onlyemes, Rebbetzin Kanievsky said the geulah is close, she never said when its coming. I’m not sure what was different about her saying that said more than you and I know. I don’t think its big news that we’re in the times of Mashiach already. The big part about the story was that she said it, not <what she said.
estherh, (btw welcome to the CR,) theres a (sad) joke. During the seder one year, when the family got up to l’shana habbah…, a young boy said it loud, with a lot of feeling. the father was at first proud of his son. His second reaction was, “Wait, we just redid the living room!”