Time magazine was wrong. And not just in its lame pick of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as its person(s) of the year. It was wrong in the concept.
2020 was not, by any stretch, a year in which a person or persons could be selected as being most impactful. It was an “event” year; one event visited every corner of the globe, and in one measure or another played out in the lives of almost everyone. The event was, obviously, the coronavirus pandemic, and as that word so clearly marks, it had a greater universal impact than any other event since the end of World War II.
