THE GREAT DISRUPTOR
Before the year came upon us, 2020 had a positive ring to it. The final year of the second decade of this century symbolised a vision of the future, one of soaring aspirations. Now, we will remember it not just as the year of fear, which it served up in plenty, but also one of great disruptions. In terms of the upheavals it has caused, Covid-19 is on a par with transformative catastrophes such as the Second World War and, more recently, 9/11. A turning point would be too mild to describe what the pandemic did to us in 2020. For behind us is a past we can never return to. The virus has, without doubt, changed forever the world as we knew it. We all walk around like masked bandits, and think nothing of it any more. 2020 is, in fact, the
