Guest Opinion: Zombies, cicadas and UFOs: There’s nothing we can’t handle after this year of COVID-19 It’s been a year unlike any other. Getting to today, with three vaccines in circulation and case counts falling, is an achievement. Take a moment to remember that. Written By: Tricia Bishop | The Baltimore Sun | 10:00 am, Mar. 12, 2021 × Cameron Tringale takes photos of the cardboard cutout golf fans after hitting his tee shot on the 18th hole during the second round of the Genesis Invitational in Pacific Palisades, California, on Friday, Feb. 19, 2021. (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times/TNS) They’re not locusts, but they might as well be. Billions of beady-eyed cicadas digging their way out of the soil in 15 Eastern states this spring — after 17 years of creepily tunneling around underground — definitely feels like a biblical-type plague on the horizon. A plague on top of the plague we’re already in, that is.