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Collected Item: “Sentenced to Death by Covid”

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Sentenced to Death by Covid

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

image

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.

This Tweeter, Phil Melendez, expresses his horror at more than fifty inmates in the care of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation having died already from Covid-19 and now a wildfire is within blocks of California prisons with no plans for evacuation.

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?

wildfire, evacuation, incarceration, prison, California, death, Covid

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://twitter.com/thephilmelendez/status/1296600329467830272

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

Phil Melendez

Give this story a date.

2020-08-20
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