The Year From Hell #203 By Hank Silverberg Flashback: "So, here we are in 2021! We get a fresh start? Not exactly. There wasn't much of a celebration on New Year's Eve. Somehow those TV live shots of an empty Times Square in NYC as they dropped the ball were a fitting end to 2020. But it was also a sad preview of the next 12 months." That was the beginning of my blog a year ago as 2021 began. I hate to say "I told you so," but the predictions were close to what this past year was really like. There will probably be thousands of people in Times Square for the annual ball drop this year. But there are tight restrictions, including proof of vaccination and a booster shot, along with predictions that the outside event could still become a super spreader for the latest Covid-19 variant--Omicron. 2021 started with a bang, literally, as police had to use deadly force to fight off ...