Which specific moment from this will stay with you forever?

[RosieLemonade]

Positive or negative.

Condolences to everyone who has suffered loss and can I just say - my DH is a funeral director, has been on his knees during this pandemic (and sadly still is) but the one thing he's mentioned the most is how stressful it is being unable to give families a 'proper' service and how in awe he has been at how brave his clients are in the face of all the restrictions. So please know that the unfairness of this all and how admirably people have dealt with it doesn't go unnoticed.

About 3 weeks into the first lockdown. Was doing the food shop and wanted 7 baby food pouches to last a week. Got to the till and the lady said the policy was max. 4. Started to panic about my baby and how stupid it was to deny people baby food. Think she sensed it, so offered to put them through as two separate transactions if I didn't tell anyone. When I got out of the shop I burst into tears in the car park. A combination of feeling like I couldn't provide for my baby and the kindness of a stranger.

A couple of weeks ago, I dropped a birthday gift and card round to a friend’s house and then walked home through the town centre. It was about 4.30pm and the town was deserted. Discarded masks were blowing about in the street, and the only people I saw were late teenaged boys on bikes carrying Deliveroo and JustEat delivery bags.

It just looked like a scene from an apocalyptic film. I could imagine myself being transported in to that moment from my younger life and how frightening it would seem. Also thought about what my grandparents and parents would have made of it (all long gone prior to Covid).

I think that scene will stay in my memory, whilst actually having Covid probably won’t. I was really lucky and felt just a bit under the weather for about a week.

For me, Id have to say my sisters wedding. It was in cyprus and got cancelled twice. So they got married at a registery office in the uk and it was a such a hot day, it was better weather here than it was over there.

My daughter going to uni. I remember her results and the A'level debarcle and the worry about how she would get on in September with covid being about. She did catch it in October and thinks it from the large bus queues/packed bus from a night out when pubs all had to close at the same time. She had it mildly thank goodness.

Clapping for carers, my parents and FIL having the vaccine, helping my youngest in her mock biology gcse revision and her getting an 8 :)

Oh and Gavin Williamson saying ' some children haven't played with another child for 10 weeks' and looking at my DD(7) as she said ' That's me'.

When I was lying in bed listening to to the radio and they announced the suspension of Premier League football. It was then I realised how serious it was, despite not even being much of a football fan.

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My DP is a paramedic who works in a hospital in one of the hotspots and he would second this- for the majority of people.

He has said particularly the elderly have been so brave and stoic.

Picking up DD2 from uni on the evening lockdown was announced. She was last one to leave from halls, the place was totally deserted, it felt like I was in 28 days later.

Positively for DD3 she had shown great resilience and self discipline on home schooling, even managing to get moved up in sets for a couple of subjects.

Sorry I misread the OP! Just asked for my comment to be removed - sorry all.

That I've been going to work everyday, having face to face meetings with people, all socially distanced and wearing masks etc. This is essential due to the sector I work in.

I can't relate my experience with people who are terrified of passing someone on a pavement, are excited by their weekly trip to a shop.

I feel like our 'lockdown' experiences are miles apart.

My Mam dying and not being able to see her in hospital.

Overall though I think we have been lucky. We are financially stable. Some people are suffering so much and may never recover. I know this sounds like I have my priorities all wrong but when I hear of people who can't afford to eat, pay their mortgage, keep clean and warm through no fault of their own and because of something they could never plan for I feel so lucky I was protected from this, it was just luck.

When a lady from my church died with coronavirus, the funeral could only have 15 people. So church members lined the street (socially distanced) as the funeral procession drove into the graveyard. We sang How Great Thou Art in pouring rain. It was the first and only time we'd worshipped together since lockdown started.

My grandma started sending my daughter
who was 4, letters and cards and on each one she'd painted a flower. My grandma is 87, and frail, and lives a couple of hours away. I'm so glad that when my daughter is older she is going to be able to keep these letters to see how much her Granny loved her.

