What if there were only FIVE things to watch in 2022? What's the first?
It is the Pandemic and its persistent set of rolling waves. Everyone is asking if 2022 is the year it moves into an endemic which somehow seems less scary than the past two years of pandemic. That's the active word right now.
I am looking past the waves that roll into endemic and on to the aftershocks that impact the health care system itself. That seems to me to be the actual thing to keep track of in 2022. And it is going to be close-up and personal for those of us who are older and more dependent on the health care system.
On to Number Two: Would you think climate change, climate events, and climate actions might be the second thing? Not according to the media. Nothing there on climate change as the key trend. It is things like inflation, The Big Resignation, electric vehicles and space travel. These are so much easier to write about. And the news organizations have been very low on expertise on climate, just as they were low on expertise on the pandemic when it started. As an aside, I think the space travel trend in 2022 might bring the first big space accident, given the near misses of 2021. I don't see anybody else making this sort of prediction, but then it is macabre.
So climate change is likely to have even more climate events that impact more of us, and personally. A growing swell of weather gone wrong. I am attentive to the weather forecast as never before, and considering the worst scenario is where I live.
And the other three things? It seems it is up for grabs, but it is actually easy to see. It is our attention to U.S. politics and the state of democracy in America. The US news media and social media players have a hold on us. They want to rekindle the comedy and tragedy of the Donald Trump days - that Trump frenzy. And what about the gladiator hand-to-hand combat of the "Republican problem?" Be ready for it to play out on January 6th.
So we're down to what are the remaining two things to watch in 2022? What are you considering? What compels your attention?
It is time for a new calendar - but I don't seem to have Kim Klassen's New Years templates. I'll have to go find out if she produced them this year.
Here's a New Years greeting from a few years ago. What a different time that was, and doesn't this image demonstrate it. A magical Longwood Gardens' Himalayan Blue Poppy welcoming the New Year into a welcoming Blue Starry Sky.
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