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WotD: Turning point
A turning point is a point at which something turns.
Thank you for reading, and have a beautiful day.
No, wait!
A turning point is when a significant change takes place.
Often we don’t know we’ve reached a turning point until it has happened.
I’m only kidding.
It’s a little more complicated than that.
Yes, it is a point at which something turns, but it can turn for the better or for the worse.
You see, a turning point is when a significant change takes place.
One of the problems is that you often don’t know you’ve reached a turning point until you’ve passed it.
Hindsight is 20/20, and when you are living through a moment, you rarely realize if it is a turning point.
I’m writing this post on Thursday, July 23, 2020, and 366 new positive COVID-19 infections have been confirmed in Tokyo.
It’s the highest number of infections recorded in a single day.
Has Japan entered the second wave?
Are things going to get worse from now on?
Will they improve?
In other words, have we reached a turning point?
Well, your guess is as good as mine, I’m afraid.
It’s tough to understand if a change is occurring or not until it has actually happened so that we can look back and analyze it.
Remember what I said about hindsight being 20/20?
I think we reached a turning point when Yoshihide Suga, while in Hokkaido, said increasing infections were a ‘Tokyo problem.’
That signified to me the national government is not committed to fighting the coronavirus – they are committed to kick-starting the economy.
History will prove me either right or wrong.
We’ll have to wait and see (just like the government).
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
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On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 78.
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