Frustrated and bored of this now

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Am I the only one who finds the Coronovirus inconvenient more than anything?

My husband, daughter and I are all fit and healthy and had Disney booked for Easter. Now it’s looking like we can’t go which for us personally, is a total bugger. I can’t even get through on the lines to cancel and get my money back and have to leave it a week because the lines are jammed.

I went to the supermarket on Thursday and today to get hand wash and some other bits. The first was totally sold out of soap and pasta. The second...:it was like the apocalypse. No canned food.....no bread...the idea of hand wash, soap or shower gel was a joke and all the branston pickle was gone. Branston fucking pickle?!?!?

I over heard a lady saying she can’t get nappies for her kids because they are all gone.

Some kid sneezed at a flip out /trampoline place today and I swear I thought some of the parents were going to shoot him where he stood. The rate they were going on you’d think he’d been licking the hand rails or something.

If you turn the news on, all you hear is about covid (as if nothing else is happening in the world) and it’s so dramatic. Have you seen the screen the bbc put up with covid plastered across it? It’s highly inflammatory and not even slightly reassuring.

Before people lay into me about being selfish I totally get why SOME portions of the community are worried. I get it because my father and father in law are elderly and both suffer with serious health issues and presumably you and they would implement the measures they can but normal people in a similar situation to me have lost their fucking minds!!!!

I said this yesterday but people do realise that in order to stop this from spreading, everyone needs to be able to access some form of soap. What good is it doing if you are wading into your bathroom, knee deep in it all when the rest of the world hasn’t got any 🙄

My husband, daughter and I are all fit and healthy

Oh so it’s “I’m alright jack”.
Lucky you all being fit and healthy. Not everyone is so genetically blessed. Many of us are just hoping our (middle aged and young) loved ones will survive & don’t care if we never have a holiday again as long as they get through this.
So sorry you are finding it inconvenient.

t IS going to happen here. There is no doubt about it. What will you do then?
So what do you suggest we do panic ? Buy tons of pasta and toilet roll , stay home ? .
Panic - that's going to help isn't it !!
Buy tons of toilet roll etc- yeah will help but not necessary in this country and selfish for others especially the elderly & vulnerable.
Stay home - ok will limit chances of catching it but if we are all going to catch it eventually then it's inevitable isn't it ?

Well, let’s see. There’s probably about 10,000 people tops who have it in the UK, so even if we discount the people they’re related to and the people treating them, there’s still at least 60 million people who are being inconvenienced rather than directly affected. Not just you.

So people should just go around panicking endlessly for months? That's irresponsible because it's bad for your immune system, heart rate, blood pressure.

We can read and realise the severity of it. It doesn't mean we stop being human. With human feelings.

There are endless threads with people saying how bad it is and how we should take it seriously. We know. But endlessly saying how bad it is /will be aren't in a materially better situation. If will all just wring our hands forever what's the advantage?

We're human beings, capable of running a gamut of feelings and thoughts in a short space of time.

I don't believe China is at the end at all. I reckon they will have repeated waves of reinfection from rest of world.

Thing is, the hoarders (because that's what a very large number of the panic buyers really are) are only helping themselves in the short term.

As you say, EVERY PERSON, needs to develope good hygiene habits in all this AND be able to actually practice them via access to detergents and other disinfective agents for the benefit of society as a whole in relation to disease transmission.

The hoarders are preventing access to (quite literally) their own neighbours by emptying the shelves of sanitation products, hence their neighbours stand a higher risk of infection. They will then be surrounded by more infected persons than they would have been. Having all of the handwash piled up in the garage is not going to protect if large numbers of neighbours are sick.

Just totally selfish and ultimately highly potentially counterproductive behaviour.

Not to mention that so called "panic buyers" seem to be totally dismissing the dangers of all rushing en masse to the local supermarket at the same time. Each branch of Waitrose, or Lidl for that matter, are not situated inside some kind of germ/virus killing sterile bubble where all who enter are immediately sterilised.

Is it really a coincidence that the number of cases started to escalate much more steeply in the days following the start of the panic buying epidemic?

DH just came back from Tesco (no, he panic bought/stock piled nothing). Direct quote from a Tesco worker, "I have never known anything like it. It has been relentless. Everybody has gone absolutely fucking mad".

We don't know! It's still speculation.

That was to ragged btw

@FusionChefGeoff The difference is, it began in China, they have now contained it by shutting down. Everywhere else has been exposed to a massive silent aftermath and the UK is not yet closing down. We typically have very open borders and have maintained this to date. Our population is much smaller than China’s, and we have regular visitors from worldwide. We are also a geographically close country, with large networks of commuting facilities etc. Hense the fast spread.

This has just turned into all the other threads now sadly.

Two types:- type one trying to think of normal things. Type two reiterating the scary situation.

Both trying to exert some control. Neither is inherently better than the other.

Jenasaurus

That is kind of happening with Tesco online. Limited number of certain products allowed. Max seems to be two per tins of peas and hand wash etc.

Completely agree but someone will come on and say your totally unreasonable. The panic buying is ridiculous. The hysteria is ridiculous I'm just fed up now . I'm worried of course but I'm not going to panic and buy toilet rolls it's selfish.

I'm with you. Especially now they think the rate of fatalities has been over-estimated at 3%, and is more like only 1-2% (because so many people aren't feeling symptoms, and so aren't reporting). The whole thing is a total over-reaction. It's 'bad', but it's no way as 'bad' as other events in our history that have caused many deaths in a short space of time.

What are the actual odds of even encountering someone who has Covid-19? The UK has a population of 70 million, or thereabouts, and we have fewer than 2000 cases. Closing the schools won't help, either - bored children will just go out, and no one will stop them!

Sensible precautions, yes, but over-reaction and hysteria will not help the vast majority (and yes, I have one parent with COPD and a history of pneumonia)

@Inkpaperstars sorry was just having a bath.
To answer your question, I’m not sure. It’s still frustrating and inconvenient though.

@Hopeisnotastrategy not sure why I have to be ashamed of myself for finding my personal covid experience frustrating and inconvenient. Get a grip and calm down.

This is the problem, selfish arses, who find a pandemic inconvenient.
God help us all.

Why is that selfish?

The sanctimony on Mumsnet is rampant at the moment!

@Helmetbymidnight I’m actually not. It’s everyone’s over reactive natures and not reading correctly that’s the problem.
If people read what I’d said properly they might grasp as quite a few others have

Agree @mrsfrankdrebin

(love your user name!)

@Onemorehitandillcrumble yep you’re another that didn’t read what I said but carry on....

I know, let’s hope it doesn’t drag on too long

Sorry, my selfish arse was bathing and putting my rat bag to bed. I’m having issues going back and reading everything because...essentially it’s mental.

This thread hasn’t turned into all the others @tobee don’t worry.
It’s still a thread for people who find the virus and the panicking and the hoarding fucking backwards.

I am upset with my holiday being cancelled. I was looking for mouse time and anyone that didn’t read what I’ve written plainly....twice in this thread....well....have a pineapple on me 😂

But isn't that the point, that we need it to drag on so that fewer people die?

Couldn't agree more about the panicking and hoarding looking at my Brexit stockpile lovingly

😂😂😂😂😂 mate, you are slow on the uptake. I’ve had mine since December 1999