We aren't going to lockdown! Stop scaremongering!

[BuyingaHome]

We aren't going to lockdown tonight.

Stop scaremongering.

Maybe at the end of the week or next week. I reckon 10 days. But not tonight.

Even still, you can still go to the supermarket, pharmacy and walk the dog.

Stop scaremongering!!!! You're sending people's anxiety through the roof!

If anyone fancies a laugh at the irony of it all.

Last month I posted saying I was worried about my daughter going on a school trip to a city centre, and the number of messages I got saying things like:

Yabu and as daft as those idiots who stopped eating chicken during the bird flu hysteria.

Hahaha I live in Manchester and have just got back from town shopping which I got the train to and from. Do you think we all here stay inside?

Shall I boycott the shops around there at lunch or shall I dash to the train station and hope I don’t encounter anyone or should I just quit my job and lock myself indoors forever???

YABU, it’s a new strain of a cold not frigging Ebola

YABU and over hysterical. What do you think all the people who live in Manchester are going to do, barricade themselves at home?

Wondered how long it would take before we had the first hysterical reaction post.

I wonder how many children live in Manchester? Have all the schools closed?

Shit. My in-laws live in Manchester. I’d better warn them to stay in bed today - and all the days that follow!

I work on the edge of Chinatown in Manchester. Can I stay at home next week (please!)?

We live in an area packed with students from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Malaysia
Maybe I shouldn't leave the house
Ever again
Can't be too careful

You are officially Dagenham (2 stops from Barking)!

You’re not being unreasonable you’re being ridiculous. Maybe we should all go to the Winchester and have a pint and wait for the coronavirus to all blow over while we’re at it?

Omg. You should be embarrassed by your thoughts. Get a grip

Around 30 people die in UK every week in road traffic accidents. Many more are seriously injured. Does this make you want to lock your family inside the house?

260 people have died? 8,800 people died in the USA alone from flu these past few months. It's a non event and people are getting ridiculous over it. It killed people that wouldn't be able to fight a cold off well, it hasn't killed healthy people

Crikey. Some people shouldn't have children. Maybe you should just lock her in her bedroom wrapped on cotton wool for the rest of her life...

I think you should always stay in your house and never leave ever!

I think the whole "don't scaremonger!" "You're scaremongering!" thing has done my tits in more than quite a lot of things. It's not scaremongering to see exactly what's happening in other countries and to figure out it's going to happen here and should almost certainly have happened last week at the latest.

Pure Schadenfreude to see this thread posted 90 minutes before the so-called "scaremongerers" were just sensible people who could see what was coming.

FFS.

All the crowing and laughing at the OP is very childish.

She was wrong. She has said she was wrong. No need for everyone to be totally unpleasant about it.

OP where are you!?

Sure, it's a non-event so much that the political leaders of some of the largest economies in the world self sabotaged and killed their economies for 10+ years due to a 'common cold'.

You're right that people die of things everyday. But if an extra 500 people die every day of a road traffic accident and there are a further 1000 accidents to triage everyday do you think the hospitals can cope?

Yes and all the posters saying move this thread to the Coronavirus topic. Bloody ostriches!

FFS

Oh come on, it was funny! Exceptional timing too!

My relative works in Parliament and told me OP.

I hope you get to move house OK.

The telling instruction by Johnson was "if your friend asks you to go out, you should tell them "NO!"

Sounds like something my dad would have said to me at the age of 15.

Embarrassment doesn't describe it. All those twats queuing up Snowdonia, you don't look so clever now, do you Sonny-Jim!!

If stupid, irresponsible selfish bloody idiots did the right thing, in the first fucken place, and stayed home, it wouldn't have even NEEDED to get to this formal lockdown stage.

It is the 'people' (for want of a better word that won't get my post zapped) like the OP who did not take this seriously from the outset, that are responsible for this. That is the juxtaposition, the irony of this. The people that are now the most angry at the thought of a lockdown, are the very people who forced the UK PM's (and my PM in Australia) hand. If you had have taken this who fucken thing seriously from day one and just.....stayed.....the.....fuck......home, you wouldn't have caused our country/ies to go into lockdown. Now we all have to suffer because of you, um, people. Good job. Congratulations.

It's such a none event.
I've had colds. Flu. Pneumonia. Chest infections. You get the picture.

This is nothing like any of those. I'm currently mild. It is hell. I have been in ICU before for the above and I feel worse now.

It comes with a huge danger. More people are talking about it. There are moments when you feel ok, once you put aside the temperature, fever and cough. If it wasn't because I know how deadly this can be, on a normal day, I might not self-isolate. This time, I couldn't get there quick enough and I hate it with a passion. I'm a danger to myself when my movements are blocked so it was a hard choice.

