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Is there something else going on

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Pleasedontdrawonyoursister · 23/04/2020 21:24

I’m sorry if this is in the wrong place, I can’t think of the right section to put it. I can’t shake the feeling that something deeper is going on here. I’m not sure if it’s my anxiety talking and the fact I have a lot more time to sit and think about it but I can’t get it out of my head. I am thinking something devastating to the planet, asteroid collision or something, with corona as a cover up to avoid mass hysteria in our final days. Why are they still launching Starlink when the rest of the world has completely shut down? Where is all this money coming from that the government is throwing around seemingly without a care to how we will pay it back. Why are they so unbothered by so many members of society who stand to lose everything if we stay shut down for much longer (pubs, leisure industry, travel/holidays, weddings etc). Why do we keep hearing about empty hospitals, bored staff and the empty Nightingale hospitals? Why are we stopping ALL planned surgery’s seemingly disregarding the health of everybody apart from corona sufferers. No plans for if/how/when our children will go back to school. I just can’t get my head around it.

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RainMustFall · 25/04/2020 14:23

Okay, time to back away from the Twilight Zone.

Rubyscute · 25/04/2020 14:26

How worried are you? If you are genuinely worried about this, it's upsetting you and you can't put it out of your mind, I think maybe you should seek help because you could be suffering from a paranoid delusion. Have you ever suffered from a psychiatric illness?

CockCarousel · 25/04/2020 15:20

The governments' lack of transparency during this crisis has certainly given me the feeling something more is going on.

notimagain · 25/04/2020 16:40

The governments' lack of transparency during this crisis has certainly given me the feeling something more is going on.

Yep..that they are trying to hide the fact they are incompetent..I don't think you need to dig any deeper than that TBH.

RuffleCrow · 25/04/2020 17:05

Why @B1rdbra1n? Are you sceptical that the technology to create a virus exists?! Because you're decades behind if so. Or are you sceptical that the lovely, compassionate and famously humane chinese government would do such a thing?! Hmm

B1rdbra1n · 25/04/2020 17:25

Are you sceptical that the technology to create a virus exists?! Because you're decades behind if so. Or are you sceptical that the lovely, compassionate and famously humane chinese government would do such a thing
None of those things Ruffle, am I allowed any other reasons to doubt your claim or are those the only options?

LilacTree1 · 25/04/2020 17:46

Okay, more stuff I’ve not heard of, will google later. Keep me out of mischief.

OP, in terms of things going on, one thing I will suggest is not giving any information away. We don’t want to end up like China. Don’t sign up for symptom tracking apps etc. Don’t put stuff out on Facebook etc.

Keep some privacy.

Justaboy · 25/04/2020 17:52

The governments' lack of transparency during this crisis has certainly given me the feeling something more is going on.

Well would the goverment be clever enough to pull that of?. There're much better at incompentence and cover ups! nope prolly only a bit better!

As to Trump I just could not see Bojo coming up with bollix like that, and i'm bloody sure Angela Merkel wouldn't as shes a scientist and come to that neither would have Maggie Thatcher another scientist!

B1rdbra1n · 25/04/2020 18:05

The governments' lack of transparency
ah you think they are covering up a super advanced plan to have us all chipped
would they they were so coordinated and efficient, sadly it aint a conspiracy it's just a cock-up, maybe a cock-spiracy

bluemoon77 · 25/04/2020 18:08

That extract in that book by Dean Koonz “The eyes of darkness” about a virus escaping from a lab in Wuhan was eerily accurate.

RuffleCrow · 25/04/2020 18:16

Let's hear your reasons, birdbrain.

JAME0 · 25/04/2020 18:21

Do people know Gates Foundation has paid grants to Imperial College (where the pandemic model was created)? And that Chris Whitty, the government’s chief medical advisor has received payments from them for work done in Nigeria? The corruption is deep...

Calledyoulastnightfromglasgow · 25/04/2020 18:46

I dunno. I am just not sure that Bill Gates is an evil hegemonistic monster. He has given away loads of his cash. Even if I don’t necessarily agree with his actions, I don’t think there is huge corruption on his part. What has he to gain?

LilacTree1 · 25/04/2020 19:00

Some people want power for the sake of power.

I don’t have a specific person in mind btw. You can see it now with the curtain twitchers.

Parker231 · 25/04/2020 19:01

Wow - some posters have a very vivid imagination.

