It has been for a couple months, yet HN keeps trying to convince us there's plenty of positions open, just a little slow. Personally, this is the worst I have

It has been for a couple months, yet HN keeps trying to convince us there's plenty of positions open, just a little slow. Personally, this is the worst I have experienced in 16 years, also because I'm in Britain and we have our own sets of issues on top. I am barely keeping afloat with underpaid Upwork gigs. Contracting work is pretty much dead in UK. Recruiters have not landed me a single interview after connecting with two dozen of them. Not a single one in two months.