I think we all need to get a grip.

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I know Coronavirus is scary, the constant media scaremongering hasn’t helped either. But let’s get this into perspective, the majority of us will be fine and whilst those of us who fall into the at risk category are anxious it’s still important to realise that there is still a good chance we can recover from this.
But the food stockpiling, sending your kids to school when you know you shouldn’t (yes I know people have financial obligations but if you are really worried about Coronavirus then surely the health of your kids comes first). The threads on MN are sounding pretty hysterical and we aren’t helping each other instead we are creating group hysteria.

Step away from the phone and just calm down and get some perspective. We can’t control this, just have to keep going.

Easy for you to say when you’re not the one on the front line. Lots of us are. Others have loved ones in the nhs. More are reliant on nhs care either for themselves or their families that may not be available.

We do just have to keep going but part of that is sharing our feelings and advice for how to cope with what is coming.

To be fair the UK media have actually downplayed a lot all along to avoid mass panic. Fgs don’t watch the Italian or Iranian news of what’s happening there if you think ours are “scaremongering”. The media have a duty to keep people informed, I don’t see any scaremongering, just reporting of facts.

Can you elaborate on where you see hysteria on the MN boards, as I haven’t seen any hysterics at all?

It’s not media scaremongering ffs, it’s a global crisis. Almost 500 died yesterday in Italy - are you not following?

London hospitals are nearing capacity and we’re barely out the blocks. This is concerning.

Other than that, yes people should stay calm and not hoard, because even in lockdown Wuhan food etc was available.

Ps you sound controlling and condescending. People can do and behave how they like. Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable you want people to stop? Perhaps you need to step away from the phone if it’s bothering you so much as to post.

You still don't get what's coming, do you?

I agree about on here, the scare mongering is horrific. People saying it will never go back to normal it will last years, we are all fucked, sitting at home crying, talking about how they will die, and feeding each other’s hysteria, it’s shocking and disturbing.

It reminds me of the no deal brexit threads, where people were doing the same, panicking, stock piling, screeching we were all fucked, but this is a million times worse.

It’s really really disturbing, and even when you try to post something pragmatic they either ignore or attack, much preferring the drama of it and feeding each other’s hysteria.

Just pull up another tab and watch the video on Sky news this morning and then tell me that our media have been scaremongering.

You and yours might not die of coronavirus. You might only know and care about young, healthy people in which case, that's brilliant.

But whilst the NHS struggles to help the 100s of thousands of people who will be desperately ill with this, any other healthcare will take a back seat and ultimately we have no idea whether the NHS can survive this.

I didn't stockpile/hoard, our supermarkets are still full of fresh food and pasta, I'm in a country on day 6 of lockdown. Busy with kids and working from home, juggling balls. Still, I have waves of OMFG crash over me several times a day.

Apart from MN and a couple of support groups on FB, I'm not online.

But telling people to calm down is an utterly shit thing to say, very blinkered, very 'im all right jack' .

Have a word with yourself.

I think your right about the media. There’s no denying this is a frightening unprecedented situation but some headlines are designed purely to make you anxious.

I noticed yesterday after the rumblings about a London lockdown and the high infection figures there that there seemed to be a a lot of London centric scare pieces. Possibly a bid to get Londoners to take it seriously? I’m not sure but it feels like it’s not the best way to achieve national compliance. Most people have a stubborn streak and there’s a huge amount of resistance to the idea that life needs to change.

It’s understandable but so, so harmful and distracts from what needs to be focussed on.

For most of us right now our job is to limit the spread. Not save the economy or carry on as normal. The sooner the infection rate is slowed/stopped the sooner we can get on with life.

This has never happened before in any of our lifetimes, and it’s a very scary time. However some of the threads asking if we will ever get back to normal or if it’s the end of civilisation as we know it are ridiculous and very unhelpful to those suffering with anxiety.

