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Collected Item: “Social Distancing Circle Response”

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Social Distancing Circle Response

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

screenshot/ tweet

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.

A tweet by a Toronto Star newspaper columnist and instructor at the University of Toronto, pointing out that the painting of 'social distancing circles' on the grass in Trinity-Bellwoods Park, which had previously been overcrowded, is a reasonable and tempered response as oppose to closing the park entirely.

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?

social distancing, outdoors

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://twitter.com/shawnmicallef/status/1266056956441174017

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

Shawn Micallef

Give this story a date.

2020-05-28
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