Feeling positive - anyone else?

[tabulemonade]

I’ve spent quite a lot of time on this board over the last year as like everyone I’ve coped with lockdowns and work issues and worry over loved ones getting sick. I’ve had some very down days.

However I wonder if anyone else is now feeling so much happier and more positive as things now continue to open up?

Over the last few weeks I’ve been to Silverstone and a music festival, both outdoor but with no social distancing. It’s been amazing! Felt like real life happening again. Done LFTs following both events and negative along with the groups of people I went with. Also been to restaurants every week since they reopened and been to the cinema a couple of times. Seeing so many fewer masks too now so not constantly reminded of worry, and now nearly everyone I know seems to be going on holiday abroad but haven’t decided about this yet.

I’m well aware people are still getting covid, and of course I really feel for people who can’t have the vaccine and who are vulnerable. But, the fear has definitely gone for me. And I suppose I am wondering if anyone else is also feeling free and happy after such a long time of feeling low?

I'm so envious of you going to Silverstone @tabulemonade!

I'm feeling more relaxed than I was but my biggest worry is having to isolate. I don't have the app so I won't get pinged but I really don't want a call from T&T!

Yes, life is pretty much back to normal for me and I’m loving it. I’m not scared of catching covid and am double jabbed. Feeling so much happier and positive now!

I’m not feeling positive at all and thoroughly fed up with Covid. Not helped by the fact myself and the kids have all had Covid and it was awful. I’m still not recovered. All I can for see if a difficult winter of isolation again working at home as our work has no plans to change that. I love holidays overseas but all just seems so complicated.

Just got back from a wonderful (UK) holiday - went to the beach and theme park among other things and had such a great time. All felt really normal. Had my 2nd jab - feeling very positive. Will be able to properly exhale once this winter is behind us but yes, very optimistic.

I was very pessimistic about three weeks ago and I thought that the the wholesale opening up in England was a mad idea, But it all seems to be OK. I am in Wales and our remaining restrictions (apart from masks) are due to be lifted on Saturday. I am quietly hopeful.

I am very hopeful, but my DH and DS are in 2 weeks time start going to football matches with over 50,000 people, with as yet, unclear guidance as to what is going to be required. It just feels odd to be doing everything to avoid catching covid for over 17 months, to going about life as normal.

Yes definitely. It is starting to feel ‘normal’
If it wasn’t for this board I probably wouldn’t be giving Covid a second thought to be honest!
Even in the media, Covid stories are no longer headlines, unless there’s a new development, travel, for example.
I also hope it isn’t too ‘goading’ to mention that the 4 or so pessimistic posters on here have gone quiet (unless I’m mistaken!)

Yes except for the idea of returning to long commutes stuck in a noisy office.

Weirdly I have known more friends to have covid in the last month (including my whole family) than throughout the rest of the pandemic. Luckily as everyone is double jabbed no one has been seriously ill.

I'm not feeling very hopeful, really. I think the fallout will be pretty grim in terms of poverty and continued economic impacts, the crisis has revealed the really rank corruption of the government and I think this winter will see higher deaths than we were accustomed to in e.g. 2017, 2018. Plus the backlog in the NHS is enormous.

I'm very grateful the vaccines have worked, and I feel incredibly lucky to live in a country which has the resources to vaccinate. Globally the picture is pretty shite.

I feel very different, it was always a likely event but having gone through it feels worse than it being a 'probable' at some point in the future.

Sorry not to be more jolly! In time I might feel less bothered but I just worry about the people I know who have lost jobs etc., a few trips to the theatre or a concert won't change that for me.

@AvaCallanach

Weirdly I have known more friends to have covid in the last month (including my whole family) than throughout the rest of the pandemic. Luckily as everyone is double jabbed no one has been seriously ill.

Same, when the Euros were on I knew loads of people with covid, including me, and we had quite a few isolated cases at work.. and now it's stopped, I don't know anyone again, and all staff are back in, so it seems to match with the drop in cases.

Yes feeling much more positive, living a normal life now which is wonderful.

This board seems to be getting slower and quieter all the time now (and the usual suspects seem to have disappeared!)

Yes
Feels like things are lifting and better

I'm not feeling very hopeful, really. I think the fallout will be pretty grim in terms of poverty and continued economic impacts, the crisis has revealed the really rank corruption of the government and I think this winter will see higher deaths than we were accustomed to in e.g. 2017, 2018. Plus the backlog in the NHS is enormous

^this

Also the untold damage done to children’s education and wellbeing, the damage to the adult social care sector.

There’s only so long that the feel good “we are out of covid” wave will last. All of the shit things are still there. Covid showed them up.