Coronavirus topic & trending now

Feminism and women’s rights.

What’s FWR?

I can understand that, I felt the same about the brexit threads but again what can you do?

It's not a case of not facing up to it I'm sick of threads asking should I go to work/school/a party/a wedding etc and all the other ones where people cant decide what to do. I'm very aware of what's going on and how serious it is but I'd like a break from it too

I’ve seen very few of those sorts of posts, but in any event, what do you want (meant genuinely and not snarkily) - for people not to post about it at all, for people only to post about it in the correct topic (but some things straddle various topics - work/parenting/money for example) - it’s big news, I don’t see how people can not talk about it.

But there’s a difference between pretending it isn’t happening and posting that “this is what’s going to happen” as fact.

Last week people were posting about how a bit of a hit to the economy is a small price to pay to get through this virus, despite a number of people pointing out that one of the reasons why we need to hold off as long as possible is to hopefully reduce the hit to the economy. Now those same people are upset that they’re being restricted and “what about the economy.”

Most of us are fully aware of the impact of this. We don’t all need to talk about it we all need to take some personal responsibility and get through it.

I’m sorry to hear that alternative

However, it isn’t just death - that’s part of it of course, death of loved ones, deaths of ourselves, but also real stark practical terms.

Life is going on. Pretending this isn’t happening helps no one.

@ Millymaud but life has to go on. There is no question that these are interesting times we live in. But we will come through this, the world has come through worse and survived, and it’s not about shielding anyone from anything, it’s as much as not enabling people to feed their anxiety.

As someone with a serious heart condition I will probably die if I catch it. But scaremongering about that all over the internet isn’t actually going to do me any good is it? In fact there is a lot of evidence that negative thinking can have precisely that outcome.

I nearly died in the summer. In fact after a cardiac arrest I clinically died three times and now I need a heart transplant. But I didn’t come through all that to spend the next however long worrying about the next thing that might kill me.

So many people are so caught up in thinking of dying that they’re not actually living.

I tend to look at active convo’s and they don’t appear there. Have never looked at trending and it appears there’s probably no point now.

I contributed to some of the original threads in a (what I hope is) balanced way, but the sheer number of them and the hysteria on some of them ventures into tinfoil hat teratory and they were getting on my nerves so I hid it. Now it seems there’s no point because it’s moved into AIBU, perhaps because of lack of traffic among the rational/sane members of the community....?

Some people are looking at losing everything

Have I been transported back to the 1900s where women should be kept away from disturbing and upsetting things as it might upset them?

I'm not clear what the point of hiding the CV topic if the threads still appear in the trending box (but I may be missing something...). I'm not particularly prone to health anxiety but I don't want to see these alarmist threads - they worry me. Goodness knows what a person with actual health anxiety must be feeling.

Hid the CV topic this morning and loving it! I would love to get both CV and AIBU off my trending list- I have hidden them for a reason...

Now we have people posting all over AIBU because “I feel this post needs more traffic.”
Come on @mnhq what you’re doing and allowing here is going far beyond people wanting to talk about corona and enabling fear and hysteria.

Can you at least put messages at the top of every post saying that corona topics not in the right category will be deleted? That way people will have to post in the doom mongers topic otherwise be deleted.

@redglitter me too! I keep expecting an email to say, can you please stop reporting now EMW!!

It's just madness. Are these people's lives so empty they they need to feed their despair frenzy.

Bring back National Service! That will sort 'em ;)

I agree that the whole topic should be banned - there are lot of members with some serious anxiety issues that are being wound into utter panic on here.

There is no need for any of it.

I agree with you Alternative There's a lot of fear feeding, there are a lot of mumsnetters with delicate mental health and this is really unhelpful.

I’m actually worried about some of the posters who keep starting threads there.

Come and hang out with us on the "positive mental health" coronavirus thread. Lots of sensible information, a total ban on scaremongering, and pet pics.

I actually think the coronavirus topic needs to go. I likened it yesterday to those MH forums where people go on and all gain mutual support to harm themselves or worse, panic feeds panic,and while I realise that this is an interesting time for all of us, the hysteria which is being encouraged on there is not healthy.

Perhaps MNHQ could pin the “worried about coronavirus” thread to the top of active, and get rid of the rest. There really is no need for there to be multiple threads a day on the same topic - “when is the government closing schools x10/we’re all going to die hundreds/we should be afraid” and the list goes on.

I don’t have health anxiety, I do have a serious heart condition, and I believe I have been generally rational in the points I have made on some of those threads in the past.

But yesterday I hid the topic, and active looks so much different.

If removing the coronavirus topic isn’t something MNHQ would want to do,then perhaps a message at the top of every other board saying that any threads on coronavirus need to be put in the right board or alternatively MNHQ will delete them. Then maybe people will get the message to go and froth and panic in the one place.

Agreed! Hide them please!

I reported loads yesterday. Given up today as they're on every topic.

WTF is wrong with people??! We're not all gibbering wrecks with health anxiety. I come online to escape every day life, thanks.

It's bordering on insanity. Bet they're all the fuckers who've stripped the supermarkets bare with their panicking.

@ExServiceWoman

I've reported loads. MN will be taking the report button away from me soon 🙈

@redglitter are you reporting them too? Not just hiding them?

@HebeMumsnet. But one thing which is constantly happening is CV thresds appearing in trending because people are posting in Chat/AIBU etc. I've just hidden about half a dozen threads in the past 10 mins. Are @MNHQ looking out for those to move them?