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2020-06-12
during the pandemic whne there is nothing to do during the day i would just practice soccer. such as footwork, and control, new moves. because the turf was shut down for a while so you just had to do it at home. there was nothing else to do.
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2020-08-27
i read a book called paranoid and watched several random shows
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2020-08
i couldn't go anywhere dering the pendemic it was boring
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2020-05
I was stuck at my grandparents for a month with my two brothers, sister, cousin, and my grandparents during the start of the first wave of COVID-19. We didn't really do anything but stay inside. When we first got there, we had to wipe off my PlayStation 4, PlayStation controller, Headset, and all of my PlayStation games. When we got groceries, we would wipe them off and let them dry overnight. The worst part about the entire thing was that I had to shut my PlayStation off a lot and had to be off at a certain time. It was upstairs so I couldn't try and play on it at night but I also got up at 8:00am or 9:00am for online classes that didn't even count as a grade.
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2020-04-15
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
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2020-04-14
Music helped me during quarantine because it was an amazing distraction and I was able to tune everything else out. I would listen to music in my different ways including a record player, a cd player, and my phone. I played music just about anytime I wasn't doing something else. It helped me calm down in such stressful times. Quarantine was such a dark time, we expected to finish off the school year but that got taken away from us. We weren't allowed to see our friends, we didn't get to say goodbye to our teachers, all we really needed was distractions. Music wasn't the only thing that helped, some other things were facetiming, text messaging, TikToks, movies/tv shows, and reading.
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2020-08-27T21:35:00
Well for a while it was really hard to find toilet paper. Like really why would someone buy all the toilet paper
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2020-08-27
Getting corona can be scary for some people especially if you get it. My grandparents got it, but only one of them got it bad. My grandpa had to spend a few weeks in the quarantine section of a hospital and he was in rough shape. My grandma however, even though she tested positive, was asymptomatic. She was scared though for my grandpa. He is much better now but my grandparents do take more precautions now that they have had it. This is important to me because it shows that people can survive the corona. I personally am not afraid of the corona but that does not mean i wont be careful.
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2020-08-27
My experience with covid-19 was just basically my normal life of just staying home and doing nothing most of the time, but it was kinda hard to not forget a mask whenever i would leave the house. There were also a lot of things going on all over social media like blm (black lives matter) and acab and a bunch of things and i tried to do my part in helping the movement even though i still am.
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2020-08-27
When we started quartine it was the end of march. I didn't do a whole a lot till April 19th. April 19th was my 14th birthday. My sister was able to come over so I could have a birthday dinner. It was rough not being able to see anyone or do anything.
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2020-08-18
nothing is happening. i'm bored. we're already back in school. can the virus come back plz.
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2020-08-27
Everything with COVID is different, there is alot that we need to do to prevent the spread of the virus. The spread is vapid, friends are getting it, family members are getting it. We were under quarantine for quite some time, and we were doing virtual learning. The virtual learning was rough, everyone was unprepared for the situation. Not only was the virtual learning hard, but so was maintaining your mental health. Staying home and not having much interaction with people other than your family is a bit rough. You will want to keep yourself occupied, and that can by with anything, drawing, going for a walk/run, watching TV, cooking/baking. Anything to keep you entertained and active in some type of way. This quarantine has been far from easy but it is what needed to be done for the sake of everybody's health. The world is going to be different for quite sometime now, the masks and social distancing seem to be the new normal for a while. But until that's over with everyone has to just do their part so this can all end faster. Washing your hands, not touching your mask unless you've sanitized, putting your mask somewhere clean when you take it off such as a zip lock bag, and getting a new mask everyday. You have to do your part the right way or it won't work, you'll just be cross contaminating germs and you will end up getting sick.
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2020-08-20
I chose to use this photo because I feel as though it really reflects what the past few months have led up to for me. My graduation was something I had been looking forward to all of highschool, since I struggled my first two years to get credits and I’ve worked extremely hard to get to this point of finally earning my diploma. The cap and gown mixed with the mask shows that even with setbacks, being represented by the mask, you can find success, as represented through the cap, gown, and tassel. I spent the past few months worrying that I would never get this ceremony, and validation that I have succeeded, however I have learned throughout this pandemic that I do not need the fancy ceremony, or validation to know that I have succeeded. I am strong, and I am able to fight whatever comes my way.
