The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the world much devastation, with a climbing death rate, grocery hoarding and lack of community closeness. However, it also has given us many heroes through their selfless acts.

It’s certainly not a time for gazing into a crystal ball, asking questions of an old-school eight ball or drawing plans on an Etch-A-Sketch. It’s a time for forgetting differences and actually creating the hands we all learned to do as children — by turning our palms upside down, entwining our fingers and building a church for all the people of the world.

Instead of actions of the normal Sisyphus leadership — wasting energy rolling the same boulder up the same hill obtaining similar results — now would be the perfect time for a new breed of leader to examine better ways of building bridges for a world of togetherness.

Neither a Republican nor a Democrat myself, this is election year 2020 and the year to decide which candidate would be the architect in creating that leadership style.

RICK KNIGHT

Henrico County