HUM402 This is what the UTas Sandy Bay campus looks like in the time of COVID-19, a vacant cluster of buildings during the academic year.

Venice Beach Skate Park was filled with sand to deter skaters from gathering during social distancing

St Kilda Road at morning peak hour - so quiet! Taken by Holly Watkins, Monday 20 April

(Pictured: Semi with green cabin lights) On March 21, 2020, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear asked Kentuckians to show green lights each night a COVID-19 fatality is reported — a show of solidarity and resilience that unites the Commonwealth. “Every night that I have to report a fatality, it’s a small thing, but we’re going to light the Kentucky Governor’s Mansion green. Green is the color of compassion, it’s the color of empathy. It’s also a color of renewal. According to my faith, when you pass from this world, your body is just a vessel and your soul moves to an ever better and more special place.”

(Pictured: Front porch, KY) On March 21, 2020, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear asked Kentuckians to show green lights each night a COVID-19 fatality is reported — a show of solidarity and resilience that unites the Commonwealth. “Every night that I have to report a fatality, it’s a small thing, but we’re going to light the Kentucky Governor’s Mansion green. Green is the color of compassion, it’s the color of empathy. It’s also a color of renewal. According to my faith, when you pass from this world, your body is just a vessel and your soul moves to an ever better and more special place.”

(Pictured: Barn and cow, North Madison County, KY) On March 21, 2020, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear asked Kentuckians to show green lights each night a COVID-19 fatality is reported — a show of solidarity and resilience that unites the Commonwealth. “Every night that I have to report a fatality, it’s a small thing, but we’re going to light the Kentucky Governor’s Mansion green. Green is the color of compassion, it’s the color of empathy. It’s also a color of renewal. According to my faith, when you pass from this world, your body is just a vessel and your soul moves to an ever better and more special place.”

(Pictured: Barn and cow, North Madison County, KY) On March 21, 2020, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear asked Kentuckians to show green lights each night a COVID-19 fatality is reported — a show of solidarity and resilience that unites the Commonwealth. “Every night that I have to report a fatality, it’s a small thing, but we’re going to light the Kentucky Governor’s Mansion green. Green is the color of compassion, it’s the color of empathy. It’s also a color of renewal. According to my faith, when you pass from this world, your body is just a vessel and your soul moves to an ever better and more special place.”

(Pictured: Green lights and night sky, Kentucky) On March 21, 2020, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear asked Kentuckians to show green lights each night a COVID-19 fatality is reported — a show of solidarity and resilience that unites the Commonwealth. “Every night that I have to report a fatality, it’s a small thing, but we’re going to light the Kentucky Governor’s Mansion green. Green is the color of compassion, it’s the color of empathy. It’s also a color of renewal. According to my faith, when you pass from this world, your body is just a vessel and your soul moves to an ever better and more special place.”

(Pictured: Front Porch, Louisville, KY) On March 21, 2020, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear asked Kentuckians to show green lights each night a COVID-19 fatality is reported — a show of solidarity and resilience that unites the Commonwealth. “Every night that I have to report a fatality, it’s a small thing, but we’re going to light the Kentucky Governor’s Mansion green. Green is the color of compassion, it’s the color of empathy. It’s also a color of renewal. According to my faith, when you pass from this world, your body is just a vessel and your soul moves to an ever better and more special place.”

(Pictured: Ale-8-One regional soda bottle) On March 21, 2020, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear asked Kentuckians to show green lights each night a COVID-19 fatality is reported — a show of solidarity and resilience that unites the Commonwealth. “Every night that I have to report a fatality, it’s a small thing, but we’re going to light the Kentucky Governor’s Mansion green. Green is the color of compassion, it’s the color of empathy. It’s also a color of renewal. According to my faith, when you pass from this world, your body is just a vessel and your soul moves to an ever better and more special place.”

(Pictured: Florence, KY Water Tower) On March 21, 2020, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear asked Kentuckians to show green lights each night a COVID-19 fatality is reported — a show of solidarity and resilience that unites the Commonwealth. “Every night that I have to report a fatality, it’s a small thing, but we’re going to light the Kentucky Governor’s Mansion green. Green is the color of compassion, it’s the color of empathy. It’s also a color of renewal. According to my faith, when you pass from this world, your body is just a vessel and your soul moves to an ever better and more special place.”

