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Collected Item: “What Baking Feels Like During a Pandemic”

Give your story a title.

What Baking Feels Like During a Pandemic

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

video

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 found this video on reddit and it really speaks to the sense of dread I feel baking during the pandemic. It's like nice when you're doing it then you feel the weight of everything hitting you when you're not otherwise occupied.

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?

TikTok, baking, foodislife, fear, hand washing

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

@rileybona

Give this story a date.

2020-04-12
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