If one word was used more than any other to describe the last 365 days, it is ‘unprecedented’.
Australia was devastated by bushfires before suffering equally-devastating and cruelly-ironic floods; the Black Lives Matter movement stood strong, proud and powerful in the face of numerous acts of racial discrimination; ships and their crews were lost at sea in catastrophic typhoons off Japan; and a microscopic organism showed the human race exactly how fragile it is, with COVID-19 closing borders and economies, separating families and stealing the…