NYTimes: 2020 in pictures

[redheadbaker]

Adding a trigger warning - @ child loss; death

www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/year-in-pictures.html

One of my favorites

[just]

FUCK the COVID deniers. Just fuck them. I don't know how you can look at those photos and not feel the immense loss of so many people.

[neverfstop]

TFS- so many incredible photos.

[raangoli]

Dec 9, 2020 11:56:29 GMT -5 just said:

FUCK the COVID deniers. Just fuck them. I don't know how you can look at those photos and not feel the immense loss of so many people.

I am wondering the same. I had to stop looking, my heart felt too heavy seeing all the photos of loss, empty streets, mourning. How can any one possibly think this is an elaborate hoax? <- that is a rhetorical question

Edit: this photo put me over the edge and brought on the tears. I have not hugged my mother or been indoors with her since March. The closest I have been to her is like 15 feet while we were both outdoors and I still wore a mask.

[pixy0stix]

I spent the entirety of my experience looking at this and reading, crying. So much loss. So much justifiable anger. So much hope with the election.

[krystee]

When you look at it all at once like this, the trauma of this year is just staggering.

[taratru]

I quit giving the NYT my money ages ago, and now I regret it. Just those two examples shared here are awesome.

[shauni27]

Dec 9, 2020 13:11:52 GMT -5 krystee said:

When you look at it all at once like this, the trauma of this year is just staggering.

Agreed. I had also forgot so much from the start of the year. Hell, I forgot about the fires in CA even 2 months, let alone the fires in Australia at the beginning of the year. I forgot about Kobe. I forgot HOW STAGGERING some of the images were of Covid.

What a fucking year.

[goldengirlz]

It’s going up take me a full day to get through this, partly because of work and partly because I’m only up to August and had to stop a couple of times just to let the emotion wash over me.

Haunting and beautiful.

[goldengirlz]

I’m not a photographer but I’ve been keeping a journal regularly this year. I started it on the day my office shut down in March because I had a vague feeling this would be A YEAR. My dad was in the hospital (not Covid-related, his first of four or five hospitalizations this year — I’ve lost count) and everything felt so apocalyptic.

I couldn’t believe everything would be shut down for a whole MONTH. Ha. Even that seemed too big to comprehend.

As the months dragged on, though, the thing that I really wanted to make sure I captured about this time was less about the Big Stuff that will go down in our history books, but the little things. Like how we repurposed a crystal fruit bowl on our kitchen counter as a place to keep clean masks. Or having a Passover sedar on Zoom. Or that feeling of needing to get out of house but also kind of dreading doing the same boring walk around the neighborhood. Or the joy of seeing the ocean when we were allowed to return to the beaches.

Anyway, I’m a sucker for this kind of thing, I guess.

[froggy76]

It's really hard to believe all this has happened in one year. Some of these events feel like years ago already.

[mx27]

Dec 9, 2020 16:26:59 GMT -5 goldengirlz said:

Or that feeling of needing to get out of house but also kind of dreading doing the same boring walk around the neighborhood. Or the joy of seeing the ocean when we were allowed to return to the beaches.

Anyway, I’m a sucker for this kind of thing, I guess.

Yes!!!  There were so many times when I thought, "If I walk around my neighborhood one more time I'm going to scream!"  But, what else were we going to do?  And the excitement I felt the first time we visited a park after they reopened was on another level.  I was all smiles and giggles. 

[RoxMonster]

Seeing that first photo of everyone on NYE in Times Square jubilant at the beginning of a new decade, embracing, kissing, and so happy in this huge crowd left me feeling.....kind of gutted, honestly, knowing what was lurking just beyond. And it feels like a lifetime ago.

[goldengirlz]

Dec 9, 2020 19:06:18 GMT -5 mx27 said:

Dec 9, 2020 16:26:59 GMT -5 goldengirlz said:

Or that feeling of needing to get out of house but also kind of dreading doing the same boring walk around the neighborhood. Or the joy of seeing the ocean when we were allowed to return to the beaches.

Anyway, I’m a sucker for this kind of thing, I guess.

Yes!!!  There were so many times when I thought, "If I walk around my neighborhood one more time I'm going to scream!"  But, what else were we going to do?  And the excitement I felt the first time we visited a park after they reopened was on another level.  I was all smiles and giggles. 

One thing I’m really looking forward to (hopefully in 2021) is how GOOD this is going to feel as we slowly start our return to “normalcy.” I suspect it’ll happen slowly, with a series of “firsts.” The first time we hug someone outside our household. The first time I get to see my parents and siblings (and friends who are like my siblings). The first time we leave the state. The first day back in the office. The first time I get on a plane. The first restaurant meal. The first party. Etc. etc.

And each of those “firsts” will be so bittersweet and momentous. But also just the sheer JOY of it. All those things we used to take for granted.

[prettyinpearls]

All of these photos are moving, but the one with the cardboard "coffins" laid out in a room of the NY funeral home did me in. Seeing "HEAD" on those boxes, knowing their contents were the lifeless bodies of people once so full of life, hopes, dreams, families who loved them, etc. This didn't have to happen this way, we could've done so much more. Fuck 45 and this administration.

[erbear]

Just heartbreaking. So much sadness this year.

This one though (caption: Washington, Sept. 25 The women of Congress lined the steps as the coffin of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was carried from the Capitol. She was the first woman to lie in state there. Erin Schaff/The New York Times)

[MrsAxilla]

Dec 9, 2020 19:06:18 GMT -5 mx27 said:

Dec 9, 2020 16:26:59 GMT -5 goldengirlz said:

Or that feeling of needing to get out of house but also kind of dreading doing the same boring walk around the neighborhood. Or the joy of seeing the ocean when we were allowed to return to the beaches.

Anyway, I’m a sucker for this kind of thing, I guess.

Yes!!!  There were so many times when I thought, "If I walk around my neighborhood one more time I'm going to scream!"  But, what else were we going to do?  And the excitement I felt the first time we visited a park after they reopened was on another level.  I was all smiles and giggles. 

@@@

omg the day they let the ten kids in our day camp finally play on the playground I cried.  

[mx27]

Dec 9, 2020 19:45:20 GMT -5 goldengirlz said:

Dec 9, 2020 19:06:18 GMT -5 mx27 said:

Yes!!!  There were so many times when I thought, "If I walk around my neighborhood one more time I'm going to scream!"  But, what else were we going to do?  And the excitement I felt the first time we visited a park after they reopened was on another level.  I was all smiles and giggles. 

One thing I’m really looking forward to (hopefully in 2021) is how GOOD this is going to feel as we slowly start our return to “normalcy.” I suspect it’ll happen slowly, with a series of “firsts.” The first time we hug someone outside our household. The first time I get to see my parents and siblings (and friends who are like my siblings). The first time we leave the state. The first day back in the office. The first time I get on a plane. The first restaurant meal. The first party. Etc. etc.

And each of those “firsts” will be so bittersweet and momentous. But also just the sheer JOY of it. All those things we used to take for granted.

It's going to be the best!  I swore to myself I would never take parks for granted again, and I hope to appreciate the other experiences just as much going forward.  

[mx27]

Dec 10, 2020 0:00:41 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

Dec 9, 2020 19:06:18 GMT -5 mx27 said:

Yes!!!  There were so many times when I thought, "If I walk around my neighborhood one more time I'm going to scream!"  But, what else were we going to do?  And the excitement I felt the first time we visited a park after they reopened was on another level.  I was all smiles and giggles. 

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omg the day they let the ten kids in our day camp finally play on the playground I cried.  

I was so surprised at how much we missed and needed our park visits.