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What one moment will always stay with you from this?

568 replies

Ostryga · 08/08/2021 03:04

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.

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HeronLanyon · 09/08/2021 19:33

Oh kenworthington So sorry. Support.

XenoBitch · 09/08/2021 19:35

I read an article online about people who'd been diagnosed with terminal illnesses before covid. They had bucket list plans, to travel, see family etc and it soon became clear that they wouldn't get to do any of it before they died. I know there has been so much sadness and unfairness but this has really stuck with me

I remember mentioning this on FB... that some people might be bending the rules due to this. I got flamed and told terminally ill people were being selfish because they could be inflicting death on others.

RuleWithAWoodenFoot · 09/08/2021 19:43

MD in Private Eye (Dr Phil Hammond), said quite early on regard social distancing 'if a person is terminal, then all bets are off'.

Tiddleztheelephant · 09/08/2021 19:45

Singing "when you believe" in our last assembly before school closed down last March.
It brought tears to my eyes.
Having prize giving on the playground in the rain.
Being allowed to see my mum, dad and sister for the first time in months and dad had spent the morning measuring 2m distances between each deckchair in his back garden.

Watapalava · 09/08/2021 20:27

Not one moment but I often wandered how in nazi tea how people could snitch on their neighbours

Then covid happened and I saw how morality went out the window

Watapalava · 09/08/2021 20:27

Nazi time

SuperCaliFragalistic · 09/08/2021 20:54

My brother's last year of life (brain tumour) was shielding and lockdown. The plans we had, the things he wanted to do with his kids, all sidelined by covid. He had a good life and he didn't suffer too much but he was only 41. We broke lockdown rules daily towards the end and I don't give a fuck. He needed the support and my family needed to have contact with each other.

bullyforyou · 09/08/2021 21:05

I was living in the Middle East planning to return to the UK in September. We were given 3 days to leave the country on an expatriate flight to the UK at extortionate prices, there was no way we could pack up our lives so quickly. It felt like doors were being shut on us. We decided to hold tight and eventually left December 2020. Now we are left not knowing when we can return to see family without being hit with hotel quarantine. Suddenly, the world feels huge and not a short flight away.

Flowersintheloft · 09/08/2021 21:08

I have been pleasantly surprised by how communities have come together and supported each other in difficult times. We had so many offers of help from neighbours and people we had never met before. Our local gardening group kept going and was a lifeline, especially for some of the older members who live alone.

Row1n · 09/08/2021 21:11

When our youngest ds hugged his Dad for the first time after his Dad had been ill with covid and not seen him for 3 weeks. I know there are far worse stories out there but when they hugged and clung to each other I sobbed

Pasturesorange · 09/08/2021 21:15

For me there are a few but I remember sobbing when Italy went into lockdown and we started seeing videos of music and singing on balconies, groups of neighbours joining in together.

Xtraincome · 09/08/2021 21:31

Saddest personal moments:

  • talking to mum (with Leukaemia, who lives 10 minutes away) on facetime each day at 2pm for 6 weeks before we decided enough was enough and we needed to start seeing each other more. We would meet and chat on her driveway with our coffees every other day for weeks after DH got home from work. As mum is on her own I would cry each time as I drove home.
  • My youngest DD crying at the thought of missing Granny (my mum, above) so much
  • realising (depressingly) how thankful we were that my DHs mum passed when she did years before. She was in a specialist home when she died 3 years ago and there is no way we could have said goodbye and due to her MS and frail stare there was no way she could have survived Covid.

Happier times:

  • I actually, actively and successfully taught my eldest DD how to sight read, add and make toast (she was 5/6)
  • seeing my 2 DDs hug my mum after almost 3 months of no contact.
  • introducing my girls to "Sunday morning cartoons" vibes every single morning for months. They actually lay their blanket on the floor and watched TV whilst lying on their bellies with hands under chins. Made me happy for some reason.

Some posters have suffered dreadfully. My condolences to those who have lost so much in the last 18 months Flowers

XenoBitch · 09/08/2021 21:49

@Pasturesorange

For me there are a few but I remember sobbing when Italy went into lockdown and we started seeing videos of music and singing on balconies, groups of neighbours joining in together.
I remember those videos too. Made me cry as well, seeing them all come together to create a musical harmony... separately but also together. Then I saw someone in the UK attempt one, and you hear someone shout "fuck off!". That did make me chuckle.
GCAcademic · 09/08/2021 22:02

It always struck me as a telling cultural difference that the Italians were singing opera on their balconies and we went in for banging saucepans with a wooden spoon.

HeronLanyon · 09/08/2021 22:05

GC (me too). That really made me laugh. Grin and then be slightly sorrowful.

Amijustagrump · 09/08/2021 22:05

Sitting in the staff room at work being told we were cancelling year 11 mocks as they would no longer sit their GCSEs and sending home all year groups aside from year 7. We all knew what was coming on the 23rd and had spent weeks joking about an extra week off..

Amijustagrump · 09/08/2021 22:07

Oh and when DP came home from work angry as his colleague had died from lack of PPE while working in the covid ward.

XenoBitch · 09/08/2021 22:07

@GCAcademic

It always struck me as a telling cultural difference that the Italians were singing opera on their balconies and we went in for banging saucepans with a wooden spoon.
I don't think singing opera is something your average Italian does.
Jourdain11 · 09/08/2021 22:12

Maybe not singing it... But at football matches, at Silvini's rallies. You never got to hear Nessun Dorma at a UKIP event Wink

Jakadaal · 09/08/2021 22:15

Being the only car on a major motorway

Kolo · 09/08/2021 22:35

I think the thing that made me really freak out and realise things were really wrong was going to the supermarket and there were massive queues outside, snaking all round the car park.

XenoBitch · 09/08/2021 22:36

@Kolo

I think the thing that made me really freak out and realise things were really wrong was going to the supermarket and there were massive queues outside, snaking all round the car park.
Oh yes.... like a queue for the popular ride at Alton Towers. I dreaded it every week.
Bookishnerd · 09/08/2021 23:09

I was in a hospital waiting room about to have an operation. I got talking to the woman next to me (all masked and socially distanced).

Her dad had died of Covid and she told me that when she watched the news the next day and they reported the death figures, it was 101.

She just said: 'that 1 was my dad' and it totally broke me. I think of that moment often.

I had a terrible lockdown - I had a baby in the first two weeks, was very lonely, battling PNA with no breastfeeding support and no family for even window visits. I'd been in a very dark place and had been v self-absorbed. Hearing this story shocked me out of that

Vivana · 09/08/2021 23:15

Working in a care home and caring for residents having covid and some passing away. My long 15 hour shifts wearing full ppe. I have ptsd now from what I have seen and been through

RoastedHazelnutLatte · 09/08/2021 23:21

Those first photos from Italy and how hard it was to believe it would be us soon enough.

How quickly and easily I lost trust in the police when they seemed to interpret laws rather than just enforce them.

The government telling us when we could or couldn't hug our loved ones.

I still can't quite believe the last 18 months tbh.