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RickyGervaislovesdogs · 20/08/2024 19:31

Yes. It seems like a disfiguring disease if you get it?

Differentstarts · 20/08/2024 19:29

HappyMuma · 20/08/2024 19:23

I’m not worried but my 12 year old is worried there will be another lockdown.

How is your 12 year old even aware of this

HappyMuma · 20/08/2024 19:23

I’m not worried but my 12 year old is worried there will be another lockdown.

laraitopbanana · 20/08/2024 19:14

TheKeatingFive · 17/08/2024 17:12

Well you do that.

The rest of us will be getting on with our lives.

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Appledoughnut · 18/08/2024 17:28

It makes no difference if I worry about it or not so l will save my energy

BrigadierEtienneGerard · 18/08/2024 09:41

Comedycook · 15/08/2024 21:43

Congratulations....you've cured anxiety!

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Surely the definition of anxiety is the inability (for whatever reason) to realise this simple fact?

ZanyFox · 18/08/2024 08:58

Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast · 18/08/2024 08:55

There are lots of diseases out there that are killing people. That's never going to stop.
It's sensible to be cautious when something new appears while scientists gather data and figure out whether it's going to wipe out two thirds of the global population or end up being a bad case of the sniffles but the world cannot go into lockdown forever.

We can't stop people dying. I understand that lack of control and fear of death are at the heart of pandemic panics but we have to accept that there will always be diseases that will kill some people. It's inevitable. Any of us could catch something and die. That's scary but reducing your world to nothing and demanding the rest of the population does the same for fear of catching something that may kill you but statistically speaking probably won't is a kind of death in itself.

People sneer about scaremongering but really all scaremongering is is people who are scared making themselves more scared by obsessing about finding a way to control things that they have no realistic control over.

I love this post and agree wholeheartedly.

Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast · 18/08/2024 08:55

There are lots of diseases out there that are killing people. That's never going to stop.
It's sensible to be cautious when something new appears while scientists gather data and figure out whether it's going to wipe out two thirds of the global population or end up being a bad case of the sniffles but the world cannot go into lockdown forever.

We can't stop people dying. I understand that lack of control and fear of death are at the heart of pandemic panics but we have to accept that there will always be diseases that will kill some people. It's inevitable. Any of us could catch something and die. That's scary but reducing your world to nothing and demanding the rest of the population does the same for fear of catching something that may kill you but statistically speaking probably won't is a kind of death in itself.

People sneer about scaremongering but really all scaremongering is is people who are scared making themselves more scared by obsessing about finding a way to control things that they have no realistic control over.

SweetBirdsong · 17/08/2024 23:23

girlfriend44 · 15/08/2024 21:32

It's been in the news today. Monkey Pox or M pox is spreading they have found a case in Sweden now and hinted it could spread more.
Anyone worried or is it scare mongering.

It seems to be in the news again?😪

100% not one grain of worry do I have.

ilovesooty · 17/08/2024 23:21

NAndJIsLockingDown · 15/08/2024 23:51

Yep. We warned you that Covid was just the very start.

Sweden needs to go into full Lockdown immediately. Our government needs to start shutting down international travel and introducing protections, though I wouldn't trust Sir Starmer to organise a piss up in a brewery.

For our DC's sake, please get the masks out again. And we're going to need gloves this time too.

Oh dear.

Mindfulmeltdowns · 17/08/2024 23:18

Someone was saying upthread that the NHS mpox info hasn't been updated to reflect the new strain yet.

That's an older page.

floatingislands · 17/08/2024 23:17

^That is for the previous form of Mpox. This is a new one.

user1484264563 · 17/08/2024 22:23

Nope, very little reason to worry, the media love a scare story. From the NHS website:

TheKeatingFive · 17/08/2024 21:56

namechangeforthisi · 17/08/2024 21:48

Well this site is heavily censored

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😂

namechangeforthisi · 17/08/2024 21:48

TheKeatingFive · 17/08/2024 21:42

Didn't you get banned for the ridiculous doom mongering? And yet here you are again. 😵‍💫

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Well this site is heavily censored

x2boys · 17/08/2024 21:44

Beezknees · 17/08/2024 20:57

I remember them too, it's just pathetic that they haven't got bored yet.

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Well yes .

TheKeatingFive · 17/08/2024 21:42

NAndJIsLockingDown · 17/08/2024 17:21

You were saying the exact same thing in Feb 2020. How did that turn out?

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Didn't you get banned for the ridiculous doom mongering? And yet here you are again. 😵‍💫

NAndJIsLockingDown · 17/08/2024 21:28

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 17/08/2024 21:22

Didn't covid do enough damage to the hospitality industry? Closing them now would finish it off completely. You might not like going out (or have any friends to go out with going by your posts) but many of us do

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It was Covid itself that did the damage, not the Lockdowns.

If protections were put in place earlier, Lockdowns could have been shorter which would have means less damage to hospitality.

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 17/08/2024 21:22

NAndJIsLockingDown · 17/08/2024 17:31

Time to start shutting the likes of cinemas and restaurants down then.

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Didn't covid do enough damage to the hospitality industry? Closing them now would finish it off completely. You might not like going out (or have any friends to go out with going by your posts) but many of us do

namechangeforthisi · 17/08/2024 20:58

It's hard to say but it could happen there will start being outbreaks in schools if the government can't contain it, and I don't think anyone would be sending them in. Some one had pointed out to me the fatality rate is higher because it's affecting people with malnutrition, but waiting to see here would be crazy

Beezknees · 17/08/2024 20:57

x2boys · 17/08/2024 20:53

I wouldn't rise to it I remember this poster from the covid board I can't quite decide if they are majorly taking the mick
Or genuinely want us to be in lockdown forever.

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I remember them too, it's just pathetic that they haven't got bored yet.

x2boys · 17/08/2024 20:53

Beezknees · 17/08/2024 20:49

Oh bore off.

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I wouldn't rise to it I remember this poster from the covid board I can't quite decide if they are majorly taking the mick
Or genuinely want us to be in lockdown forever.

Beezknees · 17/08/2024 20:49

NAndJIsLockingDown · 17/08/2024 20:27

I really think schools should be preparing to go online only.

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Oh bore off.

ZanyFox · 17/08/2024 20:40

NAndJIsLockingDown · 17/08/2024 20:27

I really think schools should be preparing to go online only.

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Jesus.

NAndJIsLockingDown · 17/08/2024 20:27

namechangeforthisi · 17/08/2024 20:26

It will be. I don't think it's unlikely it will be in my son's school in a few weeks, and I think I'll tell him not to go in for a while

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I really think schools should be preparing to go online only.