COVID-19

[Drunk Monk]

I did catch one racist comment outside the Catalyst when this was first breaking months ago.  It was a couple of drunk guys.  It surprised me mostly because the Cruz is pretty tolerant so I wrote it off as out-of-towners.  

The xenophobia does have me on edge a little more though.  I've always got my daily carry blade plus a few more self defense pocket items, but that's not unusual.  I always have those.  Always.  

Honestly, prior to that, it's been years since anyone has hurled any racist epithets at me.  It was a lot more pronounced in my youth, all the way until my senior year in High School.  The only thing that has shifted for me personally is that I'm super self conscious about sneezing or coughing.  And it's allergy season.  So I'm constantly sniffiing, scratching and sneezing.  

That and I'm worried for my kid, but I'm always worried for my kid.  Always.  She mentioned some racist incidents went down with the International housing at her U.  I'm not quite sure how much racism she was exposed to growing up - not as much as me - different generations, for sure.  As a dad, I always worry that she doesn't have her guard up enough.  I imagine all dads do.