Please tell me this will get better

[Whenismumhome]

Coronavirus, restrictions and more restrictions is all we hear about every single day.

The rising number of cases, hospital admissions and deaths is scary but the thought of lockdown and more restrictions just makes me feel like crap.

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

The only time Covid-19 will 'go away' is when the next pandemic arrives and everyone is watching that.

It will end. There will probably be some fudging by the government at some point so they can pretend their strategy worked, but the reality is that people won't put up with this level of restrictions indefinitely. Even highly repressive societies (say, the USSR) allowed you to meet with friends for a birthday party! (And don't say that people can do that now, the rule of six means a lot of people can't, quite apart from those who have extra restrictions imposed.)

@wondersun

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

Thanks @wondersun I need to hear that too x

@dollychopss it really will. I have days of bleurgh feelings too but it really will.

I’m going to start putting fairy lights up in the garden ASAP and try and focus on other random, nice, little things. Easier said than done! X

We were ‘due’ a pandemic. These things do happen every hundred years or so.

Historically they’ve tended to last 18 months to 2 years.

We’ve probably got one bad winter to get through, then things should ease over Spring/Summer.

@TheSockMonster

We were ‘due’ a pandemic. These things do happen every hundred years or so.

Historically they’ve tended to last 18 months to 2 years.

We’ve probably got one bad winter to get through, then things should ease over Spring/Summer.

I think so too

I think once we are through the winter this will be the worst of it

Stay home as much as you can get your flu jab, take your vitamin D and wear a mask and wash your hands! Bunker down, we will get out the other side

@PinkSparklyPussyCat

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.

Realistically what else do you expect the government, or indeed any government, to do other than try to mitigate the worst effects until a vaccine is available?

But we don't know if a vaccine will become available and he seems to think people will continue to live like this.

If there isn't a vaccine we cannot live like this forever. Very few people will accept they won't be able to see/hug family again for a start.

WHO and others are all very optimistic of vaccines so there’s no reason to think we won’t get them.

Obviously if this turns out not to be the case a different strategy is going to be needed

It'll pass, everything does eventually

Try not to get too distressed. Can you build a new routine that includes different high points for the week. If you can't take the kids to the cinema & a pizza, can you make a different sort of treat night at home. Pace yourself. Build a new normal that's as good as you can make it for the winter months.

I was just saying if there isn’t, I do believe there will be eventually, although whether there will be a good enough uptake who knows.

Sorry, I sound like a proper Eeyore this morning!

I’m mentally prepared for another 6 months of horror and restrictions and then hoping for things to improve late Spring time.

Is anyone else just not looking forward to Christmas this year? It’s not like me because I love Christmas and I can’t wait for it every year

I'm presuming 2021 will be just a variation on 2020 - if things are better, then brilliant, but I'm not expecting them to. But 2022 seems far enough away - maybe!

I am dreading Christmas @Whenismumhome. Fil died suddenly a couple of weeks ago. Baby due in next couple of weeks. At home in a very isolated rural area with 2yo on my own as oh works lots. 2 dsc at secondary who we have half the week and holidays etc. Mum has had a massive op on lung this year and been told by NHS that she won't make it if she gets covid. So nope. No joy. If I see one set I can't see the other. One side of family have had a heartbreaking loss. The other side has already lost my dad years ago and it may be my mums last Christmas (docs said she wouldn't see this one). Wish someone could tell me how to do this. Hating the adult decisions I keep having to make.

No pandemic in history has lasted forever and neither will this one
Diseases that were once so feared can now be cured with simple, cheap medicines.

I always think of leprosy as an example.

we are not doing Christmas this year. No-one can come around and visit so I am not even putting the tree up, will just have a roast dinner and some nice food , thats all. We do not go out anywhere, we are in Tier 3 so will just carry on and hope for the best. I am afraid I have no optimism at all for a normal life for a good few years yet

I know how you feel OP my mental health has been in the shitter this year. It will pass. It has to. I’m trying not to wish time away as my DS is only 3 and growing so fast but it’s hard not to. Splitting time up into chunks is good, that’s what I’m focusing on.