What one moment will always stay with you from this?

[Ostryga]

Mine was realising panic shopping was everywhere, and that I needed to buy an entire food shop for Dd and I before lockdown.

I cried when I found a shop with chicken and milk.

The fear I felt of the virus at that time, and also not being able to make sure we had food is something I hope to never repeat.

Telling my DH I was going to stockpile tins of food (we've always bulk buyed kitchen and loo roll) and him telling me I'm being paranoid! A week later I had enough food to get us through a possible covid case (march 2020) DH was hospitalised, me and DS were very mildly unwell

Finding out on the same day that 2 lovely ladies I had worked with had died from Covid. DH was working late. I put dc in front of the tv, fed them takeaway pizza and sobbed for hours.

Realising I should buy cleaning products and toilet roll/ kitchen roll online to leave those on the shelves for those who couldn't buy online.

I did not stockpile and supermarkets never had empty shelves here.

Starting to make my own cleaning products. Easy and cheap.

Being a vaccine volunteer so I felt like I was doing my bit.

Hardest thing was not seeing my family as they're in England I'm in Scotland. Though that clarified my decision on my future.

Sorry I've gone over more than 1 thing.

Our idiot PM stating on national TV that doing nothing was a perfectly reasonable proposition, at a point in time where people in other parts of Europe were dying in droves and their national health services collapsing in chaos.

crazy MNs posters who would run into their garden if neighbours went into theirs, who claimed bread & milk weren't essentials & who would post things like "I went to the park today & I couldn't believe how busy it is, we are in a lockdown people"! And the general stupidity & lack of critical thinking amongst the population was a real shock to me.

I think the surrealness of the school drop off on that last day they were in school last March before lockdown. The weird atmosphere at the gates and no one really knowing what was coming. Never would have believed it would be 3 months until they were back in school.

@rottd

crazy MNs posters who would run into their garden if neighbours went into theirs, who claimed bread & milk weren't essentials & who would post things like "I went to the park today & I couldn't believe how busy it is, we are in a lockdown people"! And the general stupidity & lack of critical thinking amongst the population was a real shock to me.

Oh man, I’m with you.

Mumsnet last year was like a car crash I couldn’t look away from. I was worried for a lot of posters. They seemed to have been in a very dark place.

Arguing over sitting on park benches, what constituted “essential” shopping. It was quite frightening the attitudes that stemmed from fear.

exactly @Arsebucket & my post may seem flippant but the fear & eagerness to turn on others was quite scary.

Actually having to use our pre-prepped stocks..

Seeing the ridiculous signs stuck to the seats of our outdoor shopping mall telling you it was against the law to sit on them or words to that effect.

My personal favorite was the thread (or it might have been on a Facebook group) where some poor poster was talking about how she made the family's state-sanctioned Daily Walk a bit more interesting by turning it into a game where the kids had to find things (I can't remember what kind of thing, but you know "A leaf with a hole it it," "XYZ type of flower" "Someone walking two dogs", that kind of thing) and check them off a list, like a little treasure hunt. She got replies from more than one people saying that this was dangerous and selfish because it might encourage children to TOUCH THINGS in the park.

Yes, as we all know, a respiratory virus is obviously going to spread by some poor kid touching a fucking twig in the middle of a park.

Some people just completely lost their minds back in spring 2020.

Some people just completely lost their minds back in spring 2020

They're still at it. Quarantining shopping for three days in the garage, bleaching the shit out of it before it comes into the home. Won't set foot out of their front door so have every single item delivered by the store.

I mean, so they think that Tesco seek out infected employees and have a cordoned off area of the warehouse where they cough, splutter, and sneeze all over the home-delivery stuff before it's loaded onto the wagon?

I used to go out for an occasional run, and what I found amusing was that in complete contrast to the usual scenario of people doing their utmost to block your path, there were folk literally sprinting at warp speed to get out of the way. Yup, I've been flat on my arse with Covid, that's why I'm out pounding the streets to try and purge it from my system

I will always remember what it felt like the first time I walked to our large Sainsbury's. The roads were totally empty (I did a little jig in the middle), not a single plane overhead and total silence around, and when I got to the store's car park a very sombre, suspicious queue of individuals with masks snaked round the town, 3m apart. It took 40mins to shuffle to the front and nobody chatted but everybody glared at each other as in 'keep out of my no-no square'. It was very surreal and, oddly, I quite liked it.

