Very depressing conversation with a taxi driver, in line with that I've heard from shop owners this week. No tourists. No-one going into Central London. Whole parts of the economy facing the abyss over the winter.
Not about pushing people back into the office or insisting the economy matters more than public health. It's just that it's so easy to forget what's going on around us.
Things are bad out there. Really bad. And because covid pushes us to stay in, we can't see the full extent of the damage.
Fwiw reports from local areas much more positive. Where people live, the retail footfall doesn't seem too bad. It's central London which seems particularly fucked and of course any services which got people there.
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