(Pictured: Fountain, downtown Somerset) On March 21, 2020, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear asked Kentuckians to show green lights each night a COVID-19 fatality is reported — a show of solidarity and resilience that unites the Commonwealth. “Every night that I have to report a fatality, it’s a small thing, but we’re going to light the Kentucky Governor’s Mansion green. Green is the color of compassion, it’s the color of empathy. It’s also a color of renewal. According to my faith, when you pass from this world, your body is just a vessel and your soul moves to an ever better and more special place.”

(Pictured: Old Fayette County Court House) On March 21, 2020, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear asked Kentuckians to show green lights each night a COVID-19 fatality is reported — a show of solidarity and resilience that unites the Commonwealth. “Every night that I have to report a fatality, it’s a small thing, but we’re going to light the Kentucky Governor’s Mansion green. Green is the color of compassion, it’s the color of empathy. It’s also a color of renewal. According to my faith, when you pass from this world, your body is just a vessel and your soul moves to an ever better and more special place.”

(Pictured: Main St., Lexington KY) On March 21, 2020, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear asked Kentuckians to show green lights each night a COVID-19 fatality is reported — a show of solidarity and resilience that unites the Commonwealth. “Every night that I have to report a fatality, it’s a small thing, but we’re going to light the Kentucky Governor’s Mansion green. Green is the color of compassion, it’s the color of empathy. It’s also a color of renewal. According to my faith, when you pass from this world, your body is just a vessel and your soul moves to an ever better and more special place.”

(Pictured: Kentucky State Capitol) On March 21, 2020, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear asked Kentuckians to show green lights each night a COVID-19 fatality is reported — a show of solidarity and resilience that unites the Commonwealth. “Every night that I have to report a fatality, it’s a small thing, but we’re going to light the Kentucky Governor’s Mansion green. Green is the color of compassion, it’s the color of empathy. It’s also a color of renewal. According to my faith, when you pass from this world, your body is just a vessel and your soul moves to an ever better and more special place.”

Many people around the world are escaping into the unfailingly wholesome and customizable world of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Though insulated from the pandemic, COVID-19 often follows players into the digital world they create. A user from Northern Kentucky used the custom crafting feature in the game to share Governor Andy Beshear's message of social distancing with their town's villagers.

Bars in Chicago have been closed for a month due to shelter-in-place. Service industry workers panicked: our paychecks are minimal, and business was just recovering from the winter slump. But, Chicago bartenders are family and many of them got creative. Estereo batched boozeless cocktail mixes and sold bottles of alcohol curbside. So far, we’ve raised enough money for each of our coworkers to get “tipped” $200. I know a lot of that came from fellow unemployed bartenders, and the generosity of them and strangers is truly humbling in a time of anxiety, fear, and social distancing. #DePaulHST391

This picture was taken by me on March 28, 2020, at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. It shows the empty baggage claim due to a lack of travelers from Coronavirus.

A piece published on the AAIHS' blog, Black Perspectives, looking at West Indian death in the building of the Panama Canal and relating it to the current coronavirus crisis.

The historic Green Mill Cocktail Lounge in Uptown, Chicago, has long been open from 12PM to 4AM 365 days a year: the marquee lights blaze in the daylight and twinkle invitingly once the sun goes down, and you can hear the faint blares of trumpets and saxophones. This bar has long been a haven from modern life for busybodies and music-lovers alike, where they can relax in the relic of the jazz age, myself included. For three years now, I have been going to the Green Mill every Tuesday after my bartending shift. However, Covid-19 has forced the bar to close its doors and to turn off its lights. Uptown feels lost without its guiding beacon, and its presence is one of the few aspects of regular life that I genuinely miss. #DePaulHST391

Thoughts on a a new normal

A flight attendant expresses her thoughts about missing her passengers during the quarantine.

Tigers can get it?

