(Ed.'s Note: Go downtown on any day and you will the shuttered businesses, scores of homeless wandering the streets and congregating on closed up businesses like the Casa del Nylon. There are a few watering spot catering to a select and limited customer base and some Mexican restaurants close to the bridge open to limited seating. The ubiquitous second-hand stores are always open and remain with open doors.
But you will notice nodes of people at the doors and along the sidewalk leading to the doors of the plasma donor centers. Actually, they're not donors, but mostly people from Matamoros picking up a few dollars by selling their blood. It's a disconcerting and discouraging state of affairs but goes part and parcel with the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. With any luck, downtown will be revived and we can return to the old normal, or some semblance thereof.)