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• 2020-09-07

  Pandemics & Wildfires

  The year 2020 was challenging for me in a couple ways. Like so many others, the pandemic lockdown kept me home for several months. I continued school online with my local university and waited for it all to be over. As summer rolled around, my family had decided that if we were going to be isolated from others, we might as well do it somewhere we love. We spent the better part of our summer at my great grandfather’s cabin at Huntington Lake in the High Sierras. It was a fairly quiet season at the lake considering California was still under many restrictions. Shortly after our last visit, the Creek Fire started. The fire burned nearly 380,000 acres of the Sierra National Forest for about four months. Within a week of the beginning of the fire, we lost our family cabin and the historic general store, Cressman’s, that our cousins had just taken over. Our family was devastated, and it is still a very painful memory. I am, however, incredibly grateful for the last summer we got to spend there. In a strange way, the COVID-19 pandemic offered our family a small blessing in disguise. Since the lockdown required many to reduce work hours, a number of friends and family members had the opportunity to visit the cabin one last time. This photograph is a reminder of a very bittersweet summer. Although 2020 proved to be an especially challenging year, the pandemic allowed my family to make its final memories of our second home before it was gone.
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  2020-12-29

  HERMIT HERALD VOL 1 ISSUE 88

  CANCEL CULTURE 2020
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  2020-11-26

  Israeli Soldiers Wear Masks Whilst Forcibly Removing Palestinians From Their Homes.

  It's good to see Israeli soldiers following COVID-19 health protocols whilst forcibly removing Palestinians from their land. Safety first, machine guns to kill any human resisters, and masks to prevent COVID-19 infections.
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  2020-06-04

  Destroyed Cop Cars

  This is an image of protesters destroying abandoned police cars in a Black Lives Matter protest-turned riot in 2020.
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  2020-11-05

  Hurricane Eta: Tragedy in Honduras

  This is a video that has surfaced on Instagram the night of November 5th. Hurricane Eta has hit Honduras bring flooding and catastrophic damage to the country. This is a video of Toncotín, Tegucigalpa's International Airport. This video is alarming for many St. Mary's International Students from Honduras because of the implications this destruction has on their future. For many students studying remotely in Honduras, this means that they may not be able to come to the United States to study next semester, and for those on campus, it means they may not be able to return home in December. With all the uncertainty that the pandemic has caused, this hurricane has created yet another enormous challenge.
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  2020-06-03

  NYC Woman on the Destruction by Protesters of Low-Income Housing

  Her frustration and pain are evident in every movement, and word she speaks.
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  2020-04-08

  Protesters destroy Ivory Coast coronavirus testing centre

  Ivorians fear contraction of COVID 19 due to the testing center in Abidjan