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Life is a hideous nightmare

130 replies

Scaredshitlessagain · 22/12/2020 21:54

Can't cope with anymore of it. I know there's a vaccine but it's going to be months before it starts to have an effect. My kids schooling is crap, our lives are crap. The government is useless. I'm done.

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covetingthepreciousthings · 22/12/2020 22:00

Didn't want to read and run. I know how you're feeling, I'm starting to feel like March all over again. It's just all so fucking bizarre that this is our lives now. Thanks

FloreanFortescue · 22/12/2020 22:04

Yep but the future is looking brighter. Hang in there, we've come this far.

SquidInALid · 22/12/2020 22:08

Plodding through one day at a time is ok. This will pass. All shit does.

Cleebope2 · 22/12/2020 22:11

Yes it is all so crap. I think we need to vent more honestly about how awful this is to each other instead of pretending to be positive. It’s a disaster especially for young adults and older teenagers trying to start out in life.

DobbyTheHouseElk · 22/12/2020 22:12

I hear you.

RozHuntleysStump · 22/12/2020 22:13

There are plenty of us suffering. It’s shit.

CovidCarol · 22/12/2020 22:14

It'll be over soon. Chin up.

JillyCareful · 22/12/2020 22:17

This is tough. It’s going to be our “ war”, keep a diary about your feelings and thoughts, for future generations, because that matters. It won’t be forever, we will get through this.

bloodywhitecat · 22/12/2020 22:17

It's not great but we will get through it somehow.

onedayinthefuture · 22/12/2020 22:19

Agreed. Every day is the same, I don't know how much more I can take.

IcedPurple · 22/12/2020 22:21

It's totally shit, and what's worse is people pretending it isn't.

Life from only 10 months ago - even the tedious and annoying parts - seems like an impossible dream. Who would have believed any of this a year ago?

Kjc39 · 22/12/2020 22:25

It won’t be over soon. Just heard on the bbc news that herd immunity won’t be achieved until August and will take until April to vaccinate all elderly and vulnerable. I feel like crying.

Lesina · 22/12/2020 22:25

It’s a car crash.. a relentless unremitting car crash of an existence. There is no joy in life anymore. It’s dreadful.

RozHuntleysStump · 22/12/2020 22:26

Who knew life before March was such a utopia?

Bluntness100 · 22/12/2020 22:27

I think to be honest every one is feeling like this op. It’s like what next.

Every time you hear Boris is about to make another announcement you know it’s more bad news.

I think we all thought there was light at the end of the tunnel. We’d done nearly a year, the vaccine was being rolled out, we had Xmas to look forward to

And now we have tier fours emerging, countries banning travel to us, lorry drivers stuck on the m20, brexit looming where no one has a clue what’s going to happen, constant uncertainty and it’s just one shit thing after another.

I think it’s made worse because we all were given hope due to the vaccine, and now we are back to square one. No solid timeline given to roll it out, no plans articulated. Even if they got up to a million a month, you’d still only do twelve million a year

I think if at least I was told, right this is how we are rolling it out, military, recruited staff, gps, hospitals, shopping centres, this is where you’ll receive it and by whom and this is how long it will take to vaccinate the population, them at least we would have clarity

Right now it’s like we were given hope, it was cruelly snatched away and now we are watching that light in the distance get further and further away and we are flailing around in the dark clueless.

Ans then to top it off we have people like Vallance/witty using terms like “human disaster” . You certainly couldn’t accuse these men of soft soaping it. They like to tell you how bad it could be, as often as they are given a platform to do so.

What a mess.

Olliphant · 22/12/2020 22:28

You can do it.

thebearschairs · 22/12/2020 22:29

I totally get this. Need an end date but that seems unlikely.

I was watching a programme earlier and someone said something about darkest times coming before the dawn. I'm hoping this is the dark time and come spring, vaccines and better weather will be the dawn - who bloody knows though

flapjackfairy · 22/12/2020 22:29

But just think how quickly this year has gone even though its been rubbish. We are back round to christmas again. And before we can blink it will be christmas next year and we will hopefully be out the other side of this . That is how I'm looking at it anyway. It helps me at least !

thebearschairs · 22/12/2020 22:30

@flapjackfairy

But just think how quickly this year has gone even though its been rubbish. We are back round to christmas again. And before we can blink it will be christmas next year and we will hopefully be out the other side of this . That is how I'm looking at it anyway. It helps me at least !

I like this reply.

IcedPurple · 22/12/2020 22:31

But just think how quickly this year has gone even though its been rubbish

Feels like an eternity.

And before we can blink it will be christmas next year and we will hopefully be out the other side of this

Another whole year? You say that like it's an optimistic scenario, but that will be way too late for many people's livliehoods.

SquidInALid · 22/12/2020 22:34

We can do it. Try to find something, anything new or enjoyable in each day and cling to it. A different book, a newly arranged cupboard, a new dish to cook, a friend to phone, a slightly different dog walk, a TV show you've never watched, a different outfit to wear.

I know it's awful but it WILL pass

onedayinthefuture · 22/12/2020 22:35

This is the third Christmas in a row where it's been shit for me. I had a horrible time in my personal life over the past two years and things had finally started to look up early this year.... I could never have predicted this. This isn't just one Christmas for me.

kittensarecute · 22/12/2020 22:35

@Kjc39

It won’t be over soon. Just heard on the bbc news that herd immunity won’t be achieved until August and will take until April to vaccinate all elderly and vulnerable. I feel like crying.
I can't do this till August.
Cherryrainbow · 22/12/2020 22:37

There was an article by a professor specialising in pandemic behaviours recently talking about how societies have survived pandemics before, and its new to us, but they do come and go. We are doing a lot of the same stuff as they did back during the Spanish flu - masks, distancing, lockdowns etc. The advantage we have is medical advancements and vaccines. So it may be it lasts a year or two then we may go into a modern burst of the roaring 20s. It did make me feel a bit better in a weird way.

DobbyTheHouseElk · 22/12/2020 22:39

@Kjc39

It won’t be over soon. Just heard on the bbc news that herd immunity won’t be achieved until August and will take until April to vaccinate all elderly and vulnerable. I feel like crying.
I don’t see how they actually know this, it’s all guesswork.