Creep of the Week: 2020

thegavoice.com:

A year is not a person. It’s not an entity at all, actually, just a collection of hours, days and months. But when so many of those hours, days and months suck, well, a year can get a bad rep.

And 2020 has more than earned the title of fully awful. Good riddance, cruel year. Alas, 2020 is gone, but not forgotten. The damage wrought during this year was staggering and  a glass of sparkling rosé and an off-key rendition of “Auld Lang Syne” isn’t going to be enough to get past it.

In fact, it will take years, even decades, to undo the damage. And that’s only the damage that can be undone. Here’s a list of some of the things that got worse in 2020: Democracy: Donald Trump was bad for democracy from day one, but in 2020 he turned up the heat on