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For the second week running, the columnist features again his guest writer, Senior Citizen, Dr Asibi Abudu, who rose from a Cert ‘B’ teacher and a police constable to earn a PhD in Economics in the USA in 1957.
He became chief economist at the BoG and later Head of National Economic Intelligence in the Busia Administration.
According to the world’s topmost experts in virology and epidemiology, the current COVID-19 pandemic and others yet to follow could last several decades.
Social distancing, community distancing, lock-downs, lock-ins and travel restrictions are likely to be permanent worldwide.
That is why people in economically advanced countries now stay at home and use computers and smart phones for shopping, teaching and learning, office based work, voting at elections and for various other activities that previously required people to assemble in groups or in crowds.