Rather than resting after long international trips, we’ve recovered in bed after hectic Costco runs. My 2020Ī lot of this past year has meant celebrating the small wins. Harvey Weinstein & Epstein ended up behind bars.Īnd to top it all off we developed a vaccine for COVID and voted Trump out! The world keeps moving forward. So many people adopted pets that many shelters are empty. Kamala Harris became the first woman, the first Asian-American, and the first African-American to become vice president. We had two months of Some Good News when we needed it most. The Final Fantasy VII remake came out and it lived up to my expectations. We’ll see I guess.Ģ020 wasn’t all bad! We got Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Star Trek Picard, and Tiger King. I don’t have a happy ending for this one. Misinformation is the spoiler that could drastically change our lives forever. COVID-19 will linger for the rest of our lives in some form, but through vaccines and time we’ll eventually be able to resume a new normal that’s at least similar to pre-COVID life. That shifted to clearly-provable misinformation: Is COVID real? Who won the election? Is Obama born in the US? Do masks prevent COVID? These are subjects scientists could prove or disprove, but were harder to explain to normal people (ex: climate change, trickle-down economics). Previously the issues the country couldn’t agree on were higher-level topics. It’s people reading what they want to read and spreading it – whether it’s true or not. A Reddit comment called this phase weaponized cynicism, which hits the nail on the head. They actually started years ago, but most of us laughed it off as just conspiracy theories (guilty). Even though we didn’t get Bernie at least the year ended better than it could have. I can barely believe it was just March 3, 2020, that we got together with friends in person – at someone else’s house! We watched the Democratic Primary results come in on Super Tuesday holding out for Bernie Sanders.
Instead, we’ve focused on screaming for others – protesting, volunteering, donating, and helping causes we believe in. We’ve been fortunate to not be the people screaming – although Japan’s “ Please scream inside your heart” slogan for amusement parks is pretty much ? for this year. It might not affect your life every day, but every once in a while you see a missing person poster taped to an electric pole that looks oddly familiar. You can put headphones on or go outside to get away from it, but it’s still there. If COVID-19 was the actual fire, then the 2020 United States Presidential Election was your neighbor who plays the drums 24/7 to distract you from the screams you sometimes hear next door. No one in our immediate friends and family circle has tested positive – one small piece of good news for the year. Minafi and my family take COVID seriously. We’ve been fortunate to stay healthy this year. In March alone country borders were closed, sports were canceled, schools went remote, non-essential stores closed and our lives changed forever. It required us to cancel travel plans, stay home, physically distance from friends and family, wear masks, celebrate holidays via Zoom, and funerals remotely. I’ll focus on just 3 themes from the year that overshadowed everything else: COVID-19, the 2020 US election, and misinformation.ĬOVID-19 defined this year more than anything else. What Happened in 2020?ĭon’t worry, I’ll keep this brief. Minafi wins photo of the year for this no-filter photograph of me at Peekaboo Canyon near Escalante, UT. Rather than starting with my 2020, let’s start with 2020 in general. If you’re a living, breathing human then you can guess why. It’s a time capsule that lets you reflect on the past year, appreciate parts of it that were great, and develop a plan for the next year.
For the last ten years, I’ve written a “year in review” post.
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