A quick blog post from April 2020 started things off early, making the prediction that after our pandemic finally ends, we’d have a second Roaring ’20s. “100 years ago: An election, a virus and a cry from disillusioned youths,” ran a headline in the Washington Post in October for a story drawing suggestive comparisons between the two decades that are separated by a hundred years of history. As we limped into 2021, the comparisons picked up. “The 1920s Roared After a Pandemic, and the 2020s Will Try,” ran a headline in Bloomberg Businessweek in January, the same month Marker published “Will the 2020s Really Become the Next Roaring Twenties?” It’s a fun thought and a good joke: “There’s been a crash in the matrix and they lost the 2020 files so there just using 1920s as filler,” laughed one commenter on TikTok.