To think some of the more extreme threads on here should be removed

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I started reading a couple of threads yesterday and had to stop because the tone was so 'doomsday, there's no hope, we're all going to die'.

I do understand that for those suffering from anxiety this must be an incredibly difficult time. But creating threads that totally exaggerate the dangers or stray into dystopian scenarios is not going to help anyone else's anxiety levels.

AIBU to wish Mnhq would kindly but speedily remove some of these threads.

By the way I thought I had posted on this earlier but can't find the thread so apologies if this is a duplicate.

I haven't seen any threads like this. The odd post which is usually talked down by other posters.
In fact, this original post is in the category of being distressed. Step away from social media.

No I'm not distressed. But I'm concerned at the way some of the more bizarre scenarios, that have no basis in facts or reality, and bear no resemblance to what medical experts across the world are stating, aren't being removed. People who do suffer from anxiety don't need to be reading this alarmist rubbish.

But it's a talk forum. People talk. We can't know who anyone is on here, so all threads/posters should be taken with a pinch of salt.

That does excuse scaremongering and posting frightening made up scenarios during a world wide crisis. Yes.the robust can post briskly about making up their own mind, free speed h etc.

But this is a time when we really need to be more mindful of the vulnerable amongst us.

Doesn't excuse scaremongering I meant to say.

YABU
MN is not a democracy. We don’t get to collectively decide what they do and don’t delete. They have talk guidelines.... you kind of agree to them when signing up to use the forums

Free speech is vital. It is hard to know what to believe from the actual news which seems to get briefer every day. 'On the ground' info, even if anecdotal, is really helpful to people who find a lack of information stressful. The content is clear from the threat title, no-one's making you read it if you're of an anxious disposition. No censorship please!

Can I just say as well that I am getting sick and tired of people expecting others to modify their behaviour because they are anxious. You manage your own anxiety.
I received a kicking on a thread I started about wanting to find a way of helping others because of one word I used in the OP. They’re reasoning being that it wasn’t helpful for anxious people.
I’ve suffered anxiety myself so I know how hard it is... but that doesn’t mean I agree with censoring everyone and everything in order to stop others feel scared.
Being scared is a normal human emotion and you can’t go through life shielding people from that, these are scary times and it is ok to feel anxious about it. In fact, I would say that is an entirely normal reaction.

Yanbu but MNHQ is basically out to lunch until further notice. That's why this place gets more Lord of the Flies with each passing day.

The vulnerable among us should not use MN as their source of information about the current situation.
Random internet strangers' opinions and speculation are not a replacement for the news.

Absolutely @Ethelfleda.
People deal with stress in different ways. If posting pictures of beaches on facebook helps you, fine. Personally I find it irritating and a bit 'head in the sand'. I don't want to ban it, I just won't participate in those posts. You have the option!

Sometimes OP the truth hurts. I’d say it’s better to prepare for the worst and be open to whatever comes our way and hope for the best. Life as we knew it before this is technically over whether it’s on Mumsnet or not, that fact we can not escape from.

If people struggle with what is happening my advice is to not look into any of the threads about the virus, but as I said, it is better to prepare ourselves for the possibility of this being a very difficult period in time for us.

Also on the point of scaremongering, many of us we trying to get across what was coming way back in the start of February, we were ridiculed for scaremongering and causing unnecessary fear. We were told nothing would happen and that we would be fine.

The very mention we would be under lockdown was causing people to report my posts along with others. Head in the sands of an hourglass has only exasperated the problems for those who didn’t believe us when we said to prepare.

I had a quick look back to see what you meant @Wehttam, but there are too many posts to read.

Are people deliberately misunderstanding my post. I am not talking about posters talking about the reality of the situation , I am talking about posters letting their imagination run away and coming up with ridiculous scenarios or talking as if the virus is going to kill everyone and there is no escape.

Not helpful and potentially damaging to those already suffering from anxiety or exaggerated fears around the situation.

And no, I'm not one of them but I don't want to see vulnerable people being unnecessarily panicked.

And saying that no one believed that a lockdown would be coming is the equivalent of people posting that the virus is going to take over the world and kill everyone and not being believed is ridiculous.

I'd like to know what counts as alarmist rubbish. I'm hoping for the best , but if someone has come up with a scenario that is worse than the worst case scenario we could be facing then I shall be impressed with their imagination.

YANBU

Either you believe in free speech, or you don't.

Wehttham and others were treated abhorrently in late Feb and early March, accused of lying and the old tired trope scaremongering. When what they were really doing is saying simply "hold on a minute, something serious is happening here and the govt needs to do something about it".

The "it's only flu" ostriches fed them to the dogs.

I agree with Ethel as well. Unfortunately the word anxiety on MN has become meaningless as it peppers every thread.

Where are these threads you are seeing saying the world is ending?
Because I can show you dozens saying there wouldn't be a lockdown and the people concerned were liars.

Really haven't seen while threads of this. Just haven't.

YABVU. We can’t censor and remove threads and/or posts because some people might get upset.

If someone is struggling to cope so much that a random strangers words or opinion is going to make them anxious that is a problem they need to fix, not one we should be sticking a plaster over by hiding things from them.

There was a recent Gold Classic thread

"AIBU to think it's scaremongering to claim that Boris will announce a lockdown tonight"

where the OP and those who agreed with them went very quiet after the speech ....

From "scare-mongering", "doom-sayers" and "hysteria" ..... to reality within 90 minutes ! 😂

Thank you Canterbury

Lots of others were accused of stirring up fear when we were simply telling people what was happening in China was coming straight to our doorstep. The disbelief that a lockdown would even happen still astounds me, I was called horrid names and literally laughed at, made to feel guilty because they said we were stirring up fear. Wow how the tides have turned.

YANBU, tbh I come to MN for a bit of light relief and have done for years.
Seriously not available past couple of years and especially not now lol.
Have noticed though they do swiftly move stuff to the covid forum if you report and ask them to.