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People always on to the next thing

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DottyHarmer · 02/08/2021 18:04

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.

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PinkSparklyPussyCat · 03/08/2021 10:08

@Topseyt

But you are only supposed to post doom and gloom here in the Coronavirus section. Positivity is against the rules. 😉
I've seen the positivity thread referred to a the head in the sand thread by one of the most prolific doom mongers
RuleWithAWoodenFoot · 03/08/2021 10:34

I know one full on anti-vaxxer. Her brother has just died of a heart attack - he is an alcoholic, and has a history of heart issues. Obviously he died because 3 weeks earlier he had the AZ vaccine. OBVIOUSLY. Even though there is no medical evidence of that, she just 'knows' that it's the vaccine.

Same as all the 'schools must stay open' people on here who seemed to work for the NHS and have husbands who were NHS consultants in ICU. They were far too busy to post here while schools weren't in the news, but when schools were in the news, bam.. suddenly they have loads of free time to call school staff lazy.

Basically, lots of people are dicks!

MorrisZapp · 03/08/2021 10:35

@oneglassandpuzzled

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.

Yes! That was totally mental!
amicissimma · 03/08/2021 10:43

"What about people who can't have the vaccine?"

It turns out, from the Green Book, that the only people who possibly can't have the vaccine are those who have had a reaction so severe that it required medical treatment, to an ingredient in the Covid vaccines (all, if only one, they can have another). Even then some of them may be able to have the vaccine under the supervision of an allergy specialist.

So the number of people who really can't have the vaccine must be tiny. What a co-incidence that so many of them are either Mumsnetters or friends/relatives of Mumsnetters.

bumbleymummy · 03/08/2021 10:49

@Bordois

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.
Yep. And the number of MNers who know people who’ve had COVID 2/3/4 times in the last 3 months despite the reinfection rate being tiny.
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DottyHarmer · 03/08/2021 10:51

I wonder what the next one will be? As I said, antibodies (or lack of) is currently a popular one, and a pp suggested that booster shots might be a contender.

Incidentally, why is no one posting about getting covid from their deliveries any more? Surely if it were true and this was a common route of infection, then people would regularly be coming forward. Just shows how many people just jump on the latest bandwagon.

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IcedPurple · 03/08/2021 11:12

@MorrisZapp

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.

Oh, I remember the gate latch post!

That was around the time people were taking to MN in great numbers to chastise 'idiots flocking to beauty spots', when of course they were at the same 'beauty spots' themselves. But I guess they weren't 'flocking' and they weren't (in their minds) 'idiots' so that's OK.

What a time!

WouldBeGood · 03/08/2021 11:38

It’s deadly mutant variants now

IcedPurple · 03/08/2021 11:39

@WouldBeGood

It’s deadly mutant variants now
I thought the ultra-contagious vaccine evading double mutant scariants were a bit last season?
SpnBaby1967 · 03/08/2021 11:58

Let's not forget, if the Gov't are telling us doom & gloom & locking us in our houses they must be believed and we must all do exactly as we're told & not question the narrative.

However.....

If the Gov't dares to suggest some positivity & good news, clearly they are lying, cheating bastards who we should not listen to as they just want to kill us all off.

QueenofKattegat · 03/08/2021 12:20

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

See also "size 8 gym bunny".

WouldBeGood · 03/08/2021 12:26

@IcedPurple they’re going to incubate in unvaccinated babies

Haffiana · 03/08/2021 14:04

@SpnBaby1967

Let's not forget, if the Gov't are telling us doom & gloom & locking us in our houses they must be believed and we must all do exactly as we're told & not question the narrative.

However.....

If the Gov't dares to suggest some positivity & good news, clearly they are lying, cheating bastards who we should not listen to as they just want to kill us all off.

GrinGrinGrin
pommedeterre · 03/08/2021 15:19

I think it takes longer than people expect for antibodies to appear as readable in the capillary test. I was tested several times this year and only got antibodies 4 days after the second vaccine. I don't think they came from the second vaccine but had not shown up 8 weeks after first.

I think large sections of the pandemic have been unable to process the reality of this situation hence the general anti science and anti logic stances we have seen.

