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Collected Item: “Life in Quarantine; Summer 2020”

Give your story a title.

Life in Quarantine; Summer 2020

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 decided to write about what my experience was like living in quarantine this past summer. I want the reader to understand that though there were definitely challenges, as one could expect, there were also positives to take away from the experience.

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?

#quarantine
#economy

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

Jake Reilly

Give this story a date.

2020-09-18
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