We are currently living in an unprecedented time, with the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the world and taking far too many precious lives. Markets are being decimated and economies are on the brink of a global depression. Doctors, nurses, shopkeepers, pharmacy workers and everyone else working on the front lines will go down in history as the heroes of 2020. COVID-19, although devastating and disruptive, has revealed what can be achieved by humanity when individuals, governments, non-governmental organizations and corporations genuinely work in tandem to find adequate solutions to the most pressing issues.
Although trivial in comparison to the devastation that the pandemic has had on human lives, the economy has undoubtedly suffered. Stock markets have been hit hard, posting some of the worst quarterly results in history, while countless businesses from airlines to bakeries and almost everything in between are dealing with crippling cash shortages as revenues fall to zero.