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Collected Item: “Closed In”

Give your story a title.

Closed In

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

Picture

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.

The pandemic has brought up a lot of situations where people feel alone because they can't see their friends or go to the places they want. It has brought a feeling of constant claustrophobia within the walls of one's life. This has been something that has effected me because of all the restrictions you have to go to when just doing a normal thing like going to the grocery store. Everything has been so different and so procedural. It is a very bizarre feeling to do groceries and think about if one of the items you touched at the store could give you one of the most contagious and deadly diseases the last hundred years or more. During this times of extra precaution, it is always import to remember why people take this precautions and safety measures. As someone living with their parents after college being shut down, I need to always be exceedingly thorough when washing my hands and cleaning things as my mom has recently finished chemo and radiation. Life has been so different and so uniform without much change besides in the number of patients throughout the world.

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?

#closed, #in

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/grocery-workers-and-customers-say-social-distancing-inside-stores-is-difficult-amid-coronavirus-pandemic/

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

Travis Ness

Give this story a date.

2020-06-04
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