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2020-04-11
GameStops across the state of Pennsylvania had their business license revoked by Governor Tom Wolf after the corporation did not abide by state closure orders.
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2020-04-11
I sprained both of my wrists from the increased amount of work and typing I am doing on the computer after all of my classes were moved online. Of the open stores, there was one wrist brace available. I wear it on the wrist that hurts more.
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2020-03-20
Betsy Garthwaite, facilities manager at the Ulster Performing Arts Center in Midtown Kingston, NY, puts a positive message about the coronavirus outbreak on the marquee outside the theater. Amidst the turmoil and uncertainties facing the world, this uplifting message reminds community members that they are not alone.
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2020-03-04
An Indian student wears a self-made mask during class in Hyderabad, India, on Wednesday. The country has reported at least 29 cases of the virus.
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2020-03-30
The grassy, open areas of New York City’s Central Park are being turned into makeshift field hospitals to accommodate the growing number of people diagnosed with Coronavirus.
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2020-03-23
This photo shows employees eating during a lunch break at Dongfeng Honda, an automobile plant in Wuhan, China. The employees are separated by lines on the floor as a way to “social distance” themselves from each other.
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2020-03-13
Two intensive care professionals comfort each other in the halls of an ICU in a hospital in Cremona, Italy.
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2020-03-24
Of many ways in which the coronavirus has changed American life, people are panicked and started to go shopping. Food producers, distributors, and warehouse operators say supplies are plentiful, so long as stores can be restocked. People are panicked and their buying patterns reflects how this coronavirus affect their lives.
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2020-04-11
In recent weeks, Americans’ shopping patterns reflects how the coronavirus pandemic continues to evolve and affect daily lives. From hand sanitizer, disinfectants and toilet paper, now to hair clippers and hair dye are flying off shelves.
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2020-02-26
Italy councilor Matteo Remzi being laugh at wearing a mask in the meeting. When it was Renzi’s turn to speak, he argued that he had been to three affected areas and wore a mask for the safety of everyone. “If you are smart, you should wear it early.” said by Matteo, and then he throws the microphone.
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2020-03-18
On March 18, 2020, the Swiss female live streamer has official announced that she has been infected with the coronavirus, and has been isolated treatment. More than ten days, she has been trying to infect the coronavirus. After ten days of efforts, she finally fulfilled her goal.
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2020-04-10
Police in Germany were attacked with stones and iron bars while enforcing coronavirus social distance to a large group that had gathered outside in Frankfurt late Friday in violation of lockdown orders meant to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
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2020-03-29
I saw some videos on YouTube. A heartwarming new way of celebrating birthdays that self-isolation wasn’t going to stop the kids from feeling the love. Their neighbor and friends decorate their cars with balloons and banners, and drive by the birthday boy or girl’s home, honking and celebrating from a safe distance.
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2020-04-08
Due to the COVID-19, we didn't go out. Every time we did, we had to do lots of preparation, such as using disinfection spray, taking shower when we come back, wearing mask and gloves. COVID-19 had a great impact on my world. To keep distancing, I never go out, and even staying at home, we will wash our hands frequently.
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2020-03-28
The photo was taken when I went back to Brooklyn. The number of travelers was fewer than 10 people. Lots of homeless people were staying inside. Most of the exits were closes. Very empty inside the train station.
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2020-03-12
Changing courses to online had a significant change to my life. Everything is reorganized. I have to be careful with time management. It is very easy to forget to do homework or to prepare for the exam date. I have to spend more time outside of the class on school work because I have to understand the materials by myself. Need more self-control.
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2020-04-01
Living in such close quarters is bound to cause arguments among couples. This causes an uptick in divorces at the end of COVID-19. The more anxious we feel may cause us to take that out on the person that’s nearest to us because there is probably no one else we can take it out on. My neighbor has this problem. Sometime I will hear them arguing about their children's problems. For me, I don't think it is a big deal, but they will argue it a lot.
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2020-03-23
This email was sent the same day I took a walk around the campus (March 23, 2020). It is both a surprise and shocking to me to know there is a case in RIT. Even though no one (expect these two students) is affected on campus as far as I know, it still makes me understand how dangerous this virus can be, especially since I am on campus.
