Please give me some hope. When will life look better again?

[Redbrickwall]

Please no nastiness. I truly am so fragile here

I’m lonely, I’m isolated, my husband has lost his job, the children are losing their education. I feel trapped, hopeless and like there is nothing to look forward to

I don’t see all the mass testing as a good thing, I can only see that it will cause more isolations and more lockdowns as more cases are found

Nothing our government says holds any weight as it is changed within days. I feel like we are being gaslighted on a daily basis.

I’m at the point where if this is life fir the foreseeable future, I’m not sure I want to be involved.

Does anyone have any words of wisdom on when life can look more normal? Will they ever let it be more normal or is this the cycle we will be stuck on now?

I have nothing left. I have no hope. I am on antidepressants but today I’ve hit a new low

The vaccine is a massive massive turning point.

I’m the lowest priority and I’m predicted to receive it between June and Sept next year. It’s just going to take a few months at the start of next year to get the most vulnerable vaccinated and safe.

Then I think restrictions will be gradually lifted, back to the rule of 6, then lifted further.

So I think the light is coming.

Better? Sustainable and even occasionally enjoyable? Spring. It’s a seasonal virus, we’ll be able to be outside more, the weather will be nicer, more people will be vaccinated, more treatments will have come through clinical trials, more vaccines will be available/being approved.... lots will look better in Spring/Summer.

2019 style? Long way away I suspect, but much depends on how the vaccines go and if we get some better treatments.

I’d expect things to begin getting much better from mid February.

I’d say by spring a small improvement and by summer a definite improvement OP. By September I think the majority of people who are low risk /zero health issues will also be vaccinated.

Everyone is fed up, but it’s not going to last forever. I think January will be a bit crap (isn’t it always?) and things will very slowly improve month to month from then.

I'm hoping by June
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I think appreciable improvement by the Spring, and significant improvement by the summer. That may more be hope than expectation but I think it’s realistic.

Do you think next winter will be like this too?

Honestly? I think maybe May/June at the earliest but there will be the aftermath to deal with. I think masks and social distancing are here for another couple of years especially over the winter months.

Do people thinking the situation will improve by next summer expect it to stay improved or will it deteriorate again next winter?

Next winter will be different because the majority of people will be vaccinated.

Winter always make everything seem hundred times more crap.

@SaveWaterDrinkGin that’s what I’m worried about

Next winter should be greatly improved because by then all the higher risk people should have had the vaccination. I am high risk and predicted to have in end of Jan to end of Feb. My husband is 51 with no health problems and is predicted June 2021 and my 18 year old daughter is June - September 2021. With that in mind, I cannot see how next winter could be like this one.

I hope things will be normal again in2022

I think we are in for another year of it unfortunately

Thanks for starting this thread @Redbrickwall. I feel exactly the same.

I think things will be better come the summer, they were better last summer and lots of people will have been vaccinated by then I hope . A while,longer until life is relaxed as before, but better. Probably turning by the spring.

@Redbrickwall

Do you think next winter will be like this too?

Don’t think about next winter.. you’re done 9 months of this crap. Couple more and we will have a vaccine and spring. One day it will be a distant memory. Hold tight

1 million Pfizer vaccines will be given each week by the end of December.

The Oxford vaccine is only a week away from approval, White hall sources are saying it will be given the go ahead around 28th.

In January new vaccination centres will be opened, arenas, sports centres, and high street pharmacies will join in with the monumentally fast effort to get everyone vaccinated. So the 1 million per week figure will be increased very very quickly. By summer we will be living in different times, freedoms and safety will come back, this really is the start of the end so please hold on. Even 2 or 3 months time things will be looking very different and there will be much more hope as the majority of highly vulnerable people will be protected. Even if you aren't in this category it's good news for all of us and means our freedoms can start to return.

(My source for this info is Dr John Campbell's YouTube channel. His video today was titled Excellent News and contains all his research on these predictions)

Look at how much progress has been made in terms of vaccines and treatments already in nine months!

Jan and Feb will be rough I think but by March we'll start to see hospitalisation and deaths drop as the vaccine takes effect.

By May the weather will be milder and we'll be fairly "normal" although more cautious and big groups will still be rare.

By next winter, there'll probably be another little surge but vaccines and improved treatments will help with that....... just wait, this will soon be another story to tell!

We are all doing well as this is not easy, yet here we still are gripeing and moaning and letting off steam and somehow keeping going

I know it feels so hard. I'm hoping once we've got through January and February there will be some light at the end of the tunnel. You aren't alone feeling like this, but it will get better.

www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-vaccine-calculator-covid-pfizer-b1776254.html

This article links to an online calculator so you can see when you or your loved ones are likely to be offered the vaccine. I'm in my 30s with no conditions and despite being at the back of line it still predicts I will be offered the jab over the summer some time.

Please stay strong, it has been a long hard slog but we really are so close to the end now. Maybe take a break from Mumsnet and Facebook and all other forms of social media for a week or two while you're feeling hopeless. There are too many armchair scientists full of doom and gloom but they don't know anything, they're just guessing. Follow the news by all means, but take the negativity here with a pinch of salt, the solutions are coming.

@SaveWaterDrinkGin

Do people thinking the situation will improve by next summer expect it to stay improved or will it deteriorate again next winter?

The situation absolutely won't deteriorate again. Even if the virus mutates, all the groundwork has already been put in to make sure the vaccines can be quickly modified to keep up with the changes in much the same way as the flu jab is. We may need a refresher vaccine but it won't be any different to the normal annual flu jab campaigns.

Please don't worry about this, herd immunity will quickly be achieved by vaccines so there will be very little chance that things will ever get this bad again. I would brace for a few weeks lockdown in January but that will be the last of it, it will just be lighter tiers after that, gradually getting easier as more people get the jab.

You have a husband and children and a home; you all have your health and soon it will be Spring.

I am counting weeks off on my calendar. I think 12 weeks will see improvements

June/July. Tough times but we’ll get there with some personal resilience. Keep eating right, exercising and keeping an eye on the booze.