Coronavirus (2021) thread

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Healdplace said:
I agree. At my age when each year passes faster than the last and you know but try not to think that is one year less to go this kind of lockdown screws with your mind.

I can hardly believe I have been beyond my garden only 3 times in 14 months - for three vaccinations.

And am already thinking this is not going to be easy to return to normality. It is scary when it should be exciting.

I think that is why I agreed to take on that book writing job and do that TV show - after I have purposefully avoided the media for many years after it being something I did every other day until my early 50s. Not just in the UK. All over the world. To lecture at US universities and casinos in Australia and on the stage of the Windmill Theatre for a TV show.

I felt I had to push myself just a bit with these toe in the water challenges because regaining normality will likely be easy for some and much harder for others. I do think there will be a boom in analysis and on line gurus telling you how to embrace normality again.
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I think entering back into 'normality' will be just as strange as entering the whole process last year.
It's been a strange year or so for me anyway (and no doubt everyone has had different experiences).
Just before the pandemic I had to adjust to life on my own having left the previous life living as a family unit in a house.
So in some ways this CV19 experience has been skewed for me anyway. I was busy retraining myself up during last year so hid a lot of the madness behind 'getting my head down'.

Maybe some of the reintegration into normality as led by behaviours scientists is as much about testing the water for the virus as much as our own psychology in getting back to the society we 'once' knew (tad dramatic).
Not sure of the time frames of accepting new normals, but there's plenty of studies on these things.

Wondering how long our parents/grandparents took to find their feet again after WW2, but different circumstances in some respects.

Saw a clip of a very busy Wembley during a past FA cup final earlier and it jolted me somewhat.
 
somapop said:
I think entering back into 'normality' will be just as strange as entering the whole process last year.
It's been a strange year or so for me anyway (and no doubt everyone has had different experiences).
Just before the pandemic I had to adjust to life on my own having left the previous life living as a family unit in a house.
So in some ways this CV19 experience has been skewed for me anyway. I was busy retraining myself up during last year so hid a lot of the madness behind 'getting my head down'.

Maybe some of the reintegration into normality as led by behaviours scientists is as much about testing the water for the virus as much as our own psychology in getting back to the society we 'once' knew (tad dramatic).
Not sure of the time frames of accepting new normals, but there's plenty of studies on these things.

Wondering how long our parents/grandparents took to find their feet again after WW2, but different circumstances in some respects.

Saw a clip of a very busy Wembley during a past FA cup final earlier and it jolted me somewhat.
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Fabulous watching a busy Wembley though isn‘t it? Although the Carabao cup final wasn’t ’normal’ it was a huge step towards it and it was easily one of the best days I‘ve had in the last 15 months.
 
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