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To feel no optimism whatsoever

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peasoup8 · 16/12/2020 23:07

The vaccine is going to take years to roll out at the current pace. I don’t see the point in celebrating NYE with my other half because 2021 is just going to be more of the same. I know this post is very negative but I’m just feeling like crap right now tbh. I can’t see any end in sight.

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Desperado40 · 16/12/2020 23:09

I feel you. Feeling the same today. I just can’t stand the misery of it all, no end in sight and nothing to look forward to.

Signaturesoftheworkers · 16/12/2020 23:12

That's so not true, do you realise that the whole population don't actually need to be vaccinated? It's fantastic news that 137,000 people have already been vaccinated and thousands more every day for the foreseeable future, it's great news, keep the faith

flapjackfairy · 16/12/2020 23:15

It is tough but just think a few weeks ago we didn't have the hope of a vacine at all. Now we do and it is great news. So I do feel there is light at the end of this v long tunnel now.

southeastdweller · 16/12/2020 23:15

I can empathise. All I see is various shades of shite in front of me. I read today that for the first time ever UNICEF will be helping to feed some UK children in poverty- news.sky.com/story/covid-19-for-the-first-time-in-its-history-unicef-will-help-feed-kids-in-the-uk-12163515 . It's just appalling and makes me thing yet again this just isn't worth it.

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peasoup8 · 16/12/2020 23:16

Thanks @Signaturesoftheworkers. When are things actually going to get noticeably better though? Because maybe I’m wrong, but it still feels a long way off right now. There’s no way I can excitedly welcome in 2021 - it would just feel pointless/strange. I think I’ll just go to bed at 11ish as usual!

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Nikhedonia · 16/12/2020 23:17

I am honestly so fucking bored of this all now. Literally so fucking bored and frustrated by it all I could cry.

It's so fucking tedious living like this.

I'm a single parent. I see no one week in week out other than my child. It's seriously bloody lonely. Really, really, really lonely.

Bk21 · 16/12/2020 23:19

I feel the same. I had my baby this year and I just want to be able to take him to my families and to parks etc without worrying about him catching covid. I just want to have a normal life without fearing that we might get covid or walking around with a damn facemask.

Bk21 · 16/12/2020 23:20

@Nikhedonia I can relate. Single parent and just me and baby all day every day. I'm forgetting how to socialise.

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peasoup8 · 16/12/2020 23:24

I am honestly so fucking bored of this all now.

Me too. The crap about maybe tightening the rules at Christmas was the final straw in what has been a shite year. Glad they’re not changing that at least - if I wasn’t allowed to see my family at Christmas I think that would be it for me.

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Titsywoo · 16/12/2020 23:27

@Nikhedonia

I am honestly so fucking bored of this all now. Literally so fucking bored and frustrated by it all I could cry.

It's so fucking tedious living like this.

I'm a single parent. I see no one week in week out other than my child. It's seriously bloody lonely. Really, really, really lonely.

Is there anyone you can bubble with since you are a single parent. My bf is on her own and has hardly any family left so we still see her and she is here for xmas.

Nikhedonia · 16/12/2020 23:34

Is there anyone you can bubble with since you are a single parent. My bf is on her own and has hardly any family left so we still see her and she is here for xmas.

Yes, my mother is my "support bubble".

I am beyond fed up of people in their fucking Ivory towers telling us to suck it up for a bit longer. It's been nearly 9 fucking months. My mother is not the only person I want to have in my house. Or go for dinner with. I don't want my entire social existence being with my bloody mother. Or in a wet park.

I want to socialise I want to see a variety of people. We are just existing at the minute. This isn't living. This is enduring each bloody day.

RhubarbTea · 16/12/2020 23:34

@Nikhedonia and @Bk21 solidarity from a fellow single parent I am so so lonely at times and it's just crushing. I've not had a proper squishy bear hug since February. I do see some people socially but relatively infrequently. I also home ed and work from home. I really miss talking to people who are not children...

Lizzie523 · 16/12/2020 23:35

It will end. It is hard but it will end.

Nikhedonia · 16/12/2020 23:35

@Bk21 @RhubarbTea it's just bullshit.

Nikhedonia · 16/12/2020 23:37

@Lizzie523

It will end. It is hard but it will end.

When? We've been saying this for 9 months. It's not bloody ending, is it?!

blue25 · 16/12/2020 23:39

You’re not wrong. This will drag on for quite a while yet unfortunately. Jan/Feb are going to be grim.

Outnumberedwoman · 16/12/2020 23:40

Yes I feel exactly the same. My whole household is CEV and it is horrible taking the lids to school. I feel like a bad mum because im choosing between education and health constantly. Also I am worried about how long the vaccine will work for. If it is like the flu jab and has to be given every year we wont be finished vaccinating the first time before we start the 2nd time. It will be like painting the forth bridge!

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peasoup8 · 16/12/2020 23:43

Personally I think history will judge this episode as one of the biggest overreactions ever. We’ve destroyed so much for a virus that kills about 0.1% of the population.

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BlueBlancmange · 16/12/2020 23:43

There really is light at the end of the tunnel now. No one really said it was likely to get any better this year, but now there are vaccines and also probably effective treatments coming. Just have to hold on a bit longer.

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peasoup8 · 16/12/2020 23:44

Also I am worried about how long the vaccine will work for.

Me too. The shitty virus is already mutating, so we’re told

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Signaturesoftheworkers · 16/12/2020 23:45

peasoup8 I absolutely understand you not wanting to feel wildly happy on NYE this year but there honestly is hope out there, lots of it. I agree these next couple of months are going to test people massively but I really do think that by spring things will feel so much better, I think MN is a great place to talk to each other about how you are feeling. We can't see RL friends, I don't know what I'd do without this forum and WhatsApp tbh!

Signaturesoftheworkers · 16/12/2020 23:45

Don't worry about the mutation

Nikhedonia · 16/12/2020 23:49

No one really said it was likely to get any better this year,

They said we needed to lockdown for three weeks. They said a few weeks more. Later they said no winter lockdown.

We have been consistently told "just do it for a few more weeks and then it's over with"

Scbchl · 16/12/2020 23:50

My cousin in law is best friends with a scientist who has been involved in the making of the vaccine. She said he told her itl likely be at least a year before she gets it as a healthy forty year old woman.

nancy75 · 16/12/2020 23:51

I was feeling like this yesterday but I think we need to cling on to the fact there is a vaccine.
When you think about it getting a vaccine this fast is a bloody miracle, at least we have some hope of things getting better - we could have been in a position where the vaccines had failed or were going to take another 5 years.
I know it’s small consolation but it’s all that’s getting me through it at the moment - look for whatever positives there are & keep thinking about that

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