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Collected Item: “Coronavirus humour”

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Coronavirus humour

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

Screenshot of a Meme taken from iFunny

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.

With everything that we have to be afraid of in the current day, a bit of humour helps to lighten the mood. Someone edited a Daily Mail article, changing germs to germans, as one of the things that can be spread when someone coughs.

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?

#germs, #dailymail, #ohnogermans

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8203189/Coronavirus-simulation-shows-single-cough-spread-germans-two-supermarket-aisles.html

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

Daily Mail created the article, unknown individual edited the title, Joey Dorion uploaded a screenshot

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2020-06-01
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