Sadly, I'm going to have to agree with post 2.  Most of us will have to rethink how life is lived for awhile, whatever that actually means.  There'll be tons of self-sacrifice along the way, and I think most of the burden is going to fall upon many of us for a myriad of reasons ranging from our disabilities to our social status and financial issues.  Some of us may not notice a thing while others... I dunno... I'll just say I'm not looking forward to this one, but I'm going to make the best of it all the same.

I agree with all.
This time period  of 7 8 months was, somewhat veered.

Following are my views
Just like every year, this year was also started with full of joy, enthusiasm and positivity but as we know problems can chase us everywhere. We generally encounter a few unwanted issues in our life which comes like a hurricane and destroys the peace (here I mean for our inner peace or mental peace). I was determined to learn majority of the things in my studies pretty early, but pandemic changed that. Also, I was thinking I will be able to play my first international sports tournament this year. People had, and continue to have a lot of health related issues this year, all that was due to the pandemic. Next, there was nothing to do in lockdown, a significant number of people lost employment. I'm 80% sure that the rich are more richer now, whereas the poor are worst hit, or they are more poor. Sadly, people were unable to celebrate festivals like before, but there are many, who discovered creative ways to celebrate. But hey. Mother Nature, I feel good. Was waiting to smell the fresh, hmmmm! Fresh and cleaner air since ages! The rivers were clean in the lockdown time period, we got to see some good sites. For those who are safe, many of us got to spend time with our families, which was not possible due to busy schedule.
My thinking is, we should not blame 2020 for all these things, the main reason is COVID19 cause of which some of the things are highlighted, and are being paid a lot of attention as compared to before. An example, nobody got to know, 1000,2000 casualties used to happen. And now? People know even if one casualty is reported due to COVID19. Who knows what's in the future. Coronavirus is mutating, which is hard to detect. There may be a possibility that half of the next year will go like 2020, one should listen to songs, read books, exercise rather than spending much of the time on internet. Oh and I cannot forget the number of web-series we see this year, these are great. Even though there are some positive sides, but negative sides are more I believe. Majority of people are facing a lot of problems.

You know, this is a good question.
I saw from the sidelines all the misery that the world has had to endure. Honestly, many people did suffer. The virus is what really took prevalence in the cause of most of it!
And yet, it's not until now that I, personally, am feeling its effects. I was very fortunate in many ways this year. And quite frankly, I really feel like nothing went wrong with my circumstances. I even got a new job! And even in my old job, I had all the luxuries of a remote position.
But I'm starting to feel something like a looming darkness, especially now that in the holiday season we are not able to spend the time with our families which we would normally spend were it not for the virus.
And now, I sit here, contemplating the events of this year. The city in which I live is being put under certain restrictions, some of my family is coming down with sickness (virus not confirmed), and the holiday cheer of which I would normally find annoying has taken a backseat, almost like something is missing.
If my partner wasn't living with me, I would've probably already gone crazy.
I encourage all of you to find a way to communicate with family, friends, or really anyone. Call people on Zoom or Facetime. Or even if you have some good blind friends online, hop on Teamtalk! Do people still use that?
Also if any of you stream, I intend to have you in the background because hearing some light gaming, or some light conversation from the community will relieve my seemingly silent household, even though it contains me, my partner, and a puppy.

Suckiest bunch of suck that ever sucked.
Except for 2005, when my brother died.
And hey, I guess 2020 is an end to Trump and also the year I finally graduated college, so it's not a straight-up dead loss.
Seriously though. Hundreds of thousands dead is awful, no matter what your political persuasion might be. And being shut in all the time is wearing.

@Jayde, took the words right out of my mouth.

It sucked! I lost an aunt and an uncle. Missed out on a big trip to Scotland. Struggling to find a job. Miss hanging out and being around people. Miss movie theaters. And miss the 2 I lost this year. This is 1 of the worst years ever so far for me. I hope 2021 is better.

Worst year of my fucking life

by the way guys, merry Christmas to you all.
what is your plan regarding the Christmas Party? I am going out tomorrow for a lunch with my Family. because tomorrow comes my syster's birthday as well.

This year really was fucking awful. I don't see things improving anywhere in the near future, either. Factt is, even if the vaccines are distributed in a timely manner, and even if they turn out to not have devastating side effects once they're introduced to a larger population, in the US at least, it's going to be difficult to convince enough people to trust it in order for it to have even a minor effect on the spread of covid. Add that to my own pandemic-related struggles, and a general decline in mental and physical health, and I'm feeling weary and hopeless right now. The thing is, I honestly have no right to complain. I haven't lost anyone, and I actually obtained a job when that's next to impossible right now, so that makes me hate myself all the more for struggling. The only thing I can do is hope that there could possibly be an end to all this crap, while finding a weird solace in the fact that there most likely isn't any hope, and none of us are long for this world, so we might as well make good, yet responsible, use of the time we have left.

@19 Don't fall into that trap. Our struggles are relative to ourselves, and those around us if we choose to let them in. As soon as we start looking to other people, and using their struggles as a benchmark to compare our own against, it causes problems. It causes us to invalidate our own feelings. In turn, that causes us to internalize our emotions which does all host of bad things to our mental health.

@gym sympathy with the circumstances and really glad your also cancer free.
Actually that situation sounds remarkably similar to my lady's.