“What Coronavirus Can Teach Us About Ourselves!”

“It was the best of times and the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the Spring of hope, it was the Winter of despair”

Charles Dickens, ‘A Tale of Two Cities’

“Winter of Despair” — The Box Set?

I don’t know about you, but it does rather feel like we are now bang in the middle of Season One, Episode Three, or maybe Four, of the ‘Covid_19 Pandemic’ Box Set.

When things started to grow arms and legs back in the first quarter of 2020, hardly anyone knew, or even suspected that the very act of living would become a fraught and fractured business, and our lives across the world and across every generation, would change so radically.

What we didn’t appreciate then was that Covid_19 is merely a wake-up call to scenarios that keep infectious disease experts up at night, and when back in the summer of 2020 I wrote that this was a three set-match, well I think I was being a tad optimistic, or rather naive?

This piece gets to grips with the consequences of a global pandemic, how it has affected so many of us, and some of the lessons we must learn, be they social, economic, political…