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Collected Item: “San Francisco Stays Home”

Give your story a title.

San Francisco Stays Home

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

This is a photo taken by myself in downtown San Francisco. Here you can see the empty streets that are a new normal.

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.

The eerie and empty streets of downtown San Francisco shows social fears and ultimately the decisions to stay home amid the pandemic.

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?

#SanFran, #Spooky, #StayAtHome

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

Thomas Fleming

Give this story a date.

2020-08-24
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