What a topsy-turvy world we live in.
A world of contradictions, inequalities and, above all, uncertainties. We just don't know where we are going.
And we cannot blame coronavirus for all the trials and tribulations. Just look at world affairs.
Nationalism, racism, intolerance, mistrust, enmity and global threats, revealed every day.
If coronavirus has not been the trigger that has caused our world to turn upside down it has had a massive impact, intensifying the problems and causing the crippling uncertainty.
While we are mildly celebrating the return to more normal life - there have been no deaths recorded in Wales for several days - the pandemic is causing havoc across the world.
People are dying in their thousands in the USA, Mexico and Brazil. Flare ups - part of the threatened second wave? - have shocked France, Italy and Spain out of their growing complacency.
Yesterday's announcement of successful Oxford \University trials of a new vaccine have been hailed with ecstatic Vaccine for Christmas press headlines. But will it work?
The BBC soberly reports, 'It is a safe immune system, early tests show', going on to explain that it could take months to have it cleared for use. Uncertainty again.
The race to find the anti coronavirus virus is almost a game with countries competing to be the first. Russia is even being accused of trying to steal the British vaccine!
Hedging their bets, the British government, as a precaution, has ordered millions of doses, hoping we will be the early winner.
Then, with Britain all but bankrupt, it announced today an above inflation pay rise for public sector workers.
Well deserved, but wise when millions are losing their jobs or facing lower wages?
Just some examples, some evidence why our world is topsy-turvy or, to use the dictionary definition, 'in a state of confusion'.
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