Calling it a crisis isn’t enough (if it ever was) “What, where, and when a crisis began becomes much harder to pinpoint if underlying conditions already form layers of crises.” As 2020 draws to a close, we continue to live through a crisis of epic proportions, both direct and diffuse, global and distinctly local in response. Even as breaking news is declaring that vaccines will shift us out of crisis and into thinking of Covid-19 as a solvable problem, the questions about why, how, and who the pandemic has impacted are likely going to linger for generations. For journalists charged with narrating the ongoing present, what constitutes a “crisis” has been irrevocably changed by events this year. This has an enormous impact on issues like climate change, where declaring it a “crisis” was intended to call global publics to attention and to compel collective action and policy changes in response.