On NYE at midnight. DH and I stepped into the front street to watch fireworks from the town. A few of our neighbours did the same. We wished everyone a happy new year and stood out in the snow for twenty minutes talking to real people. We kept our distance, but it was still technically against the rules. I dont regret it though. It was a precious moment.

When Boris announced the first national lockdown on 23 March 2020. This moment really stands out to me.

When I went through two miscarriages in lockdown, and currently going through a 🙏🌈 rainbow pregnancy with my son, also in lockdown.

When I realised I won't see my mum for ages because she lives abroad and have remained worried about her health.

When we lost close and valued colleagues to redundancy last year.

When DH and I went to the shops in March and shelves were empty. City centres were eerie and uncomfortable, anxiety was palpable. Public transport was completely empty. I've never lived through anything remotely comparable.

When all TV channels and papers were reporting from Italy in Feb and it was extremely concerning.

When my boss sent us to "wfh for a few weeks" which has turned out to be a 2 year prospect with no full return to the office, ever. A complete overhaul.

I remember like it was yesterday reading about the "Chinese virus" and thinking, these are tabloid headlines, they always exagerrate, and on the other hand thinking, what if it comes to us.

I am used to this life now, but I sometimes dream of waking up and living a life free of covid, or at least free of dangerous covid. This is when I suddenly realise just how heavily this whole pandemic weighs on my mind every second of every day.

Definitely the empty shelves right at the start. I remember laughing at the empty soup shelves with only Scotch Broth left on the middle shelf.

My mum dying at home in front of me. The paramedics wearing what looked like space suits. The lack of a proper funeral and being able to grieve properly.

Boris saying people would lose loved ones. I think we knew it was likely but to have the prime minister state that so bluntly straight to the country made me pause. My sympathies to those that have suffered those losses.

Taking DS to school for GCSE results. There had been so much debate about exams/results/fair/not fair and it was just lovely to see them able to happily mingle for a few moments. It was bright sunshine and parents had distanced chats in the car park too.

This thread, read it if you like, of Cassandra style warnings to take COVID seriously, and the denial from so many Mumsnetters that Italy was spreading fake news, scare mongering and faking appeals from Intensive Care workers.

Fauci doing a facepalm when Trump advised injecting bleach.

The American IC worker describing how black Americans were being passed over for intubation.

Hearing nothing but birdsong outside, punctuated by regular ambulance sirens.

Empty supermarket shelves. essential items like soap, toilet roll, pasta etc. I realised this was real, and for different reasons, the UK and the rest of the world were on a par with Venezuela, where people have had to live with the reality of empty supermarket shelves from several years earlier.

Worst moments that will stay with me: watching my mum cry for her best friend who died of covid soon after lockdown 1 and not being able to hug her; watching the news from Italy and feeling it was coming towards us; saying goodbye to my year 11s and having to turn around very quickly so that they didn’t see, then worrying because one of them threw her arms around me (uncharacteristic) - she spent two weeks in hospital with covid just after this); knowing that we were going to be off school for ages from this Jan.

Best moments: sitting in my garden in the country and listening to bird song, uninterrupted by road noise; getting to know my neighbour properly, if at a distance; spending time with my adult kids at home; and being told by my lovely dad that I’m a really strong person.

So many moments. Talking to colleagues in Italy as it unfolded around them. Being baffled by Boris Johnson's behaviour generally- he had zero sense of anything that was to come. The weekly clapping.

I remember thinking while still in the office in February that the virus will be well and truly in the country by now yet we are making a big deal of the first detected case - in fact it was very much in the uk by that point. We can see that now in hindsight.

Didn’t see me cry.

How selfish some ppl have behaved. I'm not really a ppl person as it is but now I like ppl even less

Deregistering my school age children in June from school. My husband is a hospital manager and foresaw the second and third lockdowns and told me it would be best to pull them out rather than have to keep faffing them around. Middle child has Asperger's and all the anxiety fell away for him once we homeschooled.

Bad: watching a video of teachers lining up to saying goodbye to my daughters’ year group as they left. No a levels, no last day, no prom.

Happy: her getting into first choice uni. Seeing friends for outdoor drinks. Long walks with friends.