Coronavirus - sick and tired of the hysterical scaremongering

[Ashtower]

I work in an office and I've overheard a number of people blowing the outbreak all out of proportion. One colleague has ordered facemasks off Amazon - we're in SE England ffs. I wish people would educate themselves (from reputable sources) and stop winding everyone up.

Of course, a healthy amount of caution is important but it's made me aware of how mass hysteria ie witch trials occurred in the past. Just takes one ignorant person with a massive mouth (yes I'm talking about you Sue in budgeting).

It's beyond annoying that we ignored this for over two months.

Now we have millions waiting to see if they will have their lives massively changed forever by this.

"There's no need to do anything other than practice basic hygiene"

Said the person now cringing under their nth namechange.

@Lifeisgenerallyfun that's the fist time I've genuinely laughed in days. Thank you!

It's definitely serious and I don't want to catch it and especially not to give it to someone else, so I am staying home and being careful, as are my octogenarian parents. That said, the mortality rate of Ebola was between 50% and 90%, which is hugely higher than this virus, and some people do seem to be making a bit of a meal of it all

That said, the mortality rate of Ebola was between 50% and 90%, which is hugely higher than this virus

Contagion rate much lower.
I guess you’ve not been watching the news.

@lifeisgenerallyfun cracked me up.

#bemoresue

Ebola is transmitted via bodily fluids. It’s significantly less contagious, therefore, than Covid-19.

This situation has escalated so quickly. It's insane how recently we all thought it was nothing. The figures from Italy make me feel sick as does looking at our graph, just the very very beginning of a sharp incline. Terrifying, what's to come.

It's people like you who think that being hygienic and faking precaution is scaremongering. It's also people like you who are going out and about pretending things are normal. Just be quiet and leave face mask wearers in peace. And do wash your hands amongst other things

The escalation in this thread is wild

I was an original panicker (a Sue as you might say) and ordered face masks and gloves from Amazon back in January and also Topped my cupboards and freezer up.

Nearly everyone thought I was mad. I have MH issues and my therapist was a bit concerned about my hoarding. DH wouldn’t let me talk about it in case it was becoming an obsession.
So, although OP was wrong, so were thousands of others. So let’s not give her a hard time eh.

It’s interesting to see how people were thinking a couple of months ago.

Hadn’t aged well

God these were the days weren’t they?

I actually went to the first few threads in the CV topic earlier just to see what people were saying back then and it’s terrifying what’s happened in such a short space of time.

I am also tired of the hysteria, OP. I don't think its helpful, and people are clearing shelves in supermarkets, getting ferociously angry working themselves into a state about young people or their partner daring to leave the house etc etc. I am going to be self-isolating yes - from people. And I can't wait.

I was quite Sue. Thank fuck.

Let's hope all the "we're all gonna die!!!" threads age just as badly and we can all look back on them in 3 months and laugh.

We don't know what is going to happen in the days ahead but I doubt the Italian's are going to look back and laugh.
Hopefully the UK has done and will continue to do what is needed to keep this disease under reasonable control but laughing seems unlikely either way.

the mortality rate of Ebola was between 50% and 90%, which is hugely higher than this virus, and some people do seem to be making a bit of a meal of it all

I saw an interview with someone whose name I forget but was introduced as one of world's leading infectious disease experts. The interviewer mentioned Ebola. He looked shocked and said this is much more serious than Ebola. The key re global risk is not the mortality rate or the ease of transmission, it's in the combination of the two.

I was a 'Sue'. I didn't stockpile but I took the threat seriously early on.

#bemoresue

#bemoresue

exactly.

I started reading this thread and was quite shocked by it until I clocked the date - made sense then!
Yes, I think the OP's initial "optimism" (I'll be kind) has been shown to be misplaced.
But we'll see what happens in a few more weeks, as to whether it's as bad as the epidemiologists have predicted it to be.

I hope not! And I hope it doesn't last anything like as long as they're suggesting it might...

Will babies & small children still get their vaccinations? Knowing how difficult it will be to get a doctor's appointment?

I still think it's an overreaction to shut schools. I feel it's taboo to say that and most politicians have succumbed to harsher measures.

I have followed all govt advice so far. Had symptoms, self isolated, been WFH 2 weeks now. I'm an introvert so I'm taking to social distancing quite well.

If the school closures last beyond Easter the long term economic damage will be vastly devastating, lives will be wrecked and our children will be paying down the debt.

Yes its contagious but relatively mild in the vast majority of cases. The issue is we dont want to overwhelm the NHS, but I dont see the govt pulling together all resources to requisition beds, equipment, and gear early on.. at however much they are handing out it makes more sense to equip or create ICUs for the inevitable peak. They still dont seem to be testing key workers or passengers arriving. They simply dont seem to be doing enough for the NHS.

Id prefer if they isolate and enforce the isolation of the oldest and most vulnerable - severe asthmatics, immuno-compromised etc (while helping them) right from the start. I'm sure theres more than 1.5 million of them.

There are more than half a million people who die in the UK in any other year. In a bad flu outbreak, add a couple hundred. In a bad Covid19 outbreak, add a few thousand. Bluntly put, I dont really mind 'sacrificing' the elderly and sick, even if it were my own parents. they would likely recover if they caught it since they dont have many health conditions, but on say a 4% chance they die, Id be upset sure but they have lived their lives. My overriding priority is my children, our livelihoods and their future.

@Ashtower still feeling so jolly safe in SE England? Any reputable sources you'd like to quote?

Cos we're all with Sue.