Coronavirus are you worried?

[CountryGirl1234]

So this virus has infected 600+ already and seems to be picking up pace. It’ll be in the UK any day, if it’s not already. AIBU to think this is going to have a big fallout and are you concerned?

amp.theguardian.com/science/live/2020/jan/23/coronavirus-china-virus-flu-scotland-testing-wuhan-live-news-updates

@MarieIVanArkleStinks

Is the OP there's a Coronavirus board where you can take your catastrophising and be among friends?

@MarieIVanArkleStinks this is a zombie thread, so no one is catastrophising - if anything they were underplaying it!

@TheRuleofStix

A sobering read .

I wonder how many of those posters who were so blasé have now been personally affected?

I was one. Went abroad in February with not a thought for this new virus. Little did we know . . .

I’m a news junkie, I followed the Wuhan info very closely. We basically began lockdown in in mid-February. We were due to go to Spain at the start of Feb but cancelled. I was afraid we’d end up locked out. Little did I know the UK would never close it’s border!

I’ll never forget the eeriness of those 2 or 3 weeks before lockdown. It seemed to hit everybody all of a sudden where I am.

DH hadn’t been taking it seriously at all. He just thought it’d go away. Then on March 19th he came home from work in the evening and was as white as a sheet, he ended up going for a lie down. He told me that his usually packed 5:30pm commuter train had 5 people on it and that’s when he realised things weren’t going to be the same for a very long while.

@AcornAutumn

"The news today about increasing the fines for breaking the rules,and in contradiction, house parties can have up to 15 people in a gathering seems mad "

You can't.

It was a terrible way to explain it but it's essentially a higher fine than yesterday, if you have a gathering of 15+. I have no idea which fine applies of it's 15!

I’m in Sydney and we haven’t had a case in 4 days (when we did I was in single digits) and we are only currently allowed 5 guests to a household in a day.

15 is insane with the amount of cases the UK has.

@MarieIVanArkleStinks

Is the OP there's a Coronavirus board where you can take your catastrophising and be among friends?

It's not "catastrophising" when the catastrophe has happened and over 100,000 of us are dead of a preventable disease.

And we're still dying.

30,000 expected this month.

Back then I was following Wuhan and knew it was a risk, but having lived through other epidemics, did not think it would be this bad. I don't think anyone did.🙁

And I had other things on my mind. The past Christmas and New Year. My dad falling and breaking his arm. My new evening class. DS1's new glasses. DS2's new shoes. My mother wanting to kill my father for being a useless fucker with a broken arm. All that normal shit that seems so desirable and exciting now.

I am more worried now than I was then.

Coincidentally I watched a couple of the news updates from the week before first lockdown last night.

1500 cases in the U.K. and I think deaths were around 50. Newsreaders sitting right next to interviewees. Footage from inside hospital with no Ppe at all. Government ‘not supporting’ groups of more than 500. Footage of Cheltenham races. Looked a different time.

There wasn't even a coronavirus board when this was posted!

Interesting read

For some time it just seemed to be over there so far away not something that would impact us but fascinating to watch/read and discuss

How our lives have changed beyond anything we could have imagined I miss those times

“ 15 is insane with the amount of cases the UK has. ”

No, 15 people are not allowed for a house party (no household mixing at all except for permitted bubbles). The news yesterday was higher fines for illegal parties of 15 or more, parties of fewer than 15 are still banned and can still receive a, lower, fine.

I remember this thread. I was worried in January thank goodness my husband was as well. I remember going out with friends on valentines day and that's all we were talking about I did worry as the couple next to us would think we were all overreacting as they were silent a lot of the time, obviously listening to us all talking about how bad things were going to get etc. It didn't help with me comparing it to a film I'd watched years before "contagion " 🙄. I do wonder if some of the people here who were not worried at all about this virus have been affected by covid-19, had it or possibly lost loved ones. I hope not. I still can't believe people are still not taking covid-19 seriously and think its all a hoax. Oh I wish this was the case. Its here to stay certainly the rest of 2021 and 2022 restrictions will still be in place wearing masks, hand sanitising etc etc 😒

