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mumstheword1x · 2026-05-11T18:58:01+00:00

I’ve just seen that the Hantavirus is in Liverpool?! They’ve been brought to Liverpool? I’ve got a 2 day work conference there and now I’m worried 😢 I suffer terribly with health anxiety. AIBU?

Focacciaisyum · 12/05/2026 18:47

FWIW I'm from London and love it here. I also really loved most the northern places ive been although I havent been to.many. Lake District, York, Leeds. All great. I got a bit if a weird vibe in the Dales but maybe ive seen too much American werewolf in London 'dont go onto the moors' (yes I know that was meant to be the Moors)

Focacciaisyum · 12/05/2026 18:40

Bjorkdidit · 12/05/2026 17:35

Nah. Pictures like that just reinforce the idea that 'the north' is all wasteland with no jobs, culture or diversity and there's parks in London so no-one needs to venture outside for wildnerness or nature.

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So youre all hating on London because someone - who may or may not be FROM London insulted the North. Right. Nice.

Focacciaisyum · 12/05/2026 18:38

MyCottageGarden · 12/05/2026 17:11

I beg your pardon? The north of England is absolutely beautiful! Far nicer than filthy London! Where I live is an AONB! (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) and I’m much further north than Liverpool. Watch your words please and have some bloody respect.

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Calling it 'filthy London' makes you just as much of a bigot btw.

Shortbread49 · 12/05/2026 18:37

Yes it’s so grim up north especially on the Wirral

DoughnutDreamer · 12/05/2026 18:26

MyCottageGarden · 12/05/2026 17:11

I beg your pardon? The north of England is absolutely beautiful! Far nicer than filthy London! Where I live is an AONB! (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) and I’m much further north than Liverpool. Watch your words please and have some bloody respect.

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Oh yes…because the British Isles consists entirely of “The North” and London. Nothing else exists outside of those two areas 🤣🙄

Pedallleur · 12/05/2026 18:06

Bjorkdidit · 12/05/2026 18:00

Ah, but no pelicans, so they don't count. Nothing is as good as London, nothing.

If you think it might be, it's because you're uncultured and easily pleased.

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I'm just grateful that the warring tribes up here had reached a truce so I survived to this age. The perfumed, genteel streets of London were something that we were told about as we huddled around our shared fire.

Bjorkdidit · 12/05/2026 18:00

Pedallleur · 12/05/2026 17:57

Puffins, falcons, seals, occasional walrus. It's all happening in the cold dark North. Gets even better as you go to Scotland.

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Ah, but no pelicans, so they don't count. Nothing is as good as London, nothing.

If you think it might be, it's because you're uncultured and easily pleased.

Pedallleur · 12/05/2026 17:57

HelenaWilson · 12/05/2026 17:45

there's parks in London so no-one needs to venture outside for wildnerness or nature.

Bet you haven't got pelicans roaming freely up there.

You might be surprised how much wildlife there is in the parks and elsewhere in London.

Puffins, falcons, seals, occasional walrus. It's all happening in the cold dark North. Gets even better as you go to Scotland.

Pedallleur · 12/05/2026 17:49

mumstheword1x · 12/05/2026 14:09

I’m here and I don’t feel any better. It feels so close on the map. 11 miles away from me.

Try walking it! Won't seem so close then. And there might be a water crossing involved. And apparently we are all only a few feet away from a rat.

HelenaWilson · 12/05/2026 17:45

there's parks in London so no-one needs to venture outside for wildnerness or nature.

Bet you haven't got pelicans roaming freely up there.

You might be surprised how much wildlife there is in the parks and elsewhere in London.

Bjorkdidit · 12/05/2026 17:35

MyCottageGarden · 12/05/2026 17:16

Yes because it’s just SO unpleasant and dangerous up north…… 🙄🤦🏼‍♀️😆 @didntlikeanyofthesuggestions

Nah. Pictures like that just reinforce the idea that 'the north' is all wasteland with no jobs, culture or diversity and there's parks in London so no-one needs to venture outside for wildnerness or nature.

Lins77 · 12/05/2026 17:30

OP - I don't want to feed your anxiety, but wherever you are in the country there will be people with nasty, contagious bugs (flu, norovirus, many others) much closer to you than 11 miles away. You have this out of proportion, and are fixating on this rare, unlikely but highly publicised scenario.

TipsyLaird · 12/05/2026 17:30

Some people just love the drama.

margegunderson · 12/05/2026 17:19

mumstheword1x · 12/05/2026 14:09

I’m here and I don’t feel any better. It feels so close on the map. 11 miles away from me.

Get a grip woman. It’s 11 miles away. Epidemiologist are all over this. You’re just milking this. Stop

MyCottageGarden · 12/05/2026 17:16

Yes because it’s just SO unpleasant and dangerous up north…… 🙄🤦🏼‍♀️😆 @didntlikeanyofthesuggestions

dlcy · 12/05/2026 17:13

Tbf London is filthy. No one can argue that

HelenaWilson · 12/05/2026 17:12

Watch your words please and have some bloody respect.

'Filthy London'?

dlcy · 12/05/2026 17:12

I’m happy that ignorant southerners (I used to be one actually) aren’t clambering to come and live here. Keeps it nicer

MyCottageGarden · 12/05/2026 17:11

didntlikeanyofthesuggestions · 11/05/2026 20:00

If I had to go up north Hantavirus would be the least of my worries.

I beg your pardon? The north of England is absolutely beautiful! Far nicer than filthy London! Where I live is an AONB! (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) and I’m much further north than Liverpool. Watch your words please and have some bloody respect.

RampantIvy · 12/05/2026 16:42

Ifeeltheneedtheneedforcoffee · 12/05/2026 16:06

They'd have to use the tunnel and pay the toll like everyone else 😜

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😂
They could get the "Ferry Cross the Mersey" and sing along to the song.

TotallyJacquelineHigh · 12/05/2026 16:21

mumstheword1x · 12/05/2026 14:09

I’m here and I don’t feel any better. It feels so close on the map. 11 miles away from me.

It’d be one hell of a sneeze to make it that distance.

Ifeeltheneedtheneedforcoffee · 12/05/2026 16:06

UnctuousUnicorns · 12/05/2026 15:56

Hanta charged rats aren't going to swim across the Mersey to you.

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They'd have to use the tunnel and pay the toll like everyone else 😜

Lins77 · 12/05/2026 16:05

TFImBackIn · 12/05/2026 16:03

WTF!

Which bit of "up north" offends you so much? Where do you live?

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I think it's an attempt at humour.

TFImBackIn · 12/05/2026 16:03

didntlikeanyofthesuggestions · 11/05/2026 20:00

If I had to go up north Hantavirus would be the least of my worries.

WTF!

Which bit of "up north" offends you so much? Where do you live?

Focacciaisyum · 12/05/2026 15:59

If anyone wants a new fear to unlock i've just learnt that aggressive tiger leeches CAN JUMP ON YOU FROM THE FOREST FLOOR!!!! No we dont have them in the UK (as far as I know) but OMG.