Atlanta Has A Drinking Problem.

Atlanta's nightclubs (and restaurants that are effectively nightclubs) stayed open during the pandemic. It looks like that might have gotten a lot of people killed.

I had to step over my friend Pierre on the way home more often than I’d like. Pierre is a French-Canadian of Native heritage, a genuinely nice person, and chronically homeless after a lifetime of alcohol addiction. I could find him most days sprawled out on the sidewalk on Fairlie or Walton Street downtown, where I worked.

I sound callous, of course. Mor…