LilacTree1 · 25/04/2020 19:01

JAME yes, I think people know and I think the corruption is quite shallow 😂 see also Matt Hancock £ interests.

People just do what they do in order to cope.

LilacTree1 · 25/04/2020 19:03

It’s only because of controllervirus and MN that I found out some people get breaking news alerts on their phone.

I have a feeling the next generation might reject this crap.

KOKOagainandagain · 25/04/2020 19:05

Ok ... i have watched 12 monkeys and I legend recently ...spooky.

So, apart from posting on various forums, what are YOU going to actually do?

You don't need permission to self/isolate, prep, plant a garden, meditate, take vitamin D or C or antioxidants etc.

You don't need validation. You don't need to convince others that your beliefs are right. If you think they are right, act on them. If you are right, you will be an early adjuster rather than a panicker and best placed to help others.

Unless you just want to be right. Remember, this means nothing - even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

LilacTree1 · 25/04/2020 19:07

Keep are you asking OP.?

JAME0 · 25/04/2020 19:21

Do you know the outcomes of his vaccines in developing countries? Your opinion of him is affected by the fact he ‘gives away’ money (more like invests it with people to get them to do his bidding) - that’s why he does it so ostentatiously!

B1rdbra1n · 25/04/2020 21:19

Let's hear your reasons
broadly speaking the logistics of controlling such a bio-weapon, it's a bit too 'mutually assured destruction'
I'm no apologist for the Chinese regime!

Starrynightsabove · 25/04/2020 21:28

@TartanTexan the simulation theory isn’t actually that ‘out there’, there’s some fascinating papers from physicists and other scientists on this. Good to get lost in, but not ponder on or you’ll lose your (virtual!) mind.

Starrynightsabove · 25/04/2020 21:39

That's been really blow out of proportion. The report I read said that he was talking to his research scientists or someone about the fact heat, uv, and bleech and disinfectant kills the virus. All he said is can they look into whether they can use those methods to kill the virus inside the body somehow

You don’t have to read a report you can watch the video. And only an absolute moron would equate disinfectant or light killing viruses on a surface to killing it inside the cells of the body.

Sadly He was lobbied by the far right leader of a group which campaigns for adults and children to ingest bleach daily and he’s not too bright so then he made this statement. It’s all over the news, if you want to check.

And his ‘research scientist’ you reference was filmed looking horrified. And as of today is no longer on his counsel.

He's not a scientist, or a doctor or a carer polatitian. What he said has the right intention, just said in a really clumsy way. Most politicians have spent their lives learning how to address the public and how to speak without slipping up (so they basically waffle about nothing). Trump just speaks like a normal person and says what comes into his head. Not a big deal really, people are just quick to jump on him

He is one of the most influential people in the world and doesn’t get to ‘say whatever comes into his head’. And I assume the ‘not a career politician’ but was tongue in cheek...

Justaboy · 25/04/2020 21:41

I would also question that - the truth is governments did know. The Polish gov’t in exile in London wrote about it specifically, soldiers within Germany reported it to priests in confession/church. International communities such as the Red Cross knew.

As abhorrent as the holocaust was what could the allies have done about it anyway?, seeing that it was a few sites in Germany and Poland. There was a programe on the TV a while ago that looked at that it would have meant sending Aircrew deep into Gremany and no close by bases near Poland. And what could they have done when they got there ?

Bombed the camps which would have killed the prisoners, thay would have had to do it in daylight as the ground illumanting radar wasnt that good even if say they could have got there in daylight, gone in as low as you like what then?

Even if they hit the railways they'd soon have them repaired again and rember precision bombing wasnt the thing they could do back then.

In fact they only thing they could do and did was to invade and that couldnt happen till Germany was in a state it was in around the middle of 1945.

As to South Africa yes far from Englands proudest moment. The Boer's gacv the British army a real caning at that time! as to Churchill I reckon he redeemed himself by leading us to victory in WW2.

I wonder how well BoJo woud have done as a leader then or for that matter most all of them?..

RuffleCrow · 25/04/2020 22:04

Churchill wouldn't have seen it that way @justaboy - he remained proud of what he'd done in South Africa. He certainly wouldn't have thought he needed to 'redeem himself' in any way. You're projecting 21st Century values on to someone who by all accounts was seen as a brutal imperialist, even by late victorian/ early 20th century standards. His views were by no means typical.