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.

I can't stand back and reflect yet, it feels like we are in the thick of it in terms of the effect the measures to control the virus have had on DDs' education, mental health and longer term prospects. Plus they are still at secondary school and unvaccinated, one or more of us could still become very ill.

@bellamountain

Woman walking past me on the river bank. Very very narrow path so not sure what she wanted me to do but she was hell bent on keeping a wide berth, that she slipped and fell in.

Blimey! Was she ok? Was it deep

@MarshaBradyo

I feel it’s fading already but those first no food days and the supermarket looked wrecked

There is a BBC international correspondent who is well-known for always being in the latest conflict-affected hotspot, reporting on "scenes of terrible devastation". My FiL once said that if she turned up where he was, he would get out quickly because you could be sure that all hell was about to break loose! Anyway, in March 3020, she tweeted something like "unprecedented scenes in Waitrose in Bayswater" and one of her BBC colleagues responded "Things are looking bad for Waitrose in Bayswater" 😂

@Arsebucket

And quite a few people telling me, as I was in the throes of chemo round 1, that I should be grateful that I had cancer rather than Covid

Fucking hell. Despicable.

Yeah, I wasn't overly impressed!

@MarshaBradyo she was lucky it was a shallow point and was able to pull herself out but soaked to her waist. I've seen people step into the roads too, it's like all logic completely left peoples minds.

That I felt so ill I might have to write letters to my children.

That I've overcome my asthma, taken up running and lost over three stone.

My then four year old telling me two year old that we couldn’t go to the play park because they’re closed.

Starting a thread under a diff name about what ‘non essential’ medical treatment people had had cancelled. It was really sad and I still wonder if people lost family because of the things that got cancelled.

Realising how quickly people turn against each other and understanding how civil war or genocide could easily happen

Everyone being sent home on Friday 13 March 2020 to WFH “until after Easter” - I didn’t set foot in the office for 13 months. (This was a one-off to clear everything out of the office - we’re still not back in properly now).

Schools closing and DD’s GCSEs being cancelled. She had no schooling for over 5 months, and the stress of the predicted grades debacle was horrendous. Although homeschooling has been far worse for DS - he’s really struggled and I’ve no idea how he’ll catch up in time for GCSEs next summer.

The idea that all we were being asked to do was stay at home and watch Netflix. When DH and I were still working FT all the way through (albeit from home). I got quite cross about that - especially with my mother who still keeps saying “Well worked all the way through.” (DSis is a teacher). All of my siblings worked all the way through. But apparently WFH didn’t count.

When my two year old was put on the shielding list. He has a condition which makes him prone to respiratory infection and we knew he would vulnerable, but that really bought it home. I’ve had many sleepless nights.

He was taken off the shielding list by the end of 2020 but remains vulnerable.

Having to explain repeatedly to all the people who say “but all the vulnerable are vaccinated now”.

Watching my husband take his final breaths. And seeing my children having their hearts broken.

He caught covid in hospital after Johnson allegedly said ‘let the bodies pile high’ and refused a circuit-breaker last Autumn. We were the lucky ones who actually got to say goodbye.

Receiving a letter in the post stating that I was allowed to leave my home because I'm a key worker. That was such a bizarre moment.

1. The news, ever increasing space the virus took
2. Lockdown announcement
3. Empty city centre- I mean fully empty! At business time, on a week day, usually buzzing place
4. Having to go to work while everyone was told to stay home. First days were scary.
5. The PPE shortage news.
6. The prohibition to sell non-essential items during the second welsh lockdown. Including bedding, kettles and the like. Announced two days before lockdown. For commercial issues (some shop owners complained that supermarkets will be able to trade these items during the lockdown), no for virus spread control. First morning of lockdown, reading in the news that a poor mother had to leave their young child alone in hospital to drive 20 miles round trip to get her a change of clothes. Child was rushed to hospital. Had blood stained clothes. Tesco 5 min nearby was not allowed to sell her some clean ones. Disgusting! And fully predictable.
7. Boris Johnson saying schools are safe on Saturday morning, after Christmas. Opening on Monday, despise everyone knowing that opening schools back in the middle of a massive peak made no sense. Then he closing them on Monday, at 8 pm!

The goverment had lost any control over the situation, and themselves at that point. Starting around the second lockdown, and fully crashing on the third, the huge third one.

1. The start, roll out, and success of the vaccines! Such a great job from the scientists and healthcare workers, in such a short time!

I do hope to add a time when all officially fizzed out! Hopefully soon!

For me it’s a positive one. When Pfizer first announced the results of their trial and the 95% efficacy of the vaccine. I cried at that.

Being put on 'unpaid leave/ temporary layoff' before furlough was announced. And a couple of very kind friends offering to help pay my mortgage if I was struggling. I still well up thinking about it.

My husband and I holding each other and crying as we watched the news when they announced over 1800 deaths, knowing our best friend, his sister, and my nephew were included in that number.

Also our village's neighbourly support group sent flyers around after the first lockdown lifted saying "Thankfully only very ill and elderly people have died so this village has had no major losses." Despite us losing a teacher, 2 nurses and a midwife as well as many other people whose death came as a major loss.

@BorisKilledMyHusband I'm so sorry sorry x

@BorisKilledMyHusband

Watching my husband take his final breaths. And seeing my children having their hearts broken.

He caught covid in hospital after Johnson allegedly said ‘let the bodies pile high’ and refused a circuit-breaker last Autumn. We were the lucky ones who actually got to say goodbye.

I agree with many of the posts….especially the ‘essential’ threads we had for a while

Personally my one moment is when ds1 and his partner who had been staying here for a few days left to go home

We were obviously fairly positive that everyone would have to stay in their own homes and they had packed to leave by the announcement itself but i was really worried (and honestly this bit was really stupid) that the police may have been monitoring the motorway and may stop them and give them grief….it was very much ‘smuggle them out…drive safe…keep to the back roads…we’ll meet again’ type thing

@BorisKilledMyHusband

Watching my husband take his final breaths. And seeing my children having their hearts broken.

He caught covid in hospital after Johnson allegedly said ‘let the bodies pile high’ and refused a circuit-breaker last Autumn. We were the lucky ones who actually got to say goodbye.

Oh i am so sorry 💐

Condolences to feelingdizzy, lovely covey and other bereaved families.

@Antinerak

My husband and I holding each other and crying as we watched the news when they announced over 1800 deaths, knowing our best friend, his sister, and my nephew were included in that number.

Also our village's neighbourly support group sent flyers around after the first lockdown lifted saying "Thankfully only very ill and elderly people have died so this village has had no major losses." Despite us losing a teacher, 2 nurses and a midwife as well as many other people whose death came as a major loss.

When I read on here that using butter in your coffee instead of milk was acceptable because going to a shop to buy milk was going to kill someone. I’ll never forget the sheer madness from some of the threads on here.

I moved house on the day lockdown was announced. We had already exchanged contracts one month before and it had been incredibly stressful in the run up to that day, not knowing if we'd be able to complete and move with everything that was going on. DH set up the TV in time for Boris's announcement and I remember being surrounded by boxes as he spoke, sobbing, partly with relief that we had made the move, and partly out of fear over what would happen next.

Honestly. The night I had 6 deaths on my ICU alone. The mortuary porters were so backed up that the dead lay in their body bags in between the living and we couldnt pull the curtains around because it restricted the view of all the patients the single trained ICU nurse in the bay was supervising.

@feelingdizzy

Telling my teenagers that their Dad had died from Covid .

I'm so sorry for your loss 🌷