Thoughts on 2020

 As this year comes to a close, here are a few thoughts on the past year.

This COVID pandemic has brought the best and worst in us as it has been the worst one since the Spanish flu of the 1910’s. We have seen the response of our politicians ,churches and the public in general. We saw churches mostly respond well during the lockdown although there were a few who held out and went ahead with services. Some of politicians responded well to the crisis while others dropped the ball (probably caused Donald Trump the presidency). Also, issues of rights and government intervention as mandatory crowd sizes and public mask wearing came into effect. Personally, I supported these measures as a means of containing the virus and admittedly the mask wearing took some getting used to.

Speaking of politics Americans did the right thing and turfed Trump from office as there was a need more some subtlety to the office of President. Between poor race relations, Trump’s underwhelming response to COVID and his general abuse of power it was time for him to go. We will see how Joe Biden does in his first year considering the mess he has inherited.

In our political scene it has been mixed as Ontario Premier Doug Ford has responded well to the crisis as opposed to the Prime Minister who plagued by scandal failed to rise to the challenge. I would see Trudeau step aside and let somebody else take helm of the Liberal party. Maybe Chrystia Freeland and would like to see the opposition parties step up as the Conservatives and NDP have been underwhelming with O’Toole and Singh being lacklustre leaders thus far

What will 2021 bring us ? Time will tell.




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