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Collected Item: “Some form of Selfish”

Give your story a title.

Some form of Selfish

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

This is a meme I found on reddit.com.

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.


Those that refuse to wear masks could be seen as selfish. I know there are many who can not wear them for medical reasons but most of the non-mask wearers do not fall into this category. I work in a coffee shop, we have multiple signs stating that a mask is required inside. Late one evening, right before close, a woman came in without a mask. She did not have one and refused the one I offered to her. Another employee who did not know this happened because she was in the backroom asked her about a mask. The woman leaned over the counter and was screaming about rights and the government and threw Peter Parker the spider plant at us, one of the many plants we keep along the bar.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#MASKS, #ASU485, #ASU, #LOTR, #MEME

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201023222542if_/https://www.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusMemes/comments/i0jtly/some_lotr_humor/

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

u/spazzy2020

Give this story a date.

2020-07-30
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