Coronavirus – Day #87

I did my weekly trip to Tesco today. The stocks appear to be fairly normal now. There are plenty of types of flour in stock. I didn’t see any yeast, but I didn’t look very hard. A few more people were wearing masks, but its still a very small proportion of the total.

The after effects of Sunday’s events in Bristol continue to ripple around the world. Kevin tells me that we were on CBS radio news yesterday. Meanwhile in Europe statues are falling.

In the Belgian city of Ekeren, a statue of King Leopold II, the man responsible for the atrocities in the Congo, has been taken down and is being sent to a museum. It looks like it was sprayed with paint during protests over the weekend.

In London a statue of a slave trader called Robert Milligan has been removed from West India Quay. I got that info from a tweet by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, so again this was an official removal.

It sounds like civil authorities are trying to head off any further statue dunking by pre-emptively removing potentially controversial figures. Result!