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I hate to start this article on a negative note, but we are not going to back to normal after this extended period of lockdown. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed, and will continue to change, the world and the way we work, rest and play. Some readers might be old enough to recognise I have stolen those words from a certain chocolate bar’s advertising strapline which helps you to ‘WORK, REST and PLAY’. Borrowing from the impactful worlds, COVID-19 has completely changed the way the planet works, rests and plays.

So ‘going back’ to the way we were before COVID-19 is not an option. The challenge, and I think the opportunity, is now to start the process of thinking about a ‘new normal’.

“We cannot re-write the chapters of history already past, but we can learn from them, evolve and adapt. The new normal may even be a better normal, certainly a different normal”