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Collected Item: “Uncovering long-forgotten and buried artifacts during Covid time”

Give your story a title.

Uncovering long-forgotten and buried artifacts during Covid time

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

Social Media memes

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.

The plague of COVID-19 descended upon us in 2020. People created humorous memes and joked that this year wouldn't be the right time to unearth hidden mummies or other mysterious long buried. Who knows what might happen next? Best to avoid. Enough's enough.

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?

humor, occult, plague, howitcouldgetworse

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

unknown

Give this story a date.

2020
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