Simon Jones: Bye bye 2020

No doubt about it, 2020 has been awful. Describing it as ‘a year to forget,’ wouldn’t be right, but it shouldn’t be a year to dwell on either. As we go into 2021, there is reason for optimism and the sterling work optometry has done in the past 10 months should stand it in good stead for when the slightly different version of normality returns.

It’s about this time of year when Optician likes to consider the industry news and events of the past 12 months, but given the reality of 2020, we wanted to do something different.

Back in January 2000, a time when the millennium bug was the most pressing concern of the time, Optician took some time to consider what the industry might look like in 2020. A brave selection of writers opined on how the next two decades would unfold. Optician has made the Vision 2020 supplement available via the following link: https://bit.ly/384YFRz.