If you could fast forward and be passed Covid, would you?

[Fantasisa]

But it would mean you lost a year/two years of your life to get passed it?

Asking because it feels like we are treading water waiting, even with things opening back up.

Yes. Life is so mundane atm

I feel sorry for lives cut short and jobs lost and the desperate loneliness of some people who live alone.

This time last year I was flying back having been in the US for three weeks at a big family wedding, staying in gorgeous hotels and doing lots of exciting stuff. But this afternoon as I sat under the pear tree in the garden watching DH build the patio he has been working on for three weeks I realised true happiness is being content with just sitting under a pear tree watching him schlepp about with a trowel in his hand while I contemplate what to make for dinner. It’s not what we’re doing it’s who is around us that counts.

No. DD1 is 3 and DD2 was born during lockdown. We've had some incredibly special times over the last few months.

Yes but not becuase of covid, because we are living on a building site and I can't wait for it to all be done.

It's been a funny old time. Not one person seems to exactly know what's going on.

"COVID-19 likes colder temperatures"

Oh does it, now? It's like talking about a pet squirrel.

No. My parents are late 60s, and DH is late 50s. Skipping a couple of years at this stage would be a waste of, hopefully, good health.

Life seems to go slowly in the middle, but the first 20 and 60+ seem to go pretty fast.

I thought OP actually meant passed, as in wanting to catch it so as to stop worrying about getting it.
Which is a thing.

I wouldn't recommend it.

I caught it back in March and DH and I still haven't recovered - can get up and about but a flight of stairs or a brisk walk knocks us out for the day.

But I can't deny it's a huge mental weight off our minds that we don't have to worry about catching it.