People demoralized? People too sick and lacking energy?

I too notice it - last summer, the grass outside my apartment, where all the kids would gather, was nonstop busy, people playing, noisy, annoyingly so, lots of activity. Lines at the stores don't seem as hectic as they were, either. It as if our entire society has gone into a death spiral coma state. How did we never see it coming? So insidious...