Will this ever end? Dark thoughts today

[Lissy23]

I’ve just read an article stating that this South African variant may be able to be caught again, by people who have already had and recovered from the virus...so where does that leave us if true? And that it also may evade vaccination.

I was feeling more optimistic the last few days with the excellent and efficient vaccine roll out and the infections coming down...however I’m now having some very dark thoughts, my DP and I are in a long distance relationship, I haven’t seen him since December due to our individual living and work situations meaning we cannot form a bubble. I’m missing him desperately and we were going to see each other end of March (he has provisionally booked an air b&b to stay in near to where I live) I have no idea if that’ll go ahead now, if lockdown is still in place and travel restrictions still an issue. I also haven’t seen my parents in 7 months and counting, due to the distance between us (200 miles) and the fact my parents are frightened of catching it, despite not having any co-morbidities or anything, but convinced they’ll end up on a ventilator if they catch it.

I have a 2 year old and it’s very difficult being stuck in the majority of the day with him. I miss playgroups.

I’m starting to feel like there’s no point in going on...there will be new variants coming up all the time surely? How will we ever get out of this mess? Lockdown will never end and there will always need to be a trade off between schools returning and other things opening.
I just really miss going to the cinema on a whim, popping into a cafe to escape the rain to read my book and have a coffee & piece of cake...playgroups, soft play, seeing people in person opposed to on a screen

Don’t know how to go on much longer...if it wasn’t for my DS.

@BonnesVacances I'm so sorry to hear about your DD xx

PoorReg I absolutely agree with your philosophy and it has been my own too.

We will be ok folks, time will pass, just get it over the best way you know how and then this will be history.

I know a 100 year old woman and I checked on her, I called her and she said to me 'We'll get through it'.

We will!

dustyboots sometimes.

I try to build small things into my day that I really enjoy. Cook treat meals, a glass of wine, we have booked a staycation for the end of June which has really lifted everyone here, especially my eldest DC.

I think it's important that you find someone you can talk to and be open with.

I didn't feel like this during the first lockdown and I honestly do think I would feel so different if the weather was better. Spring is around the corner. That thought cheers me up too.

@Caulker

Well they haven't offered any proposal so far, in many many months of posting. The hospitalisation issue has always been completely ignored by that poster, in favour of sweeping, never backed up statements about how all restrictions are unnecessary and wrong, end of.

This isn't true so I'm not sure why you've said it.

@pinkearedcow

God, people like TheDailyCarbunkle still don't understand the true function of the lockdowns, after nearly a year.

It's not about saving lives, it's about trying to space out deaths and illness over a longer period of time, giving us the chance to make sure the NHS doesn't fall over completely, and to develop treatments and vaccines. If we hadn't done this everything would have happened at a much faster rate over a much shorter period of time. That would have caused a far, far bigger catastrophe, economically, socially and psychologically, than we have now.

Do you honestly believe that the only two options are lockdown or nothing? Are you unable to imagine any other possible solution?