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Coronavirus talk topic

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allaglow · 04/10/2020 17:00

Just to say that I'm looking forward to the day when coronavirus as a talk topic on mumsnet does not exist!
That's all.

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MyMessyHouse · 04/10/2020 17:09

Me too.

I was thinking about how interesting it would be to see the very first thread on coronavirus, and what most people thought about it!

HeyMacarona · 04/10/2020 17:10

I have thought this many times. I remember when swine flu was a topic and eventually removed.

halcyondays · 04/10/2020 17:12

Before it was a topic, I remember someone posted about being worried about flights coming in from Wuhan. Most people were unconcerned.

MarcelineMissouri · 04/10/2020 17:12

Omg me too! Along with when I don’t have to remember to carry a mask everywhere and people don’t treat each other like lepers any more!

Sunny360 · 04/10/2020 17:13

I always think about the first “worried about coronavirus” thread in January in AIBU... I was hooked to those threads.

RizzleDrizzle · 04/10/2020 17:15

Yep hopefully the day will come

And we can get back to our families, work, concerts sport life’s little pleasures

Original poster
allaglow · 04/10/2020 17:16

Ah, swine flu.
Those were the days.

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RizzleDrizzle · 04/10/2020 17:17

@allaglow

Ah, swine flu. Those were the days.
Oh yeah “catch it, kill it, bin it”

Some how we all pine for those adverts and the posters

lljkk · 04/10/2020 17:20

It didn't first arrive here from Wuhan, though. Big first arrival was via the scout master who had a business trip to Singapore before hols at Alps chalet with British & Spanish resident friends.

Unless you think the virus arrived in UK back in December or October 2019 (some insist it did).

Jaffacakeinmypocket · 04/10/2020 17:23

@Sunny360

I always think about the first “worried about coronavirus” thread in January in AIBU... I was hooked to those threads.
I've booked marked the first "worried" thread as it makes fascinating reading in hindsight
ivftake1 · 04/10/2020 17:30

I said I was worried and got completely dismissed!

DazzleMe · 04/10/2020 17:46

I always think about the first “worried about coronavirus” thread in January in AIBU... I was hooked to those threads.

Me too.

HeyMacarona · 04/10/2020 18:17

I got hooked on the first worried about coronavirus in the AIBU topic. At the time I was relieved to find it as people in RL thought I was being crazy.

Spicegirls · 04/10/2020 18:30

Has anyone got a link to the first thread. I'd love to read it.

dontbelieveboris · 04/10/2020 18:40

@lljkk

It didn't first arrive here from Wuhan, though. Big first arrival was via the scout master who had a business trip to Singapore before hols at Alps chalet with British & Spanish resident friends.

Unless you think the virus arrived in UK back in December or October 2019 (some insist it did).

A work colleague brought the most horrific cough cold virus back from Singapore in late October, it spread like crazy and a Lady who caught it from a colleagues family member actually passed away from pneumonia in November. When it officially arrived here I was exposed to someone who had it after visiting London and I didn't catch it, although everyone else this person was in contact with did. All before you could get tested though so we will never know if it was or not...
Spicegirls · 04/10/2020 18:41

Thank you

HesterShaw1 · 04/10/2020 18:49

Apparently there was a lot of pneumonia type deaths before Christmas. More than normal.

Back in January a family friend died. He went into the QMC in Nottingham for a heart operation, which went successfully. He was sent home, and a week later he died of a sudden pneumonia. They're saying now it was probably Covid.

All anecdotal of course.

I agree OP, I can't wait until there is no need for this board.

It's the little things I am looking forward to.

middleager · 04/10/2020 18:57

I used to follow those threads and the snippets of news that would come through from 1 or 2 prominent contributors.

There'd be complaints about CV threads in Chat or AIBU.

My son was on a school ski trip in Feb half term when the news was breaking about various provinces being put into 'lockdown' I was so anxious he wouldn't get home as those areas were locked down on the day of his flight home.

TheSeedsOfADream · 04/10/2020 19:56

I'm on those first threads under a different name.

TheSeedsOfADream · 04/10/2020 20:00

Rereading that thread it seems like a decade ago.

Prominent deniers are still denying. Others have disappeared. Also a couple of the real (and only tbf) posters I'd consider scaremongerers. Posting with glee every new case and death.

MushMonster · 04/10/2020 20:09

I do believe that covid made it to Uk in October-Dec, and surely to many other countries so by the time they identified it it was already roaming free...
Looking forward to the day we get a cure and vaccine. I will keep the masks just in case.

JesusInTheCabbageVan · 04/10/2020 20:16

Reading the first 'Worried' thread now and it's fascinating.

What worries me is that one day there will be a thread titled, 'Worried about these reports of the dead reanimating'. Lots of responses like, 'Get a grip, it's no worse than the flu'. Then six months later it'll be, 'I feel sorry for your DC if you think that's the best way to cauterise a bite wound Angry'

Mindymomo · 04/10/2020 20:24

When I wake up each morning I forget the situation we are all in and think it will be great when the time arrives when I can wake up and we are through this awful pandemic and get back to enjoying our lives.

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