WHO would have thought way back in February — when Tyson Fury pulled off one of the most spectacular heavyweight title rematch performances in boxing history to break not only Deontay Wilder’s undefeated record but also his heart to snatch the WBC crown from his grasp — that only a month later Covid-19 would turn life as we know it upside down?

All of sudden our public discourse and daily vocabulary became peppered with new words and terms — “self-isolation,” “protective bubbles,” “quarantine,” “track and trace,” “social distancing,” and all the rest. Worst of all was the death toll from this ghastly virus, revealed on a daily basis as if tallying up the war dead.

For indeed it has been a war — or at the least the closest to one this generation has experienced — not only against Covid, but also just as crucially to retain a semblance of normality and, with it, sanity as we navigate our way through this unprecedented public health emergency.