INTRODUCTION TO SAN FRANCISCO 2020

For several years leading up to 2020, life under the Trump presidency had already seemed surreal for most San Franciscans. Then COVID-19 hit and those of us with a biblical knowledge found it ironic that Trump would often refer to it as a plague. The televised footage of the brutal murder of George Floyd then spawned a long simmering wokeness for the Black Lives Matter movement, while Trump continued to support white supremacists. As if to remind us of all that was wrong in the world, Mother Nature screamed at us as well with multiple fires that raged through Northern California casting a pale of Apocalypse over the City by September 9. A glimmer of hope arrived on November 7, four days after the general election when networks, newswires and cable news channels forecast Joe Biden won the presidency. San Franciscans, like many others in the nation’s various cities, took to the streets to celebrate this small glimmer of hope after such a difficult year even while COVID-19 was claiming more victims than ever before, realizing we need to savor it while we can.