I really related to this comment on Facebook - with thanks to M.H

I woke up in the middle of the night from an absolute heartbreak over what we saw last night in downtown. Portland is officially dead.

Everything is out of business. Only five months ago the vibrant, exciting city with people walking all over, sitting in outdoor cafes on the sidewalk, now stares at you with dark empty windows and storefronts- for lease, for lease , for lease... restaurants are gone, doughnut shops are gone, stores, dry cleaners, offices, hotels are empty, stadium is silent, hardly any cars and passers by.

Life has been sucked out of the body of this beautiful quaint urban city partly because of the virus, partly because of the never ending riots, partly because the local government doesn’t care and doesn’t want to help.

It will take a decade for Portland to be reborn. But for right now it’s dead.

And I mourn.

From the other side of the continent - NYC