BARRIE, ONT. -- The year 2020 will go down in history as the year of a global pandemic that changed the way we live our everyday lives. Simple gestures like shaking hands were replaced with social distancing, residents of long-term care homes were isolated from their families, and businesses of all types were forced to close to the public. It's been a year that the average person could never have predicted with a highly contagious illness we all came to know as COVID-19. Still, 2020 wasn't all plague and pestilence. The dark shadow COVID-19 produced allowed us to see how resilient we can be.