The clever joke I wish I'd made. Oh wait... -- Griselda Heppel
Back in 2015, somebody made a clever joke that I wished - a) I’d thought of myself (naturally) b) the person had made it five years before, giving us so much longer to enjoy it. It went something like this: Prospective employer : So, Ms ------, where do you see yourself in five years’ time? Interview candidate : I don’t know. I don’t have 2020 vision. No 2020 vision here Photo by Ksenia Chernaya from Pexels With 2020 behind us, that joke has taken on a kind of tragic grandeur, of Socratic irony even. Nobody had 2020 vision. E xcept for a few far-sighted scientists and medical experts who knew we were in for a pandemic but couldn’t say when. And if they had pointed to 2020, who’d have believed them? Yes, yes, we’d have said. Don’t worry, we’re used to flu. We’ll be fine. A wonderful thing, hindsight. By the time you read this, we’ll all have 2020 vision. Just, er, backwards. Spectacular sour...