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Collected Item: “2020: The Masked Madness”

Give your story a title.

2020: The Masked Madness

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

This is a photo of two people wearing masks in a grocery store.

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.

This photo reminds me of a story when my mom and I went to the grocery store during the pandemic. We were in an aisle by ourselves, so we pulled our masks down. Then all of a sudden, a lady came up to us who didn't even work in the store, and she said that the store should kick my mom and I out for not wearing our masks. No one was even in the aisle! She also told us that we should be thrown in jail for not wearing masks, and then she started cussing at us.

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?

#confused, #mask, #karen

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

https://www.thelocal.de/20200402/latest-face-masks-in-public-could-help-to-reduce-spread-of-coronavirus-says-germanys-robert-koch-institute

Give this story a date.

2020-08-07
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