[quote DimidDavilby]Presumably this thread will be locked like the previous one was (linked below).
A bizarre and infantilising choice I thought, why stop people from reflecting?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3811206-Response-to-first-2-UK-cases-of-coronavirus-not-robust-enough?msgid=103882665#103882665[/quote]
I saw that too and thought it was a bizarre decision.
I've never seen a thread locked before, even when someone's bumped an irrelevant thread from 10 years ago, so why lock one that still has relevance.
It's very relevant to look back at the threads from this time last year and say "wow, I would never have guessed" because that's how we learn from history.
Yes, some people have come out of these threads with egg on their face, but hopefully they have learnt and aren't now the ones stating "schools will open by 1st February because they can't keep them closed".
By locking them it's stopping discussion that could help people in the future.

I thought maybe the people who reported the thread were people who had bollocked the op for scaremongering!

@whereismormonjesus

I’ll never forget the eeriness of those 2 or 3 weeks before lockdown. It seemed to hit everybody all of a sudden where I am.

DH hadn’t been taking it seriously at all. He just thought it’d go away. Then on March 19th he came home from work in the evening and was as white as a sheet, he ended up going for a lie down. He told me that his usually packed 5:30pm commuter train had 5 people on it and that’s when he realised things weren’t going to be the same for a very long while.

For me it was driving home from work and seeing traffic signs warning of it rather than the usual road closures and gritters out tonight notices. It was a little thing, but I think it was the first time I realised it wasn't some distant thing that you just read about in the news. I didn't know at the time either that it was the last time I'd be doing that commute.

I thought maybe the people who reported the thread were people who had bollocked the op for scaremongering!

Also, doubtless, resurrecting 'Zombie' threads. Especially when there's a designated area of the site where people can wring their hands to their hearts' content. And there are warnings on old threads telling people 'This is a Zombie thread. Why not start another?' (Damned fine idea, MNHQ). And the many people sick of seeing this never-ending theme trotted out ad nauseam can use mainstream boards without seeing them cluttered with this endless, over-emotional race to the bottom.

People have politely requested this on many occasions. Now perhaps they're reporting as regularly as the Covid Prefects are reporting their neighbours? Ouch. Must hurt.

Why are you clicking on a thread you have no interest in and writing such a rambling reply on it?

I still can't believe people are still not taking covid-19 seriously and think its all a hoax.

It's a coping mechanism. I have a close family member who's a frontline NHS worker. She obviously knows exactly how serious it is but she still insists it's just like a bad flu season and regularly tells me how over-anxious I am to be wearing a mask etc. She told me over Christmas that she doesn't want to have the vaccine because it's so obvious the pandemic is a hoax that she assumes the shots must be delivering some kind of tracking device into people. She's basically completely lost the plot but she's far from being the only one. The pandemic has caused a lot of dissociative thinking in people who aren't psychologically strong enough to cope with its implications.

And yy to not locking the thread. The whole point of the thread is to look back and reflect on what was said and thought a year ago. Unless people think we should start a new thread that consists of a load of quotes from threads a year ago - but what a load of make-work that would be.

Mariel I think you are wilfully misunderstanding why people are responding to this thread. It’s not to resurrect it, it’s not to hand wring. It’s to look back at where we were, what we thought last year and it’s a collective experience written here n real time. It’s a pretty valuable bit of social history.
If you don’t like it, don’t read it

@Tenementfunster

Exactly that.

@MarieIVanArkleStinks

I thought maybe the people who reported the thread were people who had bollocked the op for scaremongering!

Also, doubtless, resurrecting 'Zombie' threads. Especially when there's a designated area of the site where people can wring their hands to their hearts' content. And there are warnings on old threads telling people 'This is a Zombie thread. Why not start another?' (Damned fine idea, MNHQ). And the many people sick of seeing this never-ending theme trotted out ad nauseam can use mainstream boards without seeing them cluttered with this endless, over-emotional race to the bottom.

People have politely requested this on many occasions. Now perhaps they're reporting as regularly as the Covid Prefects are reporting their neighbours? Ouch. Must hurt.

Tone deaf post.

Im not a covid police and I'm working as normal but thousands of people have died.