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Anyone else feel like we are stuck now?

82 replies

RosieLemonade · 07/04/2021 16:52

I don't really know how to explain it. Just feel like the rates of everything we measure are plateauing. Anyone else feel we will be in semi lockdown forever? I guess part of my frustration is the bad weather when ee can finally meet in gardens 😂

OP posts:
ChocOrange1 · 07/04/2021 16:55

Positive tests down 37% from last week
Deaths down 36%
Hospitalisations down 25%

What exactly do you feel is plateaued?

(They should have caught up on the latter two numbers from the bank holiday weekend now.)

Bluntness100 · 07/04/2021 16:56

Um no, what’s plateaud? Confused

Whatalottachocca · 07/04/2021 17:00

Things are falling rapidly, not plateauing. We’re moving forwards, meeting up with friends, going on holidays from Monday and going into shops.

actiongirl1978 · 07/04/2021 17:02

Not plateauing here. I'm hitting the shops on Monday with DD followed by haircuts on Wednesday and then the pub for a family lunch later in the week.

The very opposite of a plateau for me.

Bluntness100 · 07/04/2021 17:03

Vaccines increasing, lockdown Easing, road map published, next releases next week with non essential shops and hair dressers opening, plus pubs etc outside,,cases, hospitalisation and deaths dropping dramatically each week.

I can’t imagine what you think is plateauing?

Bluntness100 · 07/04/2021 17:04

Are you not in the Uk op? Is that it? Here we could meet in gardens already and the weather was fine.

LindainLockdown · 07/04/2021 17:07

Do some people like the OP live in an alternative universe? It is usually a grim one too.

pommedeterre · 07/04/2021 17:10

I had a lovely easter weekend and next week have 2 pub lunches, an airbnb, a haircut and a bbq with friends booked. This week is a bit slow but by choice.

It feels like hope to me at the moment.

Buzzinwithbez · 07/04/2021 17:13

Things are looking great! Positive tests are just over 3,000 for the whole of England. Deaths are at levels we had in July when we had no vaccines and everything was open.
I don't tend to listen to the news, so maybe that's misrepresenting the numbers? Or presenting a bit more room off gloom than need be?

Anyone else feel like we are stuck now?
Buzzinwithbez · 07/04/2021 17:14

Doom and gloom..

Waxonwaxoff0 · 07/04/2021 17:46

Nope. Next week is another step forward. I'm booked in for a manicure and a meal out with friends, I don't care how cold it is! Grin

Teamox · 07/04/2021 18:12

Are you over here in Ireland OP, because it definitely feels like that here. But UK is looking amazingly positive.

The thoughts of sitting in a beer garden with five friends, going to the hair dressers, a trip to the zoo and going to a clothes shop (or just being allowed to enter the clothes section in the supermarket) from Monday just makes me want to cry and wish I was back in the UK. So so far off that here.

frozendaisy · 07/04/2021 18:41

@Waxonwaxoff0

Nope. Next week is another step forward. I'm booked in for a manicure and a meal out with friends, I don't care how cold it is! Grin
Excellent Smile we don't care how cold it is either just means we get more use out of walking thermals!
Loveisthehope · 07/04/2021 18:44

I must admit the cold is getting me down a bit. Meeting is lovely but this week I've been completely frozen after an hour or so! Such a shame, not sure about plateauing but hard to shake off that mindset after the year the world has had

Bishbashbosh101 · 07/04/2021 18:46

No but I understand your impatience.

DrunkenKoala · 07/04/2021 18:48

As others have said infections, hospitalisations and deaths are going down.
DS went back to football last weekend, DD’s swimming lessons start up again next week. I’ve booked to go to a wildlife place that opens next week and weather permitting will have friends over in the garden.
The following week I’ve got a hairdresser appointment and will be booking my first swim in nearly six months.
I think things are looking up, it’s been a hard winter but I feel we’re at the end of it.

frozendaisy · 07/04/2021 18:49

Apparently, although let's believe it when it happens, we can get one child's new football footwear next week. We just can't do it online, sport boots need to be tried on, they just do.

We are seeing as many friends as we can.

6 weeks ago I thought the adults in this household would be someway towards at least knowing when first jab would be. But no.

Yes we have to still err on the side of caution.
Yes it's not perfect.
Yes we have X2 secondary germ pit schools to navigate and try and not get ill.

But my goodness, not being trapped in 4 walls with just them (as much as I would take a bullet for all of them). We need variety, spice, gossip, sports boots! And we can get some of that now, gossip a bit light but we do our best! "Make some up I don't care"

Gertie75 · 07/04/2021 18:55

Things are definitely improving, in 5 days time you can go shopping, on holiday, have a haircut, sit outside a pub.

TownTalkJewels · 07/04/2021 19:02

I understand where you’re coming from OP. Cases, hospitalisations etc are obviously coming down, but there’s so much doom & gloom from media, Boris et al that it FEELS like we’ve plateaued in this situation & life will never go back to normal.

I work with a lot of Americans & one asked me today why we are still (essentially) in a lockdown, why we can’t leave the country- if it was because deaths are still high, etc? I didn’t really know what to say. I said no, they’ve managed the situation very well but they’re still keeping a lock on things because they’re scared of another resurgence.

That’s why this feels like a plateau to me- it feels like we’ll be living in fear of the next resurgence forever.

MarshaBradyo · 07/04/2021 19:03

No next week is a good step forward

Stellaris22 · 07/04/2021 19:14

I'm fed up because I feel like anyone under 40 has been forgotten about.

Not just with the vaccines, but everything. Housing is impossible. But it feels like the vaccine rollout has paused and there's no rush to get people vaccinated anymore. I refuse to visit family etc until we've been vaccinated and haven't left our personal bubble since Christmas 2019.

Baileysforchristmas · 07/04/2021 19:16

No booked bottomless brunch at St Pancras Station next week, haircut booked, meeting up with friends and family outside, i’ve been going into work since July, my daughter’s back at school, my husband and I have been vaccinated, life seems to be moving forward.

MarshaBradyo · 07/04/2021 19:18

The only thing that feels paused for me is vaccine and weather

Waxonwaxoff0 · 07/04/2021 19:19

@Stellaris22

I'm fed up because I feel like anyone under 40 has been forgotten about.

Not just with the vaccines, but everything. Housing is impossible. But it feels like the vaccine rollout has paused and there's no rush to get people vaccinated anymore. I refuse to visit family etc until we've been vaccinated and haven't left our personal bubble since Christmas 2019.

That's your choice. I bet the vast majority of under 40s, including myself, will be happy to socialise without being vaccinated due to how low risk we are.
Buzzinwithbez · 07/04/2021 19:21

@TownTalkJewels

I understand where you’re coming from OP. Cases, hospitalisations etc are obviously coming down, but there’s so much doom & gloom from media, Boris et al that it FEELS like we’ve plateaued in this situation & life will never go back to normal.

I work with a lot of Americans & one asked me today why we are still (essentially) in a lockdown, why we can’t leave the country- if it was because deaths are still high, etc? I didn’t really know what to say. I said no, they’ve managed the situation very well but they’re still keeping a lock on things because they’re scared of another resurgence.

That’s why this feels like a plateau to me- it feels like we’ll be living in fear of the next resurgence forever.

Completely agree.