Where To From Here? Searching for Some Upside Amidst Many Downs

Abstract

Just a few months ago, our personal and professional lives – like the lives of so many
others worldwide – were turned topsy-turvy by the deadly, fast-spreading COVID-19. A little behind schedule, we had been planning to go to press with this issue of IJTDC early in 2020, when suddenly the novel coronavirus hit and began dominating conversation and headlines virtually everywhere. Just like that, the pandemic was upon us; it was as if one day we awoke to find that our social landscape had been totally reinvented. Since the ramifications were almost unimaginably significant, it seemed best for us to hold off, take a pause, and adjust to the life-changes that so suddenly and profoundly impacted millions of people around the globe.