At the beginning of the pandemic, we ran an editorial called âThe best in us.â It was a salute to the outstanding volunteer work done my so many. It was also a plea that the compassionate and committed response to these hard times would grow and continue.
More than at any other time in recent history, people in all manner of endeavour and of all age and status are reaching out and helping those most vulnerable. It is as if this crisis has raised conscience in an age which many had considered unconscionable.
Unconscionable in the sense that we had become a society of inelegant self-absorption and ungracious consumerism. But so much of that has changed. And so many have helped changed. Weâve featured these stories and profiled the people in our pages every week.