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  2020-03

  Empty Shelves

  My plaque story begins in March 2020, right in the middle of my senior year of my senior year of high school. that day we were let out of school for, what we were told, 2 weeks. One of my friends was away at a baseball camp that night and he had left his car in our school parking lot so me and my friends decided to go to the grocery store, buy a bunch of Saran Wrap, and Saran Wrap his car. At this point the amount that the pandemic would affect our lives hadn't sank in yet but when we got to the grocery store to buy the wrap we saw a very surreal sight. Hundreds of people were there wearing masks and gloves, and even goggles. People were buying canned food and toilet paper in mass quantities and there were numerous empty shelves. It looked like something out of a movie and that's when it began to sink in how crazy the situation was. that same week I remember going hiking with a couple of my friends and talking about the pandemic. I remember us wondering if anyone that we knew would end up getting the virus or if it would fizzle out before it hit Pennsylvania and if or when we would go back to school to finish our senior year. It turned out that we would never go back and "two weeks to slow the spread" turned into months and then years. It is now February 2022 and our lives are still being turned upside down by this pandemic. All we can do now is hope that things eventually return to normal and that we as humans can learn from the mistakes made during this pandemic.
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  2020-04-03

  Emptiness Around Us: Empty Aisle

  A whole row of empty shelves at Target in Niskayuna, NY in early April. This shelf is normally fully stocked with toilet paper, flushable wipes, paper towels, and facial tissue.
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  2020-04-03

  Emptiness Around Us: Empty Shelf

  A scarcely stocked shelf of soap at Target in Niskayuna, NY in early April. The shelf here is normally fully stocked with hand soap. The note explains a purchase limit of 1 soap bottle per guest.
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  2020-04-03

  Emptiness Around Us: Empty Rows

  A few shelves of boxed macaroni and cheese at Target in Niskayuna, NY in early April and a note limiting the amount one dry good per customer. Normally, these shelves are fully stocked.
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  May 1, 2020

  Evansville IN Neighborhood Walmart Sign of Times

  These photographs were taken to document some of what people in Evansville and its Tri-State region saw and experienced as the realities of the Covid-19 pandemic came to the area in the spring of 2020. Many of these images represent literal signs of the time, while others figuratively depict signs of the pandemic.
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  2020-05-26

  How to Care for Your Home Library

  Nicole McAllister, Special Collections Librarian at Revolutionary Spaces, shares tips and best practices for caring for home libraries. Published on Revolutionary Spaces' website during COVID19.
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  2020-03-07

  Covid -19's Major Impact on Grocery Stores Nationwide

  The image I displayed shows the sheer panic Covid-19 has caused nationwide. It shows the distress and precautions Americans are taking to make sure they are prepared for the situations the pandemic could cause.The image was originally by Tacoma News Tribune and expressed the seriousness of taking precautions before Covid-19 becomes a serious issueThe empty shelves in a grocery store caused by the panic of Covid-19.
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  2020-03-15

  Fear of the unknown

  Few people were there, those who were had masks but almost every section was clean or had few items left shortly into the Pandemic scare.
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  2020-04-30

  The Great Grocery Store Run

  Throughout my whole life I have never seen people so scared and/or lost like I did during this pandemic. Hearing on the news that the COVID-19 pandemic was sweeping across the country and that we were encouraged to stock up on essential supplies I decided to head to the nearest Walmart and get the things I would need for daily life to continue. As I walk into the grocery store, I could immediately feel the panic that was upon every individual that was in the building. Shopping carts full to the max as well as almost everybody having on mask and/or gloves. Shelves were almost completely empty with nothing really left for the workers to stock them back up with. People fighting over items that we considered very small and unimportant just a few days ago. I was completely shocked at just how real this invisible virus had become to everybody,and what people were willing to do to make sure that they were able to survive. A day I will always remember as the Great Grocery Store Run. #REL101
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  2020-04-23

  Missing foods

  While pandemic is going on, there are many people who end up buying more than the amounts that they need for themselves. This then leaves families who are in actual need to not have something healthy to provide for their families. #REL101
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  2020-03-15

  Empty toilet paper shelves at Winco

  The video shows the empty toilet paper shelves at a local Winco in Phoenix, Arizona. Due to the pandemic, Americans are stockpiling toilet paper and other home essentials. #REL101
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  2020-03-15

  Price Chopper Empty Shelves Bread Aisle

  Supermarkets were overrun for staple goods. Bread, milk, eggs and other essential items were in very short supply, or not at all available. Contributed by Suffolk University employee.
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  2020-03-26

  Empty Shelves at Target

  This is a photograph taken at a Target store in the Fenway neighborhood in Boston, MA. The toilet paper shelves, stretching a whole wall of the store, are empty. #HIST5241
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  2020-03-18

  Empty shelves at Wegmans in the Lehigh Valley

  All over the Lehigh valley stores are running out of toilet paper and other necessary items. People bulk bought in the very beginning and stores are having a hard time restocking these items.
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  2020-03-14

  Can’t live by bread alone

  Panic shopping for food. Malibu, California, Whole Foods on the Saturday after a state of emergency was declared.