"Tribes say they’ve been forgotten in Trump’s coronavirus response and are running dangerously low on medical supplies."

We began rationing our toilet paper quickly once we realized we had missed our opportunity to stock up. We assumed people would calm down and refrain from hoarding. We were wrong. I bought a bag of cheap terry cloth material and cut it up to use "for number 1only!"

Due to the recent ban of dine-in restaurants in Chicago, this clever restaurant owner took a humorous approach to social distancing through the Covid-19 pandemic. The underwhelming 2019-20 Chicago Bears season, fresh in the minds of many Chicagoans, became the focal point of this restaurant’s attempt to promote social distancing. Third-year Quarterback Mitchell Trubisky held one of the worst QBR’s in the 2019-20 season, making himself the target of much slander and in this case, a pandemic-themed joke. In these unprecedented times, a little comedic relief can be greatly appreciated. #DePaulHST391

The trailblazing women of Boston once again set an example for us to follow

This document details the types of businesses and industries permitted to stay open in Pennsylvania as of 3/19/2020 after the governor shut down all non life-sustaining businesses.

An article about pandemics in history.

One thing that is overlooked during times like this are the children who come from broken, bad, non-functioning homes. As a school librarian, I celebrated the month+ off but dreaded the prospect of hunger and abuse the majority of my students at a Title 1, poverty stricken school would face. Our parish is currently scrambling to make sure there is food and learning access for our students, but I am afraid that my students, PreK-2nd grade, will slip through the cracks. And who knows where they will end up.

El ministerio de cultura del Perú compartio un video con el mensaje en Quechua Chanka que titula "Ayúdanos a combatir el avance del #COVIDー19" para saber más sobre este virus y cómo evitarlo. Ya que diferentes poblaciones de la sierra peruana no cuenta con dicha información ademas que al darse por radio, television o internet el aviso siempre es en Español. Nota: Descargar los spots radicales en lenguas originarias sobre COVID-19 en: bit.ly/CovidEnLenguas.

Flying from Las Vegas to Honolulu to see our about to be born granddaughter, we wanted to make sure we didn't pick anything up on the plane. We wore masks and washed our hands frequently.

A traffic sign in New York that reads "Save Lives #flattenthecurve"

Due to COVID-19, my family and I have tried to find more ways to hang out together at home. Before the outbreak, we usually visited local stores, movie theaters, and restaurants each week. However, since COVID-19 has forced us to stay home, we have been trying to find things to do together that do not involve going out. As a group, we have been playing video and board games, watching TV and movies, eating dinner as a family, cleaning the house, and walking our dog. Recently, for one of our game nights, we decided to play a new game called “Escape the Room: Mystery at the Stargazer’s Manor”. This game is an ‘at-home’ escape room. My family and I love going to escape rooms, so we thought this would be a fun alternative to try during COVID-19. My family was able to successfully escape and finish the game in the allotted time. We really enjoyed playing this game because it allowed us to participate in one of our favorite activities, without leaving our house.

As the COVID-19 spreads across the world, and the country is in a state of emergency, toilet paper is seemingly wiped off the face of the Earth. Acting out of panic, people rush to grocery stores to buy TP before it’s too late. Those who make it there in time are relieved to find a few remaining rolls of TP. Those who do not are s*** out of luck, and probably should have gone earlier. Now, friends and family have a duty to each other if they ever want to put this behind us. All joking aside, this event has caused a major shortage of TP across at least the United States. #DePaulHST391

As the COVID-19 spreads across the world, essential businesses such as grocery stores and pharmacies take precautionary measures. Following the guidelines issued by the CDC, businesses such as Walgreens request that while in (and out of) their pharmacy, customers distance themselves by at least 6 feet. Inside the pharmacy, customers distance themselves physically and socially, exchanging looks from 6 feet away that seem to say, “you are too close to me.” Tape across the floor dictates the CDC’s guidelines of what is too close. Novelist George Orwell’s writings come to mind, whose literature warns of dystopian societies. The entire Walgreens experience, from walking in, to shopping, to walking out, reminds customers of the often asymptomatic virus that anyone could have. #DePaulHST391

The Montgomery Bell State Park in Tennessee is shut down and completely blocked off like many others despite the governer stating that outdoor recreation is an essential activity and therefore still allowed.

