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More Fact and less Feeling in 2022, pleads Griselda Heppel

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Aargh another new year dawns and goodness knows how it will go. For the first time in my life, when writing Christmas cards, I couldn’t bring myself to wish the recipients a Happy New Year, when the chances were that at least half their families would be isolating and that New Year would be cancelled anyway. All I could do was add fervent hopes that 2022 would prove a better year than 2021. Which, to be fair, covers a lot of possibilities.  So here are my wishes for 2022:  Covid vaccinations for all Photo by  FRANK MERIÑO  from  Pexels 1. Covid vaccinations offered to all, including young children.  2. Anti vaxxers come to their senses.    3. Kindness ceases to be Something People Talk About and becomes Something People Do.     4. Truth resumes its rightful place in the cold, hard world of Facts, away from the warm, fuzzy one of Feelings where it has been corralled of late.  1, 2 and 3 are self-explanatory. 4 plunges me (and yo...