To say some people are being ridiculously hysterical?

[YoyoYOO]

It's a serious situation, of course it is and I understand the need to slow the spread. And I understand why those at particularly high risk would be extra careful.

But honestly, some of the threads on here at the moment. It is just a constant, endless circle of people slagging off their friends or family for some perceived flouting of THE RULES, panicking and losing sleep because you're not sure if you disinfected your Amazon parcel well enough, quarantining a carton of milk for 72hrs, being called a serial killer because you sat down on some grass for 10 minutes after going for a run, stopping to talk to a family member out the window after your supermarket trip is akin to the worst crime known to man.

I've never ever read or witnessed such mass hysteria before. AIBU to think that some people are going absolutely crazy?

Which part of unprecedented in a lifetime global pandemic are you not getting? This disease isn’t even understood by top scientists, for all you know the “hysterical” people might be totally right. There’s no prescribed way to behave. The virus doesn’t give a shit about your stoicness or “proper” behaviour. Have a think about why people might be reacting like this and try and find a bit of kindness in yourself towards those who are terrified right now.

I've never ever read or witnessed such mass hysteria before.
Well you probably never experienced a worldwide pandemic which shut down countries all over🤷🏻

Yeah. Some things are ott. Some people do take a piss though and it's understandable why the ones who don't feel angry about that.

YANBU but it won't be a popular view on here.

More than 11,000 people are already dead (annual deaths from flu are about 2,000) and our governmental response has been inadequate, meaning we are likely to see the biggest death toll in Europe, though who knows how high it might eventually be.

Given that so far there is no managed way out of the situation in sight, why wouldn’t people be trying to take control of the parts of their lives over which they still have agency?

Absolutely spot on op. I’ve been grumbling about the lack of critical thinking around this since the start.

When we’re being angry at each other we aren’t being angry at a Government which has effectively abandoned people in care homes to die.

I agree totally. The regulations have been set with the lowest common denominator in mind, the majority of us ought to be able to apply a little common sense.

Half the threads on here are nothing to do with being scared and everything to do with finding an excuse to have everyone slag off your MIL, 'friends', other family member etc...

YANBU at all.

And you thought yet another thread whinging about it would help how exactly?!🤷🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️

When we’re being angry at each other we aren’t being angry at a Government which has effectively abandoned people in care homes to die.
We can be angry at both at the same time. Idiots in government and idiots who make a shopping trip to the ASDA into a whole family outing.

YANBU.

It's like the Coronavirus Olympics. Some posters think they are going to get a gold medal for not leaving the house in a month and bathing their children hourly in bleach.

You are not wrong OP

But the hysteria will enter this thread and any attempt at critical rational thinking will be up in a puff of smoke within seconds

Good luck!

Yep. It’s not just MN though. People posting advice and opinion and fact all over the place.

When you apply logic or critical thinking (for example, asking for the source of the information) then, surprise surprise, they can’t remember, or they’re suddenly not sure whether that’s what they read.

People are scared. Some people are plain stupid.

What baffles me is that people don’t seem to understand why we’re doing what we are. It’s not so that we won’t catch it - most of us will - it’s so too many people don’t catch it at the same time and overwhelm the NHS. So many people don’t get this, so I do t see how on earth the government gets us out of this mess.....

It a major crisis, scary and unprecedented, it's not hysterical to be scared.

However, the obsession and hysteria around the "rules" is ridiculous. The repeated assertions that everyone must follow the rules (in fact even tighter ones that people make up) in order to have the crisis over sooner just shows that people don't get it.

In order for the crisis to end we need a level of immunity, which will only happen from a vaccine (years away?) or from having had the illness.

Which is why there is deliberately room for some interpretation in the rules and why even when following the rules some people will still get it. The aim is not to prevent the spread, it's to slow it just enough so that the NHS can cope. Doing "better" than that with the rules will save no additional lives and will prolong the crisis.

It's been this way since the beginning, it's been said often but people are still convinced that it's all to stop them from getting "it". It's not, it's to stop everyone getting it at once. That is all.

@Thethiniceofanewday has it exactly

“ When we’re being angry at each other we aren’t being angry at a Government which has effectively abandoned people in care homes to die.”

I have both of my parents in separate care homes. Only early 70s. When the virus reaches their care home it is very likely it will finish them off. Frontline care workers do an amazing job for very little money and almost no proper PPE. It’s a bloody disgrace.

P.s. don’t dare say you are concerned about the economic devastation

That would be foolish

I'm not in the UK anymore and here we have less than 50 deaths and our country went into complete lockdown way before Britain. Its pathetic in the way it was handled there, being so hard it and not to mention a first world country. Over 10 000 deaths and you think people are overreacting. I think when someone you know dies then you might wake up to how serious this is.
I'm shocked that people are even allowed a daily walk around.
We have the army arresting you if you try that.

I get it, I'm staying in as much as possible, going out for shopping and exercise only. I'm just not bleaching down my deliveries and keeping a log of my neighbours activities and how often they are leaving the house.

@IndecentFeminist YES!

You’re quite right. Everyone has gone a bit bonkers.

Scared my arse. They're absolutely loving their self-appointed neighbourhood police role and competitive lockdown hysteria.

I get it, I'm staying in as much as possible, going out for shopping and exercise only. I'm just not bleaching down my deliveries and keeping a log of my neighbours activities and how often they are leaving the house.

^^ This. Totally agree.