@WrongWayApricot
I don't know why people are so mean to people with phobias and anxiety about germs. It's hard enough living with that level of fear without people jumping in with nasty comments when it has absolutely no impact on their life. It's always the same, for some reason people are so offended by people with a phobia of germs. This level of bullying would be unacceptable about any other mental health condition.
Some people would be very upset be their comments I'm sure. I truly do not care though.
Some people on this forum are great people, always ready to help other women and seem like genuinely lovely people that anyone would be lucky to have in their lives, I would say.
But the average mumsnetter is... well, something else and I will leave that there. 😂
I will say though, I do not have health anxiety. If I did, I would worry about every ache and pain. I don't. I just try to have some control over what happens in my life.
I see no reason to touch things more than necessary. It's all very well cleaning your hands when you get home after touching door handles and traffic light buttons, but by that time you've likely been on your phone, maybe had a Costa, scratched the corner of your eye. Why get yourself sick for no reason?
Yes, I worry more than the average person does, which isn't that hard when the average person seems to be shouting at the government to open everything up even though the cases are going up at an alarming rate, even when the deaths were in the 100s every day.
They were shouting at them to open up in May -20 as well, because it was so difficult to not do this and that. Who cares about the lives of the vulnerable right? I saw over and over again how it was only the old and frail, so why did we have to lockdown? Like the grandmother or the 40 year old father of 3 with a health condition simply didn't matter...
When my kids do drag home colds and stuff, that's just the way it is. It doesn't even mean me or my husband will catch it.
My husband has had colds in the past without giving it to me and the other way around, even though we kept kissing like normal.
I'm sure you will all be very happy to hear I jumped out of bed feeling absolutely fantastic (except for a very achy arm) this morning.
And people were right about the chairs being wiped between uses. We were asked to turn them after we were done so they knew which to clean, though of the other people I saw there, I was the only one who bothered to do that🤷♀️