Realisation is dawning

I feel very sorry for you but realise that isn't much help to you.

Let's hope that lockdown is lifted within a year (I think it will be although have no real evidence for such a remark) and you can see your family again.

I think most of us have these feelings and it's good to vent and this a good place to do it .hope your bread turns out to be very tasty .take care and safe.?

I expect the government will lift the lockdown, but until I can be sure that there is no danger to OH we have to avoid contact. So as far as I can see any change in the government rules doesn't change the danger to the old and vulnerable until there is a proven vaccine.

Those of us in at risk category will indeed probably be a bit stuck till a vaccine is developed - it's a bummer; but it is what it is. I am not thrilled, but nothing to be done.

Stay well.

Sadly we are all in this together MrsJamJam.
Some find it tolerable others don`t .
Some are optimistic others pesamistic either way we have to deal with it and try to stay positive or we will all be depressed
which makes things worse.

Stay safe all.

Maybe there will be a partial lifting yet still keeping the inevitable rise in cases to a manageable level. Then we might have the current restrictions imposed again for a while and so on.

That way there could be a few peaks but lower than if we just had one steep spike.

Frustrating but it could keep the deaths low and stop a disastrous impact on the economy.

I think, perhaps, you are being pessimistic. Some countries are already relaxing their restrictions and opening up again, corona virus may well become just another background illness.

I know corona looms large at the moment but the world is full of viruses and illnesses, which could kill anyone with an illness that makes them susceptible, whether they have a depressed immuns system, heart problems, cancer.

Presumably your DH has not been self isolating since his medical problems were first diagnosed. If he was willing to take the risk of all those other illmnesses and go out and see family and friends then, then by the time the restrictions are finally lifted the possibility of Covid will be very low, so I see no reason why you should not take the very small risk, as it will be by the,n of getting Covid, as you would/have been with flu, and all other viruses and bacterial infections before the crackdown.

I think the official lockdown will end at some point, but those of us that have woken up to the risk we are in, will continue to isolate. Very sad, but necessary if we want to continue to live safely without worry.

We really don't know yet what will happen over the next twelve months.

Until we do - then please try and visualise what a wonderful grandparent you are. You are doing the very best and most precious thing for your much loved grandchildren. You are keeping them safe. You are being a brilliant spouse by also keeping your DH safe. What else could be as special as that?

I agree with MOnica. There was a bad flu epidemic in 2015. I know as I went down with it after finishing cancer treatment and was quite ill. Apparently in my part of the country it killed more people than Covid has.
It will be around as flu is. I just hope that like flu it may be around less in months to come.

The difference being of course that we have a vaccine against strains of flu. And still the 2015 epidemic killed many.

So sorry that you are feeling this way. I am spending some of my time day dreaming about having a family party or picnic when this all over. It helps.

I am sad too - we have not seen AC or GC this year, and if, as I expect, we oldies are under curfew until there is a vaccine, it could be many more months. I am less concerned about us getting it than about inadvertently passing it on to someone else, so it could be a while yet.

Totally agree with M0nica.

On the brighter side, while you are isolating from this virus you are also isolating from all the other bugs doing the rounds

We're in the same position as you in that my father is very ill 250 miles away and I am desperate to see him in case anything happens to him and I haven't been able to see him. But I know I can't. We're just hoping that my parents stay safe and as healthy as possible until we can get there.

Just think...when restrictions are lifted and you can see your AC, GC wider family and friends again, there will be no posts about being tired, friends who never pay their way, who take advantage of you, not liking DiL, not getting on with MiL, DH not doing small jobs that need doing, you being exhausted after school runs and babysitting blah blah...
There is always a silver lining.
This is it.

I know MrsJJ it’s truly awful and I’m feeling miserable today. I hope your bread is better than ever with all that extra energy going into the kneading. I expect there will be more days when some of us feel pessimistic.
GabriellaG54 I think your being very optimistic, there’ll always be post about the ordinary miseries of everyday life, it human nature. Even that’s something to look forward too. I’m sure another gransnetters posted the ditty before but it’s worth sharing again. I hope tomorrow is better for all of us

Each night when you go to bed is a day nearer to ending lockdown.That's how I try to look at it. difficult but have to focus on something.

It really doesn't help to anticipate future problems that we have no control over.

Far better to just live in the present, day by day. People are generally very good at adapting to new situations.

Im sorry you are having a bad time. I miss my family terribly, but I just try to take each day as it comes.

Thank you to everyone who reminded me to just take one day at a time. On the plus side I heard on the lunchtime news that we are allowed to make a short car journey in order to go for a walk, so tomorrow we can take the dog to the woods. He will be a very happy dog!. And the bread has turned out very well - tomorrow I am thinking of trying home made crumpets.

Mrs JamJam do you feel this way about the “ordinary” flu?
I expect they will find a vaccine for CV19.
If you have that will you still be more wary of venturing out than you were before?