Those other times, I could still have some physical contact with loved ones. Now I cannot. I have been quietly sobbing because I cannot even rub their hair. Nothing.

Over the weekend we'd normally all sit on my bed and watch films. We couldn't do that. Never mind what they normally do on Mothers day. It was one of my children's birthday last week. We couldn't do our usual things.

I wonder how many will be laying there when they have CV, sobbing because all you want is a fucking hug, and will still it's just a cold. Don't know what everyone is on about.

Putting aside the physical pain, what I am feeling at the moment I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. All people have to do is stay at home for as much as possible. And when you go outside, embrace your inner introvert. Forget about chatting in the street for small talk. Meeting up with mates in the park. It's really, really not worth it.

Remember figures are only for those in the hospital. There are thousands like me. Before I got symptoms I was carrying on with life.I was amongst you. So were others in my household and those I came into contact with. The last person I came into contact with over a week ago, sent me a text. They have it. At the moment, I'm the only one in the house with it. Of course, no one is going in or out. The hard of thinking are walking amongst you.

I'm surprised that anyone is in shock - the measures have been progressing over the past week and it was obvious that this was going to happen. Frankly no other country managed to stem the escalation simply with social distancing - however people behaved (and I'm not condoning it) here at the weekend.

I still think the exercise element will cause problems. My teens and I are planning to go for a walk together tomorrow at lunch time but presumably a lot of other people will be planning something similar - that could lead to over crowding in our urban green spaces. Hard to avoid. It could well be stopped soon.

Oh FFS. Tell me I didn't just read this comment from a poster on this thread: Suicide kills with a lot more certainty than coronavirus. Suicide is a deliberate action that takes the life of no one else but oneself. This virus has people dying without wanting to, not by their own choice, being exposed through no choice of their own.

You have to be a very special kind of stupid and completely messed up to think a personal choice is even on anywhere near a remote galaxy of a level to people who choose to survive and die through no choice of fault of their own.

@Bouledeneige we have had a similar lockdown for a week in a busy city. The walking is going okay, are really trying to avoid each other.

And yes, definitely nominate for classics!

I suggest that from now on "we aren't going to lockdown" becomes a Mumsnet phrase for stating the absolute opposite of something that's bound to be true.

@nicenewdusters thank you for about the only time I have laughed today!

We aren't going to lockdown. Stop Scaremongering will be the new "long time poster pombears"

The exercising outside had to be stopped in Italy because, obvs, everyone was doing it, and it kind of defeated the whole thing.

You have to be a very special kind of stupid
Unfortunately this crisis has proved just how many of those people walk among us! (or fortunately if you know them and now realise what pricks your friends are and can distance from them for a few months)

Strange isn't it?

We're near the top of the league for obesity, type 2 diabetes, a massively sedentary population, millions of cars. Yet suddenly, in the space of a couple of days, so many people are claiming that the inability to go for a daily walk with their family (and therefore many other families will be doing likewise) is unimaginable, they'll lose their minds and won't cope.

I have friends who walk so infrequently they'll need to staple their SatNav to their heads to avoid getting lost. But no, they must walk....

ffswhatnext

Virtual (((hugs))) for you that cant harm anyone. Your post really touched a nerve, I dont even want to think about not being able to hug my kids. I hope you are feeling better very soon, it must be awful for you. I am sure your family are counting down the days till they can smother you in hugs and kisses. You sound so strong despite it all, KBO.

I have friends who walk so infrequently they'll need to staple their SatNav to their heads to avoid getting lost. But no, they must walk....

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God I'm sick of hearing 'scaremongering' and 'fearmongering'. It's the bloody in thing for the Facebook 'it's just a cold' idiots.

To be fair given the other countries ahead of us and the way even waffley Boris was wording things this was 100% going to happen no scaremongering common sense .

Hate to say I told you so but...

@Willow2017
Thank you. It's hard because this is the only place I can really talk about it. I know they are crapping themselves, as am I. And because of what is going on at the moment, I feel bad laying this on my medical team lol.

I'm sorry but kind of glad it touched a nerve. I hope it makes sense. I know at least one person I have gotten through to today. Thank you.

@Sostenueto the pet shops will still be open and some of my local vets are doing a food delivery system for older, vulnerable clients. Hopefully the pet shops will do similar. If you have a Morrison’s in your part of the country, they are doing food parcel deliveries. It’s a basic parcel that costs £35 but it might be some help for you. I truly feel for you and other older, vulnerable people. Take care.