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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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HasaDigaEebowai · 03/02/2020 19:34

we had an ebola one and it got changed to "preppers" because it was more useful than having a topic for a particular illness.

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eeeyoresmiles · 03/02/2020 19:31

I like the idea of an emerging diseases thread, although I suspect that this one might already have outgrown a thread like that!

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AuntieStella · 03/02/2020 17:20

How about having an Emerging Diseases topic instead?

That way it could be used for any new (global emergency) disease, and wouldn't be culled (as the Ebola topic was) which is a shame as no-one would ever find the threads scattered into more general topics, so they are essentially lost.

It would require MNHQ to move threads into the topic, wherever they were originally posted. This has been done for other diseases, and is what makes such a topic actually work (sporadically busy, tumbleweed between)

onalongsabbatical · 03/02/2020 17:14

Be kinda useful to have all the coronavirus threads gathered in one place. Then we could quarantine them.
Actually, despite joke, I think this is a good idea. I do tend to want to read lots on anything current, and I am checking in on the cv threads a lot.

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eeeyoresmiles · 03/02/2020 17:07

The Health Secretary has also just been in Parliament making a special statement saying it will be around for a good while (it's a marathon not a sprint). They've started a public health campaign about it. Cases are doubling every few days in China and showing no signs of slowing down. It's much worse than flu to get. I don't think interest in it is overblowing the issue. It's also interesting from a scientific point of view. All in all it's a pretty good candidate for a topic, IMO, and its posts can always be reclassified later as general health (that seems to be what's happened to all those swine flu posts).

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PlanDeRaccordement · 03/02/2020 16:50

So the WHO was wrong to declare it a global emergency then?
I don’t think it’s blown out of proportion at all.

DontCallUp · 03/02/2020 16:49

It's hugely being blown out of proportion though. A special topic really isn't needed.

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