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

A fun read as to the prepping the ultra rich are doing....
www.forbes.com/sites/jimdobson/2015/11/16/the-top-10-luxury-perks-of-the-swankiest-doomsday-bunkers/#acd4e94390b6

*plombear" please don't try and scare us all with that birdie stuff again. All you're doing is adding to people's panic. Even if it were true what are we supposed to do. Why are you trying to scare people.

paintedsmile77 - scaring you as opposed to the tens of hysterical threads on coronavirus? You could say the same thing about the coronavirus posts - “All you're doing is adding to people's panic. Even if it were true what are we supposed to do.”

If you don’t like Birdie Friend, don’t read about him. I’m the one who has to live with my child seeing dead people.

I’m not trying to scare anybody, I’m posting on Mumsnet not threatening people with a baseball bat.

"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."

I'm a general prepper and don't waste my money on this pointless stuff. Please get it right.

I don't feel anxious or worried at all (just wet!) but it does feel quite biblical at the minute. All we need is a plague of locusts or fish falling from the sky and I reckon the end of days will be upon us!

People do not talk in tabloid headlines

I wouldn't quite say that ... on here at least, they're often spouted almost verbatim (and not just as quotes)

Birdie Friend is either 1) imaginary friend, very common in young children or 2) a ghost which means it would know less than us about things.
But either way, not scary to me.

Get what right bellinsurge? Just because you don’t buy those things doesn’t mean other preppers are not. The article link I posted shows entire underground bunkers kitted out with operating rooms, gardens, crops, swimming pools, communication centers, seeds, human and animal DNA. Bill Gates has prepped buying those things I listed.

Perhaps you are prepping differently, but that doesn’t make what I posted wrong.

I don't know anyone who is stocking up on hand gel, buying extra tins of food or who is worried about the weather.
Off you pop to Boots then and try and get hand gel! Shelves are now empty in my nearest town and they had restricted it to 2 bottles per person! None of the supermarkets in town had any either and I only wanted it for work due to the minging habits of customers!

Prepping is increasing the profits of the multinationals twice over - most of it will never get eaten and then you'll have to buy more.
What a stupid comment why on earth will it not get eaten? Its all stuff I use anyway it will get eaten and replaced as necessary, if I forget to buy something in a weekly shop I probably have it in my mini stock so just use it and replace. Most of the stuff I have has a shelf life of aroound 2 years, I am sure my family will be able to demolish a few tins and packets in that time!

Jeeze its like a competition on MN to see who can make the most sarcastic ignorant comment about anyone who does things differently from you!

Can it be a bit apocalyptic? Isn’t it one of those it either is or it isn’t situations?

After the Cold War AIDS was absolutely going to kill us all. Then, then, then...

Now it’s death by 24 hour news cycle.

I think with Corona we can all agree that when we find out what the host animal was it’ll definitely be off the menu in future.

Also, I read hand gel doesn’t kill it so that’s no better than a cross and garlic.

I would love to know how many scientists are working on a cure right now. Whichever country nails it will see their share price skyrocket.

All we need is a plague of locusts
Errr did you miss the plague of locusts?
www.express.co.uk/news/world/1248196/locust-plague-united-nations-biblical-scourge-swarm-east-africa-egypt-spt

Also, I read hand gel doesn’t kill it so that’s no better than a cross and garlic.*

It does if it has an alcohol content of 60% or more.

If it doesn't then it's no good.

Every bottle of hand sanitizer was sold out in a giant Tesco store today. Ditto anti bacterial spray and wipes. There was a light sprinkling of snow yesterday and people were clearing the shelves of bread and milk. People read the news and panic.

thanks, what’s the usual going rate mojo?would I be better off dousing myself in vodka

Global warming means the world as we know it is ending. Quite apocalyptic! I don't know that individuals can do much to prep though

It's what the media feeds off. Some scare story or another. They are totally bathing in the spreading spreading of paranioa and scaring the population to death.

I have faith that we can sort climate change in time, there are so many in young generations who are really keen to find solutions.

