Please tell me this will get better

Itsabeautifuldayheyhey · 11/10/2020 21:41

Nothing lasts forever. It will get better but may have to get worse before it gets better.

MummaPI · 11/10/2020 21:42

They will, they have to. I struggle too and in my head i just want to get the winter done and then hopefully with the weather picking up things might be easier. Fingers crossed anyway!

Bubblesbubblesmybubbles · 11/10/2020 21:43

Here for some positivity too. I'm done with it all today, I need a date when it will be over. Even if that's January 2022 that's ok,n I just need a target to get to!

Xiaoxiong · 11/10/2020 21:47

I am just a person sitting here in my house waiting for the washing cycle to finish so I can hang the school uniform up for tomorrow because I am disorganised. So I can't promise you anything myself.

But even if we have tighter restrictions tomorrow I really believe they will end. We might find a vaccine, but even if we don't, I think we will get better and better at treating the people who get very serious and lasting symptoms until we don't lock down when we get another wave of infections, just like we don't lock down when we get a wave of flu. It will eventually be treated like seasonal flu, we just have to get there with either improved treatments, a vaccine, or both.

This is already happening, we are already getting better at treatment. We didn't know about using cheap generic steroids back in March, for example. We were using ventilators where we thought they were needed, turns out there are better ways to make sure people have oxygen. And who knows about all the fancy stuff like cocktails of antibodies, where Donald Trump was basically a guinea pig - they might help too.

amusedtodeath1 · 11/10/2020 21:57

It will get better, thing are getting scary again, I'm feeling it too, but I firmly believe that this is temporary, even though it seems like forever sometimes.

Hang on in there OP.

ChristmasinJune · 11/10/2020 22:00

It WILL get better, this winter is going to be tough. It was always going to be tough but I genuinely believe that with the first signs of spring we'll see real progress with the vaccine, treatments and tests. We'll see numbers naturally drop as people develop antibodies and as the weather gets warmer. By late spring/early summer things will feel much more normal and by the time winter rolls around again all the vulnerable will have been vaccinated and we'll live with the virus as it'll scare us much less.

Try to stay positive and focus on the future this winter..... this will end.

ScarlettDarling · 11/10/2020 22:02

It will get better, that's a fact. No pandemic in history has lasted forever and neither will this one. I'm sure I read a while ago that the WHO predicted that this pandemic would last two years. Well, we're ten months into it.
It's pretty bad at the minute and I think we're in for a rough few months but it will pass. Just hang on in there!
Be kind to yourself and plan in time for some nice things. My kids are looking forward to putting up the Christmas tree early this year as it's been such a rotten year, a few twinkly lights can't hurt!

MadameBlobby · 11/10/2020 22:22

@ScarlettDarling

It will get better, that's a fact. No pandemic in history has lasted forever and neither will this one. I'm sure I read a while ago that the WHO predicted that this pandemic would last two years. Well, we're ten months into it. It's pretty bad at the minute and I think we're in for a rough few months but it will pass. Just hang on in there! Be kind to yourself and plan in time for some nice things. My kids are looking forward to putting up the Christmas tree early this year as it's been such a rotten year, a few twinkly lights can't hurt!

This x

DramaAlpaca · 11/10/2020 22:25

I'm telling myself that it will all be over by this time next year. I realise it's a long time away but it's giving me something to hang on to.

DigitalGhost · 11/10/2020 22:28

Exactly how I'm feeling.
Just can't see the light at the end of tunnel. It's just so unbelievably crap.

friendlycat · 11/10/2020 22:35

Gosh it’s so refreshing to read some sensible people on here accepting it’s all rather pants but we just need to get through it. And through it we will.
Split it up into small sections, one section at a time. Then that section is in the past etc. Some of the people constantly fightIng against it all just makes it worse for everyone, but also themselves. I fully realise there are some so terribly affected by this, but there are some who just seem incapable of understanding some of the basics.

This will pass in time. Just plan as many little things that you can. Yes to twinkling lights and early Christmas trees. Yes to walks kicking the Autumn leaves and collecting conkers. Yes to at home Halloween fun if that’s your thing. Yes to knitted coat hangers as Christmas stocking fillers. Yes to bake a cake Saturday ritual. Think outside the normal box and keep yourself and your loved ones kind of sane, safe and it will hopefully make it easier.

whenwillthemadnessend · 11/10/2020 22:38

Lovely ideas here 🎄🙏🤞

Sweetchillijam · 11/10/2020 22:38

I am fed with all this drip feeding and leaking of information. Why can’t they just say BoJo will make an announcement at X time so everyone knows to listen in at X time if they are able to.
I don’t even know what time tomorrows announcement is. Does anyone know?
Like a previous poster says I think we need to get through the winter taking one day at a time and hopefully, hope will be in sight by then.
If its any consolation my best friend in her early 50’s no underlying health conditions, her parents (mid 70’s), her partner and two of her children have it now. None of them have been in hospital and apart from two of them having two bad days when they struggled to get out of bed. The rest of them said had it not been corona and doing the right thing they didn’t feel ill enough to stay off work.

