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Let’s put everything in focus in new year

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IGREW up with 20/20 vision being a marque of excellence in eyesight. In fact, I went on to learn, one per cent or so of people are able to view the Snellen chart at 20/10, a rating twice as good as 20/20, and a world record of 20/8 has been achieved.
Therefore, 20/20 is not quite as good a rating as I had always believed.
In the same way, people moved towards 2020 as something of a landmark calendar year. ‘Century’ and ‘year’ only coincide once every 101 years.
I’m not sure what we expected of it but it certainly had a resounding and monumental tone. Little did...

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