In the coronavirus war, the odds are in favour of allowing businesses to carry on

In times BC (that is, before Covid-19), it took about three weeks before one was able to automatically write that year’s date on a cheque, rather than last year’s. Cheques are now the preserve of the Luddite, but if they were still popular, few people would today confuse 2021 with 2020.The passing of 2020 came with little fanfare, yet the picture for business in 2021 is looking just as grim. The virus still dominates headlines. Even China has reported recent clusters of cases and, as border…

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