Ithemba liyaphilisa: “Hope causes one to live.” It’s a traditional saying in one of South Africa’s languages Xhosa (with the ‘xh’ being pronounced as a clicking noise). We can’t think of a better way to express the zeitgeist after we passed the halfway point of the 37th World Ophthalmology Congress (WOC2020 Virtual®). The previous day’s statements of solidarity across ophthalmology in the face of coronavirus made us all feel the love….