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2 Heartening: The police and many good Samaritans went out of their way to feed the needy, left jobless and penniless when the lockdown was announced. PTI
Julio Ribeiro
ANNUS HORRIBILIS’ proclaimed the English Queen in her address to her subjects. She was describing the year 1992 when three of her own progeny were not being prim and proper. ‘We hope we do not encounter such a year again’ say the denizens of this planet, describing 2020! Not many will disagree.
Nothing has driven us out of our comfort zone like the Covid has. It was and is not easy to keep social distancing like we have been advised. Newborns see only humans with masks. When some time in the future they get to see human faces, they will probably be seized by some primeval fear.