It feels like we’re living in the middle of a mystery — or, as Ontario Premier Doug Ford says, we’re in the early chapters of a story that is still being written and how we behave can influence the ending.
It’s not possible to know how this pandemic will end; there’s no script. This virus is new to humans. There is no vaccine, no treatment.
We only learned of it on Dec. 31, 2019. That might feel like a lifetime ago, given how our lives have changed. But it’s really just a stitch in time.
And it’s not at all clear yet whether we have squandered that time. That’s hard to grasp in our world of instant gratification.