QUINCY – Well, it's over. 2020, a year unlike any other, has come and gone. It unleashed a once-in-a-generation pandemic and the resulting economic slowdown, exacerbated by lockdowns aimed at protecting people as cases mounted. Gov. Charlie Baker and local politicians have called on the federal government for more help, which is on the way after President Donald Trump signed a second federal COVID-19 aid bill. As the death toll from COVID-19 in Massachusetts surpassed 12,000 this week and continues to climb, there is hope as the state starts to administer vaccines. The country has also been through massive political upheaval. The killing of George Floyd and other Black Americans by police has spurred a reckoning on systemic racism. The state is on the cusp of new police reforms that have worked their way through the Legislature onto Baker's desk, and diversity and inclusion are now a goal for more civic institutions.