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Collected Item: “Fear for My Mother's Saefty”

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Fear for My Mother's Saefty

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

Text Story

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've written a short story centered around my experience with fear of this virus, particularly focusing on how my fear is heighten with an immuno-compromised mother. I wrote about how the media the people around me consumed affected their behavior and played a role within my fear and the impact it had on my mother.
This story says two things about this pandemic I think: it shows the impact that information had/has on how people approach the virus and the emotional toll the pandemic had on people living their daily lives.
What I've submitted is important because it validates what Americans have experienced. Many Americans

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?

#fear, #misinformation, #

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

Self

Give this story a date.

2022-07-24
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