It would be easier to let it go if I wasn't so anxious. I'm terribly anxious in general but I've been ok these past 2 weeks (staying in, DS staying in, so is DH, just doing the one permitted walk a day) and I've been furloughed.
This news is making me anxious. My DS has been in hospital twice with respiratory issues and once with a febrile due to overheating. I read it and was worried, my DS has been terribly hot lately but as you know, we can't go seeking help right now, he is ok. But when he overheated and had the febrile, it happened so fast. He was ok then in what felt like 1 minute, he was on the floor fitting. We haven't really had any running commentary of someone with symptoms or tested positive as yet. We havent heard of them being ok for 11 days then suddenly being admitted to intensive care. I do worry.
I really did quote it to ask if it was true and I lost my temper when you told me to give it a rest when I said why I was worried because I felt you were being terribly horrible to me despite explaining why I asked here if what I read was true.
It's scary but I have calmed down. I know I can take care of my DS and I'm 99% sure he isn't going to get this horrible virus. I just hate being attacked. I didn't mean any harm, I genuinely wanted to ask if I what I read was true. I was hoping to hear a lot of 'no it's not true' or 'don't be silly' but to be sworn at? I didn't think that was ok.
I apologise for telling you to F off. I was sworn at first and called an idiot so I retaliated. I'm not an idiot, I don't use social media much and I've only just learned that a lot of stuff that is shared on Facebook is bogus. When it's shared by people you work with though, you wouldn't automatically think it was bogus though. I read it, it stuck in my head and I actually made my way here to ask if anyone believes a high temperature is something to worry about or something that is a complication of coronavirus on a coronavirus thread but I saw this one and thought maybe people will debunk it and I can rest easy.
Not everyone wants to spread rumours. I'm a genuine long time mumsnet member. Asking something is not spreading a rumour and I did not state a fact. I wrote what I read and put ? at the end. If we can't quote from outsources, then why are people quoting from other sources but I can't? I don't know, well didn't know, if it was a rumour or not. People are too quick to jump down people's throats on here and it's awful. Instead of asking why I wrote it or why I would think it's true, the first response is 'stop it, just fucking stop it'. It's no way to talk to people you don't even know or what their motivation is. The other poster was clearly making up a story based on seeing the same Facebook post, I did not do that so did not need vilified. My motivation was concern, theirs was for attention or some other kind of weird motive.