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  2021-07-21

  2,551 cases in one day.

  The Los Angeles Times reports "L.A County health officials say the number of cases has increased twentyfold over the last month." Clear evidence that we are not out of the woods, COVID is still around and people are still dying. I wonder if anyone is still paying attention.
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  2021-07-13

  Essential AF

  Most people think of essential workers as public servants, mainly hospital staff but this picture shows that there were some unexpected jobs that were at one point labeled essential. This photo got some unexpected comments on Instagram like this one - "In that dark time, you helped people stay positive thru a pandemic man! That was the most essential work then." And this other one "But ice cream was essential during the pandemic! It was basically my only reason to live for a lil while." A lot of people found this picture funny but surprisingly many were quick to point out that it was the simple things, like mascots and ice cream, that kept us all smiling.
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  2020-10-19

  Gucci belt

  Have you ever seen a person roll up in an expensive car to later find out they rotate between friends couches at night? Or a girl with a channel purse riding the bus? I thought of both when I came across this meme on Instagram. Since the Second World War, the US has posed as the leader of the world. We’ve boasted economical sucess, technological advances and number one in the sciences. Then COVID hit and our true colors came out. I wouldn’t go as far as this meme and claim that the US is a third world country because we’re clearly not. But we’re also not number one like we pretend to be. We were on top of the world is everyday back in 1945, but that spot is not ours anymore. The current administration has proven inapt in ever sense of the word. And now the world sees us as the posers we’ve become. I’m hoping for better days after these elections.
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  2020-10-19

  Everything is not ok

  This mom has two preschool aged kids. One of them is not even a year old. She’s feeling alone, depressed and overwhelmed. Unfortunately those feeling are not unique to moms of small kids but COVID has heightened them. Social distancing means no daycare for her oldest and no in home help either. She feels alone because she is alone. After I saw her post on ig I got her permission to share her story. I felt like it was so important because every mother has had these days, weeks, months of “bad” feelings. Mental health is not something new moms pay much attention to since they have a new baby (and usually other kids) to care for. Moms are expected to give everything to their children and for their children. Sadly, society hardly ever pours back into these empty moms. This picture shines a light on the realities of motherhood and how COVID has made our lives more difficult.
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  2020-05-29

  Can We Take Showers Yet?

  During the Corona Time, everywhere you looked showed you how to wash your hands and warned you to do so. Talk show hosts demonstrated the methods, ads on TV urged us to wash our hands every time we touched anything, and people made song parodies about hand-washing. So the joke here is that were we only allowed to wash our hands, not the rest of our bodies? No one told us to shower! #ASU #HST580 #Humor #Washing #Coronavirus #COVID19
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  2020-04-25

  Corona Virus Online Shopping Meme

  This meme is based on the level of boredom everyone is experiencing during quarantine. It is a lighted hearted form of humor that emphasizes the useless purchases we are all making.
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  2020-04-25

  Corona Virus Grocery Meme

  This picture is a perfect depiction of the unnecessarily extreme measures some Americans are taking during grocery shopping, i.e. covering up abundantly, stocking up on toilet paper, etc. This humor is more targeted at making fun of the ignorance of some people.
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  2020-04-26

  Corona Virus North Korea Meme

  This image comedically explores how in North Korea there was a man who tested positive for Corona Virus and the leader of North Korea Ordered him to be shot and he was killed. This is a more detached form of humor because the post is American, but we truly only know what North Korea wants us to know about them.
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  2020-04-26

  Corona Virus Summer Meme

  This meme plays up the possibility of the COVID-19 pandemic lasting into the summer. It light-heartedly explores a way to still do a summer activity, like tanning. It highlights the human condition of still wanting to try regardless of circumstance. #VART3030
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  2020-04-24

  Corona Office Show Meme

  This meme connects to a very funny scene in the show 'The Office'. This meme is poking fun at the executive order that mandates groups of 5 people as the maximum number of people that can be together. Making a joke out of this order might illustrate the lack of severity Americans are viewing the pandemic with. #VART3030
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  2020-04-12

  Easter Last Supper COVID Meme

  The COVID-19 Pandemic has lasted through Easter now and of course the Last Supper reference makes sense. With the increased use of Zoom by schools, businesses, and families the post imagines the Last Supper happening over Zoom.
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  2020-04-03

  Protection and Pollution

  This image shows the result of single use items being increasingly more popular during the pandemic, as they are thought to be more sanitary. This increase in single use items are ending in the ocean, and washing onto our shores.