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April 10, 20202020 Grocery Store Fashion
“This morning’s grocery store fashion,” I wrote on April 10, 2020 when I posted this photo to Instagram. I tagged #socialdistancing #maskedcrusader and #newyorktough. This was the first time I wore a mask when I left the house and it was one of only a few times I’d gone farther than my backyard or front stoop since lockdown began the month prior. I had been listening to public health officials who advised wearing “face coverings” to help “flatten the curve” (reduce the number of new infections to prevent overcrowding in hospitals). I also followed their advice to opt for cloth and save the real masks for health care workers on the “front lines” of the pandemic who were facing a shortage of “PPE - personal protective equipment.” So many new words and phrases had entered the lexicon and I was struggling to keep up. Masking felt like a way I could protect myself and family and contribute to the effort to squash Covid-19. I found a video tutorial for how to make a “no sew” mask using a bandana folded over hair ties for ear loops. I added a coffee filter in the middle of the folds for good measure. I used this type of mask into the summer of 2020 when I realized masks weren’t going away anytime soon and started wearing more fitted cloth versions. I remember masking felt strange and changed the way I interacted with people I passed who couldn’t see my customary polite smile of acknowledgment. I started nodding slightly and learned to squint my eyes to indicate a smile when I passed people to make up for this impediment. Masking made it difficult to be heard and understood especially through other precautionary barriers like plexiglass shields at checkout counters. These days when I encounter people I first met when masking was more widespread, I sometimes don’t recognize them because I’ve never seen the bottom half of their face. It’s a bizarre set of circumstances. Now I usually only mask if I have respiratory symptoms or if I am around someone particularly vulnerable to COVID-19. When I do mask, I choose an N-95 respirator which is readily available and more effective than my cloth mask and coffee filter creation of April 2020. -
2021-10-03HIST30060: 3CR COMMUNITY RADIO
I am a radio presenter and producer and during the lockdowns in Naarm/Melbourne I had to learn how to remote record and broadcast my content. I found myself hushing my housemates in order to record hour-long content from my headphone mic, very solo and DIY. It felt good to be part of a greater community project, broadcasting punk, DIY, and political chat to our regular listeners through the lockdowns. -
2021-06-03Free Haircuts!
In the early days of the pandemic, like many others, I needed a haircut so badly. Again, like many others, I took to cutting my own hair. Instead of just chopping at my hair, I closely followed a youtube video posted by celebrity hairdresser Brad Mondo. Since I have given myself three or four haircuts in this same style. It works! I always get compliments and no one ever suspects that I did it myself. I have long and thick hair so this method is saving me a lot money each time I need a haircut!! -
2020-06-10What Did I Do?
I BOUGHT ANOTHER KITTEN! I don't know why but I wanted a third little kitty and now I have a hamster and 3 kitties. Clea, Pebbles, Ivan and Bananas are there names. Next on the list is a Pit Bull. I also moved to a townhome in symmes township and played lots of golf. -
2020-08-18Crafting to Keep Sane! - Suffolk University
Every New Year, I make a promise to myself to try my hand at a new skill. In 2020 I was eager to learn how to embroider. Of course, only a few months into this year, we were slammed with the reality of Covid-19. Many of us felt depressed and isolated. I know that I was feeling especially guilty about all the extra time I had at home but felt no motivation to try and achieve goals that I had set earlier in the year. One day in April I was scrolling Reddit and came across an embroidery group. Suddenly it dawned on me that I had not even attempted to try my hand at embroidery! Lucky for me, I already had the supplies. I sat there a while wondering what to stich. Then the image, we all know so well by now, of the Coronavirus molecule popped up on the Nightly News. I knew that would be my pattern for my first ever attempt at needlepoint. It quickly became a small project that I am very proud of and it is my little souvenir from this crazy year. -
2020-03-16Patty Cooks
A website dedicated to cooking, many posts starting 3/16/2020 are pandemic related -
2020-03-30Good is Still Hopping Around
There is still creativity and good going around in the darkest of times. Sometimes you just have to use what’s around you and make it yourself. #cshsecon -
