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Most Memorable Curations

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Most Memorable Curations

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As I have learned to curate for the Journal of the Plague Year Archive this semester, I have been exposed to the many stories of different types of people during this awful pandemic year of 2020. Of the many items that I have curated, quite a few really stood out to me, and I tried to narrow it down to just one, but I couldn’t, so I chose two. The reason these two items stood out to me, and why many did, was the fact that they were relatable and they were emotional. The first item that really stood out to me was submitted by a woman that talked about why the pandemic terrifies her. She talked about how sad it was to see people not taking this seriously, and how ignorant people were being. She also spoke about the violence, and the rush to buy an insane amount of items from the store to prepare for what felt like an apocalypse. The part that got me was at the end, she discussed how she had been furloughed in her company and she had no source of income, so she had to move into an apartment. You could really tell how scared and stressed she was just by reading it. I could really feel her emotions and it really made me sit back and think about how many innocent people are being put through such hell.
The second item that really stood out to me was submitted by a woman whose mother was in a nursing home. There was a picture submitted with the text that showed her mother peeking through her window. Nursing homes are among the many businesses that are very strict and are taking extra precautionary measures, so her mother is not allowed to have any visitors, only through a window. Her mother is 98 years old, and it saddens her to not be able to see her mother, especially not knowing when the next time she will be able to. I can personally relate to this because my grandma lives in a nursing home back in my hometown of Lewiston, ID. It is hard enough to live so far away and not be able to see her, but now I am not even allowed to see her when I visit home. It has been a hard year for my family because my grandma has dementia, and not being able to visit her cuts even deeper. My mother has especially had a rough year, because she has to sit and wait to see her mom, not knowing when that will be.

Date (Dublin Core)

December 8, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Julian Washburn

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Julian Washburn

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

H396

Partner (Dublin Core)

University of San Francisco

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text

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Pandemic Skeptics
English Emotion
English Consumer Culture (shopping, dining...)
English Economy

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relatable
emotional
ignorance
violence
furloughed
nursing home
no visiting
dementia

Collection (Dublin Core)

Mental Health

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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

12/08/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

03/18/2021
08/12/2021

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This item was submitted on December 8, 2020 by Julian Washburn 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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