The Worst Month Ever!

March 2020 will go down as my worst trading month ever.

With a global pandemic, toilet roll shortages and people queueing at gunstores (WTF!) in the US, the world seems a pretty bleak place…and even with two of the biggest clowns in the history of leadership pumping their self-serving brainfarts into the equation, I still have a few reasons to be optimistic.

I am looking up, beyond the present turmoil and sowing seeds for a not too distant future.

I have had the benefit of being towards the front of the curve from our location in Hong Kong. We are some 6-8 weeks ahead of Europe in terms of our experience. We have been through the initial weirdness and heigthened uncertainty during the pre-pandemic phase. We also have the experience of going through something similar during SARS. We have been part of the facemask apocolypse before. It felt bizarre back then, but somewhat desensitised by our previous encounter, it is a lot less bizarre this time around.

So I’m at the stage now, where I’m looking forward and preparing for when the world returns to a more normal place. For when schools can resume, although we still don’t know when that will be. For when rugby and football matches can go ahead again. For when we can get together again as communities. For when normal service resumes. For when people can start to go about their daily lives without this need for vigilance, without the air of foreboding. Without this fear of the unknown.

The green shoots of normality are sprouting in Asia already due to decisive community responses over the last 8 weeks. HK residents are out and about, still vigilant about personal hygiene and proximity, to protect the whole community from the ravages of viral destruction, but out and about, nonetheless.

Now, I know that there is going to be more volatility. More unrest. More distress in the meantime across the globe.

But I also know that we will get through this.

We have incredible powers of resilience, adaptability and flexibility that enable us to work through massive economic, social and community challenges.

We get through these things through intelligent, thoughtful cooperation. Even in the context of absolute disruption, community crisis and necessary social distancing.

[Sidenote: Maybe it should be called something else relating to proximity rather than social – we can still be social, just in a different way. See the community singalongs and public exercise sessions that have flashed up among isolating communities over the last couple of weeks. Heartening stuff.]

These are testing times on so many fronts: social, personal, economic, health…and the world will be a different place on the other side for the experience.

You can get through whatever comes and what is more, you can come out stronger on the other side and maybe in ways that you never expected.

Start to sow for your own green shoots…

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