How will you party/celebrate when this crisis is all over?

Larbre34

Chalk McHugh wrote: »

Dont think many will have any money or reason to celebrate anything whenever this killer disease has run out of road. This will leave a trail of destruction behind it. Many will lose loved ones. Jobs may be gone for good. I'm self employed and have no work and cant see it coming back. Its not like a war when a definitive outcome leads to an outbreak of joy when its over. This invisible enemy may be lurking around for years. How can you celebrate when you dont know if its defeated or gone. Apologies for not getting in the spirit of the OP and everyone means well but i cant see any reason to be celebrating anything for a long time to come.

Put it this way, if people don't celebrate, invest, decorate, holiday, build, theres absolutely no chance of your work returning. Consider that things are just paused and if we pull together we be optimistic and get everyone up and running again.

hynesie08

Chalk McHugh wrote: »

Dont think many will have any money or reason to celebrate anything whenever this killer disease has run out of road. This will leave a trail of destruction behind it. Many will lose loved ones. Jobs may be gone for good. I'm self employed and have no work and cant see it coming back. Its not like a war when a definitive outcome leads to an outbreak of joy when its over. This invisible enemy may be lurking around for years. How can you celebrate when you dont know if its defeated or gone. Apologies for not getting in the spirit of the OP and everyone means well but i cant see any reason to be celebrating anything for a long time to come.

I have an 83 year old grandmother who would be above average risk, if we come out the other side of this, I'm ****ing celebrating.....

looksee

I doubt there will be a definite date on which it all stops, it will be stop/start, a bit at a time, drifting back to something resembling normal over time.

khalessi

Be able to be together as a family

cannotlogin

Straight down home to my parents, siblings, nieces, nephews, aunt's, uncles, cousins, etc.

Meet two new babies that friends have had in the last 10 days.

Hug them all to bits and spend time with them.

Intensive treatments with hairdresser and beautican to make me presentable again.

Party with friends, laugh, flirt, dance - I have visions of a beer garden party in the Summer Sun.

Finish the night off with a Supermacs.

Would love a good GAA match and a concert too.

Simple stuff but things that make you feel good.

What Username Guidelines

Over to the Ma’s for dinner with the whole family. Leave the kid there and head off to a hotel for a couple of nights after.

However, I did do a 10 month isolation stint before, after the kiddo had a transplant, so my wife and I have been through similar, albeit not as globally drastic. We used to dream about the things we’d do once restrictions were lifted. Restaurants, visitors, friends, playgrounds... Then, when the day came, we were both absolutely terrified. Took a good few months to get back into “real” life.

You do leave an experience like that with a new appreciation for the little things. It will be interesting to see how society as a whole reacts to it all, hopefully will have a very positive outcome for how we look at life, after what will likely be a very dark period.

UI_Paddy

Hugs for all my loved ones, and maybe a few drinks in a couple places I've been meaning to check out for a while.

HartsHat

If I'm alive, and none of my close relatives or friends (or their close relatives) have died, which is a pretty big if, have them over for drinks.

Thelonious Monk

Go somewhere warm but id say the airline industry is finished after this and will take years to bounce back.
Rest of our lives will probably be soviet style placements working on farms and in factories with a 4 day holiday in a tower block in Courtown once a year if we are lucky.

super_furry

Send the kids to creche and sleep. Go out for lunch with my wife, go to the cinema, few scoops.

Get surgery on my sinuses that was cancelled two hours before it was due to happen ten days ago.

ITman88

Chalk McHugh wrote: »

Dont think many will have any money or reason to celebrate anything whenever this killer disease has run out of road. This will leave a trail of destruction behind it. Many will lose loved ones. Jobs may be gone for good. I'm self employed and have no work and cant see it coming back. Its not like a war when a definitive outcome leads to an outbreak of joy when its over. This invisible enemy may be lurking around for years. How can you celebrate when you dont know if its defeated or gone. Apologies for not getting in the spirit of the OP and everyone means well but i cant see any reason to be celebrating anything for a long time to come.

Sorry to hear this.
You ain’t alone.
Celebrating won’t be on many minds in the real world after this for a long time.

If I keep my job throughout, I'll pay off all my overdraft finally

I'll visit my Dad hopefully.

looksee

looksee wrote: »

I doubt there will be a definite date on which it all stops, it will be stop/start, a bit at a time, drifting back to something resembling normal over time.

Yes, realisiticallly we are 18 months from a vaccine.
If the current measures prove "successful" we'll likely see the flattened curve being 500/700 new cases per day until such a time as the physical distancing and isolation of the positive cases results in a drop.
It's then a somewhat back to normal scenario until cases rise again........ rinse and repeat that cycle for x amount of times.
Elderly and immuno compromised etc being cocooned as much as possible.

The estimated 1% motality rate is frightening in the context of for every 500 new cases (4500 being tested daily from now) there's potentially going to be 5 deaths.

Ronan|Raven

Drive west and hope I will have parents to hug.

Gods Gift

Up end a lad that’s been annoying me with a box.

c68zapdsm5i1ru

Go back to socialising with my friends, having family over for dinner, wandering casually down to the shops without worrying about keeping away from people, taking weekend trips down the country. All the things I was taking for granted a couple of weeks ago will feel like a huge treat when things start to return to some semblance of normality.

Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Go somewhere warm but id say the airline industry is finished after this and will take years to bounce back.
Rest of our lives will probably be soviet style placements working on farms and in factories with a 4 day holiday in a tower block in Courtown once a year if we are lucky.

I hope to get a job manning the gun towers

Snow Garden

Snow Garden wrote: »

How will you party/celebrate when this crisis is all over?

A trip abroad? An expensive meal? A pampering in a plush hotel? A pub crawl?

Ski Trip

Deleted User

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Ski Trip

North of Italy is class

jimd2

BoatMad wrote: »

I will get to sit close to my elderly mum again , that will be nice

Agreed. Same here (hopefully)

ednwireland

im hoping the uk will do a national tv broadcast with john bercow shouting Unlock Unlock !

elizunia87

I am due with my first baby in couple of weeks but the fact that noone from my family can't come to Ireland and visit me is very depressing. So probably I will spend two weeks with my family once the virus is over in Poland and they will come here, to Ireland
Bottle of champagne will be good too

Donald Trump

Gods Gift wrote: »

Up end a lad that’s been annoying me with a box.

of chocolates?

Bombaby1974

I'm gonna hug everybody.
Sister in law's mother died at the weekend and it felt crap wishing her condolences from 2 meters away.

If it's in the summer I'm throwing a BBQ!!!

faceman

Not trying to be a misery hole, I think it’s far too soon to be thinking about celebrating. We don’t know the extent of the death toll or anything. It could be a period of mourning rather than celebrating.

Also we aren’t going to see a blanket lifting of the lockdown either. Different countries are being affected in different ways. The USA is on the road to disaster. We may not see our American friends for months or longer. Travel restrictions will continue in some form or another.

The world will have changed and people will be more mindful or hygiene and stuff.

That said once this is over I’m booking a plane right away to L.A. and you won’t see me till the money run out! lol

JP Liz V1

I will take my mam for a luxury afternoon tea in an Irish hotel

I think we all should support Irish hotels and businesses

titan18

Coppers. To help reward the nurses

cian68

faceman wrote: »

Not trying to be a misery hole, I think it’s far too soon to be thinking about celebrating. We don’t know the extent of the death toll or anything. It could be a period of mourning rather than celebrating.

I've seen some funerals that were fairly wild celebrations so period of mourning/celebration might roll in to one

Away With The Fairies

I'd like to have a sit down meal.