People always on to the next thing

[DottyHarmer]

Now I see it’s antibodies. Lots of posters claiming that they, their dp, their neighbour and their neighbour’s dustman’s aunt have no antibodies from their vaccine. Some people fail to develop antibodies, but all of them appear to be on Mumsnet….

There’s always a panic du jour, from worrying about catching covid from an Amazon parcel, to long covid 3hours after being exposed. 18 months of panics which drop off active convos as soon as something else turns up which affects a surprising number of people on here.

It’s thoroughly exhausting.

@DottyHarmer

Now I see it’s antibodies. Lots of posters claiming that they, their dp, their neighbour and their neighbour’s dustman’s aunt have no antibodies from their vaccine. Some people fail to develop antibodies, but all of them appear to be on Mumsnet….

There’s always a panic du jour, from worrying about catching covid from an Amazon parcel, to long covid 3hours after being exposed. 18 months of panics which drop off active convos as soon as something else turns up which affects a surprising number of people on here.

It’s thoroughly exhausting.

Oddly, it's always the anti-vaxxers who know all these people for whom the vaccine didn't provide antibodies. I suppose they can't go on forever about myocarditis and blood clots.

It's the nature of social media. Same as horrendous/ serious hospital visits. Boone come back and says I visited my GP and local A&E 9 times and I've finally realised I was over reacting, no one updates the should I go to A&E I've convinced myself I have x.......... with four hours later no I didn't and I'd just overgoogled. Same as this, people only post the negatives, and get assumed to be the majority, as the majority don't bother posting, as why would they? I got vaccinated and it's all good is the majority of people experience, but makes for boring reading. People only post I know X issue, or no antibodies, as they are a tiny but vocal minority in a sea of successes that don't post

Meh.

@illuyankas

Meh.

Erudite.

@Geamhradh - they've even bored themselves, finally.

[quote MRex]@Geamhradh - they've even bored themselves, finally.[/quote]
Thank fuck.
It'll be short-lived though.

It's as if every time we reduce the reasons to worry, they start focusing on minor elements or things that are extremely low risk. But some people are loving the drama.

I'm not sure if it's loving the drama, or just failing to adjust to the lack of it.

I found myself googling the entry requirements for New Zealand earlier, in case I want to emigrate in 10 years to escape the climate-induced collapse of Western society. I did catch myself, and wonder if it could perhaps be misplaced anxiety. Then decided it was just boredom.

What did we used to worry about?

Some people must be lying to ramp up angst, eg the ones swearing blind they caught covid off the post. We know now it was a chance in a million at least, yet there were all these posters knowing that’s where they caught it when washing your groceries was the thing to do.

In a flash that’s all forgotten and people swarm (good pandemic word) onto the next issue (too numerous to itemise) with the latest one being antibodies. No one mentioned antibodies a couple of weeks ago and now we have people convinced that any medical condition or even no medical condition renders the vaccine ineffective.

eg the ones swearing blind they caught covid off the post
There was a very funny one who said she hasn't been anywhere, so it must have come from post / the gate or whatever. Later in the thread she mentioned seeing her mum, getting bits at the shop, grabbing a coffee, discussing it all with her neighbours and fetching something from her friend's house. I have to confess I couldn't work out if she'd done the thread as a joke or not though.

One sticks out in my mind - the poster who said her df had definitely caught it from the supermarket delivery as he had been nowhere - and only a carer had been in…

Yes its strange the number of people on MN who also know numerous perfectly healthy 25 year old marathon runners who had to be "blue lighted" to hospital and are now on ventilation in ICU.

Totally agree @DottyHarmer.

People are desperate to find more and more esoteric reasons for ongoing DOOM!

There was a thread yesterday about an LFT for a dog..

Yeah, the post-Pfizer marathon runners struck down…. When the second one popped up I smelled a big fat rat.

It's quite interesting from a psychology/sociology perspective really but also worrying - the more you read it, the more you start believing it, but this is how misinformation spreads too.

I’m disappointed that there hasn’t been outrage at having the Covid booster and flu jab at the same time.
Surely it will cause your ears to drop off or to grow an extra limb.

Yip. I remember earnest arguments about how you shouldn't walk your dog in remote countryside all alone because if you touch the latch of a gate then someone might come and touch it later.

People aren't going to let the madness go, they're just going to lose their minds over other aspects of the pandemic.

There’s also a huge amount of reports on here if teacher deaths - one poster was claiming three in their school. There didn’t seem to have been news reports about this 🤷🏻‍♀️

If some people don't develop the antibodies then more people need to be vaccinated not less, but then antivaxxers tend not to rely on logic to get their point across.

It has been proven that mass hysteria can be created out of nothing though, so I don't really know why we are surprised that a pandemic can have that effect. When people are anxious as a group then the group has its own direction and the people in it all get pulled that way. I know that people want to think that we are all unique, but actually a lot of our thoughts are more rooted in the group than we are aware of. You cannot undo all that socialisation, you can't leave society it is within you.

I think some people just really love to ring the doomsday bell though 🤣

@WouldBeGood

There’s also a huge amount of reports on here if teacher deaths - one poster was claiming three in their school. There didn’t seem to have been news reports about this 🤷🏻‍♀️

About 3 weeks ago, a poster claimed the ICU that they worked in was full of young vaccinated people. A quick AS showed same poster worked from home and has been on Zoom since last year. I spend more time than I should ASing posters making outlandish claims on both sides of the argument. There's another at the moment gone full on warp speed conspiracy who claims to be a non vaccinated HCP but if you AS she's posted over a thousand times about Covid since May under that name, getting more and more whacko with each post.

@WouldBeGood

There’s also a huge amount of reports on here if teacher deaths - one poster was claiming three in their school. There didn’t seem to have been news reports about this 🤷🏻‍♀️

Indeed. In the first wave, a local headteacher sadly died and it was all over social media and the local media too.

I know a woman who does this kind of thing (i.e. posts made-up alarmist bollocks online). A friend-of-a-friend of one of my DBs.

She's psychologically unwell and I think she has a misguided idea that she's helping people. She's all over anywhere there's a forum; MN, reddit, MSE, Pistonheads, Tattle, comments sections below-the-line.

But you are only supposed to post doom and gloom here in the Coronavirus section. Positivity is against the rules. 😉

The one that sticks in my mind was the poor woman at the beginning of the pandemic and just before the first lockdown whose daughter was clearly having a near-breakdown on London. The poster lived some distance away and wanted to go and pick the daughter up and bring her home. You would think she was planning to deliberately infect the whole country with Ebola.

I hope she went to get to her in the end.