To feel terrified after reading the prepping for Brexit threads?

[LittleNapRefuser]

I have genuinely cried real tears of fear after reading the threads on prepping for Brexit today. I have a toddler and right now I am terrified of what is to come and their future after all this.

I don't really have anyone to talk to about this in 'real life' because most people I know aren't reading the news or don't seem to care.

Should I be terrified? Should I be scared for my baby's future? Can anyone reassure me or offer me an alternative perspective on all this. I don't want to to put my head in the sand but I feel really afraid.

FridayThirteenth
The problem comes with a sudden change from one state to another without any transition or agreements in place. That's not scaremongering it's facing facts. Agreed?

My concern is that some of it is politically motivated scaremongering because this has been the primary tactic of the Remain lobby since Day 1. I would be mightily pissed off if the resources of the NHS and Diabetes UK have to be diverted to deal with panicking parents and patients who are being manipulated into a state of fear for no reason. They have enough to do already.

This is something I've been concerned about since the day after the vote, I've not suddenly been whipped up into "hysteria" by the papers!

In fact, I've been worried about such a SHTF scenario since he was diagnosed. It's horrible realising your child has a disease that makes them vulnerable.

I wrote to my MP, MSPs, insulin manufacturer, NHS board etc etc months ago.

There seems to be a lot of heads in sand, lalala, it will all be ok, because the govt will "do something" and it will all be sorted and all be ok. But can you really, honestly look at this shower we have and have faith in them to sort anything out?

I'm not really aiming this at the GFs on here, I know they're not listening. I'm aiming this at any lurkers. You need to know that this is the reality of Brexit.

And I meant to walk away
@Ifailed - thank you - much appreciated! I had missed that, thank you

@FrancinePefko42 not everyone who disagrees with you is a political lobbyist.

Inigo
I have been dealing with an insulin-dependent child for over a decade. Personally, I do not believe giving my daughter her 3- 4 injections a day with attitude of fear and panic about death would be helpful to either her or me. Diabetes UK were superb when we first got our diagnosis. They advised us that an attitude of calm reassurance from parents is far better for children than panic and despair.

The NHS and Dept of Health have already given a categorical reassurance that insulin supplies will not be affected.

There seems to be a lot of heads in sand, lalala, it will all be ok, because the govt will "do something" and it will all be sorted and all be ok. But can you really, honestly look at this shower we have and have faith in them to sort anything out?

I'm not really aiming this at the GFs on here, I know they're not listening. I'm aiming this at any lurkers. You need to know that this is the reality of Brexit

That's enough evidence for me that this post and your attitude is politically motivated.

The NHS and Dept of Health have already given a categorical reassurance that insulin supplies will not be affected.

Have they given any details of how they will ensure supply?

Dear lord. This thread has moved on, or rather descended into insulting a woman rightly worried about her child's health.

There's so much I could say but it's pointless, the Leave lot simply aren't listening. But to those who say we are a powerful nation etc and capable of making the decisions right for us....um, have you been following UK politics recently? The utter clowns who are running our country (into the ground)? You're confident they are going to navigate is out of this crisis? Really? puts head in hands

Electrascoffee
I'm definitely terrified. What I'm hoping is that somebody has the balls to say enough is enough, we're not fucking doing this.

Thanks for that excellent summary of the objectives of the political agenda behind this scaremongering.

That's good to hear. Genuinely.

www.politicshome.com/news/uk/defence/news/97247/army-standby-no-deal-brexit-disruption

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/army-on-standby-for-no-deal-brexit-emergency-dz3359lrf

make for comforting reading

So will they guarantee to supply my usual medication? One of them is made in Europe, without it I'll be very unwell, but it doesn't have the high profile of insulin.

'Political agenda' actually my main agenda is that my family and children don't die. It's not scaremongering. I'm so sick of stupid Leavers repeatedly saying we need to find a successful way to implement Brexit when it's impossible.

My dad is in very ill health and takes a cocktail of medication every day to survive.

