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2021-10-10
Ten lessons I learned after surviving COVID-19
This is Mr. Mark Madrona, a writer and educator from the Philippines. I own the blog The Filipino Scribe. I am submitting for your consideration my article "Ten lessons I learned after surviving COVID-19" which I hope you can consider for publication. In the article, I talked about my experience when I and everyone else I was living with had COVID-19 last March. I am sure that your readers will find this story relevant especially given that the pandemic is still ongoing. I am looking forward to getting your feedback. Thank you very much! -
2021-03
How to Survive a Plague with a Disability
As I’m writing this, it is March 2021 and it’s been a year since I’ve updated this blog. Although I don’t only write about travel here, it’s been depressing to look back on my past trips and have to wonder when I could be in the world again. But I’ve been far from silent during this time. You can read many of my reflections on the pandemic and other topics over at The Mighty, where I have been an editor for the past five years. One year ago, when the pandemic was just beginning in the United States, one of my good friends posted a social media message about supporting each other during what most people thought would be a strange, scary, but ultimately short period of our lives. Part of it went something like this: My mask protects you. Your mask protects me. It’s a nice sentiment. Wearing a few layers of cloth over your face may not help you much, but it helps to prevent other people from getting sick. It’s a kind, visible act we can all do to show we care during a difficult time, to protect others who are at risk even if we may think we would not become seriously ill. It seems so simple, right? How could people not do this? But we all know what happened. “My mask protects you. Your mask protects me,” only works if the other person values your life enough to consider it worth protecting. I’ve been horrified by the number of government officials and online commenters who have viewed the deaths of elderly and disabled people as “acceptable losses” in exchange for keeping non-essential gathering spaces open. My life, and the lives of people with high-risk conditions, are more important than your trip to Disneyland. Don’t you think we want to go to Disneyland too? I’ve also noticed that able-bodied people often assume disabled people will be provided for in emergencies, and in general. They believe there are a lot of government programs and charities to help us, and that such programs are run well and meet our needs. This widespread — but utterly false — belief in a functioning safety net for “the vulnerable” gives people an excuse to behave selfishly while convincing themselves they’re not doing anything wrong. “Of course, there will be a plan to protect nursing home residents, and immune-suppressed people can stay home, so we can throw parties and go without masks if we don’t like them.” In reality, the needs of people with disabilities are often disregarded, misunderstood, ignored, and even actively opposed. We have to fight for access to everything, and sometimes end up on multi-year waiting lists for housing assistance, in-home care, and other essential programs and services. We must battle with government and private insurance to get the mobility equipment we need. We are GPS tracked like criminals if we need personal care assistants, with “fraud prevention” used as an excuse. We often depend on programs with ridiculously complicated requirements, and one missed deadline, one paperwork error, one month where we made “too much money” can cost us everything. -
2020-06-28
Pregnant in a Pandemic
This blog says a lot about the pandemic and how it affects parents to be. It highlights the feelings that would run through the mind of any mom getting pregnant in the current state of the world, and the difficulties with it. It is important that historians can look back and understand the feelings that are going through our mind and how we chose to voice those through writing. A quote that resonated with me in this blog was; “It’s hard not having my husband by my side as I watch our precious miracle wiggle and kick on the ultrasound monitor. To feel robbed of the magical experience we had with our first two. They allowed me to FaceTime him after the exam so that he too could see our healthy baby boy, but it simply didn’t make up for the empty space beside me where he rightfully should have been.” -
2020-09-26
Jewish Melbourne: Jewish Women of Words Lara Lubitz Neilah drash
A drash written by Lara Lubitz for Neilah 2020, published on Jewish Women of Words -
2020-04-28
Jewish Melbourne: Jewish Care blog post - Understanding covid anxiety
Blog post by Ronit Joel – Psychologist, for Jewish Care, about understanding and managing covid anxiety -
2020
Jewish Melbourne: Jewish Care blog post - Remote Learning
