Consumption is down, sales are down, there's more people in the streets and pretty much everyone has seen their real purchasing power gone down, but specially people in the public sector (I know a lot of people in education, health and science). I'm not saying it's drastically worse but it's worse.

No, we weren't doing great before but we are definitively not doing "better" now, at least not in the day to day, perhaps in some numeric metric published by the government.