Whilst I understand the point you are making Francine you need to understand that huge amounts of emotional manipulation went into the Vote Leave campaign. My Dad is a staunch Leaver and I remember him saying that Leave would win as they had tapped into a huge wave of emotion in Leavers across the country. I missed that as my Mum died 2 weeks before the Referendum (thank goodness as she was a EU national and we would be dealing with a whole can of worms with her paperwork now) by he was clearly right.

There was a lot of politically motivated scaremongering given out by Vote Leave about people flooding in from Turkey etc, there was a recent tweet which showed some of them which was quite shocking.

Vote Leave has created a climate of mistrust of facts and distance of experts. So you end up on the situation where we are now where emotions are running very high as facts don’t alleviate fears, This is a direct effect of Vote Leave’s tactics so you will have to suck it up as it is how it is now, the tap was turned on, you can’t just turn it off again, it’s the whole law of unintended consequences you’re seeing in action. This is directly as a consequence of Vote Leaves actions.

I do feel for you OP. I think with small children it does make you feel vulnerable, I remembering looking at footage from Afghanistan when one of mine was little and fearing for the future - you don’t know the true meaning of worry until you’re a parent. It gets easier with time and I think it’s a bit of a rite of assuage of parenthood.

Interesting quote from that article:-

A minister told the paper: "There is a lot of civil contingency planning around the prospect of no deal. That’s not frightening the horses, that’s just being utterly realistic."

Francine - you don't know how my attitude is around my son! Do you think I let him know about my worries?! Fuck off with your patronising tone.

Re politically motivated - actually, as a supporter of Scottish Independence, Brexit would be great for that, but it's not worth this clusterfuck!

This is now beyond politics.

Oh don’t get Francine started on Scottish Independence!!

I remember the Millennium Bug and thinking the world was going to fall apart.

Before that I remember the 3 day week and in previous decades the very real fear of nuclear war.

Don't underestimate how resourceful people are when backs are against the wall.

So no, I'm not swayed by Project Fear.

However, I'm very worried about climate change, the acidification of the oceans and the fact that plastic consumption continues to rise despite feeble attempts to reduce it by governments.

We are sleep walking into environmental Armageddon and nothing is being done at all.

Army on standby! helicopters to ferry supplies around the country!

Not from an irrational fake news FB post but from the Government....

Hardly the utopia we were promised in june 2016.

Not quite sure how this short "sharp shock" is going to renew our National Pride lol!

We don't bloody need to have our backs against the wall. That's the whole point. And if we weren't having to deal with this, perhaps we could be looking at climate change properly.

I have not heard anyone talking about this in RL and don't read or listen to news. So blissfully unaware. I won't be prepping.

Personally I find the current influx of short term posters who are like a dog with a bone rather comforting as I’ve seen them crop upmtime and time again over the last couple of years and they always crop up when things happen that are a potential threat to Vote Leave’s aims.

Clearly Vote Leave are worried again . Hopeful sanity will prevail in the Autumn and a sensible agreement will be reached which reflects the narrow margin of the win and the fact that 47.6 million didn’t vote for this.

Worrying is not going to change a thing so I am not going to waste time and energy in doing so. I say that as someone who is a big worrier.

I always have enough food in the house for at least a month. If we are happy eating some strange combinations then food for even longer.

I get that people are worried especially people with children BUT why were you not already worried about overpopulation meaning food shortages, about global warming, the world running out of oil etc?

Me and DH chose not to have children nearly 40 years ago because we both thought (and still think) that it was a pretty shitty world to bring children into and was only ever going to get worse.

I am sure we will somehow get through Brexit even if it is tough but the other problems (even if solvable) are going to be far far worse

WhoAteAllthePercyPigs
There's so much I could say but it's pointless, the Leave lot simply aren't listening

Listening does not mean obeying.

It certainly does not mean agreeing, capitulating and jumping on a bandwagon of frenzy and panic.