AIBU to think things feel a bit apocalyptic?

[SundayGirlB]

Covid-19, unprecedented flooding, raging bushfires, Syria, state cyber warfare, rise of populism, stock market crashes...not looking good is it? Genuinely felt anxious last night after watching the news.

YABU = get a grip
YANBU = start prepping

[MelanieFrontage]

@winniethekid why do you think the food won’t get eaten? I have about 4-6 weeks of food in stock at home and it will all get eaten in rotation?

I just like being prepared, mainly because I’m lazy and at weekends batch cook and freeze lots of meals so I don’t have to bother cooking from scratch in the evenings during the week.

[Puzzledandpissedoff]

The Doomsday Clock is now set at 100 seconds to midnight

Has Greta Thunberg been fiddling with the batteries perhaps?

Incoming ....

[MimiLaRue]

YABU. Wars have always happened, floods and hurricanes have always happened, viruses have always spread. Go back far enough and you'll find all three at the same time.

On the other hand, I do see what you mean and I wonder if atheists are in for a nasty surprise

[Milicentbystander72]

I agree with one if the first replies.

I grew up in the 70's and remember the fear of the Cold War heights in the 80's. We genuinely felt there would be nuclear war any day. There were dedicated service people who drilled it regularly and there were plans to 'write off' certain towns etc.
On the telly was plenty of bleak, after the bomb style dramas. The fear was very real.

Then there was the IRA mainland bombings. People like to almost be nostalgic about the IRA now saying things like "they were proper terrorists with an actual aim". The fear was real and regular.

There was mad cow disease....

The only thing that is really concerning me now is Climate Change. I feel a bit hopeless on this until America and China wake up to it. We can all do things to help and each country has their own responsibility but until they get onboard I think we're passing in the wind.

[Milicentbystander72]

Also in the 70's we didn't even have electricity, only about 3 days a week!

[longtimemarried]

I was an evacuee during WW11, now that was scary but still here to tell the tale.

[The80sweregreat]

Someone mentioned the Jehovah's Witness up thread.
I get the Jehovah's witnesses knock once a month with their watchtower mag and I swear it's the same ones I read in the 90s with the same old news! I take it and have a read but I don't believe any of it. I just cant be rude to them : we all have different beliefs and it must take some nerve to knock on people's door like that. I smile politely but I'd never go to one of their lodges or join them. They must love all this news as they have been saying it's going to happen for years!

Anyway, I am concerned about things but what can we do?! Just take advice and hope it'll sort itself out. It's not good at all , but I do agree 24 hour news helps fuel the fear.
The locust plague is very biblical to be fair. I must admit even I felt a shudder when I saw that!
I'm washing my hands more and I worry about my kids and family but it is pointless worrying really as I can't do anything. None of us can.

[bellinisurge]

I'm old. Bad shit is nothing new. Coverage of it in 24 hour news cycles is.
Being calmly concerned is not something to be ashamed of.
The willy waving on here about how nonchalant you are is almost as bad. Because it suggests people should feel embarrassed about being concerned. People do not talk in tabloid headlines so don't talk down to people who are a bit worried as if they were some bollocks headline writer seeking attention.

Yes, panicking isn't sensible or healthy but the only panicking I'm seeing is people desperate to prove what smart arses they are.

[Chardonnay73]

I think there’s so much hype around this, the Daily Mail are whipping everyone up into a frenzy, I’m looking at you Mother 🤦‍♀️
If the Queen died tomorrow all this media hysteria would stop and they’d move onto that.

[iheartislesofwight]

bellini re; guns and axes, the post was on the prep thread several months ago. the poster was in the U.S and said she's grown up on a farm, the family were prepared for a doomsday scenario and said she would do the same if she lived in the u.k in the run upto brexit.
so, sorry but there are some serious weirdos out there whether you like it or not.

[bellinisurge]

And the US poster was shouted down on tbe prepper thread in question. But it doesn't suit your narrative to say that.

[katy1213]

Possibly doesn't measure up to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

[PlomBear]

If you’ve read my post about Birdie Friend, DS has been prophesying The End yet quite a few posters said I was making it up or mocking me...

So is this The End or not?

Birdie Friend is currently dipped in some avocado hummus whilst watching Paw Patrol with DS.

[iheartislesofwight]

bellini i didn't read on to furthur comments as i thought they were a complete fruit loop, so you know the thread i mean then.

[bellinisurge]

Fruit loops turn up on all threads. They get shouted down immediately if they come out with that bollocks. Because bollocks deserves dismissing.

[Sparklingplasters]

I am in a very stressful IT sales role and the prospect of another major recession is making me want to run away.

Those locusts look awfu too

[iheartislesofwight]

quite right too.

[JustInCaseCakeHappens]

sorry but there are some serious weirdos out there whether you like it or not.

if they are consistent enough, they are not so weird. It's a different lifestyle choice.

It's the ones who think prepping for the apocalypse means buying a couple of candles and having a freezer full who are a tad lost
Wink: wink

[bellinisurge]

Then the nonsense you are peddling about the prepper topic is just that. Silly ill informed bollocks.

[malificent7]

We all die anyway...it's the weekend...switch off the news, run a nice hot bath and have a glass of wine.
I am prepping a bit anyway...always a good plan

[DowntownAbby]

You could have just added this to one of the other hundreds of hysterical handwringing threads, OP.

[Justaboy]

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were seen in our high street earlier!, but they could find anywhere to park their horses, so they've now pissed off elsewhere!.

[PlanDeRaccordement]

YABU
Get a grip. Every twenty years there is some new end of the world deadline looming. And every time it doesn’t happen and new apocalypse date is picked.

I think the companies that sell prepping stuff- generators, water filters, underground bunkers, guns/ammo in America, MREs, survival camps/training and so on deliberately fill the media with hysteria so they can keep a market going for their goods.

[Jaxhog]

The world goes through theses stages from time to time. It still isn't as scary as being on a tube train that didn't stop at a station during the IRA terrorism, or when AIDS first appeared or when I worked for a pharma company and had to check under my car every morning.

I think the media have made it worse. In the past, we wouldn't have had all this bad news. Now we know (almost) everything.

[SpeedofaSloth]

YANBU but don't start prepping, that will make things worse.

I remember the early 80s feeling like this, mainly over cold war/ nuclear issues.