Collected Item: “Grocery Shopping During a Pandemic”
Give your story a title.
Grocery Shopping During a Pandemic
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
Photographs. These photos were sent to me by my boyfriends dad.
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.
When COVID-19 became classified as a pandemic the United States started to shut down. As a result, grocery stores experienced long lines and shortages. Toilet paper, bathroom essentials, and cleaning supplies quickly sold out and became a difficult commodity to purchase. These shortages went on for months. The importance of this is to demonstrate how unprepared humanity is for an event like COVID-19. Seeing these pictures and experiencing the long lines and shortages for myself made me realize how dependant I am on the grocery store. This experience gave me a sense of awareness. I became aware of how easy it was for me to go to the local grocery store and get what I needed before COVID-19; additionally, I became aware of how quickly that can change.
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?
#grocery, #toiletpaper, #shortages, #lines, #COVID-19, #photograph, #cleaningsupplies, #groceryshopping, #Massachusetts, #ASU, #HST485
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Bill Nappo
Give this story a date.
2020-04-20