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2020-04-15
That mean virus
A comic strip about Covid-19 -
2020-04-15
An Unacceptable Wall of Sound
I live in Austin, Texas, in a neighborhood that is both in the approach flight pattern for Austin-Bergstrom International Airport and contains a hospital with a Level 1 Trauma Center and a helipad. During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the soundscape of neighborhood abruptly changed. The first thing I noticed, in the early days of a city-wide “stay-at-home” order was that I could hear more birds in the trees outside my second story apartment. It took a few days for me to realize that it was because the birdsong was not being drowned out by the sound of airplanes landing at the nearby runway. At the time I remember thinking that, perhaps, the sound of the birds was something I could look forward to every morning as I navigated suddenly having to find a new job due to the pandemic. Soon, the sound of landing airplanes was replaced with a sound that much harder to ignore. Ambulance sirens. It became noticeable after the first week, with ambulances arriving at the hospital several times an hour. By week three, it was a near constant drone broken up only by helicopters bringing even more critical patients into the city for care. By week eight, I stopped even noticing the sound of ambulances at all. The sound of the pandemic became so commonplace that my brain learned to filter out the wall of sirens as background noise. I often wonder how many ambulances carried patients who never left the hospital and how much suffering, fear, and sadness became “background noise” for us all. Given that we are entering into year three of the pandemic, and the United States has registered nearly one million COVID-19 deaths, it pains me to realize to know that number is far higher than any of us should have accepted. -
2020-04-15
Blood donations encouraged as pandemic impacts supply
A press release from Banner Health announcing that, with many regularly scheduled blood drives closed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Banner Health is partnering with Vitalant, the region's blood bank operator, to encourage blood donations and help restore supply. -
2020-04-15
That fleeting moment of Solidarity
In those first few weeks of lockdown I just remember a feeling of solidarity with my neighbors. We were all separate, all isolated, but all working toward the same goal. Throughout our neighborhood people had written with chalk on the sidewalk, we took walks every day and saw painted rocks, teddy bears sitting in windows, art and signs of hope and comfort. For a homeschool art lesson I had my sons do chalk splatter painting on our driveway and then taught them about Jackson Pollock. I wrote lyrics to Bob Marley songs and drew pictures of rainbows on the sidewalk. We baked bread, cinnamon rolls, all things warm and cozy. Our family was together in a special way, we appreciated the time together. We went on hikes and fished in the backyard pond and although there were zoom appointments and conference calls, life was moving at a slower more relaxing pace. We were hopeful and confident that by doing the right thing we were saving lives. -
2020-04-15
Racist Meme
This racist meme, posted on the Facebook page "French Canadian Memes," highlights the prejudice displayed by many Canadians at the beginning of the pandemic -
2020-04-15
Covid-Induced Election Anxiety
The election is today, and this is probably the most important one of my lifetime. I don’t like either candidate, but I really hope Biden wins. I want to keep my rights, I quite like marriage and healthcare. If Trump wins I will most likely lose these things. I only see Trump as a bigot who isn’t doing anything good for this country right now. If he wins this election, I will most likely move out of the country when I am 18. I don’t care if I end up in China, I just want out of here. This election is causing me to fear for my own future, and that of my partner and all of my friends. We are not completely safe in this country, and we likely never will be. 2020 has been a garbage year for me and this election is quite literally the cherry on top of all things awful. I shall update this later with my thoughts and feelings after the election. If there is truly a God, he will let Biden win. I also have my driver’s test next Monday and that’s making me feel even worse right now! -
2020-04-15
Social wedding: What Is a Micro Wedding and Should You Have One?
