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What to salvage from the 2020 dumpster fire
The best insights and innovations from a year of crisis â and what the Globe editorial board will track in 2021.
Updated December 31, 2020, 12:39 p.m.
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Should auld acquaintance be forgot? Perhaps not, but some pre-pandemic traditions, like car-centric city streets, germ-infested handshakes, and long waits at the doctorâs office, went on life support in 2020 and ought to die hard in this new year.
In the spring, Globe Opinion started a project called Donât Look Back to collect perspectives from our op-ed writers, editorial board members, readers, and community about what adaptations to this time of crisis and consternation might actually be worth keeping in the long run. (You can sign up for the newsletter here.) Here we recap a few of the best insights and innovations of 2020. And the Globe editorial board also looks ahead to what can make for a better year for our ci