What are YOUR predictions for 2021?

I don't know, I think 2020 was pretty bad. What do you both think will be so much worse next year? (Just curious.)
 

I think 2021 could go either way, it has the potential for being a very healing year and also potential for increasing the divisions that grew during 2020. For some people it will be a wonderful year, for others it has the potential to be their worst year ever. In either case it is going to share a distinction with 2020 as being one of the most unusual years ever for most of us. It might not be as unusual as 2020, but it will be unusual.
 
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I think 2021 could go either way, it has the potential for being a very healing year and also potential for increasing the divisions that grew during 2020. For some people it will be a wonderful year, for others it has the potential to be their worst year ever. In either case it is going to share a distinction with 2020 as being one of the most unusual years ever for most of us. It might not be as unusual as 2020, but it will be unusual.
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I agree with that. When I drive to different areas, I see so many businesses closed with 'For Sale' or 'For Lease' signs in front of them. So, those won't be back. We'll just have to wait and see what moves in to take their place......and if they do.
I worry the most about those who are being evicted and have no one to turn to for help.
I think it's important to try to spend money on 'take out' to keep some of our restaurants in business. But, that can be very difficult to do if people are struggling to keep a roof over their heads.
It comes down to prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Keep your world small by being as comfortable and engaged as you can in your own home. We are all learning lessons from this. What we really need. What we can do without. How we can be our own best companion.
We'll hang in there and wait patiently to see what happens.
 
In 2021 my 60-year-old niece, who just had a horrible stroke and heart attack, is likely to die. I will get my covid vaccine and feel a little less vulnerable. I will rise above whatever awful things befall me and mine because to do otherwise is a downward spiral I choose to avoid. Nationally, I have hope. More fires will take people's homes in the west. People will continue to live in denial on a bunch of levels. That will be just as counterproductive as it always has been. I choose to overcome. To do otherwise is unwise.
 
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I hope that I'm as fortunate in 2021 as I have been in 2020.

For some reason unknown to me I've been able to escape all of the misery and grief that millions of others have experienced in 2020 and I'm extremely thankful for that.
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I'm right there with you.
All the misery that I hear about everyday is in the news/TV ... . my personal life, and things around me have not changed one bit in 2020.


I hope 2021 gets better for the world, but I think those that are feeling the stress and pain of losing family members, jobs, businesses, housing .. their misery isn't going to just go away in the coming year. Mainly because so much damage has been done, and it will take time to heal all of that ... whenever that healing can start.
 
Early 2021 will be bad for most as there will be another wave in the U.S. (around 1st or 2nd week of Jan) for their Thanksgiving. Could be another wave for us (early Feb) if people don't follow the rules after Christmas. By then we will get to Family Day in Feb for us...another wave...Easter...another wave. Man, my hand is getting tired of waving. On a positive note: if we have a vaccine then maybe the above won't happen. I will pray.
 
I choose to be optimistic and I think that 2021 will be a better year for the world.

Maybe I'm not too smart but 2020 seems to me to be the worst year for everyone or for most people or for many people than there has been in a very long time.

2020 stressed me very badly even though I am still alive and did not get the dreaded virus but I feel that the stress of it was extremely hard on me and I'm sure it has been on many many people.

I guess I've been speaking in terms of people's health--things ought to get better with the vaccine that is coming soon and the ones to follow in a few weeks.

Of course, for others the loss of businesses and jobs is devastating but hopefully many will be able to regroup with their creativeness which I've noticed so many have. There has always been a hard time to be had for the poor and disabled and not much is being done to help them in terms of long term.
 
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IMO the misery will continue to be felt for many folks that have gotten behind in rent, mortgage, and monthly bills when the various moratoriums on eviction, foreclosure, and suspension of utility service that are currently in place expire.

I also think that a long-range impact will be felt by millions that have used their retirement savings to help them through this rough patch and now have to start over. The loss of time/compounding left in their working life will do more damage to those people's retirement than the lack of money needed to rebuild those savings plans.
 
2021 will be another "test" for our people. This pandemic will probably be a major issue for many more months, and the numbers of those infected and dying will rise until well into Spring/Summer....depending upon how a vaccine is distributed, and IF the vast majority choose to get vaccinated.

The economy will almost certainly take another turn downward, as millions will continue to be unemployed, and thousands of small businesses go into bankruptcy. The Stock Market cannot sustain it's recent highs for much longer, and may well take a major dive early into next year.

Our young students who have had to study at home have had a rough time keeping up with their education, and for many, this last year will be a total waste. Only when they can begin to go back to normal classroom studies, will they begin to catch up....and their families return to a more normal routine.

Virtually every facet of our society has been affected by this virus, and it is going to take a long time before its effects are no longer felt.
 
The one thing that I took comfort in during 2020 was the generosity of so many people who really didn't have that much themselves. The demand at the Food Bank my friends and I support has been unprecedented, but so have the donations. No big donors, but a whole lot of people, each giving a little. One little girl asked her family to buy food for the Food Bank with the money they would have spent on her birthday gifts.

The cat shelter where my sister volunteers actually opened a Food Bank to help pet owners who would otherwise not be able to keep their pets, and again, the response from donors was heartwarming.

I believe that 2021 is going to be very difficult, and I hope that the spirit of empathy and caring that I've seen in our community continues.


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Quite honestly, I don't know. How much longer will the ******* virus alter our live, and kill us??? It's strange that the sun comes up with clockwork regularity , but life is all jumbled up. With this back drop of regularity, each day for us is an adventure. We have to contend with natural forces like weather, earthquakes, and then with the inane antics of our fellow humans. You know that period of American history where nobody can remember the Presidents' names, I feel we are going through the same kind of period.` We're kind of muddling through it. So I predict more muddling.
 

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