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Is anyone else starting to think this will never end?

107 replies

GoddessKali · 14/05/2021 22:05

Without name calling or turning this into a slanging match, please can we discuss our ‘fuck shit dread worst outcome’ thoughts please?

I have this awful impending sense of doom. I can’t shake it off.
As I’m writing this, I realise it doesn’t matter what each of our beliefs are around the current situation as none of us really know what’s going on.

However I do know my gut instinct is screaming at me something awful is coming.
Does anyone else have this or am I going mad?!

Oh and sorry to clarify, when I mean this will never end, I mean until a large catastrophe..... it feels like to me we’re building towards something, a giant storm of our whole way of life I guess??

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SonnetForSpring · 14/05/2021 22:09

I don't personally think it's that catastrophic but yes I do feel we are going round in circles. I hope to be proved wrong and I hope the government get on top of this latest situation asap. Then we can start building on that success. Up to this point, we have been getting wrong. Once we get it right, we will be able to repeat that and gradually life will become something most of us can be content with. I know it seems bleak now but there is always hope. Nothing good or bad lasts forever x

SonnetForSpring · 14/05/2021 22:10

I understand why you might feel like that though. I hope the feeling passes for you.

FluWorldOrder · 14/05/2021 22:13

It's not meant to end. Technocratic communism coming in hot under the guise of 'safety'. And anyone that says this is a 'conspiracy theory', not possible blah blah blah needs to get off MN and Google, duckduckgo.com is less censored/not funded by Bill Gates last I was aware, and look at the United Nations Agenda 21. Oh and the UN in general. Rather disturbingly the 'spiritual advisors' to the UN are a Luciferian organisation, yes really.

AbsoluteCasserole · 14/05/2021 22:14

I've always thought this will take a good few years to get under control, but that would be with a competent govt in charge, so christ knows how long it will take with this shower of shit.

FluWorldOrder · 14/05/2021 22:15

Trust your instincts, best thing you can do.

PineappleDreamer · 14/05/2021 22:16

Ha ha - this thread will be a magnet to all the weirdo freaks you know op.

Get off the internet for goodness sake. Read a good book. All will be well.

PineappleDreamer · 14/05/2021 22:16

You sound perfectly sane @FluWorldOrder Grin

jumpbounce · 14/05/2021 22:17

I do feel like we are not through to the end of this pandemic yet and there could be more to come and we are just going round and round in circles with it and could well be for another while yet but I don't think much more catastrophic than what is has already thrown at us and eventually it will end. There are a lot more positives than there was this time last year and there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
I think perhaps if the government had been a bit more realistic on the timescale of a pandemic from the beginning rather than this 2 weeks to flatten the curve Hmm then it might have helped people to process all this and to see that what is happening as hard as it currently is, it was to be expected but that an end would come. I think because people expected it to have ended long before now it feels like it won't ever end.

Twizbe · 14/05/2021 22:17

My hope is that lockdown continues to ease and we're allowed to decide our own level of comforts.

My fear is that, yet again, rules will prevent me from visiting my parents as planned over half term.

My annoyance is that people are either all doom or don't give a fuck and break all the rules

Waveafterwaveslowlydrifting · 14/05/2021 22:18

I want to go to the theatre, plan a weekend away, go for drinks with friends start to enjoy life again. Ugh

jumpbounce · 14/05/2021 22:19

@FluWorldOrder

It's not meant to end. Technocratic communism coming in hot under the guise of 'safety'. And anyone that says this is a 'conspiracy theory', not possible blah blah blah needs to get off MN and Google, duckduckgo.com is less censored/not funded by Bill Gates last I was aware, and look at the United Nations Agenda 21. Oh and the UN in general. Rather disturbingly the 'spiritual advisors' to the UN are a Luciferian organisation, yes really.
I'd like some of what you are sniffing Grin
mrshoho · 14/05/2021 22:21

I can understand why you're feeling like this. I do think we'll have a relatively 'normal few months over the Summer. But not hopeful for Autumn/Winter. I'm trying to work out how we are going to get millions of people vaccinated eith boosters in a short space of time whilst also continuing with first vaccinations in younger groups. In some ways I feel we are still just at the beginning of this saga and the worst is still to come.

