2020: What a year eh?
Today is the 31st of December and we sit at the cusp of a new year and a new decade, its funny to think that 2020 breezed by in a such a flurry. One day we'll probably tell grand tales of those days when we... sat at home, watched netflix and gained 70 pounds... I suppose they won't be grand tales after all. As I read and talk with other people I hear more and more about how 2020 was the worst year of all time or something to that effect. I would consider it to be quite the contrary actually, chiefly due to two points. First of all, the worst year wasn't 2020,it was AD 536. People had to face a volcano eruption(the worst of all time) which caused an incredible amount of ash to descend reducing visibility to tuppence, seasons merged, temperatures dropped ,crops wilted and died. This also set the stage for the outbreak of the bubonic plague in AD 541 which, well... wasn't exactly pleasant. Fancy having this bloke come to treat your incessant coughing and diarrhea? Second