Some people enjoy patronising and depressing others

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Clearly everyone is having a different experience of the current situation. It seems to me from the posts here and elsewhere that MN is full of people searching for threads from people either asking genuinely when others think the restrictions may be reduced, or people expressing mental or emotional.distress due to being locked away, sometimes alone. The pattern is the OP posts, there are a couple of sympathetic/in the case of lockdown speculation dovish opinions then the Depressor swoops, usually with a formulation along the lines of:
If you think these restrictions will be lifted anytime soon you are a naïve fool. Christmas will be cancelled and things will never fully return to normal

In the threads expressing mental distress their standard formulation is a variety of:
FFS pull yourselves together. It's been (insert number) weeks, how the F do you think people coped in the war the. All you are being asked to do is stay in and watch Netflix

There seems to be a remarkably large number of people among this cohort who claim grandparental involvement in WW1/2 and have a partner/sibling serving as a front line NHS worker. These depressors seem to scour MN looking to pounce on people expressing povs like the above.

I've never in my life had any desire to own a hot tub, but now I want one purely so that I can refer to it as my chavvy sex pond

This has also irrelevantly reminded me that when I used to play the Sims as a child I didn't realise that hot tubs were something you used outside, so I always put them in the bathroom. Because it's a tub full of hot water that you sit in, like, you know, a bath.

Do you think it could be that thing people do where they argue so strongly against something because they (possibly subconsciously) want someone to convince them otherwise?

I'm not sure Cakes but they do seem to get fixated on details and want to talk about that in some detail? It can be tricky to look at the overall picture / situation...can be very black and white as well.

I found it in the Basketball emoji section on Android

Ah, thanks.

Another thing they hate is if someone gets the virus and it's really mild. They're almost, like, deflated

Yeeeees! If anyone dare say "I really think ive had it- i had a mild cough, temp spike and slight breathing issues but it was fine, recovered ok and it was mild thankfully"

They get:

"You deluded fool. You had a cold. Thats all- a COLD. You didnt have covid because proper, honest and trustworthy DECENT victims of covid are on a ventilator for at least 4 years and have to live in an iron lung forever after that. If you arent in an iron lung then its NOT covid and you are risking my life and the lives of my family going back 4 generations by perpetrating the myth that anyone can have covid mildly. I hope you're proud of yourself for potentially killing people by spreading false hope that people can recover from covid. Murderer."

Yes things like hot tubs would be frowned upon anyway (common sort of thing, lewd, ) also things like eating crisps on a bench (spreads far more virus than say doing exercises using one!)

Another thing they hate is if someone gets the virus and it's really mild. They're almost, like, deflated

Yes! Someone the other day said their relative had it (mild, NHS worker so tested) and someone said ‘so she’s only had it a week? It could get worse then’. WTF?!

I love this thread! I’ve already seen another thread about food shortages and people suggesting we will all get ration books like in the war

Lol ♟

Probably the same one i saw Drivingdown. the person had been tested so they couldn't say well, it probably wasn't. the DC had mild sniffles.

the one about neighbour and biscuits is hilarious, I will find it for you. I get the worry here, neighbour has had the virus and recovered but been passing biccies over the fence to DC while family has an at risk person.

But instead of suggesting a diplomatic way of broaching this, the OP is told to 'scream hysterically" for example the other 'advice is v funny too.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/3892208-How-do-I-stop-my-neighbour-talking-to-us

I have used ♟largely preemptively on the thread about toys in supermarket.

I’ve already seen another thread about food shortages and people suggesting we will all get ration books like in the war

The dementors would LOVE that, wouldn’t they? It would open up a whole new realm of judging, policing everyone’s coupons and speculating whether Mrs Davis at 23 got that packet of biscuits on the black market.

And YY to those who are disappointed by anyone who has it mildly. Even my doctor tells me I’ve certainly had it (no testing available though, so not 100% confirmed) but two people have said I must have had a cold.

Me: “But I didn’t have the symptoms of a cold”
Them: “You weren’t that ill, it can only have been a cold”
Me: “And I had all the symptoms of Covid 19”
Them: “You weren’t hospitalised, you can only have had a cold”
Me: “My doctors has said it was Covid 19”
Them: “IT CAN ONLY HAVE BEEN A COLD. IF YOU HAD CORONAVIRUS YOU WOULD BE DEAD AND SO WOULD EVERYONE YOU HAVE EVER KNOWN”

I have used ♟largely preemptively Like a sort of warning?

I wonder if they had similar Dementors in wartime? Maybe it was more subtle, like a sly glance...bet there were...

There was someone who posted about people sitting in the park having a chat (socially distancing). She was talking to her neighbour over the fence about it and they were horrified. The only difference between them and park people was the fact that the neighbours were separated by a fence. So never mind hand washing, face masks and the like it appears all you need is a fence to stop the little bugger in it's tracks.

This thread has cheered me right up !!!

Just checked in on the fruit picking thread - I didn't think it was possible to get more bonkers. However someone is sensible and has taken the time to go through and challenge some of the more batshit requests - I've suggested she join over here ♟️

@Orangeblossom78 I think I was on that thread as well - the Sylvia one??

Fallon it's the one where the OP had previously fainted due to the length of time the neighbour had spent taking to them?! All very dramatic.

If you approach them in the right spirit these threads can actually be quite hilarious and entertaining in a strange way- just take care as it can be a bit like poking a nest of wasps with a (2m) stick at times

Just been to look at it. I thought the screaming hysterically was a bit tongue in cheek - if so then I approve.

I do feel sorry for people who struggle to be assertive but seriously who faints and then stays and carries on listening to the neighbors

Ah, perhaps you could be right there (screaming). Who knows, with the general levels of hysteria around!

One of the biggest dementors on my local FB page actually did have a cold and decide it was covid I think. Symptoms: no fever, no cough, bit of a runny nose followed by terrible feelings of dread.

I have a lot of sympathy for people who struggle with anxiety, but less so when she uses it to shout at people that they’re NOT TAKING THIS SERIOUSLY and should TAKE HEED! and exercise by running round the kitchen rather than leaving the house, because of “what happened to me”, cue lengthy description of sobbing as she looked upon her soon-to-be-motherless children in a post about the Tesco queue or something.

You can expect that whenever restrictions are gradually lifted (an invitation to dement if ever there were one) the frustrated Dementors will look to the ruined economy as a source of depression/self-enhancement. I can see the threads now. Title "OMG Economy to contract by 30%". Dementor waits until a few people have posted generally measured and/or mollifying comments before wading in, the dopamine surging through their veins as they manically bang out "Are you on GLUE? FFS the economy is going down by 100% not 30%-you're living in cloud cuckoo land if you think we're getting away that easily. Even if you still have a job tax will be 100% and there will be no benefits at all". Reminds me of a conversation I used to have with myself when younger (I grew up around major financial worries) where I kept thinking what would happen if I ran out of money. I concluded that if I eventually had no income at all I would either forage or starve and in the latter case I'd be dead and I wouldn't need an income....

And the shitness of the economy will be looped back to the fact that the furloughed were too selfish, lazy and fat to go and pick fruit for free.

@Orangeblossom78 I wish it did work like that oddly, the toy thread has had quite a lot of sane people jumping on first and that seems to have scared off the dementors.

There are far more of them out on the thread about Greggs. Staff are forced to rub each othe with yum yums and lick the sugar off, and sausage rolls are the new anthrax.