2021: A Groundhog Year

2021 ends much as it began – disruptions, restrictions, new lockdowns, a virus on the march.

Those of you of a certain age may well remember the early 1990s movie Groundhog Day, in which a television weatherman covering the annual Groundhog Day event in Pennsylvania becomes trapped in a time loop, reliving the same day over and over again.

One can’t help feeling we are going through a similar experience, although Groundhog Day was a comedy, and the current situation – with a new variant sweeping the world – is anything but.

Looking back at the review of 2020, which is always a good way to start of the review of the current year, we titled that article ‘Everything and Nothing has Changed’. In the spirit of Groundhog Day, that title could apply to this year’s review too.