John: the COVID-19 pandemic's disruption will end and we will get through it (2020)

prediction · status: unresolved · last event: repeated (2021-02-16) · owner: John

In March 2020, answering a struggling high school student, John said the pandemic's disruption would end and that we would get through it.

date	event	what	video
2020-03-31	predicted	In a reply to a struggling high school student, John says this will end and we will get through it.	Let's take a walk.
2021-02-16	repeated	For the first time in John's life everyone knows what 'it' refers to; it is hard, a grind, isolating and exhausting, and also temporary.	A Lovely Winter Walk 00:01:56

What is said about it

3 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).

2021-02-16 · A Lovely Winter Walk — John: When John told his therapist he felt we'd never get out of this, she reminded him everything else has ended: a hope that isn't BS or Pollyanna-ish but real and verifiable. — 00:02:00
2021-02-16 · A Lovely Winter Walk — John says in an Anthropocene Reviewed episode that the light-soaked days are coming, and he really believes it. — 00:02:19
2021-02-16 · A Lovely Winter Walk — John: It's February, snow is on the ground and the trees look dead but aren't; Cummings wrote that spring comes carefully out of nowhere, and it always does, yet still surprises. — 00:02:26