Well crucial services like public transport and water keep running. Some people also take off in July, or September if they don't have kids. But life definitely slows down in the summer. Lots of smaller businesses, especially restaurants will often just be closed for a few weeks. Large grocery chains stay open of course. It all depends on the amount of manpower to be able to spread out vacation periods.

It's a bummer Piastri didn't have softs, not that it was anyone's fault of course. But I bet he would've passed Hamilton before the end of the race!