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2020-03-20
I think this is a great article that shows the resilience of people during trying times. The Hern family in Texas was all ready for their trip to Disney when Covid struck and cancelled their trip. They would not let that get them down through, this video shoes not only their love for Disney but their creativity and positive attitude while they recreated what their trip might have looked like. This is such a great depiction of not allowing social distancing to change your positive life, of going with the flow and making the best of a tough situation.
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2020-08-25
This story explores the question of whether or not there is an acceptable form of travel in the midst of Covid. It is an opinion piece focusing on a man who travels regardless of regulations and shut downs. He tells his story of the backlash he is receiving from both his professional and personal life. He is skeptical about the severity of the pandemic and does not realize the impact this traveling could cause. This is an important piece because is shows the world through the eyes of a traveling skeptic. Someone who may be spreading the virus while being asymptomatic. This article explores the realms of acceptability in travel and asks the reader if there is any form of travel that is acceptable these days.
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2020-08-26
This article claims that people are so desperate to go on summer vacations that they are flocking to AirBnBs and Vrbo spaces. I see importance in this article because it shines light to the ways people are finding loopholes to social distancing and closed boarders. Many people need to get away for their mental health, and some use these opportunities to throw parties and blatenly break the rules. What ever their reasons may be this article highlights the surge in AirBnB and Vrbo usage.
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2020-04-19
The photo shows nurses blocking an anti-lockdown protest in Denver. This picture is one of many photos taken the afternoon of April 19th, 2020. The protesters argued that they should be able to go out and get haircuts, have a drink at the bar, eat at a restaurant, and so on. The protesters argued that the mandatory stay-at-home and wearing of face masks went against their constitutional rights. One woman held up a sign saying, “land of the free” and shouted “This is a free country. Land of the free. Go to China if you want communism.” All the while the nurses stood silently in the cross walks during red lights in their scrubs and N95 masks, trying to show the effects and severity of Covid-19. This photo shows a mere glimpse of the anti-lockdown protests. The contrasting arguments of personal health vs. public health
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2020-08-26
Why is it so hard for me to say goodbye to this group of interns? I’ve taught face-to-face classes, I’ve taught online, and I’ve never had this reaction at the end of a class. HST580: Professional Experience is done. Normally this is the point where I turn in grades and post a meme or giphy about grading. But I didn’t do that, because I don’t want to want to look at their portfolios and I don’t want to read their last journal entries. When I do that, it’s really over. The oh so experimental 15 week internship completed remotely and asynchronously proved to be one of the most fulfilling experiences of my higher ed teaching career.
Today, as the dust began to settle after their last meeting, I asked myself. What is the big deal? Why did you cry (again) when saying goodbye to this group of students on Zoom? I think there are a lot of factors at play. One is that we all took a crash course on rapid response archives together. I had barely a hair and sometimes no more expertise than the interns, and their critical analysis of curation, best practices, and ethics helped the team solve problems in real time. Second, although I love teaching online, like many I’ve felt very isolated with the shelter in place rules. Even though I have a wonderful family and a less than wonderful dog, I looked forward to our weekly meetings quite earnestly. It felt like my one or two moments of the week that I got to connect with people and talk about really interesting things, even if sometimes I was just venting. We all got to vent. We vented about the pandemic’s effect on our mental health, the almost overwhelming feeling some days that we just can’t stand it anymore, and the frustration that it feels like things aren’t getting better and normal is so ephemeral we fear we might never know it again. Third is that the interns were true to themselves and authentic. No two were exactly the same, but they were willing to push themselves and evolve with a constantly moving target. What more can one ask for than to work with genuine people, who took on a huge project and found the path of collaboration instead of competition.
Today’s meeting culminated in a recorded conversation with a representative from CBS. Potentially, some of the conversation could wind up the program “60 Minutes.” The conversation was so rich, diverse, and truly heartwarming that the entire meeting needs to be a part of the archive. I wouldn’t trade this experience for anything, and I feel so lucky to have worked with such an incredible team.
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2020-08-26
Through the pandemic I have never stopped working. My wife and so many others were laid off and impacted through all of this. I smile because we have been able to maintain our livelihood and health.
