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  2020-04-19

  One of Arizona's Creative Roadway Signs

  Freeway sign heading north on I-10 near the Wild Horse Pass Casino. The signs states: Stay Home Stay Healthy Stop Covid-19
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  2020-04-11

  I Just Want A Hug

  I just want a hug. Nothing means more to me right now in the time of crisis than a hug. I am not much of a hugger. By me saying that I want a hug, that must mean something. It is strange to go visit your family and having to stay more than 6 feet away from them. Overnight we went from being able to hang out with our elderly family members to now not being able to hug them. I miss hearing my great-aunt say, “Give me some sugar” when she wants a hug. I miss being able to see my extended family. I miss being able to go over and hear stories about their life. I feel that the coronavirus has taken time away from that! I just want to shop. I want to be able to go to the store without just going to get groceries. It happened overnight. I miss being able to shop. I don't even want to buy anything. I just want to go look. I have only been able to shop online. I will not buy anything online, but it’s nice to know that if I ever wanted to buy a $100 blanket, I know where to find one. I want to go to Ross and Goodwill. I mis being able to just walk in the malls. It has been a month! It may not sound like a long time, or like I have an addiction, but trust me, it is hard when your life comes to a halting stop. Not shopping with friends is hard. We would go at least once a month. We just shopped to shop. Sometimes we went shopping for my apartment or for clothes, but now we can't do that. Before the quarantine, I would hang out with my friends at least once a week. Now we have not physically hung out for a month, which has been very hard.
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  2020-04-10

  Deserted US-60 E during rush hour

  During what is usually rush hour with bumper to bumper traffic there is no one on the road. This shows that people are staying at home and only leaving the house when needed.
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  2020-04-08

  Finally Found Toliet Paper!!!!

  After not having toilet paper in store for about 3 weeks I was very excited to finally find some. I never thought that I would be so excited to find such a thing. I felt a like a kid on Christmas morning.
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  2020-04-05

  People Swarm Toliet Paper at Local Sam's Club

  I walked to the back of the store where they keep the toilet paper and saw that the worker was bringing out toilet paper on a pallet. I looked around to see that people were literally swarming this man. As soon as he let down the pallet and walked away they crowded the pallet and starting grabbing. It was such a crazy sight to see. I had to take a picture. This just shows that we value toilet paper.
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  2020-04-04

  Chair in the lobby of health clinic practicing social distancing

  Chairs at the medical facility practicing social distancing. You must sit 6 feet apart. It was crazy to see this. This piece of paper was on every other chair to make sure people would not sit directly next to one another.
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  2020-04-02

  Gas Prices Before and During Pandemic

  The picture shows reciepts of gas prices from Circle K before the pandemic and during the pandemic. It was interesting to see that gas prices have gone down. I have always thought that it would go up.
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  03/31/2020

  How My Internship Was Affected

  During my Spring 2020 semester at Arizona State University, I was able to become an intern at the Tempe History Museum which is located at 809 E Southern Ave, Tempe, AZ 85282. Due to the pandemic I have been unable to attend the museum which put me in jeopardy of earning credit for it. This added more stress than I needed. For me to get the credit I had to have 135 credits by the end and I was sitting at 60 credits. MY thoughts went into downward spiral . All the 'what ifs' started running through my head. I thought that if I do not get my credit I could not graduate on time, if I can't graduate on time it could prevent me from being able to get a job, without a job I would have no money, with no money I could not pay the bill. It just kept getting worse and worse as I started to think about it. I emailed my advisor and she told me to try and find a remote project. Lucky enough we were doing this project that this journal is located on. I was looking forward to being able to gain experience that would help with me a future career and because of this pandemic that has all been put on hold. I was able to attend the internship before the pandemic and it was the highlight of me my week. I am actually doing something with my life that help better the future. Now that I am not doing that I am kinda losing my mind. We as humans are very routine based creatures and for that routine to be interrupted we tend to freak out. Well for me anyway. I feel like people are not taking this pandemic seriously. They are just going about their normal days as if nothing is going on. Yesterday March 30, 2020, our Governor Doug Ducey declared a stay at home order. This being said all non-essential places would be shut down until at least April 30,2020. Having the stay at home order is really going to make me able to go to the movies, go out to eat, go to museums but especially being able to hang out with friends. Being a non-essential business has really made me mad that I am not able to learn from people that I enjoy being with. I enjoy going to the museum and now that it is taken away for a short period of time I am not gaining any experiences in the museum. We do not know how long this pandemic will last. We are hoping it will end soon. We are hoping that this will all be over by August 2020.
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  2020-03-29

  Practicing social distancing

  Customers must stay 6 feet from one another to prevent the spread of the virus. At first, I did not think that people would follow it but they actually are.