FAINT CHINKS OF LIGHT ARE STARTING TO APPEAR
It is fair to say that the last twelve months have been pretty torrid for most. No one individual, least of all any government, foresaw the rise of the looming pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus or the momentous effect it would have on individual countries’ health systems around the world. Similarly, no-one could possibly have foreseen the dire economic effects the pandemic would have on economies and companies, both big and small.
What is just as remarkable is that the global economy has pulled through, more or less, in spite of the varied responses by individual governments to deal with the health crisis on the one hand and the economic crisis on the other.
As we look back in the rear-view mirror on 2020, there are many lessons which we can all learn, but perhaps the central one is the huge and effective power which can be brought to bear by working together, instead of being at odds with each other.
