AIBU? Hantavirus Liverpool

[mumstheword1x]

I’ve just seen that the Hantavirus is in Liverpool?! They’ve been brought to Liverpool? I’ve got a 2 day work conference there and now I’m worried 😢 I suffer terribly with health anxiety. AIBU?

OP, your anxieties seem rather selective. The risks involved in just travelling to work or going out shopping are considerably higher than your risk of contracting hantavirus.

No but 30-50% fatality - ideally not to be fucked around with. Even one person needlessly catching this would be tragedy.

Do you really think your posts are helpful for someone already catastrophising? Knock it off

@mumstheword1x are you for real? What a load of rubbish. I’m amazed you leave the house. Although you are more likely to have an accident in the house than catch this virus from a secure hospital in the Wirral? Are you a functioning adult?

Knock it off
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No need to be so unpleasant. The OP has health anxiety, which is very difficult to live with.

1.They are not in Liverpool 2.They are being quarantined in Arrowe Park hospital. You have nothing to worry about.

How on earth do you ever leave the house?! Seriously, you don't know who has what when you're wandering around out there. And you're worrying about people being isolated nowhere near where you'll be?!
I think you really do need to address your health anxieties. You're stressing unnecessarily over something that won't affect you one bit.

Why is it funny? Replace 'the north' with another country and you'd be accused of being racist. As another poster pointed out, places like Harrogate, Cheshire, York, Northumberland are hardly grim. Maybe the poster is just jealous of our cheap mortgages but still...

Cool or not doesn't come into it. Scousers are from Liverpool. People from Wirral are not, therefore they are not Scousers.

Exactly. And I think you're spot on with 'cheap mortgages'. People in 'the south' (because it's apparently fine to generalise about whole areas based on ill informed perceptions) justify to themselves how they 'must' live there because it's objectively better than 'the north' which they believe has no decently paid or worthwhile jobs, culture, diversity or anything else that makes life worth living.

I live in the south (London) and I can absolutely confirm we're jealous of your cheap mortgages!

Those slagging the Wirral off because it’s ’North’ might want to look at some of the properties for sale in Caldy.

They can say what they like so long as they keep the fuck away - we don't want them anyway!

https://maps.app.goo.gl/VP5wn1Gmu9zPmjWbA?g_st=ac

One of my favourite places, DM used to take DB and me there for picnics when we were children.

My DH has OCD which sometimes manifests as health anxiety (among other things), and I can confirm that - as this thread evidences - you can rationalise till you're blue in the face and it won't make a blind bit of difference.

That said, OP, I will add my voice to the many assuring you that nobody with hantavirus will be at your conference, or for that matter breaking into your hotel room - as per your other Liverpool-related thread.

....assessed over 72 hours and deemed worthy to go home

Possibly. On a case by case basis.

At least read what the authorities have actually said before deciding it's not good enough.

I have read it, and I've also noted the vastly different quarantine policy in other countries. Only the UK and the US from what I have gathered think people can be trusted to self-quarantine. In the US, a woman who was supposed to be in home quarantine instead took a flight to French Polynesia...

I’m here and I don’t feel any better. It feels so close on the map. 11 miles away from me.

Look at a map on a bigger scale. It will then look a lot further away.

Come on, you're being ridiculous. It's probably hard to transmit this virus to someone 11 metres away, let alone 11 miles.

Its probably closer than it was when you were at home but try to think WHY would anyone who is under observation for a virus leave their accommodation without anyone stopping them and go to your conference?
Please try to keep calm and focus on your job to distract yourself

Honestly OP, I don't think posting on this thread is helping. You are not listening to reassurance and are instead seizing on anything which will bolster your fear.

I know this is hard, but unless you call off claiming sickness, you have to go to this conference. As per the post above, try to focus on other things, distract yourself and let the anxiety subside as much as possible rather than feeding it.

Well I’m much closer than you are and I haven’t caught anything yet.

Seriously, what was your anxiety like during Covid?

Hantavirus can't jump 11 miles. It can't even jump across the street.

Goodness some MNers have bad health anxiety. When I first joined it was chicken pox, then covid and now hantavirus. Maybe some of you need a hobby.

It's not Liverpool - its the Wirral, and it's fine