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2020-08-26
Growing up as a middle class white female, being one who fights for the under dog (social justice) has always made me stand out. One of the reasons I was attracted to my current college, Antioch was that the school fights for social justice. The pandemic has shined a light on all the inequalities in our nation and globally. Initially, when the protesting began it felt needed and I was in full support. As time has passed, the protests have become violent and I have seen people from the left and the right become narrow minded and clouded by anger. Today, I still stand for social justice and support many of the protests but what I have learned from seeing political arguments in the media is that I don't know a whole lot about our nations history, government processes, and the history of racism in the world. I no longer trust the news and today's journalist. Before the pandemic, I knew exactly who I wanted to vote for during this years presidential election and now I don't know. I find myself in the middle between the Democratic and Republican party. I don't want to not vote because I lose my voice. What the pandemic and protests have shown me is that I need to educate myself so I can make an informed opinion before I vote instead of voting blindly like I have in the past. Where I find myself now is in the middle of the road, a place I ner thought I would find myself and a position that is extremely uncomfortable.
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2020-08-18
While this Tweet specifically addresses the responsibility overcrowding in California prisons has played in the Covid outbreak, other states have the same problem. Overcrowding in prisons and jails is a nationwide epidemic.
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2020-07-16
One good example of a story is going to the store. In order to enter you have to wear a mask. When you get in the employees tell you that your cart has been sanitized and you start to shop. All aisles have arrows on the ground that you are supposed to follow. Some people like me try to avoid people while walking through the store. The checkout process is a bit different because almost all checkout lines that employees checkout your groceries for you are closed so you are forced to use the self checkout. You can use money or credit cards but since money is passed around between multiple people I don’t really like to touch it. Now we just pickup our groceries outside the store though. The meme I submitted I thought it was funny and it’s gonna be really weird to explain everything to future generations.I also submitted some games that I have been playing recently. Fall guys is currently relevant and it’s probably viewed as a pretty old game or, most likely, people have completely forgot about it. Portal is currently 9 years old and most people don’t know or care about the game but it’s my favorite game of all time. It’s also underrated. The last of us series is also really good and sorta relevant still. Since the last of us part II is viewed as a realistic-looking game, I’m interested to see how graphics have evolved since then, if they have, which I imagine they did.
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2020-07-07
One man who was released from San Quentin Prison in California explains his feeling of survivors guilt. He was released in May 2020, before the outbreak in the prison began.
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2020-08-18
This article was co written by Popular Information and Voices of San Quentin. It explains how a major California state prison managed to stave off covid-19 until inmates from another prison were transferred into the facility. . . and they were carrying covid, what they did to deal with the outbreak, and how it effected incarcerated persons.
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2020-07-09
This Tweet highlights the activism around releasing incarcerated people to prevent the spread of covid and any sentence from turning into a death sentence.
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2020-08-25
This Tweet poses a good question for investigation. Did prisons and other incarceration facilities receive PPP loans that were meant for small businesses?
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2020-08-26
This Tweet brings up a point many may not have thought of. Climate change and it causing more pandemics which greatly effect incarcerated populations.
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2020-08-26
When the corona virus first hit I am gonna be honest it was just a huge joke in my opinion but then people in my county started getting it and I realized this wasnt a joke anymore I got super sad when we started doing online school because it got cancelled and basically never did my school work so my mom got mad and said that I had to go stay with my friend who lived down the street for the rest of online school I got really mad at my mom and we didnt talk as much especially because I was gone 5 days of the week when i was stuck at my friends house her mother knew that I worked super fast so she would let me sleep all day when I was done with work and then I would stay up two days straight doing things like making them dinner and just chilling out watching netflix in my room up in my bed that i had in there house the only netflix show i really like is glee adn thats the only thing that i honestly like to watch but after a while my friend got really annoyed with her and I spent most of my time fighting with her cause after a while it took a lot not to be mad at everything all the time like every single tiny thing irritated me and then i started losing all of my friends and i cried a lot and got depressed and i never really ate any food because i was always really sad i never ever left bed unless it was to get food or go to the bathroom but then after the corona calmed down a bit me and my fmaily moved and we didnt move towns or antything but we moved from a townhome to an actual house that we owned and you could tell that my miserable sister wasnt as sad anymore and that made the rest of my family happy and my depression slowly went away and now i go to school wearing a mask and get masks break and am on a block scedule which im alright with it doesnt bother me i have fun at school with all my friends and im super happy here
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2020-08-22
2. A simple sticker has now become such an important concept in my current life. At first, I remember seeing them and thinking that this measure was a little extreme and really not needed. Now, my whole mindset has changed. At stores, I am now that person that dislikes if you’re too close to me. It makes me feel like I’m covered with germs if we have to squeeze by each other in an aisle. If I’m paying for something and you’ve already started unloading your items in your cart to pay and moving near me, it makes me feel very disrespected. Something so small such as personal space is now a thing that I think about every day. While at times it helps me to feel safe, it also impacts my personal life too. Things like random hugs, hanging out with friends, playing soccer, or just being able to touch another human being. Socially distancing represented by this small sticker has taken over how I live my life.
