Nairobi, July 30 -- Memes flood our chat groups and pervade the social media pages of our friends, families, and colleagues castigating 2020 as an abysmal anomaly. Kenyans join the world in lamenting how our lives could have, would have, and should have turned out this calendar year if Covid-19 had not upended our sense of safety, economic wellbeing, and recreational choices with cataclysmic results.

An entire nation's children losing a year of their lives by repeating their primary or secondary school years that will come with staggering life and economic costs to the country for the next 40 years. Total and complete collapses of certain industries and all the stakeholders affected.

Wretched mixed-message communication inaccuracies that ...