Collected Item: “Nurses in 2020”
Give your story a title.
Nurses in 2020
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
This is a photograph and a TikTok meme my sister sent of herself to my family group chat.
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 think this is an important combination of sources depicting nurses at the beginning of this pandemic, in comparison to how they feel now. My sister, a nurse at a hospital in Los Angeles, California, sent this photo of her to me on March 21st, 2020, smiling and feeling good. 9 months later, she is exhausted, scared, and still working around the clock to help her patients. I think this collection item both demonstrates how significant social media has been with my generation under COVID, as well as being something of interest for future historians to see how devastating the year of 2020 has been. This video of her got 193.3K views on the TikTok app, showing how many people are using the app and watching videos surrounding COVID-19.
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?
#HST241, #COVIDMiniCollection, #Suffolk, #nurse, #healthcare, #tiktok, #2020
Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJbqEYAR/
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Alyssa Milotte
Give this story a date.
2020-12-10