LizzieSiddal · 11/10/2020 22:41

Agree with FreindlyCat Think outside the normal box and keep yourself and your loved ones kind of sane, safe and it will hopefully make it easier.

Keep things small, focus on what you can do with those you are allowed to mix with. It may not be “normal” but it will do for now.

Things will get better.x

LizzieSiddal · 11/10/2020 22:43

And I find my mental health is much better, the less news I watch or internet (including MN) I look at.

You can get on with doing things, rather than thinking about Covid constantly.

Tangledyarn · 11/10/2020 22:51

I think trying to focus on this being just a small chunk of life in the grand scheme of things helps me. It will pass..its not going to last forever but the next few months might be quite rubbish. I'm feeling pretty miserable (not just pandemic related) and am just working on trying to put one foot in front of the other, plan little things to do/look forward to/achieve and just hope things feel better soon.

user1471448866 · 11/10/2020 22:57

@friendlycat

Gosh it’s so refreshing to read some sensible people on here accepting it’s all rather pants but we just need to get through it. And through it we will. Split it up into small sections, one section at a time. Then that section is in the past etc. Some of the people constantly fightIng against it all just makes it worse for everyone, but also themselves. I fully realise there are some so terribly affected by this, but there are some who just seem incapable of understanding some of the basics.

This will pass in time. Just plan as many little things that you can. Yes to twinkling lights and early Christmas trees. Yes to walks kicking the Autumn leaves and collecting conkers. Yes to at home Halloween fun if that’s your thing. Yes to knitted coat hangers as Christmas stocking fillers. Yes to bake a cake Saturday ritual. Think outside the normal box and keep yourself and your loved ones kind of sane, safe and it will hopefully make it easier.

All sounds lovely if you’re not one of the thousands of people in service industries in one of the most deprived cities in the country who are about to find themselves thrown on the scrap heap when they are placed on tier 3 this week and pubs/bars etc are closed potentially for 6 months. I live in Liverpool but luckily enough our jobs are not at risk and we are financially secure but I understand the absolute helplessness that people in my city feel.Kicking Autumn leaves and collecting conkers doesn’t really do a lot for people who genuinely have lost all hope tonight. I don’t expect everyone to wallow in our misery but please have a bit of empathy for those that are genuinely in the depths of despair tonight. You might wish to reflect on whether it is actually yourself that is ‘incapable of understanding some of the basics’ if you really think that baking a cake on Saturday or making knitted coat hangers will somehow make things better for a lot of Liverpool people tonight

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 11/10/2020 23:02

What really scares me is that twat Hancock saying the plan is to suppress the virus until there’s a vaccine. What if that doesn’t happen?

I’m usually quite blasé about things but at the moment everything is starting to get to me.

friendlycat · 11/10/2020 23:04

As I said in my post, I fully realise there are people terribly affected by this. I actually work in the hospitality business myself. My business is pubs. So believe me I am not being flippant about this.

But ultimately this pandemic will end. That was what the original person basically asked. Will it get better? It’s an awful period of our lives that we are living through and some are much more affected than others.

Flaxmeadow · 11/10/2020 23:37

Just seems as though it’ll never come to an end. Please tell me that all these restrictions will piss off one day altogether

They will end. Even if there is no vaccine for years, one way forward I think will be a simple, cheap and instant test. A quick mouth swab or something. This would mean we could lift a lot of restrictions and be pretty much back to normal. It won't take long till we have them, when you think the way tests have already become a lot less expensive and quicker in just the space of a few months and so many scientists are working on developing new ones

DoorbellsSleighbellsSchnitzel · 11/10/2020 23:44

Thank you to all the positive posters on this thread helping me see a hint of a light at the end of the tunnel, and small ways to carry on getting through this. I've really needed it today.

dollychopss · 11/10/2020 23:49

I suffering mentally too you are not alone

wondersun · 11/10/2020 23:57

It WILL most definitely get better and the rate at which it gets better, will also get better. Advancements in testing (maybe 20 minute test before school?), vaccinations and treatments will see to that. We just need to sit as tight as we can for the winter. Promise it will get better x

felineflutter · 12/10/2020 00:00

I think next year will be better due to immunity with a surge the following couple of years.

ChristmasinJune · 12/10/2020 07:06

@felineflutter

I think next year will be better due to immunity with a surge the following couple of years.

There shouldn't really be a surge in the next couple of years as there'll be a vaccine by then. We may well get a "good enough" interim vaccine fairly quickly but in the next few years a much stronger vaccine plus treatments will see this reduced to something we give very little thought to.