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April 8 - April 10, 2020
After the number of people that are affected by COVID-19 goes to zero (nationally) in China, both Chinese government and Chinese begin to limit affected cases from overseas, such as returning international students and other foreigners. However, when I look through Twitter, Americans interpret this method differently. They interpreted this as racism against any foreigners. I do not agree or disagree with any of these posts about COVID-19. From my pointof view, both Chinese and Americans are judging each other from incomplete reports, news, or even just some gossip: Chinese believes other countries are not taking this epidemic seriously and suffer heavily, and in order to avoid outside cases coming in, China should restrict foreigners until they are safe. On the other hand, Amercians believe China and the Chinese are responsible for this epidemic,
and that every Chinese is racist and deserves to be discriminated against.
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March 23, 2020
At the beginning of close down in RIT, I was taking a walk around the campus to see if there is any place open. It feels extremely weird to see such an empty walkway during Monday with only a few international students, where normally there will be hundreds of students walking through to get to their classes or other building at this time. Plus, it was rainy that day, which made the whole scene feel more sad.
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April 7, 2020
After I heard from my parents and few relatives back in China about Wuhan’s lock down ended and other provinces in China began to resume normal life, I was interested in how American news will react. Most of the news I found were irrational. This one, however (AP News, wrote by Sam McNeil on April 7, 2020) both recognizes the success of lockdown by Chinese government, and still maintains its critical views in a certain way.For these past few weeks, it is so frustrating to hear and see many arguments from both Americans and Chineses about how bad each other is, and still maintain a neutral position as a Chinese student in the U.S. Sometimes I always feel relieved to see news from the U.S. like this, which agrees with the Chinese method rather than keep insulting each other on who is right or wrong.
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March 18, 2020
I always look through different social media to be aware of anything that might affect me as an international student from China. Donald Trump’s Twitter is one of them, and there are multiple posts from him using the term “Chinese Virus” which worry me. For clarification, I do not agree or disagree with this post from Donald Trump. It is only educational and worrying for me to see following arguments from different people around the world, including U.S. and China. Both sides are attacking and insulting each other over who should be responsible and extend to political/cultural/social issues, disregarding the reliability of these issues.
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April 7, 2020
A drone shot taken above an abandoned Los Angeles. A sight no one ever thought they would see. Eerily post apocalyptic.
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April 6, 2020
The Jewish side of my family gathered together on Zoom to celebrate Passover. It was disorganized, and chaotic. The grandmas had no clue what buttons to press, people kept muting themselves, my call crashed every 5 minutes. But in the end, it was about as chaotic as a normal Passover. However, the plagues were modified to include Corona and the final prayer ended “Next year in person” instead of the usual “Next year in Jerusalem.”
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March 16, 2020
This was the last day we spent on the same campus. At the time we didn’t know it was going to be goodbye. We were all trying to stock up on what we needed for a couple weeks to spend some dining dollars [on campus cash equivalency]. Clearly as RIT students we had our priorities in order. One of my friends had a basket full of Monster Energy Drinks, and the other had armfuls of boxed pasta.
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April 6, 2020
A photo taken behind the Liberal Arts hall at RIT on a walk home from the only open post office on campus. The chairs were positioned in a circle by an unknown person. All but one of the chairs is cast in the shadow of the building. There was no one in the area, or on the campus for that matter, not that I saw. I do not know how long the chairs were positioned like that. I took this photo because I thought it was a powerful image that needed to be captured. The circle of chairs indicating a social gathering on a sunny afternoon juxtaposed with the completely empty campus.
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April 5, 2020
The video description is “We as a species, are losing our minds.” This short video opens to four eggs in cups, with the audio “I Want To Break Free” by Queen. When the line “I want to break free” plays, a man pops his head up to sing along, revealing that there were only three eggs in cups, and the fourth egg was actually the man's bald head. I feel this video in my soul, it resonates with me so deeply. It shows the fragility of the human mind and the tendency of our
species to use human as a coping mechanism when facing down trauma.
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April 11, 2020
I have been ordering more from Amazon and instead of two day shipping there have been delays up to two weeks.