To be honest yes it is scaremongering if 99% of articles published and talked about are negative and very few are positive even if the positive cases far outweigh the negative ones. I get its scary but yes theres a lot of doom and gloom hysteria on mumsnet right now, people claiming to be sobbing and caps locking almost biblical phrases about how we are entering HELL etc etc. Im worried about corona and the economy. Ive been told i have no job to ho back to next week but for the next 3 days i have to finish my shifts in a none essential shop with a huge influx of tourists.

my 2 ds’s have asthma, i have underlying health conditions, so does my dm, my df, my dsm, my dsf, my gm has diabetes. the only people in my family who arent at risk are my 2 younger sisters who are 10 and 7. that’s terrifying, if we get the virus and god forbid die from it they will be left without a whole family. so no, i dont need to get a grip

We have to keep going in what sense?

Falling apart mentally will do no one any good, of course. I have seen some people act like it's a zombie apocalypse and we're all about to keel over and die. That is just silly, and we all need to keep calm.

On the other hand, no, we do not need to keep going out to our yoga class or our choir practice or our hairdressers appointment. Anyone who is continuing to do those things is an idiot.

LOTS of people are going to die from this. Our health service is shit. It will not cope once this explodes. And it will explode. Give it a week.

I agree to an extent. A lot of threads on here are getting way out of hand: 'can I see my young, heathy parents, none of us are unwell and would be in our own home'- cue a torrent of abuse. People calling each other stupid, selfish, ignorant, others outing their FB friends for daring to go about their business, people wanting to make formal complaints about cashiers selling goods to customers, people inciting other posters to agree about what a fucking pricking twat their workmate is because they cleared their throat or look a bit peaky. Calling each other the worst names over asking questions over what qualifies as a key worker and worrying about their employment.
The sheer panic is manifesting in being vile to others.

I suspect the people who say it’s all scaremongering are the same people who voted for Brexit and said that the fears around that were scaremongering.

@Bluntness100

As usual you are correct

Scaremongering when the Italian army are having to take bodies away en masse because there is nowhere to put them and not enough resources to bury them?! When people are being treated in tents outside hospitals and the medics are deciding who potentially lives or dies?! We are 3 weeks behind them ffs!!

I haven't seen any "we're all going to die" threads.
I admit, I've seen a lot of panic buyers, a lot of "but I AM a networker/vulnerable I AM I AM I AM"

Those aren't scaremongering. Those are selfish twats.

Bugged- two actually.

But we should be worried. Not off to the flipping pub like me SIL.

I'm more concerned about the reality deniers, the "it's only the flu". It's apathy and arrogance that's our danger.

Look at Italy if you are in any doubt.

Hide threads if they make you anxious.

Notredamn 100% this. The rudeness and nastiness of people is so unacceptable. Dp is scared to cough at work because he is a smoker and everyone looks at him like he has it. Which is hilarious because he works in a none essential shop so if his customers are that worried they shouldnt be there anyway. But yes the whole crying about life will change forever and never go back to normal is a fucking outrageous joke. Look at all previous pandemics in history and look at how life went on as normal afterwards. Its ok to be scared. Its fantastic to take precautions. Its not ok to be a nasty bastard and ramp up everyones anxiety with hysteria.

My SIL, not me!

To be fair the scare mongering on no deal brexit was unjustified to date. And that scare mongering was bad, but nothing compared to this.

And saying stay calm, is not the same as saying I’m alright jack.

But people should stay in for the next three months as requested, limit social contact, not panic buy and not be posting about how they are going to die, how their kids will be left orphans, even though they are young fit and healthy with no under lying symptoms, predicting life as we know it is over for ever more, that this will go on for years, and egging each other on to sit home and ugly cry.

It’s beyond awful some of the hysteria being posted, people attacking, people panicking, people predicting ans convinced of world ending scenarios, how they will die, how their parents will, sobbing about who will look after their kids.

It’s helping no one to mass panic.

Dp is scared to cough at work because he is a smoker and everyone looks at him like he has it.
Well, yes, of course they do. Perhaps he should stop smoking. The virus attacks the lungs. It’s very possible he does have it.