What were your predications in March 2020. How do they compare to now….?

[Iwannabelikeyouohh]

Back in March 2020 what did you predict was going to happen. How did it compare to what has actually happened?….

Did you think you’d be fully vaccinated now (if you chose to be fully vaccinated)
Did you think restrictions would be fully lifted by now?

My predications were very catastrophic 😞
I was suffering with awful PND and post natal anxiety. I honestly thought we were heading into some sort of zombie apocalypse 🤦🏻‍♀️

My main thought was how does it end.
3 weeks to flatten the curve never rang true. I figured that we'd open up and it would just spread.
But also I didn't understand why playgrounds were closed, swings removed, benches taped off and people telling each other in caps to stay the fuck at home.

"But also I didn't understand why playgrounds were closed, swings removed, benches taped off and people telling each other in caps to stay the fuck at home."

Oh my goodness I forgot about this. The bloody playgrounds were taped off like crime scenes. So stupid and unnecessary. Poor kids.

intelligent hypotheses are all you're left with

Does anyone remember this "intelligent hypothesis"? I humbly submit there's still a lot of bad guesswork going on.

How is this even possible. Do you only know rocks or something

I have 2 cousins who I see once every 3 yrs in California who had covid, my nephew's cousin (I met that cousin once in 2017, lives in Ohio?) had it. My ex-colleague has a 23yo daughter (who I met once in the street about 5 yrs ago) had covid. My colleague's FIL died of it ( I never met the FIL). DS's 6th form teacher who I talked to on Zoom had it. Do those count as 'people I "know"? I didn't think so.

No neighbours, no colleagues, no one I volunteer for/with, no one in UK I've ever socialised with, no staff I regularly chat to in shops. No UK resident I could recognise or who knows my name (& I'm actually a bit notorious in my own circle, not half as anon as I want to be). Adult DC know a few people, teen DC don't know anyone.

Maybe ppl just don't talk about.

Dh was told to go home and prepare to whf for 18 months on 16th March 2020. They're just now beginning to go back into the office. However their firm had done some computer modelling around pandemics fairly recently.
He tells me they also did modelling training for a terrorist attack just before 7/7 and flood modelling work about 18 months before the floods in 2012. I'm not totally certain he's joking either. I've suggested they don't do any more disaster training
Can't promise about anyone else in his work. I'll also note one of the MDs retired in January 2020. Do you think he knew something we didn't?

I was told (by someone who had studied pandemics) before the schools closed in 2020 that they expected them to be closed closed within the week until September and there would be further lockdowns over winter.

I did expect it to be more over by now though. I had in my head that we'd be coming out over the summer 2021, and pretty much free by now.

When the panic first started in the media, I predicted it would be another avian flu / SARS / Ebola type thing where we all panicked and then it never really came to the U.K.

A few weeks later when I was pulled from hospital placement by my university, I thought “great, a week off to catch up on my notes”.

A month or so in, I assumed it would all be over by winter and we’d have a great Christmas catching up with everyone.

I also predicted that the housing market would crash.

So essentially I was wrong on every count 😂