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The Big Flee

Title (Dublin Core)

The Big Flee

Disclaimer (Dublin Core)

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Description (Dublin Core)

Early in the morning on March 17, my roommates and I fled San Francisco. It felt extremely weird leaving my life behind, but we would return to normal soon (or so I thought). As we piled our belongings into the back of a friend's car I looked around to see nobody. Not even an early morning jogger or any sign of life for that matter. In the airport we got through security in five minutes and saw around two others our whole time there. It was as if time had stood still in the city. At the time I was extremely scared, as what evils could cause a city-wide shutdown? How dangerous was CO-19 if all colleges had moved to online learning and forced every student out of the dorms? Little was known about the effects of CO-19 in March, and as I write this on August 23, 2020 more is yet to be discovered before we can safely reopen as a country.

I chose to include this photo with my story as it was taken on March 16, 2020, the night before San Francisco's mandatory shutdown. It was eerie how silent the once bustling streets of downtown were. I had never witnessed something like this in my life.
#USF #H396

Date (Dublin Core)

March 17, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Dan Churchill

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Marie

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

H396

Partner (Dublin Core)

University of San Francisco

Type (Dublin Core)

Text Story & Photograph (Facebook)

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Education--Universities
English Travel
English Biography
English Cities & Suburbs
English Transportation
English Public Space

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

online learning
dorms
shutdown
evacuation
airport
silence
empty
scared
unknown

Collection (Dublin Core)

San Francisco Bay Area

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

08/23/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

08/30/2020

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This item was submitted on August 23, 2020 by Marie 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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