This year sucks.

My mother-in-law, who has been battling leukemia for the last couple of years, passed away on Friday from COVID.

Today it's my Dad's turn.

My sister-in-law is in the hospital with it, and she is not doing well either.
She's been told she will be getting better, as there will be no more dying allowed this year.

My wife and I are beside ourselves, and our kids are being put through the ringer as well.
2020 can die in a fire.


Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as "bad luck.”
-Robert Heinlein