Will life ever go back to normal?

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I'm really struggling to deal with this anxiety. I just keep looking at my gorgeous baby and thinking what will his life look like. I just want to wake up from this bad dream and do normal things with him. I keep crying.

Life will absolutely go back to normal, it might be a long time it might be a short time but yes, life will be normal again. Humanity has survived pandemics before.

Life is going to be normal again, and sooner than you think.

Of course.
It's normal to feel like that. No doubt people did in WW1 and 2, during the plague, during the Spanish flu. Humans do not like changes to their routines!
But eventually, yes. Things will get back to normal.

OP I feel exactly the same, what has my five week old been born in to? Just want this bad dream to be over. I miss the days of everyone bickering about Brexit :(

In a word yes.

I feel anxious too. I keep watching the tv and think oh yeah it's actually real. It's like watching a film.
My parents are concerned about not being allowed out for months (they have a better social life than me!) but if it keeps them safe, then they will have to.

I also feel like I wish I could do something to help. First time in my life I'm finding I wish I ran a manufacturing factory!

I gave birth to my DS in 2009. I was so worried about swine flu. That killed 500,000 worldwide. He was immunised against it when he was just over a year old as it was affecting infants very badly. He celebrated his 11th birthday yesterday, paint balling with his school friends.

We will get through this, pretty quickly actually and when your beautiful DC is turning 11 you’ll be able to tell them how the world went a bit mad the year they were born.

Don’t let it spoil this special time. They’re only babe in arms for such a short period. Snuggle up, take comfort knowing that children aren’t being too badly affected by it.

Yes, we'll all go back to normal, and all will be well. We need to be sensible, be kind, help where we can, and keep going. Worrying won't help, just make things seem so much darker at 2am in the morning. And in 100 years from now we'll all be floating on our little clouds of happiness

Of course it will. All this will have blown over soon.

I think it's excceedinlgy naive to think that life will ever go back to normal as such. This experience will scar a generation who managed to survive it. So there will be a new different normal where people do stuff and laugh again.
We have all been told to expect thousands of people to die before their time, I expect any who survive will know plenty who have died.

of course it will it will take a bit of time to get there bit we are all in this together. im hoping by summer normal life should be resumed ..more or less

It will be a new normal though hopefully. With a properly funded NHS and people continuing to wash their hands properly and regularly and covering their nose and mouth when sneezing and coughing.

Yes

I think it's excceedinlgy naive to think that life will ever go back to normal as such. This experience will scar a generation who managed to survive it.

My good god. ‘Manage to survive it’?! The vast majority will ‘survive’ it. There are some people who seem to be thoroughly enjoying the dramatics.

OP, things will go back to normal as soon as people grow bored. There would be none of this hype if it wasn’t for social media. No one went on like this about swine flu. No one is scarred by the swine flu experience.

I don’t think so. Anyone that thinks this all will just go away is wrong. Airline industry collapse could mean a long time before travel resumes. Loss of some of the population will mean a lot of people struggling with the mental scars. Businesses going under..... no it won’t go back to normal. I think this is the doomsday event. Maybe not the end of life but the end of times as we know it.

Why do people keep sayings it scaremongering. Ask anyone is healthcare it’s definitely not.

@Koalaing, it's pretty obvious by now that this is not just something insignificant which has been whipped up by the media.

Yes the media have form for doing that, but in this case it's a real crisis. Most of the world is closing it's borders, thousands of people have covid with many more undiagnosed and the real potential for thousands of deaths.

Will pandemics become more common that's what I wonder?

People should look at the swine flu stats. Worst case scenario for that was 65,000 deaths in the uk. It did sadly kill 457 but no where near what the media would have been reporting as predicted figures. It infected 65 million in America.

YoursTunbridgeWells you’re not helping!! Can’t you see that this is a scared new mum looking for some reassurance. How about a bit of positivity!!

The CV death rate is 7% of those with severe enough symptoms to warrant testing. The UK death rates are a percentage of those people with symptoms that either need emergency treatment or have other risk factors (such as known exposure to the virus / travel in an affected area) . Nobody knows what the true death rate is like as a percentage of total people infected but it’s likely to be 1%.

I don't think life will be identical, but we will have a new normal.

I think foreign travel will decrease. More (international) business meetings done online. I think keeping a week-2weeks of food in the house will become a lot more common. I also think vaccination rates will increase as people have been reminded of what disease is.

I'm not going to start ringing my doomsday bell but this will change things. A lot of people will be grieving, their will be a spike in OCD, hoarding and anxiety disorders and hopefully some measures put in place for if this happens again. But like all the pandemics that have gone before it, for the majority life will probably continue as normal.