Some people just completely lost their minds back in spring 2020.

Agree. Memorable moments for me include police forces putting out drones to spy on people going for a fucking walk and shaming them and declaring they would check peoples shopping to ensure they had no non essential items.

While I was going to work as normal with no measures at all in place to protect me.

Being confused as to why me and my family hadn't caught it and died if things were as bad as they were saying, then reading about the agenda for ramping up fear and the lying about projected figures and feeling that I was living through a very dark time where what I was seeing did not match what I was being told and any attempt to bring up the lies and propaganda were shut down and I was branded a conspiracy theorist, a covidiot, thick, selfish and the like.

Oh, and the assumption that it was only rule breakers who got covid

The nastiness that came to the surface pretty quickly from people who wanted 'everyone to stay the fuck home' and everyone was selfish and all the other shit they still throw about.

Made me realise how messed up a lot of people are and only needed a tiny green light to push their agenda.

When my year two class had sports day. They were so excited.

None of them asked if their parents were coming to watch (no) or why it was just our class doing it. Their last experience of such an event was so distant that they had no expectations of what it should have been like. They were satisfied with the lacklustre event which was good and very sad at the same time.

My parents meeting my newborn daughter through a window. I cry everytime I think about it and wish I never let it happen.

Yea, it very quickly went from “be kind” to Lord of The Flies and it’s stayed that way, particularly with vaccine threads.

I’m just so sick of people now.

It was the empty shelves for me too and the fear of whether I’d find formula for my baby and paracetamol to manage my pain post c section; DH had to drive round several shops to find either of those

It’s been a strange old time hasn’t it?!

For me it’s the birth of our first child. I severely injured my pelvis 3 days before a scheduled induction with a big baby. The pain was indescribable 😓 I couldn’t move my legs because of the pain & could only sit in one position. DH had to carry me to the bathroom.

They wouldn’t admit me early for induction due to covid. I was told I could either stay at home and deal with it or be admitted for pain relief but I’d have to go into the main hospital for 3 days which was overflowing with covid cases.

I stayed home and it was the most horrific days of my life. Then my DH having to lift me into a wheelchair at the front door of the maternity unit and leave me there as he wasn’t allowed in with me.

The one moment that sticks out for me though is reading that people were putting their post in the oven to kill the virus.

Fear of a letter being contaminated with covid was bigger than the fear of their kitchen setting fire.

That’s when I took a long break from the internet. That was a step too far into craziness for me.

Empty shelves and supermarkets, and the queues my husband had to wait in. I was 5 months pregnant at the time and so annoyed at the selfishness of people stockpiling. I get people were scared but it made me so angry that you couldn't even buy a loaf of bread some days.

A few moments will never leave me I think. I was heavily pregnant when covid hit and I remember going to a supermarket where being were panic buying and most shelves were empty, and the freezer section was just switched off as there was no stock and I got incredibly scared, got out and cried in the car. Then when Boris went into hospital - I don't like the man I should add - but we were just heading to bed when we heard the news, and I could tell that night that it was the first time DH was scared, and I then couldn't sleep. Then having my DD and bringing her home and dealing with those first few horror days of establishing BF with no midwife visit or support. I also deeply deeply regret that I made my family wear masks when they held DD for the first time some weeks later. I hate it that all her first photos with people are with them in masks.

Sitting on my bed feeding my newborn (12 hours old) baby and watching Boris Johnson announce the first lockdown.

My parents meeting my baby for the first time outside "illegally" almost 3 months later.

Celebrating my grandpa's 90th birthday on Zoom.

Also the realisation that the some police forces will hard handed enforce guidance as law. That really has stayed with me and I do think it has eroded some trust.

My two year olds birthday party was at the very start of Lockdown. It was just me ds 4 and dd 2. When we blew out the candles my four year old looked around and said, “where is everyone Mammy?”