DP works as self-employed and works in an industry that has struggled. He managed with government grants for the self-employed, but they have all stopped now. The new variant and its impact is going to kill his income.
I work for a company that has been limping along, but any lockdown will I think kill it off.
Events are being cancelled. My workplace has cancelled all Xmas parties today. I was supposed to be at a carol concert last night that was cancelled.
We still haven't got any decorations up in the house. No one else seems to care much, but I always put them up and I couldn't care less at the minute.
House is a bit of a mess, the weather is bloody miserable, and so am I.
And the country is going to the dogs. A government riddled with sleaze and corruption, Brexit not properly enacted but when it is it will bite, and rising fuel and food prices.
I don't think I have ever felt so pessimistic about the future.