Going Forward, Going Back: Covid pandemic where to from here?

A decade ago, APJHM published an editorial that referenced Janus, from Roman mythology as follows:

‘Janus is the god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings and endings’, [1] and is depicted as having two faces, looking in opposite directions, looking into the future and the past. This description of Janus includes being patron of ‘concrete and abstract beginnings of the world, the human life, new historical ages and economical enterprises.’ [1] Importantly, to the theme of this editorial, Janus was frequently utilised ‘to symbolise change and transitions such as the progression of past to future, of one condition to the other, of one vision to the future’ . . . and was ‘representative of the middle ground’. [1,2]