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  2022-02-01

  More than Half of Teachers Looking to Quit Due to COVID

  According to a poll given by the National Education Association, 55% of teachers who participated feel burned out enough from COVID-19 to quit. Some of the reasons that COVID-19 has caused additional stress for teachers is due to student behavior, additional responsibilities, and longer hours.
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  2022-03-26

  Locked In and Locked Down: Surviving COVID-19 in FCI Edgefield BOP

  The COVID-19 crisis has impacted mass incarcerated facilities at an exceeding rate, exacerbating existing staffing shortage and leaving those housed in large numbers increasingly vulnerable to COVID-19. The Federal Correctional Institution in Edgefield, South Carolina is no exception to this hardship. FCI Edgefield has be forced to expand its use of a practice called "augmentation" or allowing those in non-correctional roles at the prison to work in correctional officer roles. This is because staff members are getting sick an exceedingly high rate, causing some staff to have quarantine for several days while others have chosen to retire early out of the fear of high exposure and incentives losing way due to the crisis. Since the pandemic has taken off, only a small number of inmates have died from COVID-19, about 50 in total. Yet, due to less experienced staff on site due to shortages, one inmate died due to undermined symptoms on January 27, 2021. Overall, stories like these are important because they show how state officials, lawmakers, and policymakers have made little strides in reducing and slowing down the spread of the coronavirus in state and national prison systems. People like my mother, who works at FCI Edgefield, have preexisting medical conditions that put them at a heightened risk for complications if they were to catch COVID-19. Thus, we should make aware that these state officials have waited too long to make strides towards reducing the prison population, routinely rotating staff, and increasing social distance measures in the jail populations. As the pandemic wears on, much is still needed to be done in prioritizing staff and prison populations for vaccination matters. While this idea has generated some wide societal debate, I find it hard to argue that people who work and live in correctional facilities are at a major disadvantage in this crisis. Therefore, it is only fair to consider these high-risk groups first when prioritizing phases and measures of the vaccines and health and well-being.
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  2020-04-04

  Toilet paper shortages at local grocery stores

  After the governor announce COV is spreading out among the country. Everyone was stressed out so they went to the grocery store to buy daily use. When I went to the store, I saw there is a sign written there is no more toilet paper and water. I think people are not planning to go out anymore and that is why they bought all the toilet paper and water.
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  2020-03-05

  Empty Shelf at Target

  My friend and I visited Target in March, and when we tried to find something like hand sanitizer, paper towel, we found nothing. Panic exists during these days and people just want food and supplies as much as possible, many people think if they don't by them, they will starve and have nothing to eat or use.
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  2020-03-29

  A photo of the toilet paper shelfs when the corona virus first began

  This image is a photo of the shelfs that used to hold toilet paper. The reason that they are empty is because when corona first hit and quarantine was beginning, everybody rushed to buy as much toilet paper as they could, in case of a lock down or stores being closed. This led to many stores running out and other individuals having difficulty acquiring toilet paper. For my family personally, we came to a point where we had gone to about three or four different stores and all of them were out of toilet paper, so we had to ask some family friends for some in the meantime.
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  2020-03-31

  Socially distanced family meetings

  HUM402 The new measures my parents and I take to see and provide my sister with the supplies she has been unable to source herself for her own home. My sister is a nurse and alike many others, is working extra hours to keep hospitals safe and functioning for our community. Our brick fence now acts as our divide, to keep us physically apart but still able to see and support each other.
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  2020-03-12

  Toshia Brownstein

  This image shows a grocery shopping line wrapping around the aisles of the store. When the epidemic first started hitting, many people ran to the store to stock up on as much food, water, and toilet paper as they could possibly get their hands on, like it was the end of the world and the store was going to run out of supply.
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  2020-03-26

  Humorous Bumper Sticker

  A humorous bumper sticker. It reads: Stop buying all of the toilet paper. Go get Kitty Litter if you want to act like wild animals!
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  2020-03-05

  Trader Joe's, Long Beach, CA

  I took this photo to document the run on groceries that took place in California about a week before we received the official announcement to shelter-in-place. Many of the shelves at the local Trader Joe's in Long Beach were barren. Shoppers had cleaned the store out of pasta, rice, beans, soup, peanut butter, frozen vegetables, some vegetables (sweet potatoes) and other goods. It was the first tangible sign to me personally that a panic had set in our area.
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  2020-03-21

  Adams supermarket, Deep River, Connecticut, 8:15 am,

  One sign shows the store tried rationing. The second sign shows it wasn’t enough.
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  2020-03-16

  Hospital in Bay Area has run out of masks and is reusing masks

  N95 masks were dropped off to a doctor who works at a Bay Area hospital that is reusing masks
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  2020-03-15

  Front door, Berlin Marketplace IGA

  The orange sign warned shoppers even before they stepped in: there would be no toilet paper inside. And they would not be taking orders against the next delivery.