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Collected Item: “Avoiding Sickness while Traveling”

Give your story a title.

Avoiding Sickness while Traveling

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

Text + photo

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.

I’m sitting in the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport waiting for my flight to go to Chicago Midway airport while I’m geared up like doctor. I have my goggles on I purchased for my biology labs in college and my black face mask. I’m going to be seeing family, and much of my family is very old. I feel guilty being roped into going but I have to go. I’ve seen many people take off their masks for no apparent reason and I’m essentially blind because my goggles keep fogging. If there’s any obvious errors in this, that’s why.

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?

Fear, mask, goggles, airplane, airport, Arizona, HSE

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

Britton McNerlin

Give this story a date.

2020-09-25
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