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How do you quantify the devastation of 2020? There are the hundreds of thousands of people who lost their lives to COVID-19. There are the known and many more unknown victims of police brutality, like Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. You could count the number of lives upended by the worst California wildfire season of all time, or the crushing number of hours put in by essential workers.
No matter how you tally it, the past year was devastating for many.
