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Graffiti in Jamaica Plain regarding a rent strike during the pandemic.

We waited until our 14 days of travel related isolation was up before we put bear out for the bear hunt, now we can look for bears on out walks

Liquor store box, salvation for adults, box remade into a robot, salvation of entertainment

A sunny morning. A view from my hotel balcony. This shows the testing tents and the registration office.

Just like everyone, I got a pinkish colored liquid in a tube and lined up to enter the tent. There two steps to the test. One is a mouth swab, close to the throat. The second one is a nostril swab, which was very uncomfortable.

We are individually called out of our hotel rooms to do the COVID19 test.

Everyone was starving at about 10 pm. There weren't any shops at the airport, and all we could get was water. Dinner came to me in a cheap plastic bag. There's this pot of instant noodles, two bottles of water, and a packet of sliced bread.

Seeing men in white and yellow outfits made me tense my back and sent a shiver down my spine. There were no details announced about what tests they are going to do to us.

I chose to sit at the back as there are windows that are good for ventilation. There aren't a lot of passengers but everyone is a single passenger and distances each other when choosing seats.

This is the "Minhang" banner, the area that I live in. Seeing the banner gives me comfort and relief. I feel another step closer to home. We waited here for three hours as more people filled the waiting area. After this, we were taken to the bus to head to the hotel for further COVID19 testing.

This is one of the final rounds of testing. Our baggage is next to the queue. So close!

A group at a time, passenger names are called, and we are taken off the plane for the first round of testing. We gave in our health forms and were asked a bunch of detailed questions about our travels and where we stayed for the past 2 weeks.

Everyone on board is very well behaved. Most of the passengers are Chinese, and they keep their hands to themselves and use hand sanitizers very often.

About to board the flight from Singapore to Shanghai. There are still people that don't wear masks or wear any safety measures or precautions.

After the tiresome testings and form fillings, I was lead to the side doors of the airport, The blue banners mark different districts and areas in shanghai, and I followed the path towards my area: Minhang. In the waiting area, almost everyone had a facial mask on and showed no skin except for the face. Some passengers even wore a one-piece white "sheet cover", usually seen worn by hospital staff.

This photo was taken right outside of the gate, entering the plane. This was the last connecting flight I'm taking, from Singapore to Shanghai. I remember being super nervous and excited at the same time.

After the tiresome testings and form fillings, I was lead to the side doors of the airport. The blue banners mark different districts and areas in Shanghai, and I followed the path towards my area: Minhang. At the waiting area, almost everyone had a facial mask on and showed no skin except for the face. Some passengers ever wore a one-piece white "sheet cover", usually seen worn by hospital staff.

One of my son's classmates turned 5. We were invited to make cupcakes and zoom into a celebration - it felt poignant, and incomplete.

This captures the island nature of Tasmania - Australian but not. I saw it the first day of a 14 day travel related isolation, a moat within a moat

Justin’s Stay-Home Notice (SHN) in Singapore.

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Letters of hope

Inspired by the book 'Going On A Bear Hunt' by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury, people across Adelaide started putting teddy bears in their windows for children to find when they were out walking. Like all museums in Australia, Urrbrae House (a historic house museum} was closed to public visitors due to Covid-19 social distancing restrictions. So during the museum's closure, the Urrbrae House manager decided to put three teddy bears - Mama, Papa and Baby Bear - in various windows of the building for local children to spot. She then alerted people to look out for the bears via social media with the following post: "Mama, Papa and Baby Bear at Urrbrae House heard that bears all over Adelaide were sitting in windows to enjoy the sun and offer a smile to anyone going by while on a safe social distancing walk. While the museum is closed and our bears are in social isolation, they thought this was a splendid idea and have joined in." The picture represents one way people tried to remain connected during the pandemic and a desire to bring joy to children and their families at an uncertain time.

A person wearing a cone and a dog responding by saying "this is for your own good to not touch your face."

If gun shops are an essential service in the US, then cartoonists should be an essential service for us.

This elementary school is also used by the community for other purposes. Clearly it is still in use, even with schools closed. Taken during a walk around the neighborhood on day 19 of our lockdown.

SEARCH is about human life. How we can look back and hear with the ears of our hearts, then and only then, we will understand that Truth is not your truth or my truth, but, THE TRUTH ! Nature will show us the way.

These emergency water packets were lying in the middle of Orchid Street on an early Tuesday morning. Accident? Litter?

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First statement about modified work policy for the university.