This article defines what a micro wedding is: 50 people or less. -
2020-04-15
Painting In Quarantine
During quarantine, we were all very bored and going a little stir crazy. I really wanted to get into painting because it is relaxing for me, and it takes up a lot of time. This is important to me because it was something during lockdown that made me feel relaxed and calm. It was a stressful time for everyone, and we all had to find hobbies that would keep us busy, which is important to understanding 2020 and the lockdown. I think that is what this says about the pandemic, we had to find these little things to keep us going throughout the long days stuck inside, and painting really helped me do that. -
2020-04-15
How COVID-19 Caused a Shortage of Toilet Paper
As the pandemic began, the shortage of toilet paper became quite severe. Several people were unable to get get a hand on a package of toilet paper, leading them to desperate measures of cutting up paper towels in order to substitute the toilet paper. -
2020-04-15
stmarysstulife Instagram posts from Student Development & University Programming Council
These two posts are from the @stmarysstulife account. The Student Development and University Programming Council (UPC) made Tik Tok videos to the Full House "Everywhere You Look" song and the @stmarysstulife posted them. I think they posted this to show we're all in this together at St. Mary's and there are multiple people we can go to for help and support. -
2020-04-15
Painting in Quarantine
During quarantine, we were all very bored and going a little stir crazy. One day, I really wanted to get into painting because it is relaxing for me, and it takes up a lot of time. This is important to me because it was something during lockdown that made me feel relaxed and calm. It was a stressful time for everyone, and we all had to find hobbies that would keep us busy. I think that is what this says about the pandemic, we had to find these little things to keep us going throughout the long days stuck inside, and painting really helped me do that. -
2020-04-15
My Grandmother and I’s Final Touch
About a week before my grandmother passed, I went down to visit her for the day and help my grandfather with work around the house. When I arrived at their house, my aunt handed me a pair of nail clippers and asked if I could cut my grandmother’s nails for her. I kneeled at her bedside and began my work. I do not recall how it smelled in my grandmother’s room, as I was wearing my mask the entire time. I imagine it smelled like a hospital room though. I felt the cold metal of the nail clippers and the soft skin from my grandma’s hand, as the hum of her ventilator filled the room. I could hear her voice as well, she was hallucinating due to cerebral hypoxia, whispering to me about the train tracks in her closet. In those moments I could taste nothing but my own saliva. She died several days later on April 21, 2020, with my aunt, uncle, and grandfather in her company. I harbor great hatred for this virus, as it limited my time with my dying grandmother, and I harbor great disgust for everyone around me who refuses to take it seriously. You, however, don’t need to know about this. History does not care, it just happens. -
2020-04-15
Bay Area health care workers want more transparency about on-the-job coronavirus exposure
In 2020, there are a lot of secrets that are being kept from health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health workers have emphasized that they want to be immediately notified when they have come in contact with the coronavirus by patients, so they are able to get tested and stay safe away from others. However, many of them have not been notified- and that resulted them into testing positive for the coronavirus. This is extremely important to talk about because without health care workers, the pandemic would be much more out of control than how it is now. They put their lives at risk to help patients who have the coronavirus. If more and more workers are in the dark to whether a patient they have worked with has COVID, then there were be less health care workers available at hospitals for assistance. -
2020-04-15
All is Lost
I was an associate editor for our student magazine "The Lakelander" at Lakeland Community College. I became infected by Covid-19 on March 23, 2020, two months before I was to graduate with honors from the school. Our student staff gathered on-line to talk about our final magazine for the school year and we asked everyone to write about their experience with the pandemic. This was my submission. The Lakelander is print only, so it is unclear when or if these stories will be published. -
2020-04-15
What I Did During Isolation
I played soccer constantly during my free time and my season was about to start but Covid hit and my season got canceled before my first game -
2020-04-15
