I was up last night with really bad cramps and had to get up early to go grocery shopping before work… it seems like the special shopping hours for seniors and immunocompromised people are no longer — the store was jam packed with aggressive jerks in a rush and not practicing social distancing. This, along with my premenstrual dysphoria started me off on the wrong foot today… and then I came home to hear news of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
The flagrant disregard for human life is staggering. It is all around us. There are huge swaths of people in this country that we have decided are undeserving of life. This is not the “new normal” — more like the abnormal norm. Perhaps many are just seeing it now for the first time.