Good News Part 5. For science, positivity, puffins and daffodils. For anyone who isn't coping with gloom and doom.All aboard Boaty McBoatface!

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New thread for the positive crew. Oldies, lurkers and newbies all welcome. Keep the science and positivity coming.

@Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum - 😂

I need to stay here, in my happy place, before I am jettisoned from MN altogether.

Thank you for this thread, I'm really struggling with the rest of Mumsnet at the moment!

I left Mumsnet during the March lockdown as I just couldn’t deal with the muppetry. Only just returned and would have been off again pretty sharpish of it wasn’t for this thread. I’ve got it bookmarked and don’t even look at the main boards now. My mental health isn’t worth risking!

@SaveWaterDrinkGin I am exactly the same. Won’t find me anywhere else now! I actually think people enjoy telling everyone that the end is nigh

Did people see the Mail article today about how a smaller proportion of young people are dying with this peak (so far. I know things might change). It has gone down from about 5% to around 3% I think. I can't now find the article but it was there this morning.

Do you think those doom muppets are genuine people? I sometimes wonder if some troll comes on (or even a bot) and then people get swept up in the frenzy. Even if you're stout of heart (), like us on here, it can induce a little wobble.

Feel like any trolly eyes lurking 👀 on here would love that above sentence. I hate it on Mumsnet when you become aware that posters are checking up on a thread.

Although having said that, the endless and repetitive hysteria make you become inured.

I think many seem to enjoy being hysterical in public in a perverse sort of way.

But yes, bots. It’s psychological warfare meant to send the west deranged.

I like hanging out here and feminist chat.

@tobee

Do you think those doom muppets are genuine people? I sometimes wonder if some troll comes on (or even a bot) and then people get swept up in the frenzy. Even if you're stout of heart (), like us on here, it can induce a little wobble.

Feel like any trolly eyes lurking 👀 on here would love that above sentence. I hate it on Mumsnet when you become aware that posters are checking up on a thread.

I absolutely think people do it for a reaction/fun. One I’m thinking of who I mentioned before was appalling....CD.

Btw how can you see if someone is reading the thread? X

I just can't sit on my hands. I just can't bear that shit to go unchallenged. It's like seeing a landmine and worrying some poor vulnerable bastard will just step on it.

@Peggyslantern

Did people see the Mail article today about how a smaller proportion of young people are dying with this peak (so far. I know things might change). It has gone down from about 5% to around 3% I think. I can't now find the article but it was there this morning.

Yes I saw that too

Very good news

Yes I do think some are “professional”. You see some names over and over with the same gloomy message relentlessly then they are gone. Some are genuine of course too.
You see it with regards to pushing lockdown, wanting schools to close, the Oxford vaccine ( in particular) spreading doom and then they vanish.

Conspiracy theory trigger warning.

Have you noticed how quickly everything recedes once it happens though?

The moment lockdown is called as is no longer in doubt then all the "look at the economy you muppets - we just have to live with it' crowd disappear and then up pop the "the schools will never open again" crowd to take the next shift? Yeah, obviously some are still around but where are all their mates from two weeks ago filling whole threads in hours?

I think it is mostly posters that get some kind of a kick worrying people.

Some bloody miserable posters that will never find happiness in anything and always see the negative.

And I have definitely spotted at least two poster that I think are furry hat vodka drinkers. On here to cause public unrest.

Oh and the odd journalist after fanning up a lazy story.

Don’t look now but a new one has just popped up about long Covid!
It’s the night shift clocking on

@sashagabadon I just saw that thread, I retreated very quickly as my fingers just wanted to respond by telling her to fuck off back to the deep dark hole that she'd obviously just emerged from. Happy days!

I think that thread must be a wind up....

Ah it’s bad on here. Sometimes I engage to try and divert but sometimes not. Trouble is the site is so skewed as people post more doom.

Definitely some posters aggressively pushing an agenda with a few mates that gang up on anyone vaguely positive. Tbh I don’t know why they do it, people stop engaging and I don’t think it makes anyone really change their views.

It's a banned poster, it's getting pulled now.

@sashagabadon

Don’t look now but a new one has just popped up about long Covid! It’s the night shift clocking on

I was just coming on to post about that! Turns out they're a previously banned poster and it's being taken down.

Honestly people get their "jollies" in a very strange way. Or else it pays extremely well.

@FourTeaFallOut

It's a banned poster, it's getting pulled now.

X post!

Noticed threads are leaking more and more out of the coronavirus boards!