I segued in this entry on the 15th of December, feeling that descendant futurists, should they somehow stumble upon this digitized diary, presuming they somehow overlooked or failed to discover records from more vaunted historians of the Gen X era, might like a brief note on how some of Americana’s formerly-taken-for-granted institutions adapted during the latter stage in 2020’s heightened states of racial strife, political clusterfucking, and Covid’s persistence.