While Florida is not predicted to peak until the first week of May, some cities are reopening closed beaches now, in mid-April. This hit the national news with much controversy, spawning the hashtag #floridamorons on social media. The day before I saw this article, I spoke with my parents who are at the New Jersey shore. They told me one man there was ticketed for walking his dog on the beach and a couple was ticketed and threatened with jail time for being on the beach.

Days before Minnesota's official shelter in place, people's homes began to transform into small factories. Turning out masks by the dozens, and sometimes even hundreds, Minnesotans answered the call for the protective headwear. Isolation did not stop people from joining together in common cause. Local businesses gave away materials, and local hospitals created drive-by drop offs for people to donate masks. Once we ran out of fabric, my mother turned to old clothes to meet the demands. Pictured above, I am modeling on of the first masks she made. We donated to family members, friends, neighbors, and also to a local hospital. We also shipped some to my brother's coworkers at the Pueblo, Colorado Health Department. In total, my mom has made around 100 masks, showing that not all heroes wear capes, but they do wear masks. #DePaulHST391

The playhouse is wrapped in plastic netting to make sure that no one visits it.

From the NYTimes print edition 4.17.20 #FordhamUniversity

Banner announcing how to find Sunday church service online.

This article speaks about getting involved in their religious community through virtual means. Every religion is important during this time and what you believe in can get you through it. With other forms of media people have found ways to conduct prayers and express their feelings. They speak about not being able to respond to Covid-19 through religion, but their teachings tell them to take action and not affect others. Those who have their faith should raise awareness but still engage in religious practices.

The article talks about how due to the effects of COVID-19 churches have had to close their doors to the public. With doing so it added a lot of limitations on what people can do as part of their faith. Thearticle follows a church in San Diego, California where confessions were made available in a "alternative" form. The Church was having confessions in the form of a drive-through, this would allow people to be cleansed from their sins, and still be considered "holy" by the time easter came around.

The article, The coronavirus pandemic has exposed fissures within religions, from the economist went over how religions all over the world (mostly christianity) is having t deal witht he coronavirus. It goes in depth about how preachers and high ranking church officials are having to ell people to stay home and that some of them are not staying home but they are still participating in religiousevents. But the main point of the aritcle is about whether all of this is going to turn people away from religion.

The article disscusses how this church in texas did easter during this pandemic and how they wished they could gather like they usually do. The author also talks about how families gathered on zoom but it is not the same and that is making people sad because they are people who do not have access to the internet. Finally the priest talks about how he is upset they cannot meet but advises other churches to stay home and wait till it gets better.

The article reported churches for Masses in New Mexico will be the first to get reopened by The Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces. The diocese guarantees to only limit 5 people come in at a time to follow the public health order of banning gathering more than 5 people in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Las Cruces Diocese, thry believed churches are closely related to "essential activities" because people seek out hope and confinement in churches to stay peaceful and reduce the anxiety during this hard time.

This article by Kali Robinson is a great article that talks about the major changes that have had to happen because of COVID-19 . Robinson starts off by mentioning that religious gatherings have been hotbeds for outbreaks. She even mentioned that "Half of South Korea’s cases can be traced back to a meeting of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, a Christian denomination"(Robinson, 2020). Since the outbreak, they have had to close down many places of worship, and have tried to limit social gatherings. In India they still celebrated Holi even though their prime minister advised to avoid social gatherings. Most of the people in attendance wore surgical masks. Religious groups are now donating equipment to undersupplied communities. Most churches have moved to online streaming for their services like the Roman Catholic Church started to livestream the Pope’s daily mass and Sunday sermon.

This article reports about the world's largest Islamic missionary movement with over 16,000 participants in Asia. Tablighi Jamaat is a century-old missionary movement that depends on the charity of mosques to give shelter and is one of the largest faith-based movements in the world. Because of this four day movement hundred of participants have tested positive for COVID-19. One participant states, "Whatever happens to us is God's will".