FluWorldOrder · 14/05/2021 22:21

Oh yes the brainwashed minions of MN. Predictable! Good luck with that.

RickiTarr · 14/05/2021 22:21

I think the variant strays will carry on occurring for a while but policy responses will be weaker (for economic and practical reasons) and the onus will fall on CV and CEV individuals to be cautious.

Testing will continue in many industries and workplaces for a long while. Masks will become normalised. There will be third and fourth doses of vaccines.

It’s a new normal. Maybe eventually COVID will peter out altogether. The worst is over, though, I think.

The swivel eyed conspiracy theorists are more worrying.

stickydancefloor · 14/05/2021 22:22

It will end. It has to. People won’t do lockdowns and restrictions again and again. It’s gone on long enough as it is. The economic and social impacts are huge. It’s just not viable.

I think the media not reporting it constantly as a top story every day would probably be a good starting point. Do we need case numbers on a daily basis after 15 months of it?

stickydancefloor · 14/05/2021 22:23

@RickiTarr

I think the variant strays will carry on occurring for a while but policy responses will be weaker (for economic and practical reasons) and the onus will fall on CV and CEV individuals to be cautious.

Testing will continue in many industries and workplaces for a long while. Masks will become normalised. There will be third and fourth doses of vaccines.

It’s a new normal. Maybe eventually COVID will peter out altogether. The worst is over, though, I think.

The swivel eyed conspiracy theorists are more worrying.

Ah new normal. Haven’t seen that one in a while Hmm
TokyoSushi · 14/05/2021 22:24

It will end, nothing is forever, but I can't help feeling that we're not at the end quite yet.

RickiTarr · 14/05/2021 22:27

Ah new normal. Haven’t seen that one in a while

Well it was a perfectly normal phrase before it got hijacked into weirdness, and it’s quite useful to describe something that happens all the time, after every social disruption, so I don’t see why the tin foil hatters should get to steal it.Grin

Bad things happen, we react, things normalise, but never go exactly back to how they were before. It’s how life works, isn’t it?

Roonerspismed · 14/05/2021 22:31

No - I think it will end eventually through world vaccination and better treatments. But we are talking a good few years yet and I very much hope no more hard UK lockdowns.

And then there will be another disaster to worry about! Climate change!

It’s about trying to learn to dance in the rain or wherever trips that saying is. Its underlying meaning is very true

mayblossominapril · 14/05/2021 22:33

If you look at pandemics throughout history we are barely 18 months in and most seem to last about 3 years with reoccurrences every so often after that. The 1918 flu pandemic was 3 years and 3 waves
We are doing well with vaccinating our population and they are probably going to tweak the vaccine before boosters are given.
We could have done better by closing the borders and poorer nations more both now and early in the pandemic. India could have produced more vaccines if they had started sooner, many nations don’t have any vaccine production capacity.

GreyStep · 14/05/2021 22:39

For me it’s the heartbreaking story of having to put a net across the river in India to catch the bodies floating down stream and the funeral pyres in huge spaces. I want to carry on as normal, but that’s not right in anyone’s book.

BonnieDundee · 14/05/2021 22:40

@PineappleDreamer by "weirdo freaks" do you mean people who don't agree with you?

Charming turn of phrase Hmm

RedcurrantPuff · 14/05/2021 22:42

Time to rip off the plaster and take what comes. All these restrictions are doing is prolonging things.

RedcurrantPuff · 14/05/2021 22:44

@RickiTarr

I think the variant strays will carry on occurring for a while but policy responses will be weaker (for economic and practical reasons) and the onus will fall on CV and CEV individuals to be cautious.

Testing will continue in many industries and workplaces for a long while. Masks will become normalised. There will be third and fourth doses of vaccines.

It’s a new normal. Maybe eventually COVID will peter out altogether. The worst is over, though, I think.

The swivel eyed conspiracy theorists are more worrying.

I hope masks fuck off soon but testing and isolation will be around a long while IMO
Dongdingdong · 14/05/2021 22:46

Time to rip off the plaster and take what comes. All these restrictions are doing is prolonging things.

Don’t be silly. The restrictions are allowing us to vaccinate as many people as possible whilst limiting the chances of the virus spreading through our communities.