"How do we get people to stop arguing about COVID?" the marketing consultant in the red tie asked the marketing consultant in the blue tie. "And start arguing about our product?"

Listen, society, we've been through a lot. Even outside of Texas legislators on the lam, COVID-19 hospitalizations have more than doubled in the past month, crime has been trending up in Dallas and other cities, the Moops caused a stand-off on a highway in Massachusetts, and crews have been clearing the site of the condo collapse in Florida.

Even the Germans think we've gone too far.

At the risk of editorializing, I think many of us would agree 2020 has been a borderline grind.