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2020-08-26
Over the summer I mostly just stayed at home and went over to friends houses. We started sports in June and it only last around 2 weeks and then sports were cancelled until August. Then it was time to go back to school. I picked to do in person classes.
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2020-08-26
My expierence had been very different. Wearibg masks is a pretty odd thing to adjust to, and itsz not easy.i out masks in this story because its an evry day nesesity now and its also a new trend. You can match a mask with any outfit and ther epretty fun acessory.
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2020-04-14
Throughout quarintine I went to scouts camp at Bartle Camp reservation. I also vistied Colorado with my family and went camping at truman lake. And last I played an older video game that I was wanting to play for a while.
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2020-08-26T12:04
During quarantine I played a lot of games, mostly modern warfare, spend time with my dogs, and talk to friends. One of my friends told me he tested positive last week, so I worry about him everyday. I traveled to Arkansas with my dad to help fix up a house and see my cousin.
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2020-08-26
During the quarantine, I spent a lot of time practicing and making myself better at my sports that I play. I really didn't do the school work online, we had the choice to do the work or not and I decided not to. I practiced at my house, mostly by myself. I was very upset when the virus hit, school got cancelled, a lot of activities got cancelled. I was going to participate in track, but I could not. I couldn't see my friends, I could barely see my family. It was definitely hard but we all got through it. My mom didn't want to leave the house for anything, she went to the store every two weeks. She went as little as possible, trying not to get sick. I did know a few people that actually got the virus and they lived through it. They explained to us that it was very hard and difficult, but they did make it. No one in our family got sick, we used all of the precautions. We wear masks everywhere we go and wash our hands all the time. During school, I never take off my mask, and I always wipe off my hands.
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2020-08-26
At first, I didn't think much of it. It wasn't too bad when I found out about it, but the virus was getting progressively worse. As we were leaving school for spring break, I expected to go back to school the following week. That is not what ended up happening. Cases were increasing, but I still wasn't very worried. I mainly focused on it being a risk mostly for older people, but younger people starting catching the virus. I never left my house except to go grocery shopping with my mom. My family didn't really take any precautions, we expected it to not affect us. My mom continued going to work when businesses starting shutting down for the time being. With being around the same people everyday, we didn't worry much. At the time, I was playing competitive volleyball. I still had about five or six tournaments left, but they all got cancelled. We were not able to make up the rest of the season, which was definitely upsetting. There ended up being a big party just outside of the town I lived in, and there were about 300+ people from my school and surrounding schools. It was not too long after restaurants and stores started opening back up along with sports activities. A lot of people ended up receiving the virus, leading to some restaurants to close one again. A lot of people from my school's cheer team had to be quarantined. Sports were once again shut down, waiting until the week before school started to start back up again. I was still involved in a summer league volleyball team, but we took precautions. We sanitized, didn't come in contact with the other team, and the spectators wore masks. It wasn't too much different, but school volleyball is going to be much different. There are a certain amount of people each player can invite, we have to wear masks on the bench (and while playing depending on where we are), and of course, spectators have to social distance and wear masks as well. During school when social distancing of 6 feet is not available, we are required to wear masks. There was an option of doing online school, or going in person. This is a picture of my friends and me during history class.
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2020-03-14
Me and my family would go to the store to get grocieries, the shelfs were basically empty and had nothing on them. We needed toilet paper but there really wasn't any there, so we had to improvise and get paper towels which were about gone. The meme says a lot about the pandemic because it was a hassle to go to the store and get groceries cause there wasn't anything there.
