Folks on Twitter are imagining what some of the crazier highlights of 2020 would be like to explain to someone in 2019.
I had to add a few:
Previously: Humorous video: Now-self explains the pandemic to past-self
People are imagining how they would explain 2020 to 2019
San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf under orange skies, photo by Paul Hayes @rainingchainsaws
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