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Collected Item: “Christmas”

Give your story a title.

Christmas

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

It is a photograph of a mask.

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 picture of a mask is one I wore throughout the holiday season. I wore it seeing family, going in public, and going to establishments. While I have been wearing them throughout the pandemic I wore them a lot more during the holiday season. This made my christmas different because I had to distance and wear a mask the entire time around the people I’ve known the longest for the first time ever.

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?

#christmas,#lonely,#distanced,#differences

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/holidays.html

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

Paul Berger created disposable masks.

Give this story a date.

2020-12-25
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