Is this Mumsnet or 2019-nCoVnet?

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The only people who seem to be panicking are on here or DF readers

Instead of a Coronavirus Section I think @MNHQ need a 'non Coronavirus' section.

I'm not sure hiding the topic will have an impact on the stock markets.

What might is everyone carries on working and contributing until such time as the experts tell us it's appropriate to do something else.

I'm not sure hiding the topic will have an impact on the stock markets.

What? Who said that? I said that a lot of people seem to be ignoring the stock market. It's dropping like a hot rock anyway.

Hiding the topic would go some way to stopping pointless threads like this, essentially moaning about people moaning.

You don't want to read anything about CV? Hide the topic.

No. The level of hysteria over this is most certainly not healthy, and I would go so far as to say that some need to seek professional help.

There is a difference between awareness i.e. regular hand-washing, thinking about attending large events esp if you have underlying health conditions, and panic buying toilet rolls and hand sanitiser and de-registering your children from school while talking about this is only the beginning and the truth will out.

At the end of the day, one of the sides is wrong. We don’t actually know yet which one. This could all still be next month’s chip paper.

When I posted one scathing comment I got asked why I was on the forum if I didnt believe it was a bio weapon that would wipe the entire population out in 70 days,,,,,,, 😂

If you choose to stick your head in the sand it's up to you, it's natural to be anxious about what is happening globally. I'd even say it's perfectly healthy.

Choosing to hide threads of which there are multiple versions of the exactly the same thing, all saying the same thing is hardly “sticking your head in the sand”. Some people are choosing to be educated by the actual facts and risks rather than choosing to be scared, anxious and acting out of hysteria. Doesn’t mean they’re sticking their head in the sand.

finding it all bloody hilarious tbh - the mass panic when its not actually that bad

People panic buying, afraid to take the bloody train, cancelling holidays!

madness

these threads are getting out of control - if you write anything positive you just get attacked ! haha

Incidentally, if we’re all going to die there’s not much point panicking is there? After all, we’re all going to die.

And truth is we are all going to die. No maybe not today or tomorrow, but we are.

If I catch Coronavirus I very possibly will die as I am in heart failure. If I don’t die of that then it’s also possible my heart will fail one day and I won’t come back, like the last time, and the time before that, and the time before that.

Or maybe I’ll die waiting for a transplant when the time comes.

Or maybe I’l come through, have a transplant, and live into my 80’s and die of old age.

It’s never a popular view, but we’re all going there one day.

I will try to mitigate the risk of dying right now, but I’m not putting my life on hold because realistically I, (and everyone else) don’t know how much of it is left.

anyone who doesn't want to see coronavirus talk can simply hide the topic surely? that's what the topics are for - hide the ones you don't want to see!

The stock market is a big deal, because of the global knock on effects. The fall in oil prices and the 'bear' market' and where this could be heading is going to make the Brexit hedging look positively amateurish.

@AlternativePerspective

Apparently it killed 7 people the first week, then 70 then 700 so every week you add a nought on

So in 7 weeks its 70,000,000 and so on......in 8 weeks we're all dead

I really wanted to cry and try to educate - then I realized you can't reason with stupid.

I swear this will be used as sociology/psychology case studies in a decades time.

Maybe if we do all die it will save the world (global warming)

Just a positive thought! It has apparently caused a huge pollution cloud to disperse over China already

Have to agree with above poster- great to have seen the pollution cloud clear for a bit over China!

Everyone cares about themselves getting ill with the virus and possibly dying - but couldn't give a shit about the planet dying before their eyes and their kids possibly having no future...

You can hide the topic, but the threads still keep coming up in Trending though.

I haven't hidden the topic as I do have a look from time to time, would just prefer not to be confronted with so many because I think once a day is enough to update on it, maybe twice, not every time I refresh the page to see new topics and a new lot has appeared.

It may bring improvements to some things. Maybe people will see the benefits from home working (less stress, more productive, less cost of committing and pollution etc) also GPs (more telephone consults perhaps, other ways of working) make us think about the real things that matter. there is always a silver lining to everything

Its ok if you can work from home but not for everyone.

I would have been the same until I understood through friends what is happening in Northern Italy where the hospitals have been overwhelmed and concurrently seen the experience of my friends who flew out skiing on Saturday to a zone that was immediately pronounced Red so the ski company bused them 1 hr down the rd after a day of them being in bars etc. Everyday tourists are flying back from this area with absolutely no checking or advice.

As a regular commuter in Central London via Victoria, I am now feeling like a sitting duck..

We know that this affects the old and the ill disproprotionately and I don't think anyone wants to decimate their elderly loved ones.

But I don't get the hysteria amongst perfectly healthy under 60s who seem to think they are a gonner and its the end of the world.

Of course, my DH who is just 60 and has mild T2 has pointed out, if he snuffed it, I'd be a very wealthy woman by the time the insurance pays off the house, his death in service money comes to me along with his pension lump sum and a pension for the rest of my lilfe.

Now, where's my nearest confirmed case again.........

BTW: for the avoidance of doubt to the permanently devoid of humour, the above was a joke