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Column: 2020 was a year of grief, hardship and hope



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An implausible plot with dystopian undertones, characterized by sweeping narratives and poorly drawn characters. That would have been my response if the script of 2020 had landed on my desk a year ago. But there we have it. The year that gave birth to the inconceivable is coming to an end and we have no choice but to try to make sense of it.  The scale of suffering has yet to be sufficiently represented. For months, news bulletins opening with phrases like “another grim milestone” were followed by the number of lives the virus had claimed on any one particular day.  …

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