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.

Banging saucepans! We really did that, beggars belief now! 🤣

@Cantstandsmugness

Banging saucepans! We really did that, beggars belief now! 🤣

And the social media posts shaming neighbours who did not join in. Also the competitiveness of it too. I suspect many people who clapped for carers now wish those same carers out of a job if they are hesitant about the vaccine.

Oh god, I’ve just remembered the poster who made her 8 year old isolate alone in her room for 10 days including her birthday.

@TheKeatingFive

Oh god, I’ve just remembered the poster who made her 8 year old isolate alone in her room for 10 days including her birthday.

Bloody hell

@TheKeatingFive

Oh god, I’ve just remembered the poster who made her 8 year old isolate alone in her room for 10 days including her birthday.

Wtf? Seriously?

Standing outside a&e begging them to let me in to be with my elderly and very vulnerable father, admitted for a non Covid illness. They couldn’t allow me in but said they would tell him I was there. Heartbreaking.

Wtf? Seriously?

Yup. I don’t think the poor child even had covid, she was just a contact.

@Goodmorninglights

Standing outside a&e begging them to let me in to be with my elderly and very vulnerable father, admitted for a non Covid illness. They couldn’t allow me in but said they would tell him I was there. Heartbreaking.

I am so sorry you experienced that. I can't imagine how hard that was for you and him.

@TheKeatingFive

Wtf? Seriously?

Yup. I don’t think the poor child even had covid, she was just a contact.

That's actually quite horrifying.

At the start of the pandemic, mid March, I was at work ( A&E) I had admitted an elderly lady from a nursing home to the department with respiratory symptoms. She stayed in resus where there were other patients on ventilator support with likely Covid ( back then limited testing and results took 24 hours in hospitals so in A&E we never really knew who had Covid or not back then). She was treated for a chest infection and then sent back to her nursing home. I went and spoke to the most senior Dr in the department and asked what was going on? What if she has Covid? Should she not be admitted? The reply was basically we have been told to minimise admissions to only to most sick so she has to go back to the home. My mind just boggled! It seemed so wrong, she needed more treatment than her nursing home could give her, she may have Covid. If she didn't come in with it, she'd just spent 5 hours in the same room as several patients who certainly did!! None of it made the slightest bit of sense and made me feel extremely uncomfortable with where the whole thing was going. What about other patients who need medical care who do not have Covid, the patients have strokes, the heart attracts etc. What were we meant to do with them?
Really I will never forget that shift and I often think about that poor lady and wonder.

@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.

Me too!

@Kokeshi123

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 have still lost their minds now!

My sister telling me that she had seen a crazy woman go in the sea for a swim on a hot day, and thankfully the police had told her to get out.

My Dad recovering to the point he could come off oxygen after a long and scary hospital stay where I thought I might lose him and wasn’t allowed to visit.

@Cantstandsmugness

Banging saucepans! We really did that, beggars belief now! 🤣

For several people I know who were exhausted week in and out working in acute hospitals dealing with the worst and barely seeing their families, the weekly thanks kept them going

And the social media posts shaming neighbours who did not join in. Also the competitiveness of it too

Oh the weekly arguments on Facebook about fireworks. People who worked for the NHS etc telling people to stop and getting told people should be able to show they care how they want and should deal with it...

The clapping was weird. Just because I could get over people saying 'give the NHS the clap' in all seriousness.

This was dad's response when I asked him how he felt about it, as an NHS worker

@LetsGoFlyAKiteee

And the social media posts shaming neighbours who did not join in. Also the competitiveness of it too

Oh the weekly arguments on Facebook about fireworks. People who worked for the NHS etc telling people to stop and getting told people should be able to show they care how they want and should deal with it...

I work on the front line and I really didn't like it. My neighbours over the road never did it, so I am told. Infuriated many on the street. Myself and my partner, both frontline workers on the NHS never really understood the fury and really could not care less!

My then 7 yr old sobbing his heart out asking who was going to look after him if me & his dad got COVID & died 😭

For me the chopping and changing and psychological tactics used, Particularly over the subject of Christmas.
The community rhetoric.............the insistence that we are all part of a community and civic duty etc...........when nothing has changed for social housing tenants post Grenfell. The latest example is tenants even being barred from the BASIC facilities in the building with the sky pool.

The cognitive dissonance. People moaning about obesity when people were policed over leaving their homes for months Ive just seen the Jamie Oliver school lunches thread in AIBU where school lunches have gone downhill post Covid and have more junk food because.............yep you guessed it....the Covid rules. Which leaves me to my next point...............
People wanting it both ways..................wanting lockdowns, more rules and more restrictions but then blaming the public for the entirely predictable consequences of them.

The attitude of some of the blue ticks on Twitter.

Taking my children to what turned out to be our last toddler group. The town felt much quieter than usual and people were crossing the road rather than trying to pass us on the pavement (understandable but I felt sad that people seemed afraid of us). A lovely old lady dressed in purple stopped to chat, I think she said something along the lines of how cute the children were and told us all to take care. The next day I got a sore throat and we started isolating and a few days later lockdown began. I often think about the lady in purple and hope she's ok.

The day my DH was rushed to hospital with a stroke - and I couldn't go with him or visit.

Online food shopping. I always avoided it before but will be continuing with it when this is all over. It saves so much time.

The relief when I got my first jab appointment. I was so happy!

There was lots of crazy, but honestly there are lots of bloody fantastic milestones for me too.

After being morbidly obese for my whole life, I first went to weight watchers when I was 11, I finally lost weight. I got to see the scales finally slip below 200lbs, I slow jogged my way through a 5K for Race for Life by myself in the park, I finally slipped below obese into the 'just' overweight BMI range. I still have weight to lose to get to healthy BMI but I'm doing it and I know I can.

I spent more time with my child, watching her learn and grow than I ever would have been able to do without Covid having happened.

It was a bit shit when I got a 20% pay cut but was expected to do the same job and more hours, but it was temporary and since then I've had 2 promotions and a 60% pay rise so it worked out in the end.

I cracked out the sewing machine and made an absolute crap ton of masks and scrub caps and donated them to anyone who said they needed them which helped me to feel useful when I was feeling so very useless and out of control in the early days of lockdown.

The day my desperately ill husband was refused treatment by the Royal Marsden Hospital. He died in unbelievable pain without his family supporting him. I will never recover/forgive.