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2020-04-07
Are we creating safe and stable spaces for our children?
Reflection of India's education system during the COVID-19 pandemic. -
2020-03-30
Noella Spa Flyer #2
This is a gift card sale for my family's business. At the given moment, this is the only way our business can earn any money. -
2020-03-16
Noella Spa Flyer #1
This is a temporarily closing flyer for my family's business. We had originally decided to close for two weeks, but that was extended to the end of March, and now until the end of April. -
2020-03-30
Tohono O'odham Nation Declares State of Emergency
With a tribal member testing positive on March 28th, reservation residents are expected to follow strict guidelines of self-isolation and individuals and businesses entering the reservations will be heavily monitored and limited. #IndigenousStories -
2020-04-13
No Work, No Play
The picture reflects an empty construction site due to lockdowns in Tema, Ghana. The entire country has been shut down, except the ports that remain open for essential food and medicines. Soaps and sanitizers are given at every shop for customers to use before they enter, without which there’s a strict no-entry policy being enforced. -
2020-04-06
A Letter to My Future Self
Dear future self, Welcome back to the wonderful world of the COVID-19 outbreak. It’s been a year, so you will be in 2021, 17 years old and about a month from graduating high school. Current status: I don’t even know, the US is doing the worst in the world (for COVID-19 cases and other assorted issues haha) and last time I checked 34 of the states have stay-at-home orders. It’s April 6th, 2020, and we have been self-quarantining for about 3 weeks now, but the actual stay-at-home order from Ducey is fairly recent. All I’ve been doing is go to work a few times a week, babysit twice a week, and do online school. I’m excited to be a senior next year, especially because I’ll have a half day. When the outbreak first happened in China, I can’t say I cared or knew a lot about it. Come February it was getting worse, and we heard about schools closing, but looking back I was in a bubble, and I felt like it wasn’t going to really affect me. (“They won’t close schools, and it’s not like anyone I know will get it”). We joked about it constantly, but we’re Gen Z, we’re nihilistic about everything - walking through the school I heard banter about people trying to get COVID-19 just so they will cancel school. Around then was when I started to see real effects of Corona, movies not being released in theaters, talk shows filmed at home. So, I began reading the news and listening to a news podcast every morning in hopes of educating myself. As I started to grasp the situation, my bubble burst all at once. It was the day after I took my SAT (I was one of the few who did take it: most test centers had been closed due to the virus - once again I was not directly affected), and it was announced that school had really been cancelled, so my first week of quarantine began. Spring break was coming up, and I still had a lot of hope: that we’d be back in school, that this would be over soon, that we’d still go on vacation, that life would quickly return to normal. Everything accelerated so quickly about a week after that, and the situation became stressful. All of the sudden my daily routine of waking up, going to school, coming home, sometimes working, sometimes going to French Honors Society: it was all gone. I realized I wouldn’t see my friends in person for months, and that I would have to try to keep my grades up from home. The only thing that really brought normality was my favorite show (Good Mythical Morning) that brought new episodes (now from their homes) daily, so that’s what I woke up for each morning. The next week I continued work, which I had taken a week’s break from to assess the situation, and started babysitting for two kids whose parents needed someone to look after them now that we are all at home. Having something to do brought a schedule to my life, and shortly after that school started up again online. I hope that by the fall the outbreak has calmed. I have been listening to the news podcast for a couple weeks, and scientists such as Dr.Fauci say the virus might be seasonal, meaning it would never really go away. However, the swine flu was really bad like 10 years ago, and now it is just one of the strands of flu we get shots for. In my free time I’ve been playing a lot of Switch, FaceTiming with my little cousins, and hanging out in the backyard. It’s really interesting to hear about the situation from the perspectives of younger kids because they see things much more simply than we do. It seems like they just miss going to school, and are waiting for this to be over already: I’d guess it’s hard for them to grasp the severity of the situation, especially since it seems like a lot of adults are failing to do so. I think the main thing I will remember from this time is the confusion and some of the hopelessness I feel, staying at home to protect myself and others but wanting nothing more than to go back to normal life (as I suspect everyone who goes through an upheaval in their life feels). Anyway, I hope you’re doing well, future me! P.S. Do you still listen to the same music and podcasts I do now? Right now I’m loving The 1975, Nirvana, Harry Styles, Billie Eilish, Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Mayer (as I have literally my whole life - no way that’s changed), and the Mythical Feel Good Quarantine Playlist that Rhett and Link made. As far as podcasts, I listen a lot to Ear Biscuits, Philip DeFranco, and NVC, and some Dolly Parton’s America. -
2020-03-30
Virginia Stay at Home Order
This is the order to stay at home issued by Governor Ralph Northam of Virginia, which at this moment says it will stay in effect until June 10, 2020 unless something changes. -