Plague Journal, Day 33: Fighting depression
I'm keeping a Covid-19 journal. Here's the latest entry, in which depression gets the better of me: -
2020-04-15
Twelve Families
It was almost a month since the last one that I went out, to run for errands in a nearby grocery store. Upon passing by, I saw this sign in front of a gate going to a narrow pathway. On ordinary days, it is not noticeable because of the vendors that stayed to earn their living in a busy place like Baclaran, but knowing how many families were actually living in a small space is an alarming situation in the midst of a pandemic caused by a virus that can easily be transmitted from an infected individual through close contact. The ability to survive is [also a] continuous struggle during these times, as the pandemic limits the movement of people, including the capacity to work. Many people lost their jobs that were the source of their living, and has been dependent on the subsidies given by the government, either by cash or in-kind. But for most, it is not enough. The pandemic is teaching us how to be resourceful and resilient on what is available, just to meet our needs. It also pushes other people and the government to extend their help, with the efforts and hopes that one day, we may be able to help one another without prejudice, or loyalty that may only benefit a few. In these times, these twelve families were some of those who are calling out for help. -
2020-04-15
Honey Bear in a Mask
Stores across San Francisco closed their doors during the city's shelter-in-place orders that begin mid-March. Many chose to board up their storefronts to protect their businesses. Local street artist, fnnch, began painting Honey Bears wearing masks on boarded up storefronts. The response was so positive that he began sending Honey Bear kits to various San Francisco businesses. The street artist is now selling Honey Bear kits for those who wish to participate in the Honey Bear scavenger hunt, alongside other Honey Bear merchandise, such as masks. -
2020-04-15
Art Walk in San Francisco's Hayes Valley, Bear Making Mask
Stores across San Francisco closed their doors during the city's shelter-in-place orders that begin mid-March. Many stores boarded up their windows in response to shelter-in-place orders and because of looting that took place in across Bay Area cities. Artists responded by creating beautiful murals across many Bay Area cities. This piece of art features a bear sitting in front of what appear to be white birch trees, making a mask at a Singer style sewing machine. -
2020-04-15
Conservatory Of Flowers, Trumpeter
During California's shelter-in-place orders, a trumpeter serenades local residents on an empty lawn in front of San Francisco's Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park. Musicians throughout the city are gracing their communities with the sound of music during the challenging presence of the COVID-19 pandemic. -
2020-04-15
Indigenous Peoples from Different Corners of Bangladesh Suffer From Severe Starvation Due to Pandemic
“Indigenous peoples from different corners of Bangladesh are suffering from severe starvation due to the coronavirus pandemic. Engaged in low-income occupations and working at family houses, as house guards or drivers, most have lost their jobs. Moreover, public and non-governmental development programmes have been limited and many villages are no longer receiving any relief.” -
2020-04-15
Snowy woods, Spring time working remotely from Brooklyn College
The winter seemed to go on forever -
2020-04-15
The incomplete coronavirus map — US territories left behind
The Hill op-ed piece about how most media coverage of the epidemic "in the United States" overlooks, excludes, ignores, the US territories - e.g. Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa - that are also under great threat from this disease. -
2020-04-15
#SHPRSspace: Part 4
A staff member from Arizona State University's School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies sharing their home workspace. Most ASU employees are working from home during the pandemic. -
2020-04-15
Who needs a movie theater??
10 year old plans Friday night movie outing in family living room! Lexi Salamanca and family. As the movie theaters are all closed, lexi used her imagination to make her family night as much fun as possible! -
2020-04-15
Life in Covid
I am Joshua Pinkstaff and my story will be describing the effects of cover-19 and what the people around have been facing, the way to not get sick is going out into public and exposing yourself to others but people will have to take the risk and buy supplies for themselves or others. -
2020-04-15
New Orleans Jazz Market Livestream Jam Session, New Orleans, LA
New Orleans Jazz Market continues to hold its music jam session via Instagram during the COVID-19 stay-at-home order. -
2020-04-15
NYT Story on the COVID 19 Archive
