My weddings going to be cancelled by a rat virus isn’t it!

[EyUpNowThenLass]

We tried to get married in May 2020 and after trying for 18 months gave up. Lost loads of money in deposits. We are now finally in the position to be able to afford to get married again and we’re just about to book it for October.

It feels like history is repeating itself with recent news, and the world wants me to be a spinster. Is it going to happen again? I just don’t want to get my hopes up yet again for the same thing to happen!

This has to be a wind up

She needs to get married to protect herself if anything happens to the partner as they've got children.
But yeah, poor lady!

Well considering its 40% death rate I bloody hope not! As I said thats got to be ridiculous.

But seriously I just read that symptom list two minutes before opening MN and that list is what we have all had. It’s not an illness I have had before. Super banging headache. Feeling sick. Twisting stomach on and off. Kids have puked once but not adults. Weird poos. Lethargy. Gets better then comes back.

So let’s hope not!

But I am a 100% certain COVID was here in autumn 19. Obviously I didnt know that at the time. But in hindsight it made a lot of sense.

Why are people so histrionic about something that is highly highly unlikely to be any real issue

No

I’ve got the same. I’m ridiculously tired with a stomach ache I can’t shift. Can hardly eat anything and I’ve felt like it for about three days now.

“Spinster”? WTAF?

It's clickbait. It will be front page for a couple more days then you will not read about it again.

Unlikely. The R number seems to be a lot lower than for Covid or flu, though the incubation period is a bit of a pain.

As has been suggested, just get married in your local Registry Office then.

That way you won't be a 'spinster' all your life.

Can't believe you haven't managed to get married in SIX years. Ridiculous!

There was a horrendous flu/norovirus going around in November - early December 2019 - I was running the First Aid/Medical room at school at the time - it went from 1-2 kids who had tripped at breaktime or in PE to 30-50 kids all puking, fainting or a sweaty, grey colour unable to stand and all needing to be sent home (and the worst ones did end up in hospital).

However, the same kids who had the flu one in November were then off either straight after Christmas or by early March with respiratory symptoms/Covid as they and their siblings came back from Italian ski trips just outside what became that lockdown area. I think that whilst it had definitely got here by just before Christmas for them to get ill again, that was not the same illness that came in Autumn 2019.

Have you been drinking?

As an infectious disease expert, I can assure you, no, no it isn’t. 😂

Should be ok, but get insurance

Agreed about having Covid before they said cases were present. I was ill with symptoms like Covid 3 weeks before there were any reported cases in my area. I was living with other university students in Spain at the time and the nuns who were running the accommodation. Lots of other students had the same thing I did. There had just been a big carnival and people from Italy had come over.

Far too early to panic about this illness, though that’s easier said than done when you have already had to cancel 1 wedding. Wait and see how this turns out, but I doubt it will end up like Covid.

OP, are you over the age of 26/27? If so, no, not a spinster... A thornback instead.

I doubt it'll be cancelled though. Happy nuptials.

Is your boyfriends's name Roland?

WHO said this virus is nothing like Covid, you need to calm down. My daughter got married during Covid, she has been married 6 years with a 2 year old and didn’t lose her mind.

Oh give over. If you really wanted to get married, you could have done it years ago.

Don’t be ridiculous, it’s contained to a cruise ship. Far to many people want another lockdown it will never happen the last one nearly bankrupted the country!

Perfectly illustrating my point that people are more bothered about the wedding than the marriage!

When did weddings become these ridiculous events? Somewhere in the late 90s?

If there is an uptick in cases in this country, it could be a problem OP.

Actually, that’s all bollocks. I just wanted to use the word uptick…. Next slide please.

It’s really not the same. And even if it was, I doubt the way Covid was dealt with would ever dared be repeated

Why the f haven't you got married in the years since lockdown ended?????

Do you really believe this?

A total inability to cope with life, combined with a desperate hankering to be at the centre of “drama”.