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Dear future self, Welcome back to the wonderful world of the COVID-19 outbreak. It’s been a year, so you will be in 2021, 17 years old and about a month from graduating high school. Current status: I don’t even know, the US is doing the worst in the world (for COVID-19 cases and other assorted issues haha) and last time I checked 34 of the states have stay-at-home orders. It’s April 6th, 2020, and we have been self-quarantining for about 3 weeks now, but the actual stay-at-home order from Ducey is fairly recent. All I’ve been doing is go to work a few times a week, babysit twice a week, and do online school. I’m excited to be a senior next year, especially because I’ll have a half day. When the outbreak first happened in China, I can’t say I cared or knew a lot about it. Come February it was getting worse, and we heard about schools closing, but looking back I was in a bubble, and I felt like it wasn’t going to really affect me. (“They won’t close schools, and it’s not like anyone I know will get it”). We joked about it constantly, but we’re Gen Z, we’re nihilistic about everything - walking through the school I heard banter about people trying to get COVID-19 just so they will cancel school. Around then was when I started to see real effects of Corona, movies not being released in theaters, talk shows filmed at home. So, I began reading the news and listening to a news podcast every morning in hopes of educating myself. As I started to grasp the situation, my bubble burst all at once. It was the day after I took my SAT (I was one of the few who did take it: most test centers had been closed due to the virus - once again I was not directly affected), and it was announced that school had really been cancelled, so my first week of quarantine began. Spring break was coming up, and I still had a lot of hope: that we’d be back in school, that this would be over soon, that we’d still go on vacation, that life would quickly return to normal. Everything accelerated so quickly about a week after that, and the situation became stressful. All of the sudden my daily routine of waking up, going to school, coming home, sometimes working, sometimes going to French Honors Society: it was all gone. I realized I wouldn’t see my friends in person for months, and that I would have to try to keep my grades up from home. The only thing that really brought normality was my favorite show (Good Mythical Morning) that brought new episodes (now from their homes) daily, so that’s what I woke up for each morning. The next week I continued work, which I had taken a week’s break from to assess the situation, and started babysitting for two kids whose parents needed someone to look after them now that we are all at home. Having something to do brought a schedule to my life, and shortly after that school started up again online. I hope that by the fall the outbreak has calmed. I have been listening to the news podcast for a couple weeks, and scientists such as Dr.Fauci say the virus might be seasonal, meaning it would never really go away. However, the swine flu was really bad like 10 years ago, and now it is just one of the strands of flu we get shots for. In my free time I’ve been playing a lot of Switch, FaceTiming with my little cousins, and hanging out in the backyard. It’s really interesting to hear about the situation from the perspectives of younger kids because they see things much more simply than we do. It seems like they just miss going to school, and are waiting for this to be over already: I’d guess it’s hard for them to grasp the severity of the situation, especially since it seems like a lot of adults are failing to do so. I think the main thing I will remember from this time is the confusion and some of the hopelessness I feel, staying at home to protect myself and others but wanting nothing more than to go back to normal life (as I suspect everyone who goes through an upheaval in their life feels). Anyway, I hope you’re doing well, future me! P.S. Do you still listen to the same music and podcasts I do now? Right now I’m loving The 1975, Nirvana, Harry Styles, Billie Eilish, Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Mayer (as I have literally my whole life - no way that’s changed), and the Mythical Feel Good Quarantine Playlist that Rhett and Link made. As far as podcasts, I listen a lot to Ear Biscuits, Philip DeFranco, and NVC, and some Dolly Parton’s America.

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A bike outside of a basketball court that is roped off in Platte City, Missouri

In this C-19 Comic Propaganda Poster, which is part of the Native Realities collection, Kickapoo artist and writer Arigon Starr (https://superindiancomics.com/sample-page/) challenges her Indigenous audience to help the medical community during the pandemic by washing their hands to save lives. #IndigenousStories

In this C-19 Comic Propaganda Poster, which is part of the Native Realities collection, Navajo artist Dale Deforest (http://www.daledeforest.com/) challenges his Indigenous audience to take care of their elders during the pandemic by practicing social distancing and the washing of hands. #IndigenousStories

In this C-19 Comic Propaganda Poster, which is part of the Native Realities collection, Navajo artist Dale Deforest (http://www.daledeforest.com/) challenges his Indigenous audience to take care of their elders during the pandemic by practicing social distancing and the washing of hands. #IndigenousStories

In this C-19 Comic Propaganda Poster, which is part of the Native Realities collection, Navajo artist Vanessa Bowen (https://bowencreative.co/about-vanessa-bowen/?v=89d269ea9f2e) challenges her Indigenous audience to take care of their communities and elders during the pandemic by practicing common sense through social distancing and the washing of hands.

Open Pit and Anamanaguchi are throwing a coronavirus relief virtual music festival on Saturday, April 11 that takes place within the video game world of Minecraft. It’s called Nether Meant and it’s set to feature performances from American Football, Anamanaguchi, Baths, HANA, and more. Nether Meant takes place in a fictional space called Elsewither, which is based on the Brooklyn venue Elsewhere (Elsewhere worked jointly with the Open Pit team to create this space). The event starts at 6 p.m. Eastern.

Criticism and scrutiny continues to follow the Trump administration’s belated and fumbled response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

An article discussing hackers’ attacks on Black and Asian American students via Zoom and how this form of racism has infiltrated the private realm of people’s homes

A resident shows support for local medical professionals by hanging white flags reading "WE [heart] DOCTORS" and "WE [heart] NURSES" off their front porch.

I've been locked inside for 3 weeks and even my dog is getting bored of me.

A homemade sign displayed in a window of a house in the Bywater neighborhood reminds folks to practice social distancing to halt the spread of Covid-19.

New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), shrouded in black cloth to mourn the passing of Ellis Marsalis, renowned pianist, music educator, and NOCCA Founder. Covid-19 caused Marsalis's death.

As children in Orange County have been out of school, they have been putting in time and effort to try and brighten the mood around the neighborhood. This image is but one of many that I have stumbled across walking throughout my neighborhood, each one with inspirational messages about how we will get through this.

A nurse from one of the top hospitals in the Greater Boston area showing off what materials she uses when having to enter into a possible Covid patient's room. Materials are starting to run short meaning that some items, such as masks and glasses, are having to be reused as health guidelines are relaxed to counter the anticipated shortages.

How my learning and working environment changed due to the pandemic.