Sherri Denney was in the fourth day of quarantine in her home in Springboro, Ohio, when she thought about the toll the coronavirus was taking. She sat in her recliner chair and cried as the state’s governor checked off the number of dead and sickened, knowing there would be more the next day. Overwhelmed, Ms. Denney, 55, tried to put her feelings into words. “Wow,” she began writing on an old sketch pad, quickly realizing the precise words would not come easy. “That’s all I can say. My emotions are ranging from sadness to fear to anger.” The week before, a woman in Nevada turned to her own version of journaling. Mimi J. Premo recorded a video on her cellphone, giving voice to a kind of stunned weariness so many Americans are feeling. And in Indianapolis, in an interview recorded by two university research assistants, a man who is diabetic and H.I.V. positive talked about how the speed and unclear ways of transmission “freaks me out.” The three accounts, snapshots of intimate moments during the pandemic, are a response to a call from historians and archivists across the country to document this extraordinary moment in history. Universities, archives and historical societies, ranging from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History to a tiny college radio station in Pennsylvania, are rushing to collect and curate the personal accounts of how people are experiencing this sprawling public health crisis as told in letters and journals, audio and video oral histories, and on social media. They are inviting people such as Ms. Denney and Ms. Premo to share stories and material from the 2020 coronavirus and its aftermath in real time. The idea is to bridge communal history and offer a fully realized look at the outbreak that can help the public, researchers and policymakers better understand how the pandemic permeated our lives. ImageA journal entry by Sherri Denney. It was one of the first submissions to the coronavirus public memory project set up by Wright State University. A journal entry by Sherri Denney. It was one of the first submissions to the coronavirus public memory project set up by Wright State University.Credit...Wright State University Whether a somber handwritten journal or an endearing Instagram post, the contributions will offer a look at a nation attacked by a virus coast to coast. The stories document sickness and death. The profound disruption of American rhythms and rituals, evidenced by empty shelves and streets. The gnawing restlessness of sheltering in place. The ways people showed resilience and managed to still find joy. “What we as contributors record is what the future generations will remember,” said Mark Tebeau, one of the project directors of a virtual archive founded at Arizona State University. The team of historians and artists started A Journal of the Plague Year: An Archive of Covid-19 on March 13, two days after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic. The name was inspired by Daniel Defoe’s novel “A Journal of the Plague Year,” which chronicles the bubonic plague in 1665 London through the lens of one man. Latest Updates: Coronavirus Outbreak in the U.S. The California State University system will not hold classes on campuses this fall. Top health experts testify that the U.S. is not ‘out of the woods’ and warn against reopening too fast. Testing becomes a flash point in the Senate hearing. See more updates Updated 9m ago More live coverage: Global Markets New York With the help of graduate students and scholars from about 20 universities, the archive has amassed more than 1,400 entries from 500 contributors across the world, including Australia, Peru and China. Mr. Tebeau, a public and digital historian who heads the university’s public history program, said they are also reaching out to marginalized communities to ensure the project is inclusive. One of the first entries came from Ms. Premo, 36, a customer service representative who lives near Las Vegas. She had not left her home for nearly a week in mid-March when she submitted the video. In the clip, just over two minutes, she wonders who might be stricken with Covid-19 next. A neighbor? A friend? A family member? “No matter how many Skype meetings I have, no matter how much I am on Facebook, no matter how much I write in my journal and try to laugh through the tears, it feels so different,” Ms. Premo said. “Living with this uncertainty is,” she added, pausing in the video, “it’s unsettling but I feel that no matter what happens, I guess it’s hope that keeps my spirits up.” Video Mimi J. Premo shared her thoughts in a video diary to Arizona State University. Last week, the Library of Congress received its first Covid-19 collection: street scenes from New York, New Jersey and California by the photographer Camilo Jose Vergara. In addition to documenting stay-at-home life, mask styles, health care workers, the economic impact and how people are helping one another. The Library of Congress is also collecting web content, data and maps. