Doom and gloom. ENDLESS

[Florelei]

I have had enough of all this doom. Just when you think there might be a bit of hope you see headlines such as ‘the vaccine won’t work’ ‘mutant strains’ and what has actually TIPPED ME OVER THE EDGE TODAY ‘lockdown until June’

WHAT ON EARTH.

How can we be locked in our homes and isolated for six months when we are vaccinating over 200k a day AND lots more are getting immunity through recovery from infection.

I understand things are bad and I have always done everything I can to protect the vulnerable but seriously we can’t be locked in our homes until June can we?

Can anyone talk some sense into me please because I feel like going into my garden and lying on my lawn screaming.

I totally agree with you. But brace yourself, you'll have some smug fucker along in a minute to tell you that the virus doesn't care about your feelings.

It is madness. We cannot lock down society indefinitely for a virus with a tiny death rate for the working age population. Viruses mutate all the time and as they do they get less deadly. Mutant virus is just another form of keeping the public scared and restricted.

But surely things are going to get better before June? I can’t live with all this death and tragedy and isolation for six months without any hope.

I just feel like every time we start daring to hope it’s snatched away.

Nope I agree. And in real life so does everyone I know. It’s only here on Mumsnet I see people wanting prolonged lockdown. Everyone I know is sick of it and is going back to seeing family in spring.

One thing you can say for Boris, is that as soon as he can end lockdown he will. We just have to leave it to the experts.
Try to stay away from the doom and gloom headlines. I try to just think what will be will be and find it helps me to concentrate on the near future rather than months into the future as I find it just too overwhelming and I would also be screaming in the garden. 🤣
Hopefully we’ll have good news to come. Things will get better.

I agree

I feel like it’s a cardboard diet daily

If BJ is not on at 8 pm today, I am not bothering to read those news.
If he calls for another of these sudden appearances, I am going to hide behind the sofa with chocs enough till Feb, and a duvet!

I'll be having a friend or 2 at my house for a wine or 10 in March, regardless of what I'm allowed. I honestly don't give a fuck anymore, I cant live my life with no social interaction indefinitely or I will end up suicidal. Call me selfish all you want, or spout some shit about zoom calls or walks in the pissing rain being adequate but after a year of this I just can't do it anymore. People are at breaking point.

We don't know when it will be safe to start lifting restriction NHS.

Like last year, we can expect a low transmission summer (there really is no reason to think otherwise) but we do need to be realistic that restrictions will be eased quite slowly and in phases (probably tiers)

I think it would be really irresponsible to encourage people to think it will be soon, because the 'crash' from that not proving possible would be worse than getting used to the idea that we still have weeks of thus ahead of us

Personally, I find it easy to make the best of things once I've been a bit more realistic about the extent of a problem (not just covid). And although talking about Pollyanna can be mocked, it's not such a bad idea to throw into the mix when looking at how to live as well,as you can when times are tough

Step away from the news. They have to sell papers/make people click/stay tuned.

What is their actual basis for reporting this? Who actually said it? What are the stats?

As noted above, the one thing you can say for Boris is that as soon as he can open up, he will open up. There’s nothing about this government that makes me think that they’ll act with an abundance of caution.

@MushMonster

If BJ is not on at 8 pm today, I am not bothering to read those news. If he calls for another of these sudden appearances, I am going to hide behind the sofa with chocs enough till Feb, and a duvet!

Good plan

Good plan

Yes. Don’t forget the alcohol. 🤣

We cannot lock down society indefinitely for a virus with a tiny death rate for the working age population. It may be a tiny death rate for the working population, but the working population are a good proportion of those clogging up hospitals.

Mutant virus is just another form of keeping the public scared and restricted. Who benefits from keeping the public scared and restricted? I might be more swayed by this argument if I could see a clear benefit for those in power to have the working population confined, not working, not making money for their employers, and not spending money.

YANBU - I can’t bear it. I was feeling so positive about the vaccines and now there are all these headlines about how they’re not as effective as thought and we’ll be locking down for months. I can’t do this for months. My daughter needs to be in school, I need to see my family (haven’t seen my sister for more than a year as she lives in Ireland). It’s just not sustainable.

I agree we have had enough of this now. Two teenagers here home schooling missing out on all their clubs and social life for the beat part of a year. Can’t see anyone unless we go for yet another bloody walk. More doom and gloom about vaccines not working and lockdown continuing I have had enough. I am such a rule abider as are the rest of my family but I feel like saying if I want people to visit now I will. I don’t know how our lives have been put on hold for a year. And there is still no light at the end of the tunnel. It is crazy.

@Mousehole10

Nope I agree. And in real life so does everyone I know. It’s only here on Mumsnet I see people wanting prolonged lockdown. Everyone I know is sick of it and is going back to seeing family in spring.

That's because everyone gravitates to people who are like them.

National polling puts the highest public support for increasing lockdown.

And yes, selfish actions before people are adequately covered by the vaccine - timing of which hasn't changed when you factor in the 12 weeks plus the 2 weeks after for it to 'take' - is what lies behind today's commentary on another wave just when we should have been sloping down to 'armistice'

I can only echo what you've wrote OP, everyday is like groundhog gloom and doom. I now turn the news off, there is only so much depressing updates we can take.

At this rate we will all be building 'dens' under the table with ample supplies of junk food and copious amounts of drink, and emerge with cave woman legs and armpit hair down to our fat bums.

I'm not doing negative news anymore, it's not good for anyone's mental well-being.

@CaramelE150d

As noted above, the one thing you can say for Boris is that as soon as he can open up, he will open up. There’s nothing about this government that makes me think that they’ll act with an abundance of caution.

Good point!

We cannot lock down society indefinitely for a virus with a tiny death rate for the working age population

For fucks sake ENOUGH of this. It's NOT all about the death rate, there'sa lot more to it than that, and the elderly and vulnerable do actually matter as well, if you hadn't noticed.

So SICK of this being trotted out. A year in and you still don't know what the fuck you are talking about.

Go and start screaming I will join you perhaps if we started a scream for sanity?

Oh god June, I can just about put up with it January February and March but please I hope April will be better, although things started opening up slowly end of June last year.

I honestly feel the weather isn't helping its easier when the sun is shining but for days all ive seen is grey clouds and heard the relentless rain when the rain stops its still fucking grey