To want a separate section for the Covid 19 Pearl Clutchers?

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You know the ones. Screaming at posters for talking to a neighbour across the street or for taking their child shopping when they have no alternatives. The ones who believe they know better than the WHO and that the virus flies 10m through the air. The ones is truly believe if you live next to massive open fields that you can't walk in them twice a day.

This situation is serious and we must follow the rules. But common sense and science must prevail and Mumsnet has gone insane and largely unbearable since this started.

Christ id rather people be over cautious than waltzing around risking other people's lives.

I think the itsjustflumymatePhilknows moreaboutepidemiologythanthegovernmentanyonefollowingtherulesisasnowflake muppets are more annoying than the offencemongers right now.

It is, however, a close run thing.

Agree.
Some people go like this because they’re unable to cope with not being able to control something. So the very thought of “something that offends me” causes meltdown to them. A twice-walked dog will not spread disease but “I don’t like it so it must be stopped”.

The ones who believe they know better than the WHO and that the virus flies 10m through the air

You know the WHO are currently looking into the evidence that 2m might not be enough and it could be closer to 6-8m needed, right?

Yes, I think it is quite clear that some people cannot stop compulsively telling others what to do and lashing out at anyone who apparently doesn't conform with their sadly rigid version of the 'rules'.

It seems like a mental health issue to me because it is clearly compulsive and irrational, and perhaps it is a coping mechanism for an ungovernable fear of the unknown.

Other people are just complete virtue-signalling and envious cunts though.

Yes the virtue signalling is tedious

YADNBU - it's crackers on here at the moment. I'm another one who's not sure why she's on here. I need to step away for my own sanity. It used to be a relatively intelligent, measured place. Now, not so much. It seems to have attracted a right bunch of nutters in the last 6 months which is becoming even more apparent in the current environment.

@rafals - have you a source? How on this earth can a virus, unless it has actual independent wings move 8m?

We could have a Covid Calm board, not a non covid board but just a calm one.

We could have a Covid Calm board, not a non covid board but just a calm one.

It wouldn't work. Some of the frothers think they're being reasonable.

"there isn't space for different opinions now on Mumsnet. That's very sad"

From posters advocating that people talking about a worldwide pandemic are "crazies"

The irony.

Of course there's space for different opinions. And if someone posts alarmist tripe, or has some erroneous idea about the science etc, MN is generally good at robust rebuttals. That's one of the reasons MN lets some threads stand - so that rubbish gleaned from FB, Twitter, the DM or wherever can be addressed.

You definitely get the sense that some people have spent a lot of time in their sitting rooms for years, and are frankly delighted that this existence is now being inflicted on everyone.

'According to current evidence, COVID-19 virus is primarily transmitted between people through respiratory droplets and contact routes.2-7 In an analysis of 75,465 COVID-19 cases in China, airborne transmission was not reported.''

Taken from: Modes of transmission of virus causing COVID-19: implications for IPC precaution recommendations (29th March)

Available: www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/modes-of-transmission-of-virus-causing-covid-19-implications-for-ipc-precaution-recommendations

I've had to step far away from MN for a few weeks now for my own mental health. I've come back today to see if anything has calmed down but I don't think I'm going to stick around much other than to read the Books section.

The shaming, virtue signalling and quite honestly hysteria on here really affect my anxiety and it is very hard to avoid the subject. There's a separate board but (much like the virus) it crashes into the boards that I used to enjoy reading.

I like the idea of a corona free zone, definitely

I block the coronavirus branch. But these people are also hanging around in AIBU.

We need separate virus AIBU branch

You speak in clichés OP.

Subtle there is a corona free zone

If you look at the alphabetical list, it’s “the corona free zone” I think.

In fairness the reason people are reacting like this is because for most of the past three weeks we had people with their heads in the sand about this and refusing to face up to the need to take it seriously. Until lockdown I was routinely coming into contact with people telling me it was just flu etc.

So although I normally loathe controlling people I'm with the Pearl Clutchers on this. Would prefer to survive this.

thepeople you’re allowed to react how you like. It would just be nice to have a calmer board, stats and measures could still be discussed but without people saying “don’t spend too long in Aldi or you’ll kill 7500 people”.

I like the idea of a corona free zone, definitely

I've linked to the board upthread. There are some lovely threads, this is the general introductory one.

https://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronafreee_zone/3859766-Welcome-to-the-no-corona-zona

Pearl Clutchers - you mean the CoronaStasi?

Christ id rather people be over cautious than waltzing around risking other people's lives

if I stay at home I don't need to worry about what other people do because the chances are I won't catch it. Their lookout if they do. And yes I realise they may take up medical resources, but that's for the NHS workers to get annoyed about, not the virtue signalling general public.

A month ago many of us were being accused of ‘scaremongering’ & some people were asking for the ads to be deleted because it was scaremongering nonsense & wouldn’t affect us here...

They’re the people who started panic buying

Now people think we’re crazy because people aren’t STAYING HOME. and because we believe virologists talking about greater transmission than 2m & STAYING HOME INSIDE as it can ‘hang’ in the air. That chatting with your neighbours and popping in to see people etc IS a problem, it will transmit the virus as will driving to places to go walking etc.

Come back in another month and tell us we are crazy!

FFS.

If people aren’t staying at home already after everything that’s happened, I’m not sure typing it at them in all-caps is going to change much.

YABU. If people don't want scaremongering they shouldn't br reading anything at all about covid-19. You can't get a lot scarier than a pandemic ffs.
Of course we're not ALL going to die. That's irrelevant, as clearly a considerable number are and have already.
And 'ridiculous stories like the virus flying 10 foot through the air' - this is what the World Health Organisation are now thinking is very likely the case, and are highly likely to recommend face maks in public.