Some things become clear when the contrast is turned up. Any photographer knows how to manipulate the contrast in an image to highlight, to shadow, to bring dimensionality to the subject. Under a microscope, discovery is dependent on the contrast between features. Even bioinformatics (mining big data) is dependent on contrasting signal from noise.
Have we all noticed features of our lives that are now more clearly discerned and appreciated due to the contrast between life before and during the COVID-19 pandemic? What remarkable illumination we are now living in.
Some of the treasures rediscovered in the crisis, we may want to be sure to hold onto after the pandemic has crested, which it surely will. Let’s plan to share the gems we gratefully and intentionally carry forward.
