The first confirmed cases of COVID-19 in North America were confirmed in late January 2020, but we fucked around for another month until February 29, 2020, when Washington State Governor Jay Inslee declared a State of Emergency for Washington, and then President Trump issued a National State of Emergency on March 25, 2020. I bring up this terribly incompetent timeline of events to point out that depending on when you start the clock, we are are about 10 to 12 months into this pandemic and for all Mariners fans who weren’t in attendance at the beginning of Spring Training in 2020, then it’s been at least since September 2019 that you laid your weary eyeballs upon a Mariners baseball game in-person.