I forgot to reply to this and I would like to point out and it´s...

 >>/7091/
> I consider myself lucky in a way. 
me too. I mean, there are legitimate reasons to complain but when you look around, they are tame in comparison with people who...

> For a lot didn't make it or had their livelihoods ruined in ways that will have ramifications for years.
...that´s the main reason why I have posted  >>/7084/ this post. That tone of self reflection was transmitted because when you take into account the amount of lives ruined because of this, I find it quite admirable that this board and the people (still) present in the community seem to be doing fine as usual. At least, the people who I know around my circles are fortunately doing well but they admit that 2020 has been horrible and what´s worse...

> https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/cdc-drug-overdose-deaths-in-2020-on-track-to-break-record.html

and the US had faced an opiate crisis in 2017. The internet sales when it comes to drugs must have skyrocketed really hard.

> https://www.massgeneral.org/news/coronavirus/depression-on-rise-during-covid-19
> https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewbender/2020/07/29/covid-19-claims-nearly-73000-us-businesses-with-no-end-in-sight/

these other two explain the reasons behind the suicides. There are people who haven´t felt prepared for facing this period and that social distancing and anxiety built around this whole phenomenon leads to this. On top of that, if your company or small business goes bankrupt, there you have a lethal combination, psychologically  (and financially) speaking. 

I must say that (wet blanket comment), unfortunately, just because we are living in 2021, it doesn´t mean that things have magically changed overnight. There are people who have thought in a delusional way  that this sudden change would happen. The best analogy that comes up from my mind is that 2020 has marked the Autumn period where you face the cold for the first time, with a very harsh transition throughout the entire process. 2021 happens to represent the full winter season (so far), the biggest change is that you are more prepared towards this situation (it doesn´t come as unexpected but just an acceptance, living with it as if it were normal) but you don´t exactly know with certainty when the light at the end of the tunnel will happen. 

It will eventually arrive at that point but definitely this period doesn´t help at all for those people who are restless...