By JACOB TASKER
NRHEG Senior
COVID-19 laid its arms on its first American victim in mid-December 2019. By mid-January, it seemed to be mentioned in every news item. In my economics class, we watch 10 minutes of news a day. By January, we were joking about all the hype we were seeing.
A little while later, we are all locked in our houses. The stores are closed. We students are taking part in a very hastily prepared, imperfect online schooling system. I can’t describe how frustrated I am. I have dedicated a lot of time my whole life preparing for my senior baseball season. Now this virus has canceled that season, taken it away from me with the snap of its figurative fingers. And I’m not the biggest victim: I will have other baseball seasons because I am able to go on to the “next level” and play college baseball. Many of my teammates have been robbed. I cannot help but feel for those whose last pitch, last at-bat, and last “play ball” has been taken away from them so abruptly. Of course life can’t be perfect, but this seems like a mighty big blow at a mighty bad time. It is highly unfortunate this had to happen during my senior year.