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The Sound of Silence: COVID Summer 2020
Title (Dublin Core)
The Sound of Silence: COVID Summer 2020
Description (Dublin Core)
On June 24, 2020, the city of Wichita, Kansas, announced that it would not open any of the city's municipal water parks, splash pads, or swimming pools for the duration of the summer. Pools like west Wichita's Harvest Park, shown here, would normally be teeming with people on hot summer days, but COVID-19 defied public health officials' predictions of a summer remission, with case numbers surging across the South and Central Plains. Kansas suffered an influx of summer COVID infections due in part to a politically-driven, decentralized re-opening plan that devolved authority to county commissions and local officials, while relegating what had once been mandatory state executive orders to mere "suggestions." With Kansas and surrounding states grappling with widespread illnesses, the summer of 2020 was marked by empty pools and filling hospitals.
Date (Dublin Core)
June 25, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Aaron Peterka
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Aaron Peterka
Partner (Dublin Core)
Northeastern University
Type (Dublin Core)
Photograph
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Recreation & Leisure
English
Parks
English
Public Health & Hospitals
English
Social Distance
English
Public Space
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
Kansas
activities
swimming
pandemic summer
inaccurate predictions
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
06/26/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
07/13/2020
11/04/2020
Item sets
This item was submitted on June 26, 2020 by Aaron Peterka using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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