Turning point

A turning point is when a significant change takes place.
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WotD: Turning point

A turning point is a point at which something turns.

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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).

This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).

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