Only on mumsnet do people prep.

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There is not one person I know in real life that is prepping for a coronavirus outbreak. In fact, no one I speak to even mentions the threat of the virus.

Of course we know of it as the hysteria surrounding it is all over the news / social media, but aibu to think preppers only exist on mumsnet?

I agree. I don’t know anyone in rl that does this, only the few loons on MN that stockpile food.

I just assume these people have anxiety or other mental health issues that they don’t admit.

It's not only on MN. To my surprise, several people I've spoken to in the last couple of days say they have made some preparations; they fully expect a large number of cases in London.

I have told people closest to me.to make sure they have meds and some supplies in but they definitely wouldn't know the extent of my prepping in general.

Not sure if preparing for coronavirus pandemic is associated with MN usage but it's almost certainly positively correlated with IQ...

I caught swine flu I was licked down for two weeks with fuck all in my house because we had literally just moved house my daughter who had just turned 9 left the house to get food we had no choice 🤷‍♀️

If you knew me in real life you wouldn't know I'm a prepper.

I don't take offence because it has proved useful many times and does not go to waste. Think of all us 'loons' when the shops are empty

No it's not just here. Loads of forums, facebook groups about it.

You wont survive the zombie apocalypse with that attitude.

They're not going to tell you are they.
I've got face masks .

Most wont talk if it in general.

Of*

I just assume these people have anxiety or other mental health issues that they don’t admit.

I have OCD and anxiety and am happy to admit it. I am not a prepper, as such, but I am prepared should anything happen, I will also say to people I have mental health problems and very open about it in RL, I am not mentioning I have stores.

DP works with the public, we have had 3 schools send pupils home, he is now onboard with me, but tbh there has always been something, in January the whole family were knocked out with a bug, and he was very pleased to have the stuff in that we needed without one of us dragging our arses out

Dh has been scoffing at me worrying but tonight, after hearing some kids in a local school have been quarantined he said “shall we start buying some tins and pasta n stuff?”

He is the calmest person in the world so now I’m SHITTING MYSELF!!

Prepping as in stockpiling?

Tins of beans
Frozen chips
Loo roll
DVD box sets
What else?

Yes, OP, the people who post on Mumsnet about prepping are 100% not real human beings who are actually alive. They are probably bots, or possibly just one tinfoil-hat-wearer who namechanges a lot.

And you're right that you don't know any preppers in real life. Because if you did then they would definitely tell you all about it at every opportunity, so that you could share their food in an emergency.

I just assume these people have anxiety or other mental health issues that they don’t admit

I agree.

I know people who are prepping but haven’t admitted to being on mumsnet.

My outlaws have prepped, they asked if I had and I laughed at them and replied no more than I'm usually prepped. I've always got basics for a few weeks even if it got a bit boring and monotonous at the end. Nothing to do with any crisis as such, just because I'm used to being a single parent and I've had times where through illness I've not been able to get supplies. We may run out of toilet roll though.

My sister & both have basics in - long life milk, pasta and rice, tinned tomatoes, tinned tuna and spam, dried beans, flour etc, tinned fruit. It's really not unusual

No one I know would call them self a prepper, but in reality we all have the ability to feed ourselves for a few weeks from our cupboards.

*My childminder speaks like it’s going to be like Planet of the Apes and we’re all in quarantine under martial law!

It’s not Ebola*

I read something interesting recently. It was part of an article, I think. It said Ebola is scary as hell but kills people too quickly to really take a hold and become an epidemic - plus the mode of transmission is way less deadly than flu. The flu/coronavirus* can be infectious before symptoms appear and that is why it is so frightening (to the article's author, at least)

*I am aware that coronavirus does not = flu before anybody feels the need to say it.

I’ve always got tons of food in the kitchen anyway. My mum was the same (she blamed it on being a WW2 kid and remembering rationing).

Prepping is just being prepared, surely?

I've stocked up because I want to be able to eat properly and care for my family if there are problems with supply chains or panic buying when the virus spreads in the UK. Or if we get ill.

Is that really so crazy.

I find the Christmas prep threads crazy.

There's an actual prepping thread! Maybe I'm being too lax but I'm really not too concerned.