Explore the Archives
A Journal of the Plague Year Arizona Collection Australia Boston Bronx Community College New York Brooklyn College New York Canada Las Americas Lockdown Staten Island New Orleans Oral Histories Philippines Sacramento Community Based Organizations Southwest Stories Teaching the Pandemic The City College of New York

Collected Item: “Journal From the Year 2053. Humor”

Give your story a title.

Journal From the Year 2053. Humor

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

screen shot

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

This one will appeal to all historians. It is written like an opening paragraph in a serious literary work which makes it funnier. The joke is about all the hoarding of the toilet paper that went on when Coronavirus first hit. Finally, 33 years later, the last of the toilet paper stash is about to be used up.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

ASU, HST580, toiletpaper, TP, hoarding, shortage, humor, history, literature

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Unknown

Give this story a date.

2020
Click here to view the corresponding item.