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An Empty Bridge
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An Empty Bridge
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This is a picture of the Oakland Bridge in the Bay Area, California, while completely empty due to the initial Covid-19 lockdown. This bridge normally has thousands and thousands of people crossing it on any given day, and at any given moment it will typically be packed with commuters. In the photo, it's almost completely empty. This uncanny image was the first thing that made me, living in a city on the opposite side of the country, realize just how serious the virus would be. At this point in time, most of my friends and family still believed we would be going back to school within the month of March. It was unimaginable that we would still be dealing with the pandemic in August, when I am writing this, and that we probably will be dealing with this for the foreseeable future. The response to this pandemic was quite obviously botched by the US and its institutions that are supposed to protect us, and by the end of this hundreds of thousands of people will be dead as a result. I fear a lot of people in the future will blame this tragedy on everyday people's failure to lockdown, and I think this image serves as an essential reminder that when we were first told to lock down, the American people locked down.
Photograph, uploaded by @cmarunucci on twitter, March 18th 2020.
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photograph
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Twitter
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English
San Francisco Bay Area
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
08/18/2020
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08/25/2020
10/26/2020
11/2/2020
11/12/2020
Date Created (Dublin Core)
03/18/2020
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This item was submitted on August 18, 2020 by Will Oliver using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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