Minnesota

are hurting badly from the reduction in the lunchtime and after-work shopping and eating crowd. And some (probably a lot) of the shift to work-at-home is permanent.

Minneapolis, like so many other cities, have struggled so hard to keep their downtowns alive (I remember "The Hole That Ate Nicollet Mall" days of the 80's when Donaldson's burned down (Thanksgiving Day's fire in 1982) and they didn't build anything there for years)....

Sad to see that we're back to that kind of thing and worse.