Updated: Tue, Jan 5, 2021, 11:29 am
In many ways, 2020 was a year made infamous by its relentless awfulness. It threw at us a global pandemic and widespread economic devastation, new police killings of unarmed Black people and some of the largest wildfires ever recorded in the Western U.S.
People struggled to adapt to new routines wrought by unprecedented shelter-in-place orders enacted in mid-March and lasting months, learning how to work, study, play and grow one homebound day at a time – all while a highly infectious new virus sickened and killed people at alarming rates, hitting seniors, essential front-line workers and communities of color especially hard.