It was the year superlatives fell short. From a jam-packed January that opened in the midst of a presidential primary and plunged head-long into only the third impeachment trial in the nation's history, to February and its leap day, which couldn't explain why it felt like the month that would never end, until March arrived and time slowed to a glacial crawl â from the start, 2020 was all about jerking from one extreme to the next. "Weâve had a pandemic with the flu in 1918; weâve had economic strife with the Great Recession and the Great Depression; weâve had civil unrest in the late '60s, early '70s. But we havenât had them all at the same time,â said Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen last summer, before the divisive election that also played out against that backdrop.