The thing I'm struggling with is uncertainty at the moment - Brexit has been hanging over us all for 3 years now, and now it's going ahead, that's another decade of sorting stuff out.
And there's so much disinformation in social media at the moment, and outright lies or lack of information from those who are meant to be the adults in charge, I do genuinely feel a permanent, low-level (or sometimes high level!) anxiety.

Like almost all humans, I do prefer when society is more stable, and when it feels like we have a government that wants to make things better for everyone. Right now, it reminds me of a job I was in where our company was taken over and gradually asset-stripped and run down. While still working there, there was this permanent feeling of angst and unhappiness amongst the staff, a feeling of nothing being valued and everything being lost.

So it's not any kind of dramatic 'end of days' thing for me - the world will keep turning and we will get to happier times again - but more of an uneasy dread for an unknowable length of time.

Some people on the Daily Mail are saying it’s a made man virus - either accidentally released or released on purpose to cull overpopulation.

@PlanDeRaccordement , as I have said countless times on here, most people on the prepper topic are not macho, tin foil hat wearing bullshitters. Most are homestead type Preppers not camo loving Preppers. Most are women. Most are in the UK.
Macho tin foil hat wearing non- UK camo loving preppers are usually sent on their way.

"plombear* the numerous Corona viruses don't scare me in the same way as something that's apparently prophetic. I stopped reading about the badge because I thought it scary, I didn't think it'd pop up here,too late once it's read. Why the need to share though. Probably not true but I still don't like it. Sorry.

The good thing about the Black Death (not a sentence opener you see very often) was that massive social change came in the aftermath. Labour was scarce and agricultural workers were able to command higher wages and better conditions.

Just sayin'.

We had severe snowfall on my way home from work last night. My normal way home wasn't passable (I've got all season tyres...they are rubbish on snow) and I turned round to try the longer way following the main road. Didn't manage that, either. I have to go up a mountain regardless of which route I take and we were still about 10 miles from home.
So, since we were basically stranded in the middle of nowhere, I had to abandon the car on a little woodland path and attempted to make it to the restaurant up the road. Google maps told me it would take about 40 minutes. With a 3-year-old in tow, it was going to take even longer. I couldn't manage to see the path through the woods due to the snow and all the trees which had been blown over in the storms last week and were now blocking it everywhere. It was also starting to get dark. The toddler and I managed to make it back to the road when it got too dark. You couldn't see the road anymore because of all the snow and what tends to be a major route now seemed abandoned. Every five minutes or so, a car would pass. I did feel like I'd been dumped into one of those post-apocalyptic disaster movies.
Luckily, someone stopped to give us a lift. We passed several other cars with their warning lights on, there had been a major accident further down, which is why hardly any cars made it this far up, we had to drive round a lorry that was parked across the three lanes and then when we managed to get down on the other side, the police had blocked off the road and nobody was allowed up. It was rather scary.

On the whole, however, I'm not generally too worried about it being the beginning of the end. I just need to get a new car with proper winter tyres for this time next year. (We moved and it's our first winter here...)

I’m more worried about the changes in the weather than Coronavirus. We have already had more rain in February than has ever been recorded and there’s a few days left yet which includes another storm. We have only had a couple frosts here (down south) this year, it seems to rain every day.

A financial crisis doesn’t really bother me, people voted for brexit knowing things could get pretty tight and that poor people would become poorer.

Coronavirus is just a cold/flu virus that spreads very easily, it will kill people the same as seasonal flu does but there’s no need for a full blown panic.

And while on the subject of scare stories, if you were alive and past puberty in the 80s, AIDS and HIV were going to wipe us all out. In my opinion that was way scarier than a type of flu. I really thought there was a possibility I'd get it even though I didn't fit the now known risk groups. The media was spreading the forecast that it would take hold in the whole population and it would spread like wildfire.

@Lovemusic33 , the problem isn't with the symptoms of the virus (unless you are immunocompromised like me) , it is the fact that it is entirely new to science. Some people get colds. Some don't. It bounces off some people as it mutates. And doesn't bounce off others. Dd got flu in November. I took care of her but didn't get it because I had the latest vaccine and it worked.
This is unknown.