The Year 2020
We’ve all at one time heard or used the saying 20/20 vision. Well, it seems nobody had 20/20 vision when it came to the year 2020. To say the very least, it’s been an interesting year.
At the beginning of the year everything seemed “normal”. Then along came news reports of something called Covid-19. Before we knew it shortages of products and lockdowns began.
With lockdowns what was old became new. So many things of years past were suddenly injected into 2020. People began to garden, cook at home, and gather around the table for three meals a day. With the gardening came shortages of seeds, tools, and canning supplies. Some of us were able to easily deal with the shortages because we already had the supplies of these things on hand. Others had no means of obtaining what they wanted or needed.
School days for all ages switched from going to class to having class online. There were no more sporting events, graduation ceremonies and proms. All of a sudden computers were needed for school instead of playing games.
Businesses were all effected in one way or another by Covid. Restaurants, health clubs, and stores of all kinds went into lockdown. Some survived the doors being closed by implementing new curbside delivery options. Others did not survive. Internet businesses like Amazon thrived.
Shortages of all kinds of everyday supplies became the norm. There was no assuming that you could go online or into one of the “essential” businesses and buy exactly what you were looking for. Whether it was a parts manufacturer, farmer, meat packaging plant, or numerous other businesses, Covid effected their ability to meet with consumer demands. Who knew that toilet paper would become a hard-to-find item?
When Covid first began we were told that wearing masks wouldn’t help. But there were so many things unknown then and still unknown today about the Covid-19 virus. Now there are mask mandates in many areas of the world. Local governments that at first said there would be no mask mandate are now enforcing the mandates they later put in place. Had you gone into a business on January first of this year wearing a facemask the employees would have assumed that you were there to rob the business. Now if you go into a business without a facemask you might be asked to leave.
The year 2020 has come to an end. We still don’t have 20/20 vision of what our future holds. So much is still unknown about the Covid-19 virus. So much more must still be learned. This virus has brought both the good and the bad into our lives. Regardless of whether we look at something in particular as good or bad we have learned that life as we’ve known it can change dramatically in the blink of an eye.