We’re living in a viral theater of the absurd

Here we go again with fresh nuggets of “It’s come to this,” although I’m not trying to go “negative.”

These are just the latest examples of the absurd times in which we find ourselves.

It’s come to this: “The fake crowd is really loud!” – YES Network announcer Michael Kay, when the Yankees had the bases loaded.

It’s come to this: In a time when people are stuck at home and many baseball fans really, really need their Yankee games, Frontier Communications has decided to drop the YES Network.

A Frontier spokesman said in their statement announcing the cutback: “Our customers are very important to us.” One of those customers, Judi Lemkin, emailed me to say she contacted Frontier to ask whether they remember “the fiasco over Comcast dropping YES and later adding it back” amid customer outrage. She plans to go back to Comcast next spring if Frontier doesn’t smarten up.

It’s come to this: Now everybody seems to be giving masks as gifts. And we get excited when we receive one, or when the masks we’ve ordered show up in our mailboxes. “You can’t have too many masks, right?” my wife noted. We now have a “mask closet.”

It’s come to this: For our street’s annual block party, we all brought our own food and our own drinks, sharing none of it with anybody else. We did away with the communal grill. And of course we all wore masks. But it sure was great to catch up with the old gang; they’re hanging in there. I’m just sorry that several of my neighbors did not feel comfortable enough to venture out of their homes.

It’s come to this: While I was seated outside at the Willoughby’s coffee