If you're worried about this do your friends and family think you are being ridiculous?

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No one I know in real life is taking this seriously and think I'm overreacting. Fell out with DH as he doesn't understand why I'm worried and thinks it's just because I haven't got enough to occupy my mind . Friends don't understand why I don't want to make plans that involve possibly losing large amounts of money if this gets bad .
I'm not even stockpiling or locking myself in the house or anything extreme I'm just voicing my worries and constantly being made fun of for it .

Yes me!! No one around me is taking it seriously. Apparantely its still scaremongering and just a cold! Ive been watching this develop around the world with interest, and with us apparantely 2 weeks behind Italy im scared. But no one around me gets it

My family - also worried.
DH family - ridiculous

I’m not worried about if but my father (who cares for my grandmother) is. They both have several risk factors. I take their concerns seriously. We were supposed to go stay with him (in the same city as my grandmother so we would see her a lot too) over Easter but we’re currently discussing delaying our visit if the infection risk in the U.K. is too high because obviously don’t want to pass it on. It makes perfect sense for people who are at risk to be concerned.

DH - thought I was being ridiculous. Now is very worried. He is very grounded and sensible/rational at the worst of times. The fact that he is now worried - makes me sure that we all should be.

I could have written your OP but DH thinks I always have to have something to worry about. There are people around the world in worse plights than us so I'm taking it a day at a time.

I think the "prepping"/stockpiling is selfish and stupid and done by self-interested people who will use any excuse to say it's not about them. Yeah right.

Jup. Apparantly I'm panicking. I worked in a hospital (not UK) during the swine flu and so many staff got sick that they had to stop admissions and cancel operations. There was a major coping problem in the hospitals in the whole area and patients were affected. We seem to forget that people still get other illnesses too and they still need care for that.

If too many people get seriously ill with corona at the same time then we don't have the capacity to ventilate them all. That is a fact in my old work place (I still speak to former colleagues) and that was the second largest hospital in the country.

But people who have never worked in health care tell me that what I'm saying can't be true because of no good reason. I think that denying that this could become a problem can induce much more panic than taking it seriously and trying to lessen or slow down the spread of the virus.

China showed us that an early isolation for everyone works. If you ask me we should lock down the whole continent for a month.

DH thinks this is serious trouble, but that I am overly anxious. He’s probably right.

Most work colleagues are somewhat concerned about their loved ones’ health, and extremely concerned about parts of the NHS folding with a major impact. We are NHS and have some specialist insight, and we don’t think we’re excessively risk averse.

My dad has announced his intention to become a hermit as he is significantly at risk. The jury is out whether my SM will join him in virtual isolation, but I think she probably will for his benefit.

I don’t think anyone has been stockpiling toilet roll.

No, I was talking to stbexh last night and he thinks I'm being proportionate. I have good cupboard stockpiles anyway because I'm a food hoarder by nature and have plenty of paracetamol in the house but otherwise it's keep calm and carry on. He has no food at all in and was reassured that i wouldn't see him starve!

What I don't understand with DH Is that he is a teacher and they've been told that if they even get one case then the school shuts for a month and yet he still doesn't think that this is anything out of the ordinary to worry about. I mean wtf?!
Also friends who work for nhs who aren't giving it a 2nd thought?
What I can't seem to get through to ppl is that it's not so much me catching the virus I'm worried about the the multitude of knock on effects it will cause

My family arn't particularly worried, they have enough money to buy whatever food thry want when they want though

Ive had a stockpile since brexit so im not worried about feeding us. I am worried about what would happen to the dc if i was seriously ill though

Oh and the amount of ppl saying there's no point in worrying , I mean that's true but I have to make decisions based on how bad this gets and it's this that is stressing me out especially as everyone else thinks I'm overreacting

I'm a bit worried. DD is off school with a nasty cough but 111 say she's fine.

On the other hand the retired community of my town is over on Facebook organising their Salsa Dance and Lunch next week. So.

My family did 2 weeks ago now asking for hand sanitiser I bought a month ago

Yup, I can't understand why more people aren't more worried. Many seem far too blasé. So not only am I worried about the virus situation, I'm also anxious due to the fact I feel a bit isolated in my worry🙄

I'm so glad I've got ppl on here to talk to
I almost feel I'm being gaslighted
I mean I've deleted my news app but still seem to catch updates on car radio etc
DH has always been glued to current affairs and doesn't seem to be seeing what I'm seeing. Didn't know the health minister has caught it for example

I watch world politics and saw the virus will be a big problem probably worse than Spanish flu 2 months ago.

Although I feel isolated in my thinking at least I can relax as I am prepared.

Well presumably your DH would be paid if the school shuts. My family is concerned but mainly around stuff like the impact on work etc, self employed so no sick pay there.

My husband's job is risk assessment, he's ridiculously laid back and level headed and he usually talks me down if I'm panicking unnecessarily. He's not talking me down at the moment. He's really, really worried and is thinking we should pull the children from school and bunker down.

I am trying to carry on mostly as normal, but i am worried about it. Mostly because i have a neurological disorder, and previous treatment i have had has caused me to have a lower immune system than before. And i have just been told that it needs treatment of the same nature soon. (Therapeutic lumbar punctures).

However i am reminding myself that currently i am still in better circumstances than my best friend who’s living in Northern Italy! Up until Sunday she was just outside the lockdown zone. Now of course the whole country is in lockdown.

Yes I would hope he would be paid but the shutting of his workplace for a whole month doesn't seem to make him feel this is anything to be taken seriously

I want to slap everyone at work right now for the way they’re going on about it.

The people who aren’t taking it serious are the ones who will spread this all over the place to the ones who cannot afford to get it!

WHO I quote has said this is not a drill. How much warning from how many experts to people need it.

Crazy.

Some doctors are saying we should contact our MPs, to urge the government to start quarantining arrivals at airports etc. It’s now too late to stop the spread of the virus, which we could have done if the government had responded quickly. But if we could delay it a few months the hospitals would have a better chance of coping.

When tents start being put up some people might get the message.

I almost cancelled a night out last Saturday due to my worries and was laughed at by the other girls . Then each of them at one point picked my drink up to taste what I had aaaaaaargh. I'm not comfortable with that at the best of times