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Opinion: Happy New Year, because we’re all ready for better in ’22

Jay Greeson cropped
Jay Greeson cropped Jay Greeson cropped

Happy New Year’s Eve, friends.

Thank you so much for sharing your time – your most precious gift – with me, whether it’s a Tuesday or a Saturday morning or each weekday online.

This time a year ago, we all were hopeful that 2021 would be filled with more promise than the 2020 that made every human aware of a new, deadly and contagious virus and acutely familiar with where Wuhan, China, is located.

But by lots of measures, 2021 was every bit as bad.

The pandemic continued with a nasty variant, delta. Then another variant spurred another spike. We learned of variants that shared names with fraternities, airlines and heavy metal bands.