BugBitten Good Riddance, 2020! Roll up your sleeves for 2021! Krisztian Magori proclaims "Good Riddance" to 2020 as he tries to put into perspective all that happened, how Bugbitten weathered it all, and a look towards the work ahead in 2021! "Coronavirus fireworks" by Robert Matson from https://www.rollcall.com/2020/07/01/capitol-ink-coronavirus-fireworks/ with the artist's permission. As a disease ecologist, this has been a very unusual year. Every year, I teach my students in my Disease Ecology capstone class about infectious diseases, the basic reproduction number and pandemics. However, it has been surreal to live through a pandemic myself! As a scientist, particularly a disease ecologist, living through the pandemic is the most exciting thing ever! But as a human being, it feels like a nightmare I can’t wake up from. I vividly remember the email I was reading on ProMed-Mail a year ago about a strange cluster of cases of respiratory illness connected to the wet market in Wuhan, China. While I have seen many similar reports on ProMed-Mail that turned out to be nothing major, I remember having a strange feeling about this one. I also remember giving a guest lecture to students about the impact of climate change on infectious diseases at the end of January, just after the first case of COVID-19 was reported in Washington State, US. At that point, I naively assumed that the closure of borders and aggressive infection control in China would stop the spread of COVID-19 and prevent a full-scale pandemic. I only realized the gravity of the situation when Nancy Messonnier at the CDC announced that we will have to focus on mitigation instead of containment as COVID-19 already escaped or will escape containment. As they say, the rest is history.