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.

Thank you for this thread. I was doing OK with not worrying too much until a couple of days ago, but MN creating a CV topic has backfired for me. I have AIBU hidden so wasn't seeing a lot of the CV threads, just looking at ones relevant to me in either chat or topics I subscribe to (education - I have a DC in GCSE year, travel etc). Now there's a CV topic I don't want to hide it because the education etc threads are in it but my Most Active is filling up with all the scare-mongering too . So I'm hiding individual threads as fast as I can but it's like whack-a-mole, they keep popping up everywhere.

After a few days of barely leaving the house because of my worries (I know I am being silly) I have to pick up my grandchildren from school today and tomorrow and look after them and I am getting stressed about it. Don't wasnt to pass my anxieties onto them or not look after them though, would be great for any positive thoughts.

That Decision Time programme is excellent. I only caught the second half but will listen to it all later. Very reassuring. MN has gone completely bonkers over this. All the wailing about the end of the world being nigh is absurd. I’m currently on a train to go shopping in a major city. I refuse to put my life on hold because I might get ill.

Keynote - you are not silly, just anxious. It’s understandable, particularly the way the press and others are making the most of this situation! It is pretty appalling!
You can take simple steps to keep yourself and your loved ones safer - from this virus, flu etc. Keep clear of those coughing & sneezing around you - 2m distance if you can. Hand hygiene for you and/or grandchildren very good basic practice, particularly for the youngsters to get into really good habits for life. Coughs & sneezes into tissues for disposal and wash hands directly! Or internal elbow if tissue not to hand.
The chances are very very small that you will come into contact with this illness. Better to ensure you stay fit and well - get out & enjoy the sunshine if you can X

Saw this article posted on another thread about the misleading arithmetic being reported. I found this reassuring to read.

www.cato.org/blog/misleading-arithmetic-covid-19-death-rates

I commute to London every day on the train along with DH (who is 66, working full time and not worried at all!). We have both agreed that the trains are much quieter at the moment. Not that there are fewer people travelling, because there aren't (you still have to struggle to get a seat!) but usually the train sounds like a doctors waiting room with people coughing, sneezing and spluttering, particularly this time of the year. Not now though, you could hear a pin drop on my train this morning. Same in our office, people are being far more discreet, and we've got sanitisers all round the place which people are using, unlike previously. It's amazing that it's taken something like this to jolt people into good hygiene.

By the by, I may have mentioned before but we are due to cruise at the end of April, and unless we are told not to we will be going. I'm taking anti bac hand wash, some Dettol soap and anti bac wipes but I would do that anyway. I'll take some gel as well if there's ever any in the shops again.....

Somebody on the other thread saying 1 in 30 deaths now, I am terrified. I wasnt expecting such a big increase in numbers today. Is there anything more positive st all re this. Literally having palpitations.

Some of the other threads on here are very dramatic. Try not to read them. Who knows where the poster got the information from. I find the BBC news to be less dramatic and factual. If you read the red tops they are full of drama, which people post about and suddenly it’s true.

When I heard today's update re numbers I wanted to cry. Need some positive news!

I have cancer and work full time, commuting 3 hours a day on packed public transport - tubes, nurses and trains. I am worried but there’s not much I can do. My request for home working was turned down. I’m worried that my cancer surgery will be cancelled. My elderly parents want to come and be with me but I worry about them catching any viruses. I’m not sure they should head down to London from their rural home.

Keynote you have to put it in perspective somehow. I would honestly be more worried about the flu than this and neither are a worry. There are two cases near me.... (when I say near, I mean a village or two away) and it honestly hasn't crossed my radar. Of the new cases in UK, 30 of them had travelled to somewhere like N. Italy.

So of 91,000 cases in the world 80,000 were in China. That is about 90% not in the rest of the world. At the moment only 166 people not in China have died. 2,946 were in China. Those figures really should be reassuring.

I know you can't help being terrified, but is worrying going to keep you safe? No. Worrying just makes it worse.

Honestly.... don't read the other threads. I'm not because a lot of it is scaremongering.

*buses, not nurses!

Keynote, even if that statistic was true (and none can be confirmed yet), it's not 1 in 30. It's 1 in 30 OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN TESTED. Think of the hundreds of thousands of people in this country who have cold symptoms right now. Have they all been tested? Could they be? No.

Look after your mental health and take care x

Somebody on the other thread saying 1 in 30 deaths now,

That's ridiculous. The best experts are saying less than 1%, exact figures difficult because a huge number of people have it so mildly they don't feel ill, never mind think to report it.

Step away from the scaremongering. These people live in a paranoid echo chamber where all they want to hear is ever increasing stories of doom.

www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

Scroll down to the table that separates out cases between countries..
Positive points
Japan, whose outbreak started WAYYY before ours, is only on 319 with less than 10% of those in critical care. You'd have thought their number would be higher considering how close to China they are.
China's numbers - over half of the people who had it are now recovered.
South Korea - been building for a number of weeks and only a tiny number considered serious/critical

Keep looking through, the numbers seem to tally for each country...that a very small percentage are serious/critical.

That's my addition for today!

A poster on the other thread (part 11) said:

" Someone told me earlier today that all this Corona is something to do with the Sonic Boom we had in beginning of December..
Something blew up somewhere and they might covering it up etc....
I know it sounds like sci-fi but ......."

Quite honestly many of the other threads are scaremongering & just plain crazy.

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Oh yes, one final point, remember to look at the number for active cases, not total cases.

Active cases - 39,809

NOT 94,348 as the number that's been bandied around by the news.

@magimedi - I’ve just been on that thread! It’s like being in some parallel universe where lots of people truly believe the world is ending! I don’t know why I keep doing it to myself - definitely safer here!

Canshop - it's almost like a Monty Python sketch (some of it). I get the impression some people are, in a weird way, almost enjoying this.

I get the impression some people are, in a weird way, almost enjoying this.

Totally. It's not healthy and when this passes - because it will pass - they will move onto something else. The problem is that at present the hardcore panickers are sweeping along with them people who generally don't get caught up in their paranoia.

This is very true.. There were aleays going to get a big increase in cases but it is still a tiny number...

Some people are enjoying this.. Those same people are the ones who when Raul moat went on his killing spree or terrorist are on the run like the marathon bombers in America they see is like a real life movie....

I love this thread, it's such a relief to read. Thank you all, especially @tud41

I get the impression some people are, in a weird way, almost enjoying this

Yep. It is awful to scare monger like this. They probably believe the earth is flat too.

Thank you for this thread. I have anxiety and have a tendancy to really get caught up in world events, this time I'm managing to keep it mostly under control but I own a small business and I am scared

Thank goodness for you in here, I realise I have got this a bit out of hand. My hands are raw with washing them, I have hardly slept or been out and almost had a total melt down when 4 year old granddaughter refused to wash her hands when we came home from nursery on the basis it wasnt dinner time yet. I look out and see people going about their day and am even getting friends texting me to arrange outings etc whereas I feel my world has come to a standstill and things will never be the same again, I have not even given my husband a hug for a week. I am 55 and healthy and as you say I need to put this into perspective. Thank you all x