Anyone else feel like they should feel excited

[Lelophants]

But actually feel a bit nervous?

Of course there is good news! And well needed. But I also feel a bit sad because things will be very much back to normal and yet covid is still here, vaccines not offered to all adults until end of July (and that's only the first one) and there are the other variants etc. It won't be foolproof. A number of us will still get sick and die. And I don't want to get sick. I feel like I can't return to proper normal life even though a lot of the population will. It's all just a bit strange!

Not trying to be negative. Anyone else?

I understand op.
It's good news, kids are going back to school, there is a plan, hope even.

But I feel nothing at all. I should be happy and excited, relieved, anything, but I'm not. I feel exactly the same as I did on Sunday evening.

I just feel numb, I dont care anymore, even after this good news. And that is a little unsettling.

@PracticingPerson

I felt very strange last night and similar to what the op describes.

Collectively the nation wants to move on and this psychological response is a godsend for Johnson who caused - yes, I genuinely mean to use the word caused - a great number of deaths. He has responsibility for so much of the UK response and will be let off.

I'm very sad we have no option but to expose ourselves to excessively high levels of virus in England. England has been so let down by this government. I hope Scotland, Wales and NI do better, they are so lucky to have another chance.

Oh for god sake

Opening the schools all at the same time is madness. Seems nothing has been learned from the last times. It's just ridiculous.

I honestly can't even get excited about anything. I don't even care anymore. Will believe it when I see it I suppose.

@AhFiddledeedee

I understand op. It's good news, kids are going back to school, there is a plan, hope even.

But I feel nothing at all. I should be happy and excited, relieved, anything, but I'm not. I feel exactly the same as I did on Sunday evening.

I just feel numb, I dont care anymore, even after this good news. And that is a little unsettling.

I think a lot of people will feel like you do. As a coping mechanism we have turned off emotions, resigned ourselves to the drudge. I felt very numb a few weeks ago, like I suddenly didnt care about anything either way. I still dont really trust the good news. I think it will come back, the feelings, once we start doing things that actually make us happy again.

I just want to go away, be able to eat outside... But its next winter I'm more worried about. What are they putting in place now for next year?

Next winter I mean because no, covid hadn't gone.

The new strain, now the dominant one is massively contagious.
One small blessing is mask wearing in school now.

What everything said. A proven liar who doesn't care about anything but himself doesn't fill me with confidence about the next 12 months.

@DownstairsMixUp

Wrong again.

People can suffer for months and months after having the flu. Again, not sure why people can't be bothered to research this. Plenty of evidence to show that there is such a thing as "long flu" just as there is "long COVID" many patients I've worked with will still be struggling with breathing and mobility after a bad bout of flu. This is very common.

But based on the study that showed the impact on mild disease then likelihood of 'long Covid' probably reduces.

I'm nervous the dates could be pushed back a lot, other than that cannot wait. I think those with businesses, who have lost their jobs due to covid, missed out on other things have been thrown to the wolves rather than a cautious reopening following a large scale vaccination programme along with better understanding of the virus now.

I felt terrified tbh, I've enjoyed lockdown mostly and learned to adapt. I have social anxiety so it's been great for me. It feels scary to start going back to normal. We have our holiday booked (canaries) for the end of July so we're hoping that this can go ahead as planned. Pubs opening doesn't bother me as I don't drink.
However, I've just been able to finally book my jab for tomorrow due to me being a carer so I'm feeling a whole lot more positive today 🥳

spring IIRC Whitty and Vallance did both make brief comments about next winter. Not that the 21st June "freedom party!" lot will have paid attention to that.

Nope. Am CEV and am still champing at the bit to get back to something like normality. The current situation is so bad for so many people and they need their lives and livelihoods back.

I think the numbness is a coping mechanism but there is also an element of shock. A year ago we were all leading normal lives. Our lives changed beyond recognition pretty much overnight. It’s a massive thing to happen.

I don’t feel any different to last September really. DH still in front of many classes with no vaccine remotely on the horizon for him (our area still stuck on group 5), no other adjustments apart from the kids wearing masks (which quite frankly should have been the case a year ago yet we are seemingly grateful that the government have allowed us this crumb). Kids all back in at once just like September. Nothing has really changed here, our risk feels the same and I don’t really feel excited and grateful about that.

My household had Covid over Xmas. I work in a nursery and my daughter works in a hospital. I think working in high risk environments and then having the monster in our own home
has made me ready for everything to be normal again and I can’t wait for June. It hasn’t felt like lockdown this time as my workplace has all the children and staff in which we didn’t in first lockdown. I always got shopping deliveries anyway. Just miss being able to do social stuff. I’m glad my children can get back to school soon.

spring IIRC Whitty and Vallance did both make brief comments about next winter. Not that the 21st June "freedom party!" lot will have paid attention to that.

Yes it's more than likely and would be reasonable for some things to be put back into place for winter, especially as without any form of social distancing flu will be back to its usual numbers alongside covid more than likely. That doesn't mean a full shut down though, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a limit on numbers indoors or something.

Yes probably some light restrictions, such as masks in public and restrictions on large gatherings. I don’t think we will go back into lockdown or be banned from seeing people again.

I’m a real mix of emotions.
Hugely relieved there may be normality (new not old normal) by autumnish.
Slightly nervous about how to traverse the risks for myself. Definitely not planning to go all out right away.
Know it hasn’t all sunk in and think I’ve got a bit of a shock coming up when looking back in this last year- when it sinks in.
Thinking changes I want to make (less travel, fewer crazy busy times of going out etc) might get lost in the mix and I don’t want them to.
We’ve all got to renegotiate how to be social.

Nothing has really changed here. DS will go back to school, masks should hopefully be done properly this time. I'll review things later, but won't be out partying this summer. It all feels a bit like the Daily Fail telling people how to think on here at the moment, tbh.

I don't feel excited, just slightly hungover from worry with a jaw ache from grinding my teeth for the last 2 days.
Ds (10) is medically vulnerable and won't be vaccinated, until the children's trials are completed, (possibly end of the year??)... so I am expecting to have ground my teeth to dust by then.

I am definitely not looking forward to people being allowed to have parties. Some of us prefer sleeping to vicarious partying. One advantage of last summer was stopping one of my neighbours in particular having parties going on until 1am with loud music and guests shrieking at each other in an increasing crescendo as they got more and more drunk.

Any lurking excitement about the prospect of actually getting normality back has been destroyed now as I just got a letter - it seems I’m one of the 1.7mil to be added to the shielding list

@SpringisSpinning

I just want to go away, be able to eat outside... But its next winter I'm more worried about. What are they putting in place now for next year?

Yes, that too. :(