2020-03-30
Governor Doug Ducey and Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman Joint Statement about AZ School Closure
This is the social media form of the Joint Statement from Governor Doug Ducey and Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman made on March 30, 2020 announcing the extension of physical school closures through the end of the school year. It emphasizes the roles schools have in continuing virtual and take home learning opportunities, as well as the legislature in ensuring continued pay to educators and staff members. -
03/27/2020
Nearly empty streets in Pueblo Libre, Lima, Peru
Photos by Gladys Duran showing Avda universitaria en San Miguel & Avda Cipriano Dulanto -
2020-03-30
Virginia Governor Northam's Stay at Home Order
On March 30, 2020, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam issued this stay at home order effective immediately. It expands on the previous advice and request that residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia engage in social distancing. -
2020-03-26
Keep calm and drink (take away) coffee
These posters went up around our neighbourhood within a day of the government order that limited all restaurants and cafes to take away service only. The same message was also printed as a paper slip and placed under car windscreen wipers. The business behind the signs is Lux Foundry cafe, located on my street in Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia. The sign pleads with people in the neighbourhood to keep patronising the cafe, so the cafe can continue employing its staff: "We will never abandon our team. We will never abandon you. Please don't abandon us". This poster is a poignant illustration of the economic crisis that was unleashed immediately by the COVID control interventions. -
2020-03-25
Email about Emerson College's positive test
An Emerson College staff member had a positive test for COVID-19 and so the college informed its community. The college had been online since March 13th, but there were still some staff on campus. #HIST5241 *Meg Szydlik, Northeastern University, HIST 5241 -
2020-03-16
Layoff Announcement
This is a screenshot of the announcement that wait staff would be laid off from a local restaurant in NJ for the foreseeable future due to COVID-19 and the orders from NJ governor, Phil Murphy. -
2020-03-11
Suspension of LDS services
This is the letter that went out to all members of the LDS Church, telling them that services were suspended for the foreseeable future, worldwide. #HIST5241 -
2020-03-27
US Census Suspends Operations
This was an email where the Census Bureau announced that it was suspending operations. -
2020-03-21
Peru spars with U.S. over letting stranded Americans fly home during coronavirus outbreak.
Article from Politico magazine on American citizens being kept from returning home until U.S. government confirms that Peruvian citizens in the U.S. can also return to Peru. -
2020-03-23
Bourke Street Mall, Melbourne, looking West
Showing Bourke Street Mall, Melbourne. Sales on in the major department stores but no one around to buy it. -
2020-03-21
Coronavirus shutdown: photos from Spokane and Spokane Valley
Photos of the city during covid-19 -
3/20/2020
Empty parking lot at McCarthy's Pub in Belchertown, MA, USA
Earlier this week In Massachusetts bars and restaurants were shut down to help prevent the spread of the virus. McCarthy's Pub, normally bustling on a Friday night, now stands empty, without a single car in the lot. -
2020-03-19
PA "life sustaining businesses"
This document details the types of businesses and industries permitted to stay open in Pennsylvania as of 3/19/2020, after the governor shut down all non "life-sustaining" businesses. -
2020-03-17
Empty Shelves of Distilled Water
Walmart is sold out of distilled water. -
2020-03-16
City of LA Closures (16 March 2020)
City of LA's closure of all gathering places, restaurants (except for take out), entertainment venues--not yet "sheltering in place" but a shut-down that makes clear the new social organizations of daily life. -
2020-05-26
COVID19 & its effect on Education
Text Box explaining COVID 19 and Education: "Most colleges and universities have shut down following spring break (March 16, 2020). Most students were not able to return to campus post spring break to retrieve their personal belongings such as clothes and school books. Online classes have been administered for most colleges in order to continue the curriculum. Some colleges are keeping their options open and are hoping to return students to campus on April 14, 2020 however some colleges have already decided that the remainder of the semester will be completed through online classes at home. Not only have colleges shut down but public school districts have also closed for an initial 3 weeks beginning March 16, 2020. Cancelling schools is causing issues for working parents who are either physically attending their workplace or are attempting to work from home. Their children are now home and will need parental support to continue their curriculum. Childcare has become an increasing issue." -
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. -
3/15/20
Ohio Governor says that schools may be closed for the remainder of the school year
Covid-19 presents a major challenge for schools -
03/15/20
New York closes public schools, shuttering the nation’s largest public school system
Actions being taken to reduce risk -
2020-03-14
Sign in pharmacy, 11th arrondissement, Paris, France
In the week before I took this photograph, most pharmacies in Paris had handwritten signs in their windows explaining they were out of masks and antibacterial/alcohol gel. This one adds a welcome note of levity. A few hours after I took the picture, France shut all cafes, bars and non-essential shops for the foreseeable future. The pharmacy will, of course, remain open.