The 'Positive Mental Health' Corona virus thread

[RapidRainbow]

There are a lot of posts of people worrying. I thought it could be helpful to share positive and assuring information in one thread.

For me, the most reassuring thing so far is the fact that of approx. 1500 people in the UK suspected to have and tested for CV have come back as negative.

Fingers crossed for your DD.

I can’t tell you how thankful I am to have found this thread! My health anxiety has been steadily growing, not helped by being drawn to reading the preppers thread daily. I’m going to step away from that now and stay here for the foreseeable future!

I was panicking about the big holiday we’ve booked for Easter as a lot of Mumsnetters seem to think flying is just a ridiculously selfish and reckless thing to do at the moment but I feel a bit calmer and more hopeful that we might actually be able to go ahead with it now, obviously depending on travel advice nearer the time.

@madeyemoodysmum - hope your DD’s test comes back negative.

Canshopwillshop I agree. My DH is 70 and I'm in my 60s and we're going long haul in a month. No plans not to, unless someone tells me I can't.

The hoarding and preppers threads bring out the worst in me

Honestly, @Canshopwillshop - hide the preppers forum entirely.

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Thanks Roussette and Pineapple - I’ve hidden the preppers thread 👍

Oh thank God for this thread. The others have just freaked me out! @madeyemoodysmum fingers crossed for you.

DD asthmatic, I'm really asthmatic and allergic to most antibiotics (waiting for hospital app't for tests to find something I'm not allergic to...) so really feeling stressed by it all.

I've just heard on news that asthmatics are not being too badly impacted.

The main worry issues are heart and other chronic lung diseases. Hearts out to anyone suffering from those and people over 80. Stay safe. This was on the bbc to pretty reputable source.

Thank you for this thread. I'm feeling sick with anxiety right now and it's so reassuring to read some less dramatic stuff.

Just some actual figures for you all here to make you feel better...none of this worst case scenario stuff...

first case identified in Hubei on new years eve.... 14 day incubation period so virus like started mid December.... Hubei not locked down until 23rd of January so that gave this "extremely contagious" virus 40 days to infect a massively densely populated area and up until now has only infected 80000 people.

The WHO have been into China and have now stated it has peaked there and the numbers are in fact declining day after day. Now i know they used some extreme measure however these measures are also in as a last resort for our governments plan to stop the spread.

So since mid December it has peaked in china and has infected......wait for it........0.0014% of their population. Now i am no expert or maths wizz. However stating that 60-70% of our population could get this virus when we had measures to prevent its spread before it even hit our shores is absolutely crazy. Now i know they have to take into consideration the worst possible case scenarios here but for that 70% to get infected we would all have to be sneezing into our hands, then high fiving everyone we see and then those people would have to lick their own hands afterwards...

Keep calm and wash to happy birthday

tud41 Good post, agree.

tud41 thanks, that’s great stats.

Just want to say I love you all on this thread.

tried mentioning it on the preppers thread.. was like drawing blood from a stone haha.

Also another one to mention the media now The Sun for example have changed their headline for the same news story about 4 or five times today... it is all click bait to get more views. almost as embarrassing as those Facebook statuses that read. "just on my way to A&E..." so attention seeking haha

Thank you for this thread - been giving myself a headache with reading and obsessing .Very good point @tud41 about the spread in China.

Those stats are really cheering.

This thread is an absolute godsend! I struggle with anxiety, particularly health anxiety, and I have been becoming increasingly anxious particularly with regard to the doomsday scenarios that the papers are printing and putting online. DH is very calm about it all - he's over 60 and still working every day in London. He was astounded at the suggestion that the over 60's should stay home. Tonight's Evening Standard had (to me) a quite shocking paragraph regarding plans for London and I saw absolutely no benefit in printing that other than for shock value. At least I can come in here and read posts that are calm and sensible and not hysterical scaremongering.

@tud41 that is indeed reassuring. I also saw a report from the BBC guy Fergus Walsh saying that over 4000 people die EVERY DAY from tuberculosis.

"Even though tuberculosis (TB) is preventable and curable, it is the top infectious killer worldwide, claiming around 4400 lives a day."

Just shows what scaremongering the media are doing. Also try to ignore the preppers. They are not happy unless they have something to worry about. It was Brexit, now it's Coronavirus, then it will be something else. They're not happy unless there's some impending disaster on the horizon.

It was Brexit, now it's Coronavirus This is very true for some of them [not all so sorry if i offend any on this thread] However it does seem as tho some [not all] have their own agenda in wanting this virus to take hold just so they can say that Boris is useless etc.

I didnt even vote tory [or labor for that matter] but so far i really cant fault the way our government has dealt with it so far and after listening to their news conference earlier the WHO seem to think they are handling it well as well and if they say the government is doing well then i am going to believe them much more than the preppers on an internet forum :]

Mainstream media was blamed for Caroline Flack's death very recently (rip), but now we seem to be hanging on their every word. They hounded her to suicide, are they now hounding us into mass hysteria?

@madeyemoodysmum and @tud41 thank you both. Voice of calm and sense in the storm of stress!

I love this thread to. It's totally made a difference to me. Thanks everyone

Not going to look at the other thread from now on, ended up with major panic attack, I am doing everything I can to see myself and those around me safe and well, but also have to keep sane and not distance my family who are sick of me talking about it constantly.

Love2cycle I totally agree - calm sensible posts and reassuring stats.

Great thread. Thanks for this guys. I keep bringing myself back to 2 points... that,as far as we know,none of the people flown back from Wuhan,the big scary epicentre,have tested positive....and neither have the coach drivers. And that London,with its massive public transport hub has only had 1 case a few weeks ago.

I'm also 7 months pregnant and am finding it heartening that pregnant women aren't being impacted.