2020-03-22Sewing fabric masks
This is a photo of my wife making a set of fabric masks for the family as no masks have been available to purchase. There were many patterns available to download online or instructional youtube videos. This design allows for one to insert a disposable tissue or paper wipe for additional protection. My wife wore her mask once or twice to the supermarket, other than that we have not had cause to use them. -
2020-04-09Jolt Action DIY Face mask, no sew bandana mask
Jolt Action is a non profit based in Texas that typically responds to immigration related issues, in the art work we see a digital step by step description of how to make a no sew mask. The work prioritizes utility over artistry, I see this as a common theme through the non profit organization posts. -
2020-04-05DIY mask making. 3 of 3 - Scituate, MA
Image of DIY project to make masks at home -
2020-04-05DIY mask making. 2 of 3 - Scituate, MA
Image of DIY project to make masks at home -
2020-04-05DIY mask making. 1 of 3 - Scituate, MA
Image of DIY project to make masks at home. -
2020-04-14DIY Masks and Not Much Else
My sister posing for a picture with the DIY masks we made. -
2020-04-30DIY Respirator
In an attempt to circumvent OSHA laws, hospitals are now converting scuba diving masks to replace OSHA required PAPR masks. This is weeks after failing to provide necessary respirators to hospital staff. -
03/17/2020Handmade ‘glove’ using crocheted wrist band with recycled plastic bags.
I didn’t want to waste gloves that Health workers might need. We were all getting inventive about protective gear. -
03/16/2020The last resort
We began rationing our toilet paper quickly once we realized we had missed our opportunity to stock up. We assumed people would calm down and refrain from hoarding. We were wrong. I bought a bag of cheap terry cloth material and cut it up to use "for number 1only!" -
2020-03-21Unmasking Kindness
Days before Minnesota's official shelter in place, people's homes began to transform into small factories. Turning out masks by the dozens, and sometimes even hundreds, Minnesotans answered the call for the protective headwear. Isolation did not stop people from joining together in common cause. Local businesses gave away materials, and local hospitals created drive-by drop offs for people to donate masks. Once we ran out of fabric, my mother turned to old clothes to meet the demands. Pictured above, I am modeling on of the first masks she made. We donated to family members, friends, neighbors, and also to a local hospital. We also shipped some to my brother's coworkers at the Pueblo, Colorado Health Department. In total, my mom has made around 100 masks, showing that not all heroes wear capes, but they do wear masks. #DePaulHST391 -
April 12, 2020Homemade Face Masks
Many people are advertising their homemade face masks as there is a shortage in every store. -
04/09/2020Handmade Face Mask
Face mask made by St. Louis-based textile artist Katherine Huelsing, my mother. I helped my mom cut and pin fabric while she sewed the masks together. She gave one to each of our friends and family members and donated the rest to a local hospital. There is currently a severe shortage of personal protective equipment in hospitals, leaving many healthcare professionals at risk of infection. The CDC recommended that everyone use PPE when out in public at this time. #DePaulHST391 -
2020-04-09Drago's NOLA Offers DIY Charbroiled Oyster Kits, New Orleans, LA
Drago's NOLA promotes a DIY charbroiled oyster kit for customers to practice social distancing, but still enjoy the restaurants' famous oysters. -
2020-03-27Hand Sanitizer Scare - Rx Compound Centre
After having dozens of families come into our pharmacy looking for hand sanitizer we finally decided to start making some to help people out. The first day we got a call from the Columbia school system for 800 oz of it. Also, almost every customer that came in added a bottle to their order. -
03/22/2020Photo of Kelly from Oklahoma sewing face masks for an ER nurse in FT Worth, TX that was working without a mask during the COVID-19 medical supply shortages
During the morning of March 22, 2020 Kelly and Clinton of Blanchard, OK received a phone call that Clinton’s cousin was working without protective medical masks at a FT Worth, TX hospital ER. Through the day Kelly rushed through sewing & fabrication of medical masks from their spare bed sheets. Kelly intends to have approximately five ready the same day and will mail them the following morning. *Photo and description by Clinton P. Roberts, MA graduate student, Arizona State University, March 22, 2020. *March 22, 2020 - during COVID-19 pandemic *Clinton P. Roberts, MA graduate student, Arizona State University,