Remembering 2020
Six years on, 2020 feels like it must have been a fever dream. It’s hard to keep in mind that it actually happened. COVID struck the world, killing millions but also inspiring authoritarian policies that had at best diminishing returns.
- ▪Six years on, 2020 feels like it must have been a fever dream.
- ▪It’s hard to keep in mind that it actually happened.
- ▪COVID struck the world, killing millions but also inspiring authoritarian policies that had at best diminishing returns.
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| Original publisher | The Critic |
| Canonical URL | https://thecritic.co.uk/remembering-2020/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 27 May 2026 01:00:39 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-27T01:52:56.121Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-27T01:52:57.938Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Six years on, 2020 feels like it must have been a fever dream. It’s hard to keep in mind that it actually happened. COVID struck the world, killing millions but also inspiring authoritarian policies that had at best diminishing returns. I’m sure I am not the only person who regrets their initial support for shutdowns. But 2020 was also the year of the Black Lives Matter demonstrations — a phenomenon that seems just as surreal in the rear view mirror. I worry that people are forgetting just how surreal it was. The death of George Floyd, who asphyxiated under Derek Chauvin’s knee — six years ago this week — inspired protests that spread across the world.
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