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Which specific moment from this will stay with you forever?

999 replies

RosieLemonade · 13/02/2021 15:18

Positive or negative.

OP posts:
2020canfuckitself · 13/02/2021 17:01

Watching my mum cry every time she had a letter cancelling her appointments for her cancer.

foxyknoxy30 · 13/02/2021 17:01

My lovely dad dying

flappityflippers1 · 13/02/2021 17:02

I’d forgotten about the supermarket shelves, but also had that WTAF moment too when walking around and staring at the bare shelves.

I was freelance and lost all my work immediately, hubby went to 80% pay but was still working full time, it absolutely fucked us financially. I recall now the panic of not being able to get any food we could afford - pasta, frozen veg, tinned stuff. We had to buy so much less. DH and I were barely eating and sharing meals to ensure DS and the cats were fed.

But I also remember when I told friends and family about this situation, everyone rallied around. Immediate family dropped off food that would last, and my friends clubbed together and gifted us a £60 supermarket gift card.

We then got UC sorted, and I was lucky enough to secure a job in August.

I’d actually blanked all that out of my mind!

My cupboards have never been empty since, I always add a few extra bits to the food shop now.

LimitIsUp · 13/02/2021 17:02

Boris Johnson in one of the briefings saying it is illegal to go on holiday. I remember thinking, back in 2019 could I ever have conceived that it would be illegal to go on holiday, or to socialise, or to get in the car and drive 40 minutes to the beach?

BestIsWest · 13/02/2021 17:03

My dad’s funeral - not being able to have a proper wake, my mum not being able to have her friends and family around her when she needed them.

yearinyearout · 13/02/2021 17:04

I think it's when we were away on holiday just before going into the first lockdown. It had a really eerie feel around the town we were staying, people were clearly scared about what was happening and the pubs were getting ready to close down. We had our last meal of the holiday and the pub was totally empty (a pub that's normally so full you can't get in)

dappledsunshine · 13/02/2021 17:05

The sense of optimism, privilege and hope when I gave a Covid vaccination for the first time.

The death of a colleague during the first wave. I sat and wrote goodbye letters to my dc after that, just in case. The death of a relative in the second wave, despite the hope offered by the vaccine.

LimitIsUp · 13/02/2021 17:05

Oh, and my 16 year old ds (who hasn't yet left the house in 2021 because - what is the point?) looking at me sadly and saying "I just want to go to the cinema and get some nachos"

Standrewsschool · 13/02/2021 17:06

What I’ll remember...

Watching Mallory Towers whilst recovery from Covid

Families going for walks and walking down empty roads

Realising it’s world-wide, and every country has been affected

The daily briefings

The daily death toll

Dc not being able to finish school properly

Also being grateful that we are in good health, have jobs etc

QueenOfPain · 13/02/2021 17:06

The first few days when we had the northern Italy returners calling our service with symptoms and having no protocols of knowledge of how to deal with them really.

The complete ambiguity about testing at the start, who could get tested, who couldn’t, how to access tests, etc,

Being called into work with 30 minutes notice to set up a VPN, grab a PC and get off site ASAP to go home and triage these patients, with no more knowledge and support of how COVID presented than I had a week or two previous.

Three periods of contact isolation.

Finally getting covid after so much worry and anticipation, and it turning out to be very mild.

RedToothBrush · 13/02/2021 17:08

Zoom. Just zoom.

plominoagain · 13/02/2021 17:08

My WTF moment , was when I had to intervene to stop two large guys having an actual physical fight in Sainsburys , over two bottles of lavender scented Carex. They were actually toe to toe , over soap that wasn’t even antibacterial.

Losing my FIL, and DH having to go to his funeral alone because of the restrictions.

Being relieved that DH works for a wholesale food company so in many ways , ate better than we normally do.

DianaT1969 · 13/02/2021 17:08

When Rishi Sunak said that freelancers of 1 year wouldn't get any help. We're his 5% "fall between the gaps" people.

pinkhousesarebest · 13/02/2021 17:09

As with so many, realising my ds had had his last day at school.

        Later worrying that not doing his exams would be very prejudical for him and his friends. Boy was I proved right.

  Having twenty seven 16 year olds for a sleepover in that brief window of summer exhultation, when we thought it was done and dusted. I have never seen such joy.
hazandduck · 13/02/2021 17:09

Only made it 3 pages in and I am in tears reading this thread. I agree it should go in to classics.

