Foresight 2020 | Part Two: What Came Last

In the first of our five part series, we plotted the coordinates of “now.” Defining where we on-board that journey is critical for determining how we leave this world a better place than it found us; hence fulfilling our mission of reckoning with the terrible afflictions of COVID-19 pandemic virus as a force for achieving that ultimate good.

In this installment, we wrestle with what came last:

• Not for the sake of repeating a settled chronology of causes and effects
• Not as a sobering reminder of squandered passions and dissipating pipe dreams

But to issue a heightened awareness on the temptations of wasting a perfectly acceptable crisis: the allure of the “return to normal” when there’s no such return.