Does the coronavirus scare you?
 

I have to admit I kind of laughed the whole thing off the last couple of weeks I thought people were going a bit over the top

I felt flu and colds killed more people than coronavirus

I felt panic buying was really silly

I felt there wasnt a chance in hell of a lockdown

Then....this week my mindset has really changed. Im genuinely worried

So is anyone else scared?

The poll question was supposed to say does

Not for myself but for elderly relatives of mine, some of who have very bad chests (one in particular). I want to wrap them up in cotton wool until it all blows over almost.

I'm making sure I'm keeping my hands nice and clean and what not best I can, but if I get it, I get it you know? Not much you can do seeing as it seems to be spreading like wildfire.

I'm not scared for myself, my mental health is currently in the shitter so I don't particularly care if it drags me down :joker:

But I'm scared for my relatives, virtually all of my loved ones have conditions which won't mix well with the ole Covid.

The more people that are infected, the more it does for me tbh.

A little but at the same time I'm a bit pissed off at the panic...my neice has stopped my sis seeing her daughter because she has a tickly cough! But my sis is asthmatic if she had coronavirus she'd have worse than a tickly cough :/ sis likes walking and says it was the damp air that triggered it off... now she can't see her granddaughter all week :(

I'm not really scared for myself but I'm terrified of unknowingly carrying it and infecting someone with a weak immune system.

Yeah this too... if I gave my mum it I'd never forgive myself.

Increasingly so, but like what’s been said, not for myself, specifically for my mother who probably wouldn’t stand a chance if she caught it, I’ve become ocd overnight, I’m wiping everything with anti-bac wipes god knows how many times a day and I’ve already gone through a bottle of hand sanitiser since yesterday :laugh:

Terrified now slam dunk might get cancelled

I just am dreading if i get it. My son is due to be born at any point in the next couple of weeks. Being a newborn baby he wont have a great immune system. My other 2 kids seem to pick up every bug and cold that go around and I could pass it on to them too. I wouldnt mind so much if it was just me but its not im really panicking. Watching newsnight made it worse. Saying it is our generations version of the blitz which I would have scoffed at last week but going shopping today and seeing rationing rules in place.....this has all become very real

Cant choose either option bc I'm not scared but also dont think people are overreacting.

Like others, I'm not scared for myself, but my older relatives

No panic.
There is no doubt I wouldn’t survive it, but all we can do is try and keep ourselves, family and friends safe.
I do worry for my daughter, she is vulnerable with her health issues and doesn’t have the opportunity to isolate indefinitely.
We are as prepared as we can be for a lockdown, and disruption, not much more you can do really.

Scared of the virus? No, it is what it is. Scared that healthcare systems will collapse and that there will be serious unforeseen economic implications in effectively "winding down" the world for a few months ... ? Well, I'm not UNconcerned :umm2:.

Also a bit concerned about what supply chains look like when people start to REALLY panic, given that shelves are emptying of basic staples already when not much is actively happening. Today noticed a lack of things like bread, porridge/oats, pasta, rice, eggs. Also supernoodles because people are daft and think you can live on things like that :umm2:.

And worried that critical services (like mental health services) are at risk of temporary closure... essential lifelines for hundreds of thousands of people, some of whom are going to end up in real danger when left adrift for weeks on end at an unsettling time.

It's never "time to panic" though, what good is that going to do? Panic is only going to contribute to health services being overloaded.

I can't pick either of those poll options though. I don't think most people are overreacting but I also don't think it's (ever) "time to panic".

No I can not
lets see what the week unfolds

I want Army in Control.
then you get your ration.

Nah

I mean it's human nature to worry about the fact that there's a virus spreading like mad across the world and it's good to worry in some ways as it means you'll be more vigilant, but I think the majority of people are imagining a much worse "illness" or symptoms than what they'll actually get, if they do get it.

For the mass majority of people it'll be the same deal as the usual, annual bad cold that I seem to always get every single year without fail anyway for about a week.

No, it doesn't scare me. However, I wouldn't say people are overreacting.

I would say buying every single pack of toilet paper in the shops is overreacting

Not the virus itself, but the repercussions on the economy and the ability to travel.

Why are people incapable of creating polls with reasonable options, lmao

...my fears are not of the virus itself...like many others I have an older parent ...I’ve had a personal health incident in my own life and there are only two reasons that I survived it...one was obviously the medical care and the other was having the strength around me of the people I love...I fear that many with Coronavirus/severe cases, won’t have either of those things...for the first time in my life, I have a son who lives in another country and with travel restrictions etc, the thought that he may become ill and that I wouldn’t be able to get to him, to be with him, I can barely breathe when I think about it...I fear the effect on human nature of the virus and the panic buying and the shortages and the recessions that will come etc.../...I fear the impact on human psychology...

A little worried only because of what it can do to older people. I don't want some of the older people in my family to be getting it.

There's still much fewer than 100 confirmed cases in NJ (I think between 25-50 or at worst not much more). But who knows how many are unconfirmed.


I need my sports back tho :suspect:

Not scared of getting it but scared of the repercussions felt by others if I do.

no-one likes uncertainty, and things couldn't be more uncertain. It's not just about catching the virus, the whole structure of society, it's economics and it's priorities are going to get a reboot as a result of this

+1

Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if there are some permanent changes to "open travel" around the world. At the very least there will be a huge shift in multinational businesses to doing business via web conferencing rather than flying around in person, and we may also see a "voluntary" drop in international tourism for a long time (people won't be forced not to... They just won't want to).

Maybe controversial to say it but... The drop in air travel will be huge in terms of climate change :umm2:. We fly far, far too much.

No, people are overreacting especially those selfish ones who go on that unnecessary hamstering :notimpressed: :bored:

Well that's where it gets complicated, the people who STARTED the hoarding were over-reacting, but at this point it's not an over-reaction to try to make sure you're stocked up... Simply because the shelves are emptying fast and it's going to become increasingly hard to get things. Not because of the virus, not because of social distancing, but purely because of hoarding. Exactly like the "bread incident". You have to hoard because of hoarders, thus becoming a hoarder and compounding the issue.

Its stupid and frustrating but :shrug: if you don't get some staples in now you probably won't be able to get them at all.

people who hamster, need to be arrested from now on, and then it is over pretty quickly with that hoarding/hamstering from stores

How can you tell if they are or not, though? Most big stores here have limited the number of certain things people can buy, but they just send in multiple family members one at a time and go from shop to shop getting one each time... Then come back the next day and repeat.

I also love that the German word for panic buying is apparently "Hamsterkauf" :joker:

As soon as it hit Italy badly it was hard to see how it was not going to go the same way here, human nature being what it is the panic buying was inevitable. Not particularly afraid of the virus, just hoping some normality will return soon, and that the death toll wont be too high, and that we learn from mistakes that were made this time round

Yes Tesco’s ‘rationing’ policy was worthless, also a limit of 5, who needs 5 packs of TR or Pasta in one hit ..stupid

Vaccine-less herd immunity scares the sh1t out of me. I have vulnerable relatives that probably wouldn't make it through if we persist with the eugenicists wet dream of murderous pseudoscience.

I have just had a call from my mum, she has run out bog roll and has diarrhoea :umm2:

So now i have to go on the search and take some to her.

Nice of you to be so caring

It's OK, I'm on Prep.

But I miss sports, and concerts I was supposed to go to.
I know on my part I'm following the instructions from our government, so I'm doing my best. It's a question of luck sometimes. Might get it, might not get it, we'll see.
I hope everyone on Tibb will be OK!