Letter from the Editor: Let's focus on the light

Let’s focus on the light

This is the good NEWS - Ed

Undoubtedly the past year has seen the biggest changes to our daily lives any of us has experienced in such a short time.

The Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc in ways we could never have foreseen and according to some experts the hangover of the pandemic will be with us for at least the next seven years. But it’s not only the big things that have changed. There have been so many little things we had to adapt to and that we now take for granted – like the little bottle of emergency hand sanitiser that has found its way into our handbags and cubbyholes.

We could never have anticipated that we would take much care in choosing our mask every morning as we do the clothes, shoes or tie we wear. It would be interesting to see if the familiar pair of socks for dad on Father’s Day will be replaced by a snazzy three-layer mask. Did you ever think that seeing someone wearing a stylish mask would induce a sudden twinge of mask envy? Come on, who has not felt that?

As the country went into lockdown for the first time, it was generally expected that within a few weeks this would all be over. But then the reality struck, and many families sat around dinner tables at night wondering whose upcoming birthday would be celebrated while still in lockdown. Little did we know that little over a month from now, all of us would have celebrated a birthday in lockdown.

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