Do you ever feel this will never be over?

The sun is shining bright in Argyll and Bute and I am filled with dread. So many holiday makers have arrived and both our supermarkets have been stripped of everything according to the on line comments. We were very fortunate in hardly having any cases but I fear that is all going to change. The feeling is that 80% of us will get it at some point. Stay safe everyone, all we can do is protect ourselves as best we can.

Yes this will pass but I think it will be a long haul. In the meantime, there is a positive air pollution is down by a huge amount especially in Chinaand this has to be good.
The downside is I have worries, I had a MRI scan of my lungs before this all came about and the Dr said I had damaged lungs and needed more tests as it could well be that immune system has now decided to attack my lungs, but everything is on hold but he did tell me to get as much exercise as I could. So that is why everyday I do my cycle ride on the very quiet lanes and tracks around here and avoiding the popular places that people go to walk. I try not to think further than day or two and I must say I am enjoying the peace.

Like China, restrictions will slowly open up again but it will
more likely be around August to September.
But life is now going to change for the world, Hygiene will
be enforced everywhere, social distancing will be in place
for a year or two. Complacency is a thing of the past, everyone will be looking at others to see if they wash their hands, If people handling food wear gloves etc. Yes the world is going to be a different place after this crisis.

I hope it will be over sooner than later. My daughters collected me just before the lockdown as I am living alone but that leaves my bungalow unoccupied and unprotected. Furthermore, I an in the middle of moving to another property near my daughters, but it has all stopped now before exchange of contracts. I wonder whether I will ever move now as this process has had plenty of obstacles all along, and the Coronavirus has now given it the kiss of death.

I think my thoughts have changed since my BIL has just been transfered off the Covid-19 ward and a dear friend has been ventilated in ITU. Until it happens to some one close to you it just doesn't feel real. BIL is 82 years and has survived, but friend in his 40's has had it worse and its touch and go. I know that it will end, but when and how many people I know will be sufferers is beginning to scare me. Having worked for over 40 years as a qualified nurse I worry so much about my dear friends that are still in the profession, I retired last year and will not be able to return due to health reasons. I feel the government has let the profession down so much and have put the staff in so much needless harm. Stay safe folks and God Bless you all. Xx

We will come through this as better people. We have been sent to our rooms to learn patience and what is really important in life. We will learn how to count our blessings. It is a beautiful world....maybe we will now learn to respect it. Have a wonderful day... sending Peace x

It's difficult. I think the world will be very different when we eventually emerge from this. I think it will take longer than expected, maybe with a few surges, before we can even consider normal.

I'm still working full time, in community pharmacy (super scary right now), so that part of my life is still the same. I'm kinda the responsible one in the family, looking after elderly relatives etc but I've just had a letter telling me I should be shielding, due to a health condition. I don't know what to do.

Thank god for my wits! ??

I think we all have good days and bad at the moment, l am one of the lucky ones where mental health is concerned but I do have times where the panic seems to set in but thankfully it passes. I think we need to take encouragement from the fact that China now seems to be getting back on an even keel and I read yesterday that there were signs that in Italy things were improving there are even plans to start opening shops that were not just for essentials. So even though have a long way to go perhaps there is some hope at the end of the tunnel.

Worried about this trend of the name 'boomers' and saying how lucky we all were. It gives me chilling visions of 'Logan's Run' 9where people over thirty were eradicated). Yes, we were lucky, but maybe we're looking through rose-tinted glasses. As a woman I didn't have the opportunities that most do, now. Mental illness was seen, often, as weakness or selfishness. Autism and ADHD were not recognised. Technology, whether you like it or not, was in its relative infancy (when you look at the upward curve since the 70s). Material possessions were probably a quarter of what they are, now (no bad thing). Our experiences are relative. I am, however, thoroughly ashamed that we allowed a government to bring in student loans - and that wasn't just 'boomers' that was younger voters, too. I have been called out for being 'old' and a 'boomer' and I'm still in my sixties. We have knowledge, we have experience and we can still work, most of us. Let us not vegetate but prove what we can add to the present and coming world experience. And eradicate the 'b' word.

They probably felt like it would never pass in all the previous pandemics in history. Plague, Smallpox, Spanish flu, but it all passed, scientists found cures and vaccinations and the world is still going round

Yes ‘be over by Christmas’ was the cry in 1939..... we need to adjust for long term and be pleasantly surprised if it is short term

Daffydilly - if you have had a letter to say you should be shielding then you definitely should not be out there working in a community pharmacy! Please look after yourself.

I watch a tiny bit of depressing news in the morning and that's it. Our church has put all services online with songs, and on Utube you can view hundreds of different services from all over the world. The TV and Radio 4 have a lot as well. I've heard other faiths are doing the same. We've had a Taize service, a modern one, a traditional one, a Facebook page and small groups meeting via Zoom. It takes my mind off all the gloom. Thank you to everyone commenting on this site, as it helps to know we are not alone.

It will end a darn sight quicker if those morons who insist on behaving as normal, going around in close groups and treating the whole thing as a holiday, instead of staying six feet apart. Idiots! (what we need is a continual rainstorm for the next month) It might not solve it all, but it slows it right down.
This is potentially deadly, but it will pass.
I just feel like l am living in a very low grade disaster movie, with every day seeming as if it's Sunday.
If the sensible people outweigh the morons, it will sort itself out eventually. I certainly don't dispair, l just get a little fidgety sometimes.

