Remember the surreal days of late March 2020? Hereβs a little memory spur.

It had its benign dimension β the teddy bears in windows and press-up challenges and 1.00pm briefings, it also had the darkest uncertainty and unease.
Do you remember the grim forecasts from the bank economists? Some of those unemployment projections were gulp-making: 6%; 8%; 12%; how about north of 20%?