As this very article is being written, the pandemic is still ongoing. With the vaccinations already underway in a substantial percentage of countries in the world, we can be assured that it’s ending, eventually. The economies of most countries were all over the place when it began, and some still are. About twenty million people in the US lost their jobs in 2020 because of the crisis, and a hundred million more over the world. And these are just the ILO statistics(International Labour Organisation). Who knows how many more people crossed the poverty line, or lost their homes?