Kokeshi123 · 03/08/2021 15:24

Yes, the large number of posters who seemed to have all these teachers dying in their schools were making me roll my eyes about. Although to be fair, there also seemed to be unfeasible numbers of people who had two or three acquaintances who had apparently committed suicide as a result of the lockdowns.

I have absolutely no doubt that post viral complications are a very real thing, but of the several I people I know claiming long Covid, all but one fit a very particular political/personality profile and I find that quite telling.

MarshaBradyo · 03/08/2021 15:32

Yep. Everyone vaccinated but new issue ready to roll

Puzzledandpissedoff · 03/08/2021 15:58

I wonder what the next one will be? As I said, antibodies (or lack of) is currently a popular one, and a pp suggested that booster shots might be a contender

Long Covid or the next dreadful variant, I'd expect, plus a few more articles about how the NHS is "close to collapse" this winter - you know, the same ones they've published for at least the last 10 years

By the way, what happened to the "Columbian variant" that was supposed to have reached the UK? There were a few hopeful posts about it some weeks ago, but they didn't get much attention and I've heard nothing about it since

MarshaBradyo · 03/08/2021 16:03

I feel like all that noise and criticism re ‘U.K. experiment’ has faded away - letters, WHO, on here

Geamhradh · 03/08/2021 16:13

@Kokeshi123

Yes, the large number of posters who seemed to have all these teachers dying in their schools were making me roll my eyes about. Although to be fair, there also seemed to be unfeasible numbers of people who had two or three acquaintances who had apparently committed suicide as a result of the lockdowns.

I have absolutely no doubt that post viral complications are a very real thing, but of the several I people I know claiming long Covid, all but one fit a very particular political/personality profile and I find that quite telling.

Oh yes, the suicides. Despite the fact the authorities said that suicide figures had FALLEN year cf year during the first lockdown all the anti-lockdown kooks knew about 76. Quite despicable really to lie about something so awful to gain internet points on a mam forum
Geamhradh · 03/08/2021 16:16

Well, at the risk of mentioning another thread, there's currently a doozie claiming Satan is running the whole Covid thing. Seriously saying it.
Everything that's been said before pales into insignificance when he's brought into the mix.

psychomath · 03/08/2021 16:23

@SD1978

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
Exactly, I don't think it's always deliberate. If someone posts that they know a 20 year old in ICU, probably 99.9% of people reading don't know any 20 year olds who've been seriously ill with covid at all, but no-one's going to reply with "sorry about that but the 20 year olds I know are all fine". Instead the people who share their experiences are the ones who've been through similar things, and so reading threads it's easy to get the idea that every third person knows a healthy young person who was at death's door when they had it. Same with things like getting covid twice or getting it after the second vaccine - the thread topics disproportionately attract the people those things apply to, so you get a skewed impression when you read them.
TheGenealogist · 03/08/2021 17:42

There also seem to be a disproportionate number of people whose close relative works in the NHS, at consultant level at least, and who is privy to all sorts of secret planning about a 6th/7th/96th wave and they are clearing the wards in preparation.

All bollocks.

Rabblesthecat · 03/08/2021 18:17

I’m convinced humans need something to worry about.

In the past it was being eaten by wild animals which most people were probably concerned with

As we’ve progressed as a society general anxiety seems to increase.l as for you average joe life in general is nothing to be anxious about.

Yet more and more people are anxious / especially about health. The wild beasties won’t be eating you so the unknown threat might get you.

I wonder if it’s part of the human condition

Puzzledandpissedoff · 03/08/2021 18:42

the people who share their experiences are the ones who've been through similar things, and so reading threads it's easy to get the idea that every third person knows a healthy young person who was at death's door when they had it

True enough, but let's not confuse hearsay with evidence - as in the poster who claimed the ICU where they worked was full of kids, only for it to be discovered she was working from home

Come to that, it wasn't that blasted "Matron" again was it?? Grin

IcedPurple · 03/08/2021 19:04

Yes, the large number of posters who seemed to have all these teachers dying in their schools were making me roll my eyes about.

As I recall, the expression was 'teachers dropping like flies'.

The drama of it all!