Flipside: Pandemic has made teachers in absentee parents

When this thing started in a little-known Chinese City of Wuhan, little did the world know that the reset button on life had been activated.

We may call it a thing because we, like the rest of the world, do not yet know enough about this Covid-19 phenomenon to be able to handle it with finality. No one would ever want to invite a calamity so that it changes things that human beings are hesitant to, but that is the reality we are in. When this thing finally peters out, the world will be staring at a new normal in many facets of life.