying.
Being made redundant and seeing others in my family lose their jobs.
Being apart from DP as I had to go back to my home town for my then job.
Seeing the effects on DP's young daughter.

"got"his first vaccine shot.

Negative lots of things but mainly the stress of just going shopping
Positive spending time with teenage dc who in normal times would not see for dust.

Watching my SIL walking to her car on our drive after dropping her kids off once the schools shut.

She works in ICU, they were getting busier and busier and her Mum, who was her childcare for evenings and backing up childminder/school bits, couldn’t possibly do full time childcare for three kids. A combo of my youngest being CEV and distance meant we couldn’t have the kids coming and going between houses daily. So she had to choose between dropping her kids off here for an unknown amount of time or quitting at a time when her dept was under massive pressure. She just looked so sad walking away because she just knew it wasn’t the same as the usual week at our house in the holidays.

On the upside though I’ll never forget wandering down to my living room at 4am having heard a noise and finding my Ds(11), my DD(7) and two of SIL’s (10 & 8) being facilitated by two of my teens in a midnight picnic. Apparently SIL’s 10yo was upset and missing her mum so they decided between them all to have a “midnight sneak”. Seeing them all pull together was a lovely moment.

Notices like this

My DS was born which was wonderful in itself but it took me two months to come to terms with lots of the hospital experience including being in pain and not being allowed my husband and all the other poor women on my ward screaming.

I won't be having another baby as I wouldn't ever feel safe on a maternity ward again as we both got sepsis due to the delivery suite being so busy as they had staff off self isolating so my waters were left broken for over 3 days and I tried to fight for us to get antibiotics at least but with no DH at night it was difficult.