The shortlist: https://time.com/5919489/time-...year-shortlist-2020/

Trump

Biden

Frontline health care workers and Fauci

The movement for racial justice

The "essential workers" have already won the reader poll, but TIME has not finalize their choice for the Person of the Year for 2020.

Whom would you pick?

Not sure if TIME ever considered a microorganism for Person of the Year, but I would have added SARS-CoV-2 to the list. There is nothing that shaped the year 2020 more than SARS-CoV-2.

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Not sure if TIME ever considered a microorganism for Person of the Year, but I would have added SARS-CoV-2 to the list. There is nothing that shaped the year 2020 more than SARS-CoV-2.

That would bug me ...

It needs to be the frontline health care workers and Dr. Fauci.

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It needs to be the frontline health care workers and Dr. Fauci.

+1

TIME once selected the Personal Computer as their person thing of the year.

Their criterion is simple: The person who has had the biggest effect on the news, good, bad, or ugly. So people like Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden are fair game.

By that criterion, I would not select I-1. He has been in the news pretty much continuously -- but mostly as an attention-whore, not as a newsmaker. He has been in the news more for his bumbling incompetence than for anything truly newsworthy. In fact, the most newsworthy thing he's done is botch the response to the pandemic, thus nearly single-handedly increased the number of people who have gotten sick and died over what those numbers would have been had a competent, rational person been President. He made more news in his stupid drive around the block at Walter-Reed than anything that actually affected the world. This is not newsworthy.

He has enough fake TIME covers with pictures of himself. What does he need another one for? Having another porn star spank him with it? Again, this is not newsworthy.

Sadly, the little worm Stephen Miller has probably had more direct effect on the news and world events than I-1 has.


I would say the one person who had the greatest effect on the news, at least in the U.S. this year, was George Floyd. Or maybe the cretin who killed him. So, put me down for "racial justice". And the person whose picture should represent that is George Floyd.

If you are looking for worldwide effect, it has to be something COVID-related. Which means, Facuci and the front-line healthcare workers. Worldwide, nothing has had more of an impact this year.

Even if it's just the U.S., I think it has to be Fauci et al. We're going to have 300,000 dead by New Year's Eve. Not in any way to minimize racial injustice, which affects a far greater number of people than that, but 300,000 dead is hard to ignore.

Fauci for sure

Biden and Harris got the nod.

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/11...e-person-of-the-year

That feels crazy and completely politically motivated. Kind of disappointing.

Did they change their criteria?

It does feel like they just named the anti-T, like to spite him that not just didn't he get another TIME cover, but his opponent did.

Oh, well.


This is the first time they've name a "kid of the year".

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Kind of disappointing.

+1.

Although thinking about T having a temper tantrum over this is kinda nice...

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Originally posted by pianojuggler:
Did they change their criteria?

It does feel like they just named the anti-T, like to spite him that not just didn't he get another TIME cover, but his opponent did.

Oh, well.


This is the first time they've name a "kid of the year".

Greta Thunberg was Person of the Year, wasn't she?