I think we all feel uncertain in these times. It's like a silent killer...we can't see it but we know its there BUT we can only look to the future and believe that it will come to an end.
I think of those who are living in North Korea where they have to live like this every day of their lives. This for us is just a short period in time but I hope that we can reflect & know whats important and what isnt

I agree with you and I am fortunate in that I always live only one day at a time. The challenge now is to take it further to just one moment at a time. This seems as good a time as any to actually live just in the moment.
I think we all do this but we have the opportunity now to fine-tune it. Concentrating for one minute on now is very rewarding and comforting. Happy Easter xxxx

It will end , although I'm sitting in my garden. Am I wrong in wishing it was raining,as so many people going out sitting in parks, even going on the gym equipment in my local park. If people stop doing this it will be over sooner.

Good morning all! I relate to all of the above. Due to underlying health conditions I have been self isolating since mid march,although I'm not one of the shielded group. I work in a care home which has residents with the virus. I'm very lucky in that my house is paid for and I have a small amount of savings as I dont receive sick pay and not sure if will get statutory sick pay as not sick,although my Dr advised me not to work,its a very grey area! I live alone with 2 cats but content with own company. I live on a close so in some strange ways things seem the same! I havent left the house since mid march,but luckily have enough supplies. I count my blessings which are many,including family friends and neighbours who happy to help. Like many here I have days when I'm positive and bake,do crafts etc. I also have days when feel lethargic and overwhelmed and negative thoughts seep in,when will I see friends and family? When will it be safe to leave the house. ? What happens if household emergency needing plumber etc,scares me to think of letting someone in house!
My concentration is terrible,I cant focus to read a book! I find I need to watch really bland tv and programmes before the crisis seem so strange and also bring about a hint of sadness when see normal pre crisis life. ! I have grown weary of live programmes where talk seems to go in circles!
I think we all need to be so patient with ourselves and accept it's ok to feel whatever we are feeling,so much of this situation is out of our control. I do think that there is much we are not being told.
So fellow gransnetters,be gentle with yourselves and try and find some positived about each day. Even during such a terrible global crisis there is much love in the worldxxx

This will not end until there is a vaccine. Life will not go back to normal until then , and anyone who thinks it will is kidding themselves .

Hi Greymar,
I know no matter what, this shall pass, although at times it seems it's going to last for ever, I was out to the chemist or the first time in 3 weeks as generally my husband does the shopping, once a week.
I've been holding it together by walking round the garden, actually thought about going back onto antidepressants, I stopped them 18months ago.
I can't concentrate long enough to do baking, it's taking me all my time to cook meals.
My eldest daughter is keeping her sanity by doing 1,000 piece jigsaws.
I just keep saying, it will go.
I have had an operation cancelled for the time being, but I'm glad, because I really don't fancy travelling a long distance to the hospital concerned, therefore I'll wait until the time is right.
It's good we can let go on here, I haven't opened up before as I thought everyone would be coping better than me.

Don't go there, Greymar - we can choose to laugh or cry in this world, and imagined fears are so destructive. I have a wobble here and there, but try to live in the 'right now'. My family are, so far and thank God, safe, I have something to eat for tonight, there are worries about jobs etc. but I absolutely refuse to allow events that haven't happened to dominate my life, as I have a lot less life in front of me than I do behind me. Perhaps considerably less than I might hope given the situation, but it won't be spent gripped with fear. Take heart - my experience has been that worst fears rarely happen, and if they do then we will have to deal with it.

To be a boomer you need to have been born between 1946 and 1964. That is less than 20 years. Many of us are older than that. Already some post-boomers are in their 50s and grandparents and members of GN.

It is a silly term used by sloppy thinkers, too young to know better. Older people have been brainwashed into thinking anyone over 60 is a boomer and then start blaming themselves for every ill that besets the country.

I am not a boomer and never have been, by any definition.

Hypno: I'm with you. Just as long as I know my family and friends are O.K., I'm with them all in spirit.

Did the world stop after the last virus - Bird Flu was it? - no we all knuckled down and got on with life.

I try not to watch too much news/read a paper/websites about the virus. Putting my head in the sand? Maybe but I am coping in the only way I know how.

Stay safe and healthy and PLEASE stay home. I have friends in the NHS who need to stay strong and not get this virus, to look after those that do.

As DelBoy said, this time next year we could be millionaires or at least wondering what it was all about.

It will be over, we dont know when, but it WILL end.
Most days I feel fine, not today however, I feel a bit depressed to be honest, nothing to look forward to, or to plan for etc.
I think not knowing if we have had, or have the virus, is one worrying thing, we arent being tested so will not know if we are carriers and might infect someone,that is frightening.
We will get through this in the true British manner,and remember "you never walk alone" Hold on out there see you all soon.

Of course it will end. Things will be tough for another few weeks but there will be an end to it.
I admit I am feeling fed up staying at home except for a daily walk & a weekly trip to queue outside Sainsburys-which is good as you get to chat to strangers while you wait & see how others are coping. TBH everyone is doing well.
Yes I miss my boys & my DGC but there are phones & clever things with PCs do we can see each other when we chat. My Yoga class & dance class are being sent via PC to my TV screen do I can exercise.
The weather is great so the garden is looking wonderful & I am very happy to sit out there & read.
This will pass & we will get over it.
Our grandparents & some of our parents too had a long war to contend with - all we have to do is stay at home with all our home comforts & chill.