I dont think life will be normal for years and years

[ssd]

Its the pictures coming out of india, with the recent festival and hundreds of people crammed together, during a second covid wave. This virus will just mutate forever, its too global to contain. Its just never going away. What the hells going to happen to us or our kids futures?
I can't see a way out of this. Science can't catch up, its too far spread to ever get a handle on it.

[Quartz2208]

ssd truthfully with a thread title like this you do automatically assume it is handful who have done similar threads before. When I saw your name I wasnt surprised

[ParkheadParadise]

Life is what you make of it.

After I've had my vaccines I'll be out and about meeting family and sitting in the pub, visiting the shops.

[lightand]

@Frequentflier

I am Indian and feeling all this very intensely at the moment. The guilt at sitting here, while half of my family is there, is killing me. And just a few months ago India was seemingly doing very well. I try to not watch the news, get out in the sun and just take each day as it comes. Focus on the small pleasures and not the big future.

I feel for you.

I have a relative, who has a relative in another country as well which is not doing well, who has just died today. She had special needs.

The covid world situation is indeed sad.

[RosieLemonade]

I think OP is in Scotland which is a lot more locked down than England. My days are pretty normal now apart from mask wearing.

[TheOneWithTheBigNose]

@RosieLemonade

I think OP is in Scotland which is a lot more locked down than England. My days are pretty normal now apart from mask wearing.

Not as of next Monday, so she can go out for lunch and take her mind off things .

[Orangesandlemons77]

I'm guessing OP is in Scotland? It must be a bit depressing as more things are still closed there but it should be better next week when more things are open

It's feeling positive in the SW, sunny and warm and lots sitting outside - it does make a difference, (more distractions from ruminating as well)

[AllThatFancyPaintsAsFair]

Seriously? I dont believe you for a second

I can't say I would have guessed who started the threat and I don't usually register names but tbh it doesn't surprise me that it's you as your name has stuck in my mind from previous posts of doom and negativity.

[Frequentflier]

Thanks @lightand. The good news is that most of my family over 45 have been vaccinated. I have been an expat in various countries for the years, and I absolutely love living in the UK, but I must say Covid is making me rethink all my life choices now that flying is no longer easy or safe.

Sorry to derail the thread, OP. Isn't Scotland easing lockdown on Monday? I had a wander around Next today, which helped me a lot since I haven't been to the shops in a year.

[kereh]

Do people who come out with this tripe ever stop to consider that lockdowns are completely unsustainable due to the fact that government funded furlough can't go on forever?

Lockdowns only happened because of furlough. The government won't pay people to stay home for much longer.

I mean really? You can't work that out?

[MrsPsmalls]

Things didn't go back to normal after spanish flu- not ever. A new normal was established which we now see as normal as we don't remember before. Changes include...increased dependence on workhouses, poverty in the Elderly, the complete disappearance of the offspring of the deceased to god knows what unfortunate end, a generation of ill health for the workhouse residents, increased taxation, socialised medicine, routine separation of sick from well folks. Good and bad things, but not the same as before. There is no going back and of course there will be lasting changes this time. We just don't know what they will be yet.

[Suzi888]

@ssd

I dont know what people will stick to. I dont know what we'll do. And the vaccines cant keep up with everything out there. Theres too much of it.

Life will go on. The virus will mutate, just like flu. So many have had covid or their jabs by now (or both). Try not to spiral. I agree with you that it’s taking forever to get back to normality, but we will.

[Iceniii]

OP, I don't agree that my DD won't have a future. Things will either go back to normal or we adapt. I know people won't be able to calm your mind. I use to lay awake as a teen in the 1990s listening to the radio and thinking we would all die in a nuclear war. I would obsessively read books about it.

But if you are convinced it will be terrible, look at what is in your control and what you can do to make the best of this siutation. It's either that or giving in and letting the situation control you.

[Moonface123]

If our ancestors had your attitude we would all be extinct by now.
Adapt, there's your answer.

[OliveTree75]

@HesterShaw1

FFS. Stop watching the news, get off MN, get outside and just bloody do stuff.

This!

[YouCanStopNowThanks]

I think it will gradually get better, although it's not going to be quite as fast as many of us would have hoped. We'll end up with a basket of anti covid measures, such as vaccines, better treatments, and a certain amount of social distancing (better than now but not zero), masks and so on and other practical measures to keep the spread of the disease and its consequences manageable. None of them will be enough by themselves and we probably won't be able to do without a bit of each of them, even the ones that affect some businesses, unfortunately. But between all of them we will end up with a stable situation that's much better than now.

It could be that some businesses will have to change how they operate to keep going - maybe one day there might be licences to stay open even if cases are high if your business has good outdoor space or a particular standard of ventilation?

[userxx]

Just crack the fuck on with it. No point beating on and depressing yourself. The weather is getting better, the nights are getting longer, beer gardens are open, can you not just enjoy the moment.

[rainbowunicorn]

I have to agree with the posters who say they had a feeling that it would have been this particular poster that started this thread. There are a handful of posters on this board who seem to just want to either spread misery or cause worry.

It is the same few names that come up and there is generally no reasoning with them

[MarshaBradyo]

Cases and deaths are very low but these five week things take ages. I think it makes people lose it a bit.

We’ll get there I don’t think it’s as bad as you say

[Silvercatowner]

Good grief... can you imagine how some posters would be if this virus had a mortality akin to ebola or black death?

[YouCanStopNowThanks]

Yes, we have to adapt to life with a new airborne disease that's just that bit too severe to be ignored, and that we haven't yet worked out prevention and treatment for. I know lots of people think and hope that we can just ignore it because it's mild for a lot of people, but unfortunately it's not quite mild enough, too many middle aged people need hospital treatment for it, and there's too much long covid. So we're going to have to adapt to keep on top of it, but we can and will do that and it will be ok.

[Icannever]

To be fair it is harder in Scotland, yes things are opening up more from Monday but we have doom and gloom preached at us constantly from Scottish government. It’s hard to escape it honestly. We were locked down longer last year as well and it’s quite tough when you see England end Wales getting back to normal and we’re still stuck and can’t see why and you have to worry they will use the variants to avoid letting us get back to normal.
It really is a very different message in Scotland

[TheOneWithTheBigNose]

@Icannever

To be fair it is harder in Scotland, yes things are opening up more from Monday but we have doom and gloom preached at us constantly from Scottish government. It’s hard to escape it honestly. We were locked down longer last year as well and it’s quite tough when you see England end Wales getting back to normal and we’re still stuck and can’t see why and you have to worry they will use the variants to avoid letting us get back to normal.
It really is a very different message in Scotland

You can sit inside restaurants from Monday though! We’ve got another month to wait.

[TheOneWithTheBigNose]

I’m in Leicester. I don’t think anyone has been locked down longer than we have!

[Dolciedolly]

@Fruityfriday

I feel the same, I think normal will be SD and masks and queuing. Can't see us ever going back to how it was.

SD will end and it has too ... business won't and cannot survive and people won't adhere

I have been feeling anxious all the way through now I think fuck it I could go out and get run over

There is more suicides /cancer than this fking virus

[Mmn654123]

Long term?

Those who live, live. Those who die, die.

Survival of the fittest. As has always been the case.

The world will move on and kids will remember the pandemic like our parents and grandparents remember major world events.’