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Sense and sensibility

Pete Carr

While I – and I am sure most of you – can’t wait for the day when I can open a paper or magazine and not have to read about the swathe of destruction the coronavirus is wreaking on the world, it is true that the pandemic, and the global lockdown that ensued in an effort to contain it, have illustrated some things that I hope can only bode well for the future.

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