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Coronavirus topic

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eeeyoresmiles · 03/02/2020 16:46

Mumsnet, when might we get a coronavirus topic like we had for swine flu? It was useful then, and it could have the nhs advice at the top as a sticky.

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soniamumsnet · 31/03/2020 14:30

Hi @Coronalimeaid glad to hear that it's been useful. Flowers

Coronalimeaid · 31/03/2020 11:16

Just want to thank MN for creating this board. I was trying to remember when I first became aware of the disease and the possibility that it could ‘happen’ here. Good call MN.

SirChing · 02/03/2020 21:30

Slightly disappointed that you haven't called it "plague mongering" as PP suggested @MMHQ. To make up for the disappointment, please can we have an "unclean, unclean" bell emoji we can shake all over the topic? Or you could even have. "unclean! Unclean!" As the name of the section

And if we can't have a bell emoji, please can we have a zombie with missing limbs instead?

Sorry for being demanding @MNHQ but you know those emojis would be excellent Grin

musicposy · 02/03/2020 16:38

Thank you mumsnet!
I really like the coronavirus threads but I’ve been getting way too anxious for my own good. Now they are corralled I can go on the rest of mumsnet and relax and just go on them at limited times, and find them all in one place.
Good call.

PurplePonderer · 02/03/2020 14:34

Thank you so much Flowers

Aridane · 02/03/2020 14:33

Oh, @soniamimsnet - please can we report and get ore existing threads quarantined in one place. Please can we also have a massive stickie, as mentioned above. There is an appalling amount of misinformation on the threads, feeding a disproportionate level of anxiety, panic and underlying xenophobia / worse

onalongsabbatical · 02/03/2020 12:39

StarStarStarStarStar Thanks mumsnet!

AriadnesFilament · 02/03/2020 12:34

Hurrah!

CornishPorsche · 02/03/2020 12:25

Hallelujah! Thanks HQ. Promptly hidden.

magimedi · 02/03/2020 12:23

Hooray!!

MNHQ
soniamumsnet · 02/03/2020 12:21

Hi, just to let you know that we'll keep an eye out for new threads and move as appropriate, so there's no need to report. Flowers

BringMeTea · 02/03/2020 12:02

Great stuff. Thank you. As above, are all current ones being shifted? Do you require reports to get new ones moved as they continue to be started elsewhere?

AuntieStella · 02/03/2020 11:53

Thank you

Will you be moving new threads and those which were started elsewhere, but which continue to be active, to the topic?

MNHQ
MichaelMumsnet · 02/03/2020 11:48

Hi all, and thanks for the suggestions.
We've discussed in the office and we're trying out a new area dedicated to Coronavirus discussion.

ShirleyPhallus · 02/03/2020 07:27

Another vote for yes please, about half the threads on my active topics was for Coronavirus

Would be good to just have them in one place pls

TossACoinToYourWitcher · 02/03/2020 07:27

As someone with health anxiety, I'd really like a dedicated thread for Coronavirus. Being able to filter out the threads would benefit me immensely.

And no, before you all jump on me, I'm not burying my head in the sand. I'm keeping abreast of the headlines, but anything more would have a detrimental effect on me.

BringMeTea · 02/03/2020 07:23

Just had to hide 7 threads just on page 1 of aibu. Why are you so reluctant to move these threads? It is very off putting.

Aridane · 01/03/2020 22:34

Or all put together in one hellish quarantine facility!!!!!!

WhentheDealGoesDown · 01/03/2020 22:25

It’s all a bit macabre on the threads, they are constantly waiting for the next death, they need to be be put in isolation

Aridane · 01/03/2020 22:16

PS

Pretty please

Let’s have a Q&A with a representative from the WHO or UK gov. It would be grimly hilarious to listen to posters telling the WHO / UK gov that they have it wrong and everyone must not travel (even in the UK), that self isolation must be practised on return from areas for affected by coronavirus and the public transport and supermarkets now need to be avoided

Aridane · 01/03/2020 22:13

And please include a prominent banner or sticky like the one I screen grabbed earlier from Reddit

The hysteria and ill informed comments and panic on the threads are shocking

BabbleBee · 01/03/2020 21:32

I’ve already asked once, but PLEASE!!! Even threads that don’t seem to refer to coronavirus in the title are about... coronavirus!!

CornishPorsche · 01/03/2020 21:00

For the love of pete, please please please quarantine these CV threads! All the bloody handwringing is getting incredibly tedious.

SubordinateThatClause · 01/03/2020 20:58

New topic PLEASE?!

Reallybadidea · 01/03/2020 19:14

@MNHQ you haven't commented on this thread for 5 days now. Are you still 'thinking about it'?!

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