Yeah, I don't endorse looting, but property can be replaced, lives can't.

I think we should burn it all down.

I won't, of course, because I'm a 53-year-old white woman with a panic disorder, sitting in my suburban house, in my leafy green neighborhood 1,400 miles away from the current example of the results of our national original sin.

Looting is nothing. It is nothing. Fretting about it is like a fretting about a mild rash, when the actual problem is a brain tumor everyone pretends isn't there. It shows up on every scan, but let's address the contact dermatitis, America.

Looting is nothing.

The reports coming out of MPLS also indicate that most of the looting & rioting is either a) looking for provisions to rescue people, like milk and water, or b) instigated by plants.

instigated by plants.

I'm going to blame my migraine meds for the fact that I immediately pictured a ficus fucking shit UP.

The reports coming out of MPLS also indicate that most of the looting & rioting is either a) looking for provisions to rescue people, like milk and water, or b) instigated by plants.

This

I'm going to blame my migraine meds for the fact that I immediately pictured a ficus fucking shit UP.

With a side of this, except I can't blame meds right now.

I mean, ficuses ARE jerks.

In tiny personal good news - one of the previously furloughed workers in my department who came back is taking some of my accounts off my hands and while the transition is going to keep me a little busy for a few days transferring knowledge it is already a hge stress relief to not have the responsibility for those.

I'm going to blame my migraine meds for the fact that I immediately pictured a ficus fucking shit UP.

First Australia burning, then the pandemic, then the murder hornets, and now unruly Triffids rioting?

They get cranky when they're root bound.

Rumor is (as in rumors from journalists backed by tests data, not as in official statement from government) that after we started re-opening here three weeks ago (NOT carefully enough), we have started a second wave. Over 100 new people were diagnosed today in a few clusters, which is the designated stop signal for the re-opening. Sigh.

I have my parents coming over tomorrow for lunch and I'm not gonna cancel that because who knows how long will it be until the next time I'll be able to see them and I didn't see them for more than a few minutes since late February, but I am gonna sit two meters apart and make them wear masks (when not eating) and make them wash their hands.

(A friend just reminded me that a t-shirt of mine is still with her from a demonstration we went to together back when the whole thing started, over two months ago. I absolutely forget that ever happened.)