I track the amount of steps I take with an app on my phone. This shows the amount of steps I took during the week of March 22-28. Since we are encouraged to stay at home as much as possible, I am not getting in as many steps as I would like. However, I occasionally try to go to the nearby park or walk to the grocery store.

Video is a drive down the Las Vegas Strip that highlights the lack of people, and emptiness of the space following its closure and the shutdown of the casinos. #HIST5241

Image of text chat that discusses the canceling of Tufts University commencement and shows graduate in cap and gown with clown makeup on in response. Meant to highlight how several graduates around the country feel as their events are canceled in the face of the pandemic. #HIST5241

Image shows an experience that is relatable to many people graduating from high school, college, or graduate school. This piece highlights the many emotions students have, and how they have been impacted in this moment.

The Apple app store on my phone featured a public service announcement about social distancing, featuring Dr. Anthony Fauci. It shows how different companies are attempting to help inform people on the importance of flattening the curve.

Petition addressed to the Governor of New York State and the state's congressional delegation that calls for the suspension of rent/mortgage payments and for the housing of homeless New Yorkers. #HIST5241

Signs posted on the doors of a UPS Store in Boston, MA. In accordance to CDC guidelines, the store can only serve two customers at a time.

An announcement from the City of Miami enforcing a nightly curfew to help slow the spread of the coronavirus. It lists the few key exceptions to the curfew. #HIST5241

I saw this tape in front of a counter at a CVS Pharmacy in Boston, MA. It aims to keep customers 6 feet apart, which is the distance the CDC considers safe from passing on the virus. #HIST5241

An announcement from Publix Supermarket, describing details for shopping hours for customers age 65 and older. #HIST5241

Drone footage of Ann Arbor MI #HIST5241

Drone footage of Bagdad #HIST5241

Precision Boring Company was designated as part of the Critical Defense Industrial Base during the Covid-19 response. Machinists at Precision Boring Company, considered essential employees, maintaining physical distance while at work. #HIST5241

Drone footage of San Francisco #HIST5241

Drone footage of New York #HIST5241

Drone footage of Spain #HIST5241

Drone footage of Paris #HIST5241

Drone footage of Italy #HIST5241

Drone Footage Nashville

Drone Footage of Los Angeles #HIST5241

Drone footage of Wuhan #HIST5241

Boston Drone footage of empty streets #HIST5241

The Arizona Historical Society sent an email highlighting its online exhibits and other resources, particularly targeting children and youth.

Brazilian President tries to downplay the effects of COVID-19 and urges people to keep working

In North Carolina, I am located 10 miles away from Raleigh. Wake County has closed all non-essential businesses, until April 17th. This is a huge loss in Raleigh's economy, let alone the world's. Raleigh is the hub for business personnel, dine-in cuisine, and leisure fun. 71/100 counties in North Carolina have at least one case of COVID-19. My county, Wake County, has over 134 reported cases. This is extremely scary, as we are such a small county, and people in fast food are still expected to work since they are considered "essential". It is a scary time for all of us, and especially those who are autoimmune compromised. Our Governor, Roy Cooper, has mandated a stay at home order for all who live in North Carolina. However, there is a lot of issues of people still going to the beaches on the coast and not social distancing. North Carolina police have begun to find people who are seen in groups larger than 5. It is to ensure that the virus does not spread to others, and keep the stay in home order a necessity. There is a bar graph to indicate the reported cases in North Carolina attached, and it was posted by David Raynor Source: NC DHHS and county health departments.

Fishing's necessity for large spaces between anglers makes it a good way to practice social distancing

The Giving Tree, an organic market in Linden, Virginia (about one hour west of Washington, D.C.) shifts to online pick up only in response to Covid-19. The old country store across the highway remains open with no restrictions, because the owner thinks the whole pandemic thing is being exaggerated.

New Balance contributing to the shortage of personal protective equipment needed for healthcare professionals by producing prototypes of face masks in their facilities.

A customer left behind a package of toilet paper, where another customer picked up and decided to check out. The customer realized that "his" toilet paper was gone and wanted it back, arguing with the cashier. It was the last package in the store.

Restaurants here are allowed to offer takeout or delivery, so my favorite corner muffin shop is staying open. Staff have placed three pieces of packaging tape on the floor to mark where customers should stand to maintain appropriate physical distance from each other.

Trabajadores de limpieza, workers in municipal cleanup demand a bonus similar to the S/380 bonus given to Peru's poorest citizens

I am very uncertain as to what to write in these journal entries or what people will want to see years from now when they are learning about the COVID-19 pandemic. I don’t know if anyone will even read this. I have never kept a journal or log, but with the events going on in the world right now I feel like I should. Being a history major I feel like this is a perfect way to preserve something that people will read and learn about years from now. There is a lot of uncertainty in the world at the moment. There are people getting laid off from their jobs because they do not want to work to shelter themselves from the virus. We are all supposed to be in quarantine but I feel like people are not taking seriously. Today at work people were just coming in to get out of the house.

