STAY SAFE

We’re still here despite the pandemic, tie-dye and ruffled shirts

I know what you’re thinking. dimensional cardboard figure skepticism until proven of this past year, but let’s just 2021 was going to be a magic behind home plate, and believe otherwise, like a father on say there is a lot of work to be beginning and all of the bru- me, those behind-home-plate his daughter’s first date, only done. ha-ha of 2020 would fade like a seats were awesome, but they without the firearm. But let’s remember who we bad dream. Yet here we are in figured me out when I tried Unfortunately, violent are. We are not millennials March, celebrating the first anniversary of COVID-19, which is like celebrating the month you learned you had hemorrhoids. Yea! We’ve turned a year older and I believe a year wiser, to order a beer for me and Cardboard Chipper Jones sitting next to me. So, for the sake of baseball, wear the mask. What about crime related to the Coronavirus? That depends 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 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 but at times, I think on whom you ask. reasons, such as drugs, alcohol, “Butch Wax” to keep that little I’m surrounded by Overall, crime dysfunctional families and a wall of hair thing up in the those who got stuck along the way. I get irritated at those who STAY SAFE Steve Rose is a retired Sandy Springs Police numbers are down nationally, according to the FBI Uniform dozen other reasons. You still want to defund the police? Look at Portland. It’s like a Mad Max front. We had proms to which real men wore ruffles so large that don’t wear masks in Captain, veteran Fulton Crime Reports, movie. No thanks. Let’s stop all a decent breeze would flutter public places. There’s County police officer and but they don’t this nonsense about defunding us to death. We drove to school freelance writer. He is the author the book “Why Do My Mystic Journeys Always Lead to the Waffle House?” and the column “View from a Cop.” no argument that a mask helps slow the spread of germs and bacteria, so wear one. Also, stores need to mandate it. I know that hard core (idiots) will go somewhere else to shop, but I think their numbers are small. We have to get some tough love going here, and do you know why? specifically address crime related to the virus. Obviously, the favorite choice of crime related to the virus would be fraud. Fraudulent claims and hundreds of websites taunting wonder drugs, vaccines, and antibodies surfaced almost immediately, but the advice 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 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.

Baseball. now, as it was then, is to check furthest below the belt. It was So, the moral of the story is

I love baseball and I can’t and double-check the websites like a bad reality show. I can’t this, as bad as it has been this go to the games if COVID-19 offering these wonderful talk about the “social unrest” past year, it’s been worse and continues to spread. Sure, things. Look for FDA-approved without giving some heavy we’re still here. We’ll make it I tried to fake it as a one- sites and proceed with extreme personal opinions on the events work somehow.

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