Maybe. But psychological damage can be worked through. More of you will be alive to do so with a lockdown if it comes to that again.

Plus, now that you’ve been through one tough lockdown, you have learned experience to mitigate any potential damage from the next one. You just have to embrace adaptability.

Pandemics historically last years. The truth of the matter is that this is going to be our lives for a while and there is no going back to normal. So we all have to learn to deal with it the best we can holding fast to the knowledge that it will end.

At least you don’t have government actively working against you on this. They’ll make mistakes and get things wrong, but they’re not actively screwing you over.