What a terrible day

[TotallyHadEnoughNow]

I've tried to remain positive but today is it for me. Just awful. Why did I bring a child into this shitty world? According to WHO, the effects of this pandemic will be felt for decades to come. I can't begin to describe how sad I am.

My teen DDs birthday is next week. Last summer was spent arranging palliative care for her gdad who died at the end of last year. I vowed this summer would be better. But it's not really. She is going to have pizza in the park witha few friends.i dont want to look too far ahead. Just planning the next week is enough.

@outofthemoon no and no

Really shite. The only way out is a vaccine. I don't care if it's a short-term vaccine. Hell, I'd have a jab every week if it meant an end of this nightmare.

I have also felt bleak recently.

I found this article very heartening and very practical:

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/14/need-some-good-news-about-covid-19-here-are-six-reasons-optimism/

Also, despite the absolute shitshow madness that is the States right now, the upside of Fauci's testimony today is that he thinks there will be a workable vaccine by early 2021. I found that very heartening.

@LaurieFairyCake, . The question is, can you get my username..? Also a movie reference!

Agree re proper fucked.
I have been relatively calm through all this but today I just felt totally deflated.
Gave DD a large amount of money to go travelling by train 🚞 n Europe- she and bf will find obstacles but just think at least she will learn/improvise/get something out of this fucking awful summer before or all implodes again.

Monty Python

@LaurieFairyCake

Monty Python

Yes! That was quick

I can’t cope today too. OH is looking for a job - got redundant in March, I’m only a TA so don’t know how long we can last like this. I just feel...defeated...scared...worried...anxious...pissed off...fed up...

But there are lots of countries which are more or less out of the worst- surely this is hopeful?

Possibly because they don't have a shower of fools in charge?

On the one hand I am very sorry so many are feeling it today, on the other i am comforted to not be the only one.

Tomorrow needs to be an enormous cake day.

@ilovecherries Brilliant summary, thanks.

I’m hoping the tide will turn at some point and people will start reporting more or pulling others up on not SD, mask wearing, large gatherings etc. We need harsher punishments and law rather than “guidelines”

Yeah, police states and informant culture is a fab way to live. Said no one ever. Fucking hell. 2+2=5, Winston. Who the fuck wants to live in a place like that? Bad enough how disabled people are being masked shamed and worse, but fucking informing on each other like a dystopian society? Nope.

I’m fed up today. DD, just turned 9, is becoming frightened of getting out and about. I’m sitting here having a cry, thinking she will now grow up to be a fearful adult who will struggle to get out into the world. She doesn’t even want to stay overnight with her Grandma because she is too anxious. Obviously, I’m doing all the mega-positive, ‘let’s get out and do stuff’ thing, but I’m so worried it won’t work.

It’s shit.

It will gradually weaken and we will be no more affected than by the usual respiratory infections.

I've been really snippy and short tempered today.

Trying to balance doing some nice things and planning stuff to look forward to against risk of transmission and also risk of cancelling it all. I'm exhausted with the whole thing.

I'm teaching in September and there's a lot of worry attached to that but no solution I can see.

@LegoMaus

“My Gran used to say you get the years you’re given “

What a lovely way of looking at things.

@Nancydrawn

I have also felt bleak recently.

I found this article very heartening and very practical:

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/14/need-some-good-news-about-covid-19-here-are-six-reasons-optimism/

Also, despite the absolute shitshow madness that is the States right now, the upside of Fauci's testimony today is that he thinks there will be a workable vaccine by early 2021. I found that very heartening.

Been in the States lately? It appears to be chuntering along. The sky is not falling there despite what Sky news is trying to tell you.

Yeah, police states and informant culture is a fab way to live. Said no one ever. Fucking hell. 2+2=5, Winston. Who the fuck wants to live in a place like that? Bad enough how disabled people are being masked shamed and worse, but fucking informing on each other like a dystopian society? Nope.

Completely agree @uniglowooljumper

I've had the experience of living in a place like that, zen, as did my parents. Awful. Just awful.

The effects will be felt for a long time on various levels, but that's not to say all of them will be bad. Some things will change for the better as a result of it - I don't think the statement was intended to imply that they would all be negative.

The acute effects will not last for ever and we won't have to keep going on like this for years on end. From what I've heard it's most likely that, even without a vaccine, we'll be over any need for restrictions within 18 months because medical treatment will improve and it may get less severe over time, more people will become immune and it will cease to raise the death figures above usual. Yes, it's a long time, but it's not a lifetime.

I do feel like it will be a very very tough winter

@TomorrowAlways

I do feel like it will be a very very tough winter

No Deal Brexit/leaving on WTO terms will indeed not make for a good Winter.

Agree about Brexit, very bad times ahead for the UK.

Do you think schools will go back, full time, anyone?

Yes

Do you think there will be normal-ish days anytime soon?

Yes - all my days are normal-ish. What are you doing that makes them not so?

Today has been so bleak. Thought things were getting better, virus wise.

Please follow Professor Karolina Sikora on Twitter

Feel so sorry for young people, slammed with all this and no job prospects.

It will get better, it already has! it will get better still.

There is so much doom and gloom on this thread, it makes me so sad for everyone on here who has this outlook. I may be too optimistic but it's a far better way to be with this. To me this is temporary, even if we always have this virus, we will learn more about it as time goes on, different treatments etc. Life might be a little different but it alway is after a major situation (9/11 fo example). 'Second wave' and 'the new normal'....I dispise those terms now.

The media have a LOT to answer for, turn it all off, avoid these threads on here and try as hard as you can to out your positive pants on :-)