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To think mumsnet is making more fuss of corona than anywhere else on the Internet, or in general society

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FreshFancyFrogglette · 17/03/2020 11:48

Just that! Until I checked mumsnet I realised we had a serious situation on our hands, and that hand washing is essential, and isolating if you have symptoms. And that was that, carried on as normal. But coming on here, and it's people convinced they are going to die because they've got asthma, people refusing to go into work (even though they don't have any symptoms), people planning for the end of the world. I'm sorry, but this just doesn't reflect the rest of the world. I was at my friend's last night, and apart from mentioning her partner needs to be careful because he's got cancer, it wasn't mentioned. Same when I went shopping. On here it's sounds like the world is ending. Aibu??

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Gronky · 17/03/2020 19:04

YANBU, I've experienced genuine shortages and this much more short term and fuelled by social media. It will de-escalate as quickly as it escalated.

HoffiCoffi13 · 17/03/2020 19:04

It’s like banging your head on a brick wall. Working isn’t unavoidable social contact. Coffee, pub and bookies is.

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FreshFancyFrogglette · 17/03/2020 19:04

Just had the electrician in to mend my shower, not essential been without it for months. Didn't mention the virus once. Was a relief.

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woodchuck99 · 17/03/2020 19:06

It's not a stupid opening post. I stand by it. Why would I avoid someone with cancer? I met them in the bookies, they'd just been out for a drink. They had Dr's before, and hadn't once been told to stay in.

How do you know what they had been told? Everyone has been told to avoid going to pubs and the advice has even been stronger for those who are entitled to flu vaccination on the NHS. Your friend may not understand the advice or may not know about it but that doesn't mean they are correct to go to a pub.

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FreshFancyFrogglette · 17/03/2020 19:06

@HoffiCoffi13apparently according to some people on here we shouldn't even be going to work as that's not essential 🙄

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turdtimelucky · 17/03/2020 19:07

You don't work. Nor does your mate with cancer who you met in the bookies.

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FreshFancyFrogglette · 17/03/2020 19:08

So why has the housing association ssent someone to do none essential repairs then? I'm genuinely curious. What does and doesn't fall under what we should and shouldn't be doing. Town was no more empty than normal today.

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turdtimelucky · 17/03/2020 19:10

apart from mentioning her partner needs to be careful because he's got cancer,
So even your friend understood the advice.

turdtimelucky · 17/03/2020 19:11

Because work is considered essential.

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FreshFancyFrogglette · 17/03/2020 19:11

Yes I do. I said before zero hours contract. I specifically said that earlier. Bit rich to strat making incorrect and personal assumptions.. I'm simply using my experience to illustrate my point. Not because I want this to get personal. Use examples from your lives to explain your point of view. As far as I can see many people are carrying on relatively normally with a few necessary precautions, and as far as I'm aware that's the official advice

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woodchuck99 · 17/03/2020 19:11

So why has the housing association ssent someone to do none essential repairs then? I'm genuinely curious. What does and doesn't fall under what we should and shouldn't be doing. Town was no more empty than normal today.

What you regard as non-essential? Most people would see a working shower to be quite important, as are doctors appointments (although many are being counselled). The trip to the bookies or the pub isn't really in that category. Do not get the difference?

woodchuck99 · 17/03/2020 19:12

counselled cancelled

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FreshFancyFrogglette · 17/03/2020 19:12

Yes to be careful. Not to lock down completely.

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turdtimelucky · 17/03/2020 19:12

Did you hear the advice - 'if it's possible to work from home, please do so'? No? Didn't think so.
Is MN your only source of 'news'?

Patchworkpatty · 17/03/2020 19:13

FrenchFancyFroglette I took my child out of school because I have an impaired immune system due steroid medication AND no spleen. I do not need government advice to protect myself.. I have sufficient intelligence to do that myself. If my daughter picked up Covid19 and I caught it from her , I would be in real trouble.

So I have erred on the side of caution. My caution will not ADD to the spread. Whereas your decision to NOT restrict non-essential contact will. It's as simple as that. Basic common sense.