I remember all the anger about people posting about covid on MN and the demand for a separate section, and thinking how bad it was when it got a section.

I remember the first time I saw someone in full PPE I wanted to cry my eyes out. I hadn’t left the house and had to go out to take my baby for her first jabs. I stripped us both off and put everything in the wash as soon as we got in and couldn’t stop shaking.

I also remember the absolute terror thinking “what happens if the PM dies” when Boris was admitted to hospital. I just remember thinking what happens if everyone dies, if everyone in power dies, and we have to just fend for ourselves. It just felt like a horror film. And I sat in the garden in the sunshine with my baby tucked under my chin and thought what have I brought you in to.

Pipersouth · 13/02/2021 17:09

Standing on a bridge over one of the busiest roads in the country and not seeing a single car for over 5 minutes during the first lockdown - it was so spooky

Blessex · 13/02/2021 17:09

The moment I realised (after 25 years of a career in the office and travelling) that I was now to work from home.

Springhere · 13/02/2021 17:10

Taking my children to school and preschool for the last time before lockdown in March 2020. I had a feeling they would be away from school and their friends for a long time. As it turned out, dd2 did return to preschool in June but dd1 didn't go back to school for six months. I worry that the same will happen in a few weeks - dd2 (reception) will return to school while dd1 (y3) is left behind again. I really hope not.

Gilly12345 · 13/02/2021 17:11

Having a very good excuse for not visiting my pain in the ass mother in law.

Christmas 2020 was the best ever, the most relaxing and enjoyable I have had, no entertaining, having to visit people and time to relax at home, the days in between Xmas and new year didn’t feel strange at all as that is what we have been doing for months.

caringcarer · 13/02/2021 17:11

Every year on the first Thursday of December I meet my sisters and together we make a Holly wreathe to go on Mum's grave. We catch up, play a Xmas CD whilst we make it, lay it on her grave, then go for a Xmas lunch. This year was the first year we could not do it since she died 7 years ago. At the end of November when Boris announced lockdown was not being lifted I just sat and cried.

Blessex · 13/02/2021 17:11

Literally this weekend last year. Being in Portugal with my DH family. I was paranoid about this new virus and talking about masks. They laughed at me so much. They are not laughing now.

Milliways · 13/02/2021 17:12

The sheer relentless tiredness of working in NHS, working on our PCN vaccination programme whilst also being aware we are a part of history.

And zoom funerals of those taken too soon, and not being able to hug everyone affected.

Notonthestairs · 13/02/2021 17:12

Christ what an awful year this has been. Thanks for all those that have lost someone.

My memories will be:-
Last pick up from school, then wearing a mask to the playground for the first time.
Empty supermarket shelves.
Ringing the school for help with my child (severe learning difficulties) - they were so kind that I couldn't speak for tears.
And worst was my Dad trying not cry from loneliness.

Best - my kids playing with their cousins and our dog in the sunshine. Bumping in to friends/acquaintances on walks - the absolute joy of the little social distanced chats.

EvenMoreFuriousVexation · 13/02/2021 17:12

Negative:
Realising that a disturbingly high proportion of the population will just lie down and give up their freedoms without question - and not only lie down but try to cut the legs away from anyone still stood up going "Hey wait a minute..."

Realising that BoJo the Clown was actually in charge. Of an entire country. At a time when history needed a bastard leader and not a man desperate to be liked.

Positives:
My business has boomed during lockdown and I've made more money in the last 12 months than in the previous 24. That first immediate rush of business was an insane blast.

Confronting my addictions and getting sober. The support I've received, all via telephone, has I think been better for me than previous face to face encounters where I tended to normalise my own situation by comparing myself to other addicts in a worse state. I realised this when I had to go to the service centre to collect a prescription and ended up waiting outside with a woman who offered me a swig of her can of Tennants Super and tried to bum a tenner off me.

Going for a walk in the park with my son in May, it was almost deserted and we saw so much wildlife, including a massive heron who was just strutting along the path like a bad-ass motherfucker.

When the gyms reopened in July, getting there at 6am for a workout and feeling like life had re-started. Sitting down on the weights bench as Dr Dre came through my headphones and the sun was shining through the windows and I just burst into tears of relief and joy.

Kenworthington · 13/02/2021 17:13

Visiting my dying Mum dressed in full ppe and holding her hand through plastic gloves as she died from Covid just a week after testing positive.