You could be forgiven for thinking that all of the world's problems that were top of our collective mind as we celebrated the closing of 2019 are now solved.
To be clear this is definitely not a scientific analysis, but 4 google searches where I search for the term 'front page news xxx 2020' and replaced 'xxx' with a month name and then looked at the image results. The four images below are the top two lines of the resultant search result.
In January
No mention of COVID-19
In February
No mention of COVID-19
In March
COVID-19 dominates
In April
COVID-19 dominates
Meanwhile what of Climate Change, The UN Sustainable Development Goals, the #METOO movement,
For example a Google search for Greta Thunberg over the past year reveals that she has totally fallen off the radar.
Of course it hasn't all gone away. Once e have COVID-19 licked - we will all be back on pace - but hopefully this time it will be different. But that’s up to us.