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FreshFancyFrogglette · 17/03/2020 19:15

@woodchuck99 I've been without it for ages, I do have a bath. If they considered it essential then they shouldn't have left me at least a month without it. But the pubs etc are still. Open, and people still have to go to work there, so they advice isn't to avoid these places completely? Unnecessary social interaction doesn't mean no social interaction, we are social creatures, a bit of socialising each day is essential

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IndecentFeminist · 17/03/2020 19:17

You have no idea whether you have it or not. 😂

Jerseygaly · 17/03/2020 19:17

1 you are most contagious before symptoms
2 smokers cough - I hope you are not smoking around an asthmatic child!

Tb H I'm not surprised some people don't get it. Threads and posts etc have been deleted and hidden from SM and gov down playing things until this week really.
Then out and out kids like they had talked to the supermarkets.

Leighhalfpennysthigh · 17/03/2020 19:17

I'm a trained HCP - albeit one who doesn't work in the NHS and haven't for years. I have two degrees - physio therapy and sports science and educated to PhD level. I'm not saying that to boast but to point out that I'm a scientist.

I'm scared of this because of the following -

Half My staff have been in contact recently and professionally with people who might have been exposed ie people who have been in Italy or Spain.

The other half of my staff (in another line of the business) are in contact with vulnerable people.

I've got two vulnerable and elderly people at home who are precious to me

I'm childless and I'm worried that if I get it and need ventilation I won't receive it because I'm not classed as important as parents

I'm worried that my business won't survive and my staff will lose their jobs and them and their families will struggle.

I'm a school governor in a school that has a lot of children on child protection plans or from low income families. I worry that these children will suffer.

Most of all I fear that the government have not taken this seriously enough and that there are too many idiots out there who pay no attention to advice and think they are somehow special.

turdtimelucky · 17/03/2020 19:18

A lot of pubs are closing and advice is updating every day. You really should turn on the news and not just hang around the bookies all day.
Did you hear that all horse racing is stopping from Friday? Through to the end of April? You and your friends may resort to greyhound racing until that too is stopped.

turdtimelucky · 17/03/2020 19:23

Just had the electrician in to mend my shower, not essential been without it for months

If they considered it essential then they shouldn't have left me at least a month without it.

One - you're a liar. Is it months or at least a month? Both statements can't be true.
Two - work is considered essential. That clear?

tobesuretobesure · 17/03/2020 19:26

'Making a fuss'

It's serious.

Worse than flu, and for a lot of people who have underlying health conditions (bear in mind recent statistics of 1 in 2 of us getting cancer), think about how many people are anxious for loved ones, indeed themselves, and understandably worried about it all.

This situation isn't born out of nothing. Look at Italy and bear in mind we are two weeks behind their 'spike' in cases and deaths and that we are already more advanced with cases and deaths than they were two weeks ago.

Bear in mind too that they have more hospital beds and staff.

Then, reconsider your question.

This is serious!

Be safe x

NanSlayer · 17/03/2020 19:26

People have been saying this to me since October 2019 when I started preparing after posting this Event 201 video or governments and businesses "war gaming session"

The writing has been on the wall for 4 months now, good luck out there!

ClientQueen · 17/03/2020 19:29

Social distancing

1	Avoid large gatherings, and gatherings in smaller public spaces such as pubs, cinemas, restaurants, theatres, bars, clubs
2	Avoid gatherings with friends and family. Keep in touch using remote technology such as phone, internet, and social media

So no, I won't be having visitors or going shopping, I am at home for 12 weeks now. It's going to be hard but it's what I have to do

chocolateorangeinhaler · 17/03/2020 19:29

YANBU there are posts on here where people are making dramatic posts stating that they will never get to see (insert older relative of choice) so and so ever again. The fact that older relative is otherwise fit and healthy seems irrelevant.
I saw a FB post earlier today where the author was complaining that this will kill her terminally ill relative. Errr it might or it might not. Everyone needs to calm the F down. I think for a lot of people this is the first time in their lives that they have had to acknowledge that we are mortal and our 'time' can end at any moment. We have all coped with everything that life has thrown at us right up to now, we will cope with this.

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