About the only good thing that can be said about 2020 is that it’s almost over. It was an annus horribilis.
COVID took the lives of more than 340,000 Americans, about 1 out of every 1,000 of us.
Over 22 million of us lost our jobs in March and April, and unemployment is again surging.
The trend of fatal police shootings increased this year, with a total 864 civilians having been shot, 192 of whom were Black (as of December 1, 2020, the latest data available).
Climate change has worsened. The U.S. suffered an extraordinary 12 hurricane landfalls in 2020, smashing previous records.