Something I've been thinking of over the past couple of days is from an article that came out somewhere (Guardian?) a few months ago about protecting your mental health during all this. One of the pieces of advice was to watch out for the tendency we often have to put more weight on 'bad' news than 'good' news.
The thinking is that when we're surrounded by uncertainty and it's scary and bad, we end up assuming that the worst-case scenario is the one most likely to be true just to protect ourselves from it. But actually the thing about uncertainty is that we don't know a lot of things about the situation and therefore we can't assume that anything bad is the grim truth and anything good is clueless naivety.
It seems like through all the horror of this pandemic there have been a lot of things which didn't go as badly as it seemed like they obviously would. The NHS wasn't overwhelmed and we didn't run out of ventilators. For all the really bad hotspots there's a lot of similar parts of the world where it just didn't hit that badly and it's still unclear why. Places like Sweden have had a horrible death toll, but also haven't had the eight-times-as-horrible death toll that people were predicting. Vaccines are being developed faster than was initially forecast. There's a possibility now that some of the common-cold coronaviruses can confer immunity for this coronavirus and that lots of people already have more immunity than predicted. And so on and so on.
I still think this whole situation is awful (and I am loathing lockdown) but when I read people confidently predicting that there absolutely will be another peak in summer and it'll be even worse than this one, I remind myself of that.