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Collected Item: “The Shift Due to COVID”

Give your story a title.

The Shift Due to COVID

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

this is a compilation of videos, with the first two being filmed by me and the last 2 are from online (Daily Mail and TikTok)

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.

Before news of the coronavirus broke, there was no idea of social distancing. Everyone would lay on top of each other and connect. But, with COVID, there was a dramatic shift and people quickly became scared of each other. I think this video is important because it can offer hope for people that one day we might be able to sit next to each other and talk without any fear.

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?

socialdistancing, nostalgic, funny

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

Madison Zajac

Give this story a date.

2020-08-22
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