Dystopia

[Ohbabybab]

Anyone else starting to feel like we are never getting out of this? And that this is in fact ‘the new normal?’
After years of watching dystopia based films I couldn’t imagine how that would happen in real life. But it totally feels like that now.
Early this year I watched ‘years and years’ and here we are with our own tiers.
Before anyone says anything I know it’s for a purpose but I can’t quite get my head around how much we’ve changed as a society in such a short space of time.They are turning theatres in to courts... The fabric of what we know has shifted. Is there a possibility it won’t return?!
I was feeling positive about the new year with the vaccine etc but I think it’s going to be just more of the same!

The NHS doesn't struggle every winter because of flu, it struggles every winter because it has been cynically underfunded and badly managed by pretty much every government over the last 40 years.

@bluetongue

I’m in Australia and as great as it is that Covid has largely been kept at bay (apart from Melbourne) I do worry that we will be one a victim of our own success.

We were told that we would just need to wait until a vaccine. Now there are a number of vaccines coming, but because we don’t know if they actually stop infection with the virus the goalposts have been moved. We can’t go back to ‘normal’ or travel overseas until most of the country has been vaccinated.

Yes, this is a real challenge for Australia and NZ.

Also as the vaccine is unlikely to be licensed for children you will need a highly effective vaccine and to vaccinate much of the adult (non-allergic) population to get herd immunity.

I do wonder how it will work for unvaccinated people visiting Australia.

If we can’t then tourists will be over the required age for a while / even longer.

It’s a bit of a mind bender so will i op ark that for a while. Hopefully private vaccine will come on board if so.

I will park

We will never get back to normal, this has been planned for a long time.

@kurva

We will never get back to normal, this has been planned for a long time.

Would you care to explain what you mean by this or are you going to be yet another person who posts a vague comment but either can't or won't explain?

It's The Great Reset, innit? Or Bill Gates. Or 5g. Or satanists.

@Yolatengo

At the current rate it would take over 5 months to vaccinate the remaining over 80s alone, so they need to get a move on.

It's only the first week. I'm sure they will increase capacity soon.

I’ve felt it. Walking empty store aisles while wearing a mask (and gloves because I’m allergic to the chemicals they use to clean the trollies).

The world can’t help but be different when the crisis is over. It won’t necessarily be different for the worse though.