Blog post for Jewish Care by Cassandra Barrett – Program Manager, Healthy Communities, writing about how to support students during online learning -
2020-09-07
Jewish Melbourne: Jewish Care blog post- Putting Children First
Blog post for Jewish Care by Marilyn Kraner, Manager - Individual & Family Services, discussing child protection during the pandemic -
2020-03-26
Medical Student's Experience with COVID-19
This is a blog post from a fourth year medical student at Indiana University’s School of Medicine. According to the article, he had taken the precautions he thought were necessary in order to remain COVID free, but it really isn’t certain that no matter all the precautions you take that you won’t get it. It addresses the thoughts that younger citizens are less likely to contract the virus, and don’t expect it to happen to them. It pleads for people to be vigilant in their measures to remain COVID-free and to understand that it is a very real possibility. The author also discusses the dangers of the virus also presenting no symptoms in some who have contracted it. (Arizona State University, HST485) -
2020
Jewish Melbourne - My Two Lockdown Experiences - Day by Day
I shared my thoughts, experiences and feelings: my family and me in lockdown. In both lockdown #1 and lockdown #2, in daily blog posts over many weeks. Many of the stories include Jewish-life aspects. -
2020-08-19
Portfolio of a JOPL Intern, Summer 2020, Lyn Ribisi
This is my portfolio for my 15 weeks as an intern working with The Journal of the Plague Year. I was anxious to learn the skills involved in gathering, creating, and archiving materials to preserve history in our lifetime. The pandemic of COVID-19 is a once in a century occurrence, and I felt it was very important to preserve our thoughts, emotions, photographs, jokes, and events that are shaping our lives now. Generally, I’ve been fascinated by archives and the potential they hold for telling our stories. I’ve also been frustrated by the lack of accessibility they all present. I’m hoping that the digital archive techniques we have employed will ease that problem. We’ve had the freedom to use tags (or, in archive-speak, folksonomy) to make the content searchable and accessible to all who come after us. In addition to archive work, my branch of historical interest is in the everyday lives of people. This digital repository satisfies both passions. Lastly, working on preserving the events of this pandemic has helped me find my way during this difficult time. I feel that I've been able to contribute--at least a little bit--and thus been able to be causative over some little part of this global nightmare. I am earning my Master’s degree in order to teach at the college where I work now. I’ve been functioning as a TA for the last several years as well as working as a classified staff member. I should graduate in May 2021, and become an adjunct. However, with all learning remote and the campus closed, hiring may be delayed. My mission is to inspire a love of history and the ability to think critically about the past and present. Too often history is still being taught as a memorization exercise of dates, names, and events. I will teach against that model and hopefully inspire a love of the past and its lessons and stories in my students. I want to thank all of our staff at ASU for delivering a professional learning experience—I was very lucky to have had the opportunity to be a part of it. -
2020-04-06
Smallpox in Boston: Inoculation and the Revere Family
As the Covid-19 pandemic began to spread in Boston, museum interpreters at the Paul Revere house looked to the archives to learn more about how Boston has responded to wide-spread illness in the past. This blog post from The Revere Express blog explains how the smallpox epidemic effected the Revere Family and ways that 18th century medicine responded to the illness. -
2020-03-17
Plague Journal
Gavin McCormick is a reporter, writer, and professor who lives in Brooklyn. Since early March 2020, when his family entered quarantine, he has been keeping a daily COVID-19 journal. Created with no plan beyond tracking the world, his life, and his mind at an unusual moment, journal entries encompass daily life with his family, including his 12-year-old daughter and his girlfriend; family history; reportage of pandemic life in Brooklyn, including of quarantine, economic collapse, and #BLM protests; observations on education, journalism, and politics; discussions of cooking and music; and reflections on connection and loss, all during a time of intense social unease. -
2020-03-17
365inasnap (Personal Blog)
Celina, or Ina, is a 29-year-old government contractor, Pianist, and Illustrator from Parañaque City, Metro Manila, the Philippines. -
2020-04-08
Blog Post: Life in Tokyo Update: State of Emergency
A blog post by an American postdoctoral scholar living in Tokyo, about his experience of self-isolation and working from home. -
