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We’re still here despite the pandemic, tie-dye and ruffled shirts I know what you’re thinking. dimensional cardboard figure 2021 was going to be a magic behind home plate, and believe beginning and all of the brume, those behind-home-plate ha-ha of 2020 would fade like a seats were awesome, but they bad dream. Yet here we are in figured me out when I tried March, celebrating to order a beer for the first anniversary me and Cardboard of COVID-19, which Chipper Jones sitting is like celebrating the next to me. So, for month you learned the sake of baseball, you had hemorrhoids. wear the mask. Yea! What about We’ve turned crime related to the a year older and I Coronavirus? believe a year wiser, That depends but at times, I think on whom you ask. I’m surrounded by Overall, crime those who got stuck numbers are down STAY SAFE along the way. I get nationally, according Steve Rose is a retired irritated at those who Sandy Springs Police to the FBI Uniform don’t wear masks in Crime Reports, Captain, veteran Fulton public places. There’s County police officer and but they don’t freelance writer. He is the specifically address no argument that a author the book “Why mask helps slow the crime related to the Do My Mystic Journeys spread of germs and virus. Always Lead to the Waffle bacteria, so wear one. House?” and the column Obviously, the Also, stores need to favorite choice of “View from a Cop.” mandate it. I know crime related to that hard core (idiots) the virus would be will go somewhere else to shop, fraud. Fraudulent claims and but I think their numbers are hundreds of websites taunting small. We have to get some wonder drugs, vaccines, and tough love going here, and do antibodies surfaced almost you know why? immediately, but the advice Baseball. now, as it was then, is to check I love baseball and I can’t and double-check the websites go to the games if COVID-19 offering these wonderful continues to spread. Sure, things. Look for FDA-approved I tried to fake it as a onesites and proceed with extreme
skepticism until proven otherwise, like a father on his daughter’s first date, only without the firearm. Unfortunately, violent crime rose, according to the statistics in the first six months of 2020. Some of that could be related to COVID-19 but most? Probably not. Atlanta’s violent crimes, specifically homicides and aggravated assaults have spiked, but I think the reasons are beyond blaming COVID-19, and more towards traditional reasons, such as drugs, alcohol, dysfunctional families and a dozen other reasons. You still want to defund the police? Look at Portland. It’s like a Mad Max movie. No thanks. Let’s stop all this nonsense about defunding and deal with problems like adults. What about the vaccine? That is the talk of the town, other than the Kim Kardashian divorce. If you have not tried to get on one of the vaccine lists, keep trying. Honestly, 2020 was just plain weird. Politics hit an all-time low with political ads striving to see who could punch the furthest below the belt. It was like a bad reality show. I can’t talk about the “social unrest” without giving some heavy personal opinions on the events
of this past year, but let’s just say there is a lot of work to be done. But let’s remember who we are. We are not millennials who feel “getting involved” is tweeting an opinion. We’ve been there. We were under our desks when the Russians were going to bomb us and we had bicycles with banana seats, butterfly handlebars, no helmets and (gasp) no Spandex. Guys had “Butch Wax” to keep that little wall of hair thing up in the front. We had proms to which real men wore ruffles so large that a decent breeze would flutter us to death. We drove to school in Chevy Chevelle SS’s with dual-quads and semi-overhead lifters, not to mention the Highjacker Bumper Bunnies. (Look it up, Chad.) We had hippies and original tie-dye T-shirts made by certified hippies. You think this is bad? We had Charles Manson, Vietnam, and worst of all, we had disco. So, the moral of the story is this, as bad as it has been this past year, it’s been worse and we’re still here. We’ll make it work somehow.
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