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History deployed a Rapid Response Collecting Task Force to chronicle the pandemic. “Museum staff is working to formulate a plan that achieves a balance between the urgency to document the ephemeral aspects of the historic turning points as they happen,” the museum said in a statement, “and the need to provide a long-term historical perspective.” In response to the pandemic shutdown, StoryCorps, the story-sharing nonprofit, moved its platform online for the first time. Interviews that used to be recorded in a physical studio can now be done using video conference technology. The audio and a photo from each interview will be preserved in the StoryCorps Archive and with the Library of Congress. And students at Neumann University in Pennsylvania set up a series called the Coronavirus Diaries on the school’s radio station, WNUW-FM. Listeners record themselves sharing pandemic stories using a voice memo app or by leaving a phone message at the station. The diaries air hourly. Local archives are also calling for oral histories and materials. The Atlanta History Center, for example, is asking the city’s residents for digital files and physical artifacts (the latter would be collected once the center reopens). The project, called Corona Collective, lays out how seemingly mundane items — a no-frills furlough notice, a handmade banner thanking emergency medical workers — help tell the story of how daily life in Atlanta changed. Image “Goodbye,” a drawing submitted to “A Journal of the Plague Year,” an archive of the coronavirus pandemic created by Arizona State University. “Goodbye,” a drawing submitted to “A Journal of the Plague Year,” an archive of the coronavirus pandemic created by Arizona State University.Credit...Jeffrey M. Davis Similar efforts are cropping up in big cities and small towns. Sometime during spring break in March, Jason Kelly, a professor at the Indianapolis campus of Indiana University, realized the coronavirus was likely to be the defining event for generations. For a professor who teaches digital public history, it meant something else, too: How people experienced the outbreak needed to be captured and organized in a searchable database. That was the seed of what is now the Covid-19 Oral History Project, based at the Arts and Humanities Institute on the Indianapolis campus. Mr. Kelly turned to the 19 graduate students in his digital public history class and asked if they would put other coursework on hold to focus on the project, which uses “rapid response collecting” for Covid-19 lived experiences. Eventually the project will merge with the larger Plague archive Such efforts to collect memories in real time was also used by groups after the Sept. 11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina and the Pulse nightclub massacre. The page from Ms. Denney’s diary became one of the first submissions to the coronavirus public memory project set up by Wright State University. “All of a sudden the pandemic was right here and personal,” said Dawne Dewey, head of special collections and archives at the university. “We put the call out because we need stories to help future generations understand this moment in history.” The archive, partly housed on the fourth floor of the school library, includes the journals of survivors of the 1918 flu pandemic. One was written by Donald McKinney Wallace, a farmer who served in the Army. Mr. McKinney was sickened with the flu in the fall of 1918. He was quarantined in barracks, separated from others by blankets hung from a wire. He wrote about the daily meal of soft boiled eggs and cold toast, feeling weak, a stubborn fever, isolation and the deaths of fellow soldiers — an account that could have been written today. “A century ago, people told their stories in written journals,” said Ms. Dewey. “Now, we are capturing people’s thoughts and experiences through social media posts, email, audio and photographs.” -
2020-04-15
2020 April 15 - Yahoo news headlines
Screenshot of Yahoo News headlines pertaining to the Covid19 outbreak. -
2020-04-15
2020 April 15 - News headline about the Covid19 outbreak
Screenshot of a news headline about the Covid19 outbreak. -
2020-04-15
Burlington, MA - Epicenter of its Economy is Empty
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the Burlington Mall has remained empty. Around this time, shoppers would be gathering in the mall to purchase gifts, clothes, and more. The mall has been the epicenter of Burlington's economy since the 1960s. -
2020-04-15
The Empty City: a Quarantine Photojournal
My week-by-week account (updated one month at a time) of life in quarantine in New Orleans -
2020-04-15
We are all in the same boat. We are not all in the same storm.
