@Thewiseoneincognito My advice to anyone struggling to find light in this dark tunnel is to learn to accept what is happening is beyond your control. Believe me, once you start to accept it, things become much easier to deal with. It might be that we can't do much about the virus, but we can do something about the lying, bumbling clowns whose wages we pay: write to our MPs (I've done this several times), and REMEMBER the way they've handled this when there's an election.
I wish I could think "oh well, nothing we can do", and I don't deny that the virus is, to some extent, a threat (but less so than the government are making it out to be). But I think that the way the government is handling it is a much bigger threat than the virus, and I just can't look away from the idea that "accepting we do not have control" is exactly what the politicians want us to think: it's how they oppress the public, make them say "oh well, nothing we can do about it". Because the government have PROVED that their main methods of persuading the public are deception and fearmongering, we need to make it clear that we will not accept such tactics; the moment we say "oh well, nothing we can do about it" means we lose sight of that.
If the government had instead communicated with honesty, by not lying that the virus wasn't a threat in the first place, or even admitted that they didn't know, not U-turned all the time, not hushed up Dominic Cummings's transgressions with "it's time to move on", contradicted themselves all the time "masks are useless - now they're mandatory", and come out with stupid slogans all the time, I'd have more time for "we can't do anything about the virus". We have to fight for our right not to be treated as idiots and doormats, by our political servants.
Let us not forget that the government gave themselves sweeping new powers. Whoever speaks to us next is unlikely to mention that: they'll be busily distracting us with Covid, while tacitly making these powers more permanent. I will not think "oh well, nothing we can do" when government takes liberties like this.