It’s actually about 72° F here, and quite sunny.

Australia's taking a break from shrugging off huge spiders rn to be like, "excuse you"

I love winter and this season. It's not a depressing and sad time! At least, not more than the rest of the year....

When the Church of Rome were looking to covert pagan heahens to Christianity they found them eating, drinking and being merry at this time of year celebrating something called Yule. And thus Yule was hijacked and then repackaged as Christmas.

There are plenty festivities in the summer time too, most notably 4th of July.

You need something to balance out the depression or festivities.

I've heard the blessed event was more in the spring but the festival was moved to December to line up with pagan festivals (presumably to drown them out culturally)

That's the point, unfortunately they forgot to make people happy like truly so it's not working.

...because that’s when baby Jesus was born.

Its time of the year so happen coincide with Covid.Be happy

I've done a really good job at avoiding this. It was weird though watching TV for the first time in ages - so much adverts :o