Some people are loving it..

[MarcsLover]

Some people seem to actually be enjoying the Covid19 shitshow. They revel in pointing out the death rate in the country and how "we are the worst" . They want us to all wear masks, not to go out, heaven forbid we should go to the beach.....fucking lunacy. I am sick of the party atmosphere when they clap for the carers, the economy is fucked. There is nowt to celebrate.

I don’t know why people are finding it so hard we are enjoying been at home so Much , could be quite happy doing this a while longer haha Etc etc “ Been so utterly confused at the “selfish” people who are desperate for some normality back

That doesn’t sound like they’re revelling in it.

Sounds like they lack empathy?

I agree with you 100%.

There's going to be a void in a lot of people's lives if/when things return to normal.

This thread is the most perfect example of confirmation bias.

@MarcsLover

Some people seem to actually be enjoying the Covid19 shitshow. They revel in pointing out the death rate in the country and how "we are the worst" . They want us to all wear masks, not to go out, heaven forbid we should go to the beach.....fucking lunacy. I am sick of the party atmosphere when they clap for the carers, the economy is fucked. There is nowt to celebrate.

Totally agree OP

@ToffeeYoghurt I'm been a MN member for years so of course I post here. That's very different to trawling the internet for articles or SM posts to cause unecessary worry and panic.

It's perfectly possible to be horrified by our death rates and think its maybe too early to lift restrictions but also be pissed off with scaremongering or lack of critical analysis.

But you know that.

@itsgettingweird

Loving it? Seriously?

Ive seem people over various different SM and heard in RL people complaining we are still too locked down and as flu season is over and COVID is just a mild flu - we need to move on.

So there times to remind people about the death rate. That ours is the highest on Europe.

Crowded beaches. Crowded parks. Street parties. Mass sports games. These are happening and are contributing to it all.

No one is loving the real fear we have of a second spike - that I have seen anywhere.

We can't hide forever

@Iggly yes you might be right there maybe reveling is the wrong term
Either way they seem to be enjoying it .

I have not many people who are "enjoying it"(not met anyone as such anyway!) Most people are sensible ,and prepared to do whatever it takes to avoid any further spikes .However here in Dear old Dorset ,lots of day trippers at Durdle Door. (most of whom respecting the rules social distancing ) 3 complete bloody idiots decided to "tombstone" off the cliffs ,hence Air Ambulances were called and to clear space for them everyone herded together! SD completely out of the window!

@EnlightenedOwl
Who's asking to 'hide' forever? I've not seen anybody suggest that. Where are these posts?

Never before have I heard people describe two to three weeks as forever...! Well, perhaps very young children.

Like I said up thread posters like you are baffling. It's all extremes. You seem fixated on immediate end to lockdown - but without the same precautions other countries have taken. And can't grasp the basic motion of more haste less speed.

It's true op and it has always been this way here. Don't want to hear anything other than it is a killer virus that's gonna wipe all life on earth out.

And another thing.....people who constantly go on about there being a sudden rise in cases. E.g after Easter, after B&Q opened, after VE bank holiday blah blah...it ain't happened.

For those looking for an example, this poster springs to mind -

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3908857-To-wish-we-had-been-completely-wrong?pg=1

I completely agree with op. I was following the progress of the virus back in early Feb and was on the 'worried about coronavirus' threads but it soon descended into ridiculous overdramatic histrionics. Post after post of '#BREAKING NEWS blah blah' and people wanting to be the first to post that days stats. Anaylysis as to why the stats were late being published - oooh it must be really bad today. Then when the stats weren't so bad - oh clearly they are inaccurate then. It was awful, even though there were a few interesting posters on there, I had to leave the threads.

@EnlightenedOwl lockdown isn't hiding. Confronting the virus head on isn't brave. What we've been doing with our half assed half measures is ensuring we manage to destroy our economy while at the same time having one of the highest death rates in the world.

Why people choose to get angry about what their neighbours are doing, or mask wearing, or the furloughed is beyond me.

And another thing.....I've seen people driving around in cars, on their own, with a mask on. People just don't understand the science.

A lot of mask wearing is virtue signalling, I've seen loads of people with their noses uncovered

Or perhaps they have the mask on ready for when they get to wherever they're driving to. Instead of faffing around in a carpark.

I really hate the stats top trumps - you can and should criticise the government's handling of this, for instance the shameful unnecessary deaths in care homes, without acting like national statistics are some sort of ghoulish competition. It was really, really distasteful to see so many MNers salivating over it as we got closer to being the worst in Europe. I also find it a bit much that any statistics than can be read to suggest the situation is getting worse are read uncritically (unless they're statistics about, say, suicide rates or falls in cancer treatment in which case you shouldn't care about them because PEOPLE ARE DYING of covid-19, which is apparently the only sort of death that matters) but anything positive is picked to death.

It is absolutely clear to me that lots of people are revelling in the drama, and also quite like their new self-awarded status as amateur epidemiologist and police informant rolled into one.

I think very few people have been loving it, many people appear to have bad anxiety though. There’s definitely extremes on both sides from “oh it’s a mild flu” to “if I get it, I will definitely die even though I am only a bit overweight, I’m 25 and have no health conditions”.

I've seen more posts whingeing about mystical salivating than any actual real salivating. These moaners like to mix a bit of downplaying with some Othering and add in a little inpatient footstamping for good measure.

It's perfectly normal, reasonable, and indeed desirable, to calmly discuss the disgraceful mishandling of the pandemic by the UK government. It's certainly the only way things can improve.

Btw we're not one of the worse in Europe re excess deaths. We're one of the worse in the whole world. You'd think that would prompt people to demand action was taken to prevent further damage. Simple precautions already taken by other countries. Well you'd think so. But instead they're whining about those concerned mentioning their concerns. The mind boggles.

Enlightened I never suggested we should hide forever? My post doesn't say that. I highlighted that as well as people scaremongering there are the opposite end if the spectrum of people who think this is just a mild flu.
So at times people need to mention death rates etc to remind them this isn't a mild flu.
And the other end of the scale of people flocking to crowded places need reminding at times despite the fact we do need to get back to some normality and start the economy we are still at risk.

And I think the message has reached a vast majority of the population. But with anything there will be extremes. It's generally the extreme people write about.

They are dementors , my friend is one too. A couple of us have had to mute group chat because of it . She slates anyone acting within the guidelines, because she doesn't even understand how you catch it or how masks even work .
She seems to think its floating in the air ready to get you as soon as you put a foot outside the front door .
I've tried explaining but she's enjoying it too much , sending daily mail links night and day .

The irony of complaining about people complaining

@LisaSimpsonsbff it's not top trumps. Whatever quantifying measures you want to put on how you read the stats, we are not doing well with this. Our government is making decisions that have led us here. This needs to be seen in comparison to other governments so that we can understand that this death rate and economic devastation was not an inevitability.

We need to acknowledge this so that those in power can be held accountable. Otherwise it will happen again.

If it's not top trumps there wouldn't be such excitement about the no. 1 spot. International comparisons are absolutely useful, if the huge degree of caution in comparing across data sets is acknowledged - I think it's awful that the government stopped using them publicly when they started to look bad. But if you're just going to look at the ranking what you're doing is so simplistic you shouldn't bother.

I dont fully get the dementor thing either. Am I a dementor for wearing a mask to the supermarkets and carrying on social distancing? What if I said that I think allowing people to head en masse to beaches and lakes while our infection rates are still so high is irresponsible? Or that a a shorter, earlier lockdown would have been more effective and what we're doing now is prolonging the misery? Dementor? Should we all just be out there queuing outside of primark waving union Jack flags??