To think people are deluded when they say ‘when this is all over’

[Lannaaa]

Not a conspiracy theorist! At all. But this is never going to be over. It really grates on me when people say this...like there’s a day where suddenly all is ok. This is going to go on for at least another year and will be here in some way or other indefinitely. It makes me sad that people seem to really believe that their freedoms will resume at some point. Maybe many many years down the line but not soon. Not sure where the ‘when this is all over’ even came from?!

I think people usually mean when we can see family and friends again. When we can meet up for a day out. I'm fairly optimistic and easy going but if you're saying we're not going to get back to that at some point in the next year I will be very depressed.

And for people who enjoy festivals, festivals. For people who like travelling, travelling. Are you seriously saying we'll live in a state of rolling lockdowns for the next year?

A pandemic has a social end and a scientific end. The social end will come much sooner, in fact I'd argue it already has.

The majority of people won't follow these rules for much longer- God knows I wouldn't live like this for another year.

It will be over eventually.
Not like a sudden flick of the switch, but gradual improvements.
The memories and some after effects will remain, of course.
But it will eventually become history.
The world will not be completely as it was in 2019 (it wouldn't anyway, even without a pandemic).
So many pandemics, wars, natural disasters and other horrible tragedies have come before. Each unique, but all with the same thing in common: They ended.

never change, Mumsnet...

As soon as the vulnerable are vaccinated, I will resume normal life as far as I can. Covid is dangerous and an issue, but the hysteria has to stop. The NHS getting overwhelmed is a valid concern, and yes, there is a small risk to young, healthy people, but it's negligible in the context of other risks we all face everyday.

No, they're not deluded. It will end. (There might be another zoonotic virus but that's an unknown).

By April this will be old news. And if there's a bit of a surge next winter, it'll be reported but not that much.

Some people will carry on wearing masks, working from home, avoiding crowded gigs etc..

I can cope with masks and hand sanitiser indefinitely if I really have to though I hate them.
I can't cope with not hugging my parents. And tbh more and more people are going to realise time is short and putting our lives on hold indefinitely is no longer an option. I'm lucky that I hope to have at least another decade, probably two with my parents. But what if they were 85? Not necessarily at immediate risk, but unlikely to have years and years ahead.

No, I think you are wrong. Once we have the vaccine rolled out to all those who are in the phase 1 of the vaccine roll out we'll reduce the mortality rate by 99%. I think we'll see a reduction in restrictions after that while the rest of the population who are willing and able to get the vaccine are immunised and then life will be relatively normal before next winter.

Fgs. Enough already. Just as much as one knows that it will 'all be over' by summer, you don't know that it will go on for many, many years. Lots of people are really struggling and who cares if they think/ hope it will be over soon and then are wrong. At least they have hope.

There is absolutely no reason not to believe that with vaccines rolled out to the most vulnerable, plus care workers, along with continuing advances in treatments, that within the next 6-12 months Covid won't get to a similar level of severity as flu, which kills numerous people every year (including children) but at a level which we are 'happy' with as a society to live as normal.

I think a more important question to ask is why you feel the need to start yet another thread to bring everyone down and spread misery at what is about to be the most depressing tine of the year anyway, when actually - you don't KNOW anything.

We can't and won't live like this forever.
The vaccine is on its way, and there is a theory that keeping the schools open allowing limited spread, will result in immunity within young people. If all else fails they will eventually allow it to take out the weakest, 100 years ago there were many viruses and infections that were killers. People didn't go hiding away from them. They took their chances.

Of course there will be an end. I think you’re being a bit melodramatic.

Because no other pandemic in history has ever ended! Never ever!
Chill out OP.

Spanish flu, bubonic plague etc all came to an end apart from small pockets and mutations. So will this. The average lifespan for a pandemic is around 3 years and we are trying to shorten this with the vaccine. It wont be instant and in some countries it will be quicker than others but gradually we will look back and realise how much less the restrictions are and how much lower rates are and then one day it will become part of history only really talked about in an educational context.

It will be over in the same way that flu is over. Some people will remain vulnerable but vaccines will help prevent the spread.

Of course it will end. The vaccine has already started roll out and this is the first 'plague' for which there has been a vaccine. Bubonic plague lasted 4 years with no treatment. It still finished. This will too.

Fucksake some people just revel in catastrophising.

The World Health Organisation hope that the pandemic will be over by August 2022.

Provided we don't screw it up. They may not have used the exact words "screw it up" but that''s what they meant.

Generally most things do come to a end 🤔

All pandemics have come to a end eventually? We just don’t know when the end will be. Of course one day it will be over.

I agree. In terms of the economy and mental health, the consequences of Covid are always going to be with us. The government have fucked up so much so why shouldn’t they also fuck up the roll out of the vaccine? How they’ve very quickly taken away our human rights to assist with some phoney war makes me worried that household restrictions will be with us until they think the virus is eliminated, which it won’t ever be

I'm presuming the WHO gave that date as a prediction for the whole world?Chersfrozenface

What exactly do you think is going to happen? That we're all going to be in lockdown indefinitely? The entire point of a vaccine is that things will get better and do so quicker than if we had to wait for the plague to disappear naturally. It's not going to happen overnight, and it's likely that some restrictions will remain for a while, but not at this level. Your impractical pessimism is ridiculous.

@ladyvimes

Because no other pandemic in history has ever ended! Never ever! Chill out OP.

Yep!

OP what makes you think it's never going to end?

Not a conspiracy theorist but... what do you think will happen then op? Our freedoms are being removed? Health passports? What next, microchips? Give over. Life will have noticeably improved in 12 months time - it won’t be over for a while but it will improve. It’s a pandemic, not agenda fucking 21.

You’re absolutely right OP. The human race survived the bubonic plague and the Spanish flu, but coronavirus will be the end of us.