HUM402 An important reminder that each of us is going to feel differently to the current circumstances based on numerous variables. I have found it's very easy to get caught up in what others seem to be capable of but I'm not comparing apples with apples. My storm is different to theirs and it's ok. -
2020-04-15
We're all in this together
Reagan wanted to spread a positive message about our quarantine time. -
2020-04-15
Peyton Butterfly
Soccer practice had been cancelled since March 16th. Peyton wanted to be outside again doing something creative. -
2020-04-15
New York After Covid 19
Ninety-five percent of New York City's right around 200 passings from the new coronavirus had fundamental wellbeing conditions, however practically half were younger than 75, as indicated by information distributed by the city's wellbeing division on Tuesday. The passings, just as information on cases and hospitalizations, emulate the examples found in different urban communities with significant episodes. New York City had more than 15,000 Covid-19 cases starting at 5 p.m. Tuesday, the biggest flare-up in the U.S. -
2020-04-15
Suffolk University Instagram April 15, 2020
Suffolk University Interfaith Center online programming during pandemic -
2020-04-15
New York Yearning
Artwork, Assignment The goal of this assignment was to capture what our current situation feels like, by setting a scene and staging people within a photograph. Fordham University, Professor Jensen, VART 1135, L03, CRN 35590 -
2020-04-15
Paranoia
This image is meant to convey through a horror like aesthetic the fear associated with the outside and the potential risk of contraction of the COVID-19 virus -
2020-04-15
World's Fastest Hotdog Sits Idle in La Grange Park
One of the Midwest-famous Wienermobiles, owned and operated by the Oscar Mayer company, has sat idle on a residential street in La Grange Park, Illinois for nearly two weeks. Possibly parked near an Oscar Mayer employee’s place of shelter, the stagnant truck, like many other closed businesses in the Chicagoland area and around the country, has become a symbol of the hard-hitting economic recession that followed soon after the initial outbreak of COVID19. #DePaulHST391 -
2020-04-15
Experiencing the outide from inside
The idea was to show my attempt at bringing some of the things I missed from the outside world to the inside of my house. It is meant to be ironic and sort of comedic as it is obviosly kind of impossible for me to bring the beach or to go on a walk around the city inside of my house but it shows the reality of the right now. It was an assignment from my class at Parsons, PUFY 1001, A09 with Professor Jensen -
2020-04-15
COVID-19 Relief Check Letter
A letter from President Donald Trump and the White House informing the recipient, Rebecca S. Wingo, that her "Economic Impact Payment" arrived to the sum of $1200. The reverse is in Spanish. -
2020-04-15
"The Hermit Herald" vol. 1, Issue 14
Comparative country CV Stats; Mideast CV problems; blame Game again. -
2020-04-15
COVID 19 Journal: 04/15/2020
COVID 19 Journal by Kaitlin Whalen written 04/15/2020 -
2020-04-15
Houseparty game.
My daughter, my niece & I were trying out the Houseparty app and found a trivia quiz. It was fun to do something together as you can see from our faces (I was extra delighted at getting the question right!) -
2020-04-15
Do coronavirus social distancing orders violate religious freedom? Local pastors say yes
This article discusses pastors in various states suing their government over gathering restrictions that are believed to infringe on religious freedom rights. Specifically, Barry McDonald emphasizes that if proper social distancing was maintained, churches may be able to make a case to be considered an essential service. -
2020-04-15
Lawsuit accuses Beshear, others of violating religious freedoms in COVID-19 orders
This article explains how three Kentucky citizens are accusing Governor Andy Beshear and other government officials of violating their religious freedom. The three plaintiffs attended Easter church and were issued quarantine notices on their cars that instructed them to quarantine themselves at home for at least 14 days. They claim that because they practiced social distancing at the church, they have no need to quarantine themselves and are refusing to do so. They are filing a class action lawsuit to fight this order and to ensure their religious freedom in the future. -
2020-04-15
Concert cancellations and postponements
HUM402 A number of concerts, festivals and other forms of entertainment have been cancelled or postponed due to the impact of Covid - 19. This email screenshot from concert organisers, OzTix, shows the cancellation of the Luca Brasi tour, representative of the wider sacrifices made by the entertainment industry during this time of social distancing. -
2020-04-15
Social Distancing Line at Your Dekalb Farmer's Market
This image shows a line of shoppers located approximately six feet apart outside Your Dekalb Farmers Market in Scottdale, Georgia. Most shoppers were wearing masks, but the woman with the two children in front of the author went maskless. Everyone seemed stressed. A masked security guard let in new shoppers only when other left the store. -
2020-04-15
Playtime's Over
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak and the subsequent Stay At Home order given by Governor J.B. Pritzker, local parks have been shut down in order to promote social distancing and prevent the spread of the virus. This image, taken in Peoria, Illinois, shows a sign explaining the closure of the park to potential visitors, and detailing the Stay At Home order to anyone who might walk by. In the background, the swings on the swing set are knotted together, preventing use.