To think that Mumsnet should clamp down on the scaremongering threads?

[callmeadoctor]

Thats it really, you come on Mumsnet and anxiety levels are ramped up. Surely thats not safe?

One issue is though it’s so fast moving that from one day to the next the situation changes so they’d have to get the right message.

Re not the disease, It’s a head start. Not the same thing but awareness and emotions in place. Not easy but a challenge I reckon someone can match with the right message.

Although above all that it’s easier just to lock down.

Yanbu

FACT: My grans next door neighbours hairdressers cat breeders step childrens mum has reliably informed me that London is being evacuated right now

This photo is PROOF

Being a glass half full type of person, who's to say that the various, already existing, drugs they are trying now won't slow the death rate? Or that an effective vaccine is produced quicker than they thought possible? Or that the virus will die out/gradually disappear. (in the way that sars did). No one seems to consider the hopeful possibilities amongst all the doom and gloom. There is only one way this will go, according to some, and we are all 'doomed, doomed'.
Meanwhile, the virtue signallers are very busy not going out, as they are so keen to tell you, and they don't stockpile either. Anyone who doesn't toe their party line is roundly chastised with FFS, ODFOD or sometimes described as a cunt. The 'elderly', as they insist on referring to anyone over 60, or in some cases late 50s, are meanwhile all going out enjoying themselves and being thoughtless. However, I noticed in most of the photos from yesterday's multiple trips out in the sunshine, the majority seemed to be young and families with children.

@JustAnotherPoster00

THE GOVERNMENT DOESNT WANT YOU TO KNOW THIS

They have started moving SOLDIERS in I have the EVIDENCE

What is creeping me out is the glee with which certain people are spreading the news.

It's like they will absolutely be delighted to see body bags everywhere.

I never realised until recent events that so many viewed Threads as an aspirational utopia, but from the tone of certain posts, it clearly is

No one seems to consider the hopeful possibilities amongst all the doom and gloom

I do. I think it’s distinctly possible, in fact likely, that one of the treatments will indeed be successful and cure it and that it won’t be too long till that happens, as in the next few weeks, there is no doubt success is being seen in the initial trials, and that the scientific community globally are working their arses off round the clock, and together, to fix this.

Personally I prefer the optimistic approach, and I don’t think it does any ones mental health any good to be thinking this is it for ever more and we won’t be able to treat or vaccinate against it and we are all fucked.

You've made me laugh for the first time today Just another thank you

What is creeping me out is the glee with which certain people are spreading the news.

Yes, I don't get it at all. Also by the strangely puritanical attitude of some posters who seem to think that we've all enjoyed too much freedom and are being punished for it. As if they're delighted by the thought of rationing or people going hungry and being trapped in their house. I understand this is an exceptional situation and I'm being very sensible and making sure to follow guidelines as I believe that everyone should be but I'm very uncomfortable with the way that some people seem so so happy and willing to hand away our freedom and liberty without even stopping to fully think about the implications. Amazed by the poster earlier who argued we should be under rationing even though there's plenty of food to go round.

I'd like people to stop posting the attention-seeking 'Oh my god this is awful, I have to say this' threads with the title all in capital letters.

I have a little flock of blue tits decimation the cherry blossom. But I don't mind.

Sorry!

Wrong thread!

Well, it's pretty scary where I live.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-coronavirus-cases-top-30000-as-new-york-governor-estimates-40percent-to-80percent-of-state-will-get-coronavirus/ar-BB11wD3I

I don't think people in real life are scared enough. Being scared on the internet and actually adhering to self isolation is vastly different and people aren't doing it. Look at the media and how packed public areas were this weekend. If some of these threads makes people more afraid and therefore stay home- great. We are not doing enough. We haven't listened. There is a very real risk of some quite significant consequences to that.

Yes absolutely, for some posters it seems that they're absolutely salivating to be able to cause distress - that and having their own public little pity parties to an audience on here.

It is utterly pathetic, entirely useless and causes nothing but upset. Clamping down would be great and do an awful lot for morale.

I've hidden the CV section and am taking my facts from the bbc, who and nhs websites.
Some posters are being very rude and imo quite sensationalist.

Yes! I am getting heartily sick of some people talking as if we're on full lock down already.

longearedbat Oh yes,I totally agree with your comment about it being only people in their 50s and 60s 'going out and enjoying themselves'. I have witnessed very few older people out and about,as you said it seems to be mainly families with young children.

I've been away from munsnet for ages and came back to ask something. I forgot how there are the same old people on here absolutely revelling in this and scaremongering fit to bust. OP, just try and step away from mumsnet. Some of the practical advice is useful but there's too many trolls absolutely loving the idea of a dystopian nightmare and convinced only they know the truth. It was the same with Brexit.

The "reality threads", the "shock factor" is like throwing a bomb down indiscriminately, not caring who gets injured or blown up in the process.

I am not normally a precious snowflake but I have to say the "Headteacher is dead" headline absolutely freaked me out. It was so unnecessary. Then to top it all I was told by the OP they couldn't care how I felt, tough.

Since when has MN become so wantonly spiteful and angry to people who haven't deserved that. I've voluntarily reduced all (and I mean all) social interactions to almost zero, for the past two weeks, apart from 1 weekly shop, and I know there's loads of people on here sticking rigidly to the guidelines the best way they can, yet we're becoming targeted as collateral damage, just to appease the anger of certain people.

Yup I can bugger off MN and never darken it's door, but should it really come to that??

MN has a good proportion of really spiteful posters. It wouldn't surprise me if lots of them have been here years under different names

I don't think you can justify the scaremongering threads by saying, well maybe it will finally scare people into staying home -- not at this point. I think by now everyone has heard the advice and for whatever reason they are either listening or not. The scary posts are not convincing them, they are just making a lot of people anxious and fueling some really toxic behaviour.

I don't think people break the rules because the information isn't out there, it is more that for whatever reason they reject that information. In the US, for example, there is interesting polling coming out that shows people who identify more as right-wing are less likely to stay home. This makes sense given the right-wing media has been promoting more of the 'it's just the flu' narratives and Trump et al. have been telling people for years not to listen to fancy experts about anything.

I think daisy's bomb analogy is right. The scary threats are not hitting their target at all, they're just harming those of us who do care.