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Collected Item: “Quarentena sedentaria”

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Quarentena sedentaria

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

screenshot

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.

Meme from Being Peruvian Instagram. It makes light of how inactivity leads to weight gain during the pandemic. Peru has some of the stricted lock down orders, and it's a society that is accostomed to walking and traveling across the city daily. Loosing daily activity has slowly, but surely affected everyone's health.

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?

exercise, city, Peru, weight, meme

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

Being Peruvian Instagram

Give this story a date.

2020-09-06
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