Half of Phil

It definitely feels like a season of change. We've had numerous protests throughout the country with calls for Police Reform and calling awareness for systemic racism within the Judicial system in the US.  It's encouraging to see the widespread and varied folks at the protests, but at the same time it's scary as hell because we are in the midst of the a global pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic is still growing in the US and seems to be growing faster here than other parts of the world.  Is some of that appearance because have a more transparent government and press?  Or is just that we've done an incredibly shitty job job of protecting our selves and socially distancing.  I suspect its a combination of the two, but we are definitely doing a shitting job of protecting ourselves.  We are still staying home and minimizing our contacts with others.  We've not let our son start back soccer yet, but field space is getting hard to come by at the parks so we may start back so

   I missed my update last week. I've been bad about tracking my food the last month. The COVID-19 crisis seems to be getting worse in NC mostly due to folks tiring of social distancing.  Folks are tired of not living their normal lives and haven't seen mass casualties.  Basically the disease so far isn't killing folks fast enough for folks to warrant such a drastic change in their lives.   We didn't let the boy start soccer training with his team again this week because hospitalizations are steadily rising along with the % positive of tests administered for the disease.  They are practicing in 10 x 10 squares just conditioning and drills I think so I don't know that it warrants the risk of having to get to and off the field with a large group.  We are still taking him to fields for individual workouts anyway.  We are hoping he doesn't get too torqued off about it, he seems to understand. Another black man was killed by a cop in MN last week leading to mass prot