Coronavirus (obviously...)
Well. This is not the month I expected to be having, how about you? Some chap in Hubei decides he fancies bat for tea, lets the bat sneeze in his mouth or something before he pops it in the microwave and boom - you got yourself a movie-quality pandemic on your hands. What happened next varies for everyone. To use the popular wartime rhetorics, the war against coronavirus was also a million tiny battles. The battle to keep the small business open, to keep the community safe, to get a supermarket delivery slot. Billions of people discovered who they really were overnight. Stripped of the comfort of normality, the spirit laid bare, they did what came naturally. Some got in contact with neighbours they had never spoken to before and threw up support networks immediately. People dropped their political views and agendas and began conforming to instruction for the common good. Social media (the megaphone for the worst) became the tendril th...