“The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.” That quote has been doing the rounds of late.
Looking back to how things were, not so long ago, is unavoidable.
The idea that we have entered a new zone, passed through the looking glass to a brand new world, is hard to assimilate - it may take us a long time to do so.
It just doesn’t seem real, does it? And yet it is irredeemably so.
A book on pandemics was published this year just before the Covid crisis hit these shores.
One line from the author keeps ringing in the ears - if you’ve seen one pandemic, you’ve seen one pandemic. Point being that every pandemic is different.
Think swine flu, think bird flu, think Aids each one a very different outcome. We don’t know how things will turn out.
By Christmas it may all be behind us. Let’s hope so.
And if not, we will have to adapt to, and thrive in, our new world.
