[franky47]

Society as we knew it definitely took a hit in 2020 though.

Collapse is not a singular event at a fixed point in time like the start of a war would be, it's a process.

[jpindar]

Which is why some people have taken to using the term crumble rather than collapse, crumbling happens at different rates in different places and can sometimes, at least temporarily, be fixed.

[NoGravitas]

Yeah, that's a good term and a good way of thinking about it. When all the crumbling overlaps for a century, you get Gibson's Jackpot.