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Collected Item: “Anti-Maskers, Covid Disbelievers, and Anti-Quarantine Memes”

Give your story a title.

Anti-Maskers, Covid Disbelievers, and Anti-Quarantine Memes

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.

COVID-19 quickly became a political rather than a health issue. Conservatives tended to deny COVID's existence as well as the value of vaccines, quarantine and wearing masks.

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?

antimasks, antifacemasks, politics, coviddeniers, conspiracy, antivax, antivaccines

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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