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Collected Item: “Adaptations”

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Adaptations

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

photograph

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This says that as time has went on, people have made more inventions and adaptations to help secure the safety, convenience, and success of as many people as possible. The photo shows a doctor during a plague in the 1700’s with the type of masks that most doctors wore at the time. The survival rate of the epidemic then was much lower than it is now. Now we wear masks that are easy to use in our every day life and are generally very convenient. This is important to me because it displays how our society has learned to adapt to new challenged and that if we can get through this pandemic we can get through anything.

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#innovation,#inspiration,#covid

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https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/The-Great-Plague/

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

Charles De Lorme

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2020-12-24
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