LETTER

Predicting the future? 

Everyone is predicting the future, post-COVID.  And most of their predictions are about huge changes coming to Canadian society.  Do these people have no modesty!  They feel confident they can predict what was unpredictable a few months ago, this very pandemic we are living with?  

So many compare our present pandemic with the great epidemics of the past -- the “Black Plague” of the Middle Ages, or the Spanish Flu after the first world war.  These disasters unfolded for years -- years!! -- and yet we have only reached two or three months of COVID.  How can they compare them?  It is like comparing the recent rail blockades -- to the Korean War!  Both are important, but at very different levels. 

Let us be real. What can be changed, and what not?  Many predict that the world of multi-national corporations will just close up and go away so we can build a better world. Really?

R. Butros

Aylmer