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2020-03-25
Tiger King started an uproar of things during the pandemic. The outbreak of this show and the people who believed that Carol Baskin killed her second husband and fed him to tigers reopened the case. This submission is important to me because I really think that Carol killed her husband.
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2020-07-21T21
Going to the Drive In movies was some of the most fun that I had during the Pandemic. This was something that I had not done in a long time before 2020, but once Coronavirus happened going to a normal theater was not a possibility. It was really nice to be able to do something enjoyable, such as watching a movie in public, and not have Covid dominate the experience. While sitting outdoors, under the stars, it was almost as if things were not so unusual right now. When you go so long not doing the things that you like to do for fun, going to watch older movies out doors can become a highlight of the summer. Drive Ins have seen a resurgence in popularity during the Pandemic, the outdoor and spread out nature of cars and Drive Ins has led to many events being able to take place that might not have been able to otherwise. It would be cool to attend a Drive In concert with a band performing. I believe that I will be going to the Starlite Drive In more often than I had in the years before 2020. Also it was good to support a small business during the pandemic.
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2020-08-07
The news article is about the impacts the coronavirus pandemic had on Broadway and how it affected the people related to Broadway, the article also emphasizes the fact that the pandemic may have changed Broadway forever. This is important to me because when I was younger, my family and I used to go see shows every time we were in New York City, it was always a magical experience for me and my brother. This isn’t one of the most common ‘tragic outcomes’ of the pandemic, so I wanted to share the devastating losses that Broadway and the theatre community is experiencing due to the pandemic.
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2020-07-27
My friend Ramsey and I went to Florida during the Corona Virus and we had to wear masks everywhere we went, even on the airplane.
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2020-06-15
me and my friend went to a thrift store and why i chose this photo is because it was during the pandemic before everything got bad
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2020-08-24
Over quarentine I collected monster cans next to my school desk. I probable spent close to three hundred dollars in all and collected almost all the cans.
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2020-08-25
We had our masks on to be safe but we were still having fun!
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2020-07-01
Once online school was over, my family (and my grandparents) all took a trip to Florida. While we were there many attractions were closed, but some were still open. Those that were open we went to but we were told to wear masks. After our week or so in Florida we stayed home for the most part and followed the CDC guidelines. After awhile and maybe a month before school my sister, who worked at Mazzios, tested positive for Covid-19. Days later I also had the same symptoms (which all felt like a bad cold). My brother and dad both had a very mild case with just a headache. My mom had id worse than them but better than my sister and I. A good two week quarantine later it was normal life going to church and school and what-not (with masks of course).
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0020-06-11
uh for a while when the pandamic hit i had no life and won a championship on nba 2k20
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2020-04-09
This shows that we all had a lot of time during the quarantine.
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2020-04-16
My experience with the pandemic put me in quarantine so i watched avatar and its important to me because it gave me something to do.
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2020-08-24
I am finally returning to college, but certainly not under the circumstances I anticipated. I am already adjusting from a different major, but could have never imagined the added stress that this pandemic has brought. My family works in healthcare, so I considered myself generally aware of virology and therefore healthy practices to keep myself safe. However, I had no idea the measures that needed to be taken to ensure minimal spread. This is especially true of a college campus, which I haven't found myself on in several years. There is absolutely no reason to politicize this, we are all in this together.
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2020-08-25
When talking to a person I've just met who is wearing their protective mask, my brain begins 'picturing' what that person looks like with their mask OFF.
The area of a person's face between the base of their chin and the bridge of their nose (i.e. the "lower half") seems more defining of their appearance than what I had imagined.
Masks are necessary during this pandemic, but they steal half of our face. We lose a defining aspect of who we are; what we look like. Only YOU have YOUR face. But with a mask on, I can only guess what you look like, and for some reason my brain wants to know.
I am never disappointed by what a person's face turns out to look like in its entirety. I'm not concerned with actual 'quality of looks' the way my brain seems to be with "putting a face to the mask."
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2020-05-26
During COVID we saw many protest that sparked from the senseless murder of George Floyd. One thing we found in all of the heartache was the role black women played in protest, politics, and strength. We saw many elected into government positions and we saw many taking to the streets to protest.