2020-03-24
Blog Post: Life in Tokyo in the Age of Plague
A blog post by an American postdoctoral scholar living in Tokyo, about his experience of self-isolation and working from home. -
2020-05-13
Trying to survive the COVID-19 pandemic
A personal diary of a college student living during the COVID-19 pandemic Dougherty Family College, HIST 115 -
05/07/2020
Sparacity
A blog -
2020-03-23
Journal of the Plague Year
A series of posts on my blog recounting my experience and thoughts on the current crisis. I've given you the link for the whole site; you will only be interested in the latest six posts made starting 3/23 -
2020-04-27
My blog/diary: Photo#5
My name is Egor and i write my thoughts and emotions in my blog https://starcatcherrus.tumblr.com every day for more than 6 years. And i want to share some of posts about life in self-isolation. And also i'm working in a city hospital as a radiologist.*There is some photos taken by me and notes from my blog about my thoughts and feelings. May be it will be helpful for your research. Thank you! -
2020-04-27
My blog/diary: Photo#4
My name is Egor and i write my thoughts and emotions in my blog https://starcatcherrus.tumblr.com every day for more than 6 years. And i want to share some of posts about life in self-isolation. And also i'm working in a city hospital as a radiologist. *There is some photos taken by me and notes from my blog about my thoughts and feelings. May be it will be helpful for your research. Thank you! -
2020-04-27
My blog/diary: Photo#3
My name is Egor and i write my thoughts and emotions in my blog https://starcatcherrus.tumblr.com every day for more than 6 years. And i want to share some of posts about life in self-isolation. And also i'm working in a city hospital as a radiologist. *There is some photos taken by me and notes from my blog about my thoughts and feelings. May be it will be helpful for your research. Thank you! -
2020-04-27
My blog/diary: Photo #2
My name is Egor and i write my thoughts and emotions in my blog https://starcatcherrus.tumblr.com every day for more than 6 years. And i want to share some of posts about life in self-isolation. And also i'm working in a city hospital as a radiologist. *There is some photos taken by me and notes from my blog about my thoughts and feelings. May be it will be helpful for your research. Thank you! -
2020-04-27
My blog/diary: Photo #1
My name is Egor and i write my thoughts and emotions in my blog https://starcatcherrus.tumblr.com every day for more than 6 years. And i want to share some of posts about life in self-isolation. And also i'm working in a city hospital as a radiologist.*There is some photos taken by me and notes from my blog about my thoughts and feelings. May be it will be helpful for your research. Thank you! -
2020-04-24
My blog/diary: 04/24/2020
My name is Egor and i write my thoughts and emotions in my blog https://starcatcherrus.tumblr.com every day for more than 6 years. And i want to share some of posts about life in self-isolation. And also i'm working in a city hospital as a radiologist. -
2020-04-29
Sudden change
A Personal Account of the pandemic -
2020-04-29
41 days
A personal account of the pandemic. -
2020-04-19
COVID 19 Journal: 04/19/2020
COVID 19 Journal by Kaitlin Whalen written 04/19/2020 -
2020-04-12
COVID 19 Journal: 04/12/2020
COVID 19 Journal by Kaitlin Whalen written 04/12/2020 -
2020-04-07
COVID 19 Journal: 04/07/2020
COVID 19 Journal by Kaitlin Whalen written 04/07/2020 -
2020-04-03
COVID 19 Journal: 04/03/2020
COVID 19 Journal by Kaitlin Whalen written 04/03/2020 -
2020-04-01
COVID 19 Journal: 04/01/2020
COVID 19 Journal by Kaitlin Whalen written 04/01/2020. -
2020-04-24
COVID 19 Journal: 03/26/2020
COVID 19 Journal by Kaitlin Whalen written 03/26/2020 -
2020-03-31
My blog/diary
My name is Egor and i write my thoughts and emotions in my blog https://starcatcherrus.tumblr.com every day for more than 6 years. And i want to share some of posts about life in self-isolation. And also i'm working in a city hospital as a radiologist. -
2020-03-30
Thinking through COVID-19
Dr. Bryan Mukandi's Blog Post - March 30 2020 -
onward
A Journal of the Plague Year
Personal Journal of Coronavirus, starting March 22 -
2020-03-20
On the Coronavirus Pandemic
An ongoing journal documenting my opinions and experiences during the Coronavirus pandemic. -
2020-03-30
What is Normalcy These Days?
A blog post talking about how Covid-19 has affected daily routine. -
2020-03-16
Teaching during the #covid19 pandemic
Daily blog post of an assistant professor who’s had to go remote -
2020-03-24
From You I Have Been Absent in the Spring
A blog which fumbles in the proverbial haystack to find the - dare I say it - beneficial possible outcomes of the library lockdown for researchers. -
2020-03-21
Coronavirus shutdown: photos from Spokane and Spokane Valley
Photos of the city during covid-19