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2020-07-24
Governor Charles Baker issued this executive order making 14-day quarantines for out-of-state travelers mandatory on July 24, 2020, in a departure from the advisory "order" declared in March asking travelers to either quarantine or avoid the commonwealth all together. This order exempts seven Northeastern states whose COVID levels had been deemed "low-risk," but required all out-of-state travelers from the remaining 43 states, and returning residents, to self-isolate or obtain a negative test result 72 hours prior to arrival. Failure to meet these guidelines carried with it a penalty of a $500/day fine; a feature that was absent from the earlier travel advisory guidelines. With Massachusetts having seen improvement from the springtime surge that left tens of thousands of residents infected and over 8,000 dead, the Commonwealth sought to stay ahead of the virus curve and squelch an expected resurgence, as tens of thousands of returning students from across the country prepared to descend upon greater Boston colleges and universities in the fall.
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2020-06-19
This executive order from mid-June of 2020 allows for restaurants and "close contact personal services" to reopen their "brick-and-mortar premises" and resume indoor table service.
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2020-07-02
On July 2, 2020, Governor Charles Baker revised COVID-19 Order No. 38 to exclude businesses designated as "a Phase I, Phase II, or Phase III enterprise" that is allowed to open its environs to workers and the public from gathering restrictions, provided that said businesses are following the state's COVID-19 safety rules.
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April 10, 2020
My local crossfit gym, where I usually go to work out when I am in Binghamton, has moved to online classes to provide the group experience of traditional classes to everyone staying home.
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April 10, 2020
There was a lot of talk online about 3D printing facemasks to donate to hospitals. This is my first attempt at 3D printing my own.
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April 5, 2020
Schedule for local churches (Saint Patrick’s and Saint Thomas Aquinas) for the week of Easter Sunday, Binghamton, NY. Mass no longer meets in person, instead it is suggesting that we watch a live stream and receive a “spiritual communion.” This is the first year my family won’t be going to Easter Sunday Mass.
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April 11, 2020
Cartoon in the local newspaper a day before Easter
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April 11, 2020
My mother making face masks at home. She made several for my family, and is now making some to donate to the community. While not as good as the medical grade, homemade masks still provide some protection and help prevent the spread.
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April 2, 2020
Being stuck at home has led to a lot of baking, cooking, and binge eating. I hadn’t baked anything since Christmas 2019.
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April 11, 2020
With no longer being able to attend my gym I have started working out from home. During this pandemic I have found out that Jillian Michaels is no joke.
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April 6, 2020
More documentation about preparing to live off our own land in the summer of 2020.My father plowed this plot of land for our garden. My parents and I have been preparing 30 different plants. Many people on our street have done the same.
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April 9, 2020
Due to grocery stores being a high-risk environment for COVID-19 my family has become serious about living off our own land. This is the beginning stages of planting strawberry bushes.
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2020-08-05
Pandemic, "truth" keeps changing
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2020-07-10
On July 10, 2020, the Massachusetts public health commissioner rescinded the order requiring COVID-19 mitigation and exposure reduction strategies in grocery stores.
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2020-07-29
Portland, Oregon riots
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2020-08-05
Journal Entry
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2020-08-04
This picture to me shows how we are working together to make small changes to our habits to continue with everyday life in spite of challenges.
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2020-08-03
As a teacher I have witnessed quite a large debate playing out at school board meetings, over social media, and across the dinner table about whether or not schools should reopen for the fall semester. Perhaps one of the most compelling arguments I have seen is this recent tweet from President Trump. This description is very much full of sarcasm. Please, for the love of all humanity, consider the common good. Teachers want to go back to school but we want to do it safely. For right now, we need to be ok with teaching online. It's not ideal but we can make it work.
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April 10, 2020
Family members of Emma Ouellet gather outside her window to celebrate her 103rd birthday. The post description read “We just came back from wishing my 103 year old belle mere a bonne fête pandemic style in Montreal. It was heart-breaking to not be able to kiss her in person but we blew a huge bouquet of them her way.”
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March 16, 2020
A letter from the dean of the Rochester Institute of Technology College of Art & Design to students following the university’s decision to close the campus in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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April 8, 2020
A homemade cloth mask made by sewer Lisa Berkes sits on a craft table.
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March 23, 2020
A sign posted by a Vietnamese restaurant in Massachusetts in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