Daily blog post of an assistant professor who’s had to go remote

A sign in a bottleshop, Liquorland, advising customers that vodka doesn’t work as a hand sanitiser. Shows the scarcity of hand sanitiser at this time!

Memes about covid-19 are prevalent on the internet.

Tieks, an online retailer of foldable flats, started a campaign to get masks sewn for healthcare workers. Because of the shortage of masks, healthcare workers are reusing disposable masks or even going without. Tieks is offering gift cards for customers that sew masks and then donate them to local hospitals or other healthcare sites.

A blood drive on Phoenix, with social distancing imposed so we don't harm each other while trying to save each other. Seemed a little on the nose

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I have spent the first half of my life being angry at my mother, and the second half forgiving her. She was insensitive, narcissistic, and at times, downright cruel. There were, of course, reasons, explanations, and perhaps understandings of my mom’s behavior and I have made a lifetime study of her so that I would not be like her as a mother. And I was not. I even published a memoir about life with her and after her. Now, in the time of Corona Virus, I find myself attributing many of my strengths to my mother. I have not been frightened by this pandemic. Rather, I think I’m coming into my finest hour. I am strong, positive, and yes, even happy. When I was a child, my mother would not “allow” me to be sick. There was no sympathy for illness. If I “chose” to be ill, I would have to stay in bed, eat nothing but tea and toast, and there was absolutely no TV nor friends. I was, after all, “sick.” With that scenario, I did not miss a day of school from third grade throughout high school. Now it is as if my body refuses to harbor a virus. I do take the prescribed precautions, but I do not even entertain the thought or fear of this virus. I do sense that if I did contract it, I would not be stopped by it. My mother would not allow me to watch TV if the sun were shining, and so I learned the joy of the outdoors. “Go outside and play,” was her mantra on the non-school days. As an adult, I quickly learned that gardening is “playing in the dirt for adults,” and so now, isolated, I spend the sunny days – even the cold ones, out in my yard, either cleaning it up, laying down compost, or planting seeds. I do not turn on the television until after I’ve practiced my piano lesson and cleaned up the dinner dishes. Even then, I am so tired from the day, I only watch TV for an hour or so before I am off to bed. Busying herself with her job and caring for her home, my mother had little or no time to share with me. “Get busy. Do something. Read a book or something,” was her order of the day. At age seven I taught myself to use the sewing machine; at eight I learned to knit. I embroidered and did crewel work. Later in life I took watercolor painting classes and resumed piano lessons with a magnificent teacher. I got busy. I seem not to have enough time in each day here, isolated at home, to catch up on my pastimes. Now in the day of COVID-19, I finally have time to do all the things I love to do without being interrupted for social events or volunteer promises. And whom do you think I attribute all the myriad interest, health, and self-sufficiency I find myself graced with – my mother, who unwittingly gave me the tools to find joy in isolation and meaning in the mundane. I am doing fine in this time of the pandemic. Thank you, Mom.

Photo of a letter from Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, advising residents on ways to prevent the spread of the virus. Also provides information on how to receive regular updates. #HIST5241

Spreading positivity helps people cope with the stress imposed by this pandemic.

People are spreading positivity and getting creative in an effort to calm fears and express solitary.

An account of countries in violent conflict and ways to combat the spread of COVID-19.

It has been hard not seeing my friends for my 22 birthday. Over the past 4 years they have become more than my friends; they are my family. I came home for spring break March 4th expecting to come back before the 24th, but then it was extended until 22nd. Earlier this week, the president made all flights out of the New York area a mandatory quarantine for 2 weeks after they land. I do not want to put my roommates in a position where they cannot leave the home to get groceries. So I am waiting until everything dies down before I get to see them.

A quiet day at Burke Lake Park due to COVID-19.

Precision Boring Company was designated as part of the Critical Defense Industrial Base during the Covid-19 response. Machinists at Precision Boring Company, considered essential employees, maintain physical distance while at work. #HIST5241

This blog post gives parents/teachers tips for implementing project based learning at home during COVID-19 school closures

An email from WIDA, an organization that supports language education, on resources that can be used during transitions to remote/online learning during the COVID-19 school closures

Text and images from the PJ Kennedy School Weebly created for communication during the COVID-19 school closures.

This shared document outlines all of the online work for students in grades K0-5 at the PJ Kennedy school in Boston, MA during the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent school closures.  It includes detailed guidelines for specific assignments and resources that students should be using, and is broken down by grade level. *Living Document (GoogleDoc) for the School Community, including teachers, staff, parents, and students