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Collected Item: “Accurate Covid-19 Working Meme”

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Accurate Covid-19 Working Meme

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

Meme. I found it while searching COVID- 19 memes on Google.

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 found this meme to be quite interesting. We use humor to better our mood during tough times, however this meme depicts reality: the anxiety about going to work this year during this strange new pandemic. This collection item can help future historians determine the society’s apprehension and concerns towards employment during COVID-19. A historian might wonder what this meme implies. Well, this meme implies that the public fears getting sick and what that holds, fear of spreading it to love ones, fear of not recovering, and perhaps work conditions are not entirely prepared. This meme can imply many things based on what a historian wants to argue.

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?

#HST241, #CovidMiniCollection, #Suffolk, #Meme, #Workers #WorkingDuringAPandemic

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://www.chron.com/coronavirus/article/Coronavirus-memes-explain-how-social-media-users-15146376.php#photo-19197860

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

Posted by Instagram user toothbrusharmy

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2020-12-08
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