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  2022-07-12

  Email to project coordinator of SMhopes

  I hope Santa Monica will use its resources to clean up the streets from urine and feces instead of covering it up with art. A good power wash plus a lawsuit against LA county for wasting our tax money that was supposed to go to affordable housing would make me much happier than beautiful art in a smelly street. COVID made this worse. Art won't make it better. Please do something. Anything.
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  2021-04-03

  Keith Sciarra Oral History, 2021/04/03

  This is an oral history interview with Joan Church and Keith Sciarra. Keith gives his insight on how covid-19 has affected wildlife. Keith has many years working within wildlife, specifically with dolphins and ocean life. He gives us advice on how we can help the cause after covid and talks on the topic of ocean conservation.
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  2021-03-20

  Mask Trash in Our Sacred Places

  Mask Trash found in our sacred places. This was found inside of Muir Woods National Park.
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  2021-03-20

  Mask Trash in Our Sacred Places

  Mask trash found in a protected habitat area of Muir Beach, California. The area is closed to try and recover habitats in danger.
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  2021-01-23

  Giving the Vaccine

  The process of giving the COVID vaccine is not as simple as one may think. For starters, hospitals and clinics have no idea when they will receive the next shipment of doses since it is held and distributed by the state. Scheduling appointments for the general population is difficult without knowing when they’ll receive the next shipment. Then, the paperwork is extensive for each patient. And when a bottle is opened, all doses must be pulled up immediately and distributed within 15-45 minutes, leaving little room for mistakes or missed appointments. Via Christi in Manhattan, Kansas, USA is proud to say they have not wasted a single dose yet, unlike many other hospitals across the US. The patient then has to wait for 15 minutes to be observed by the hospital staff for reactions before they can leave. If this sounds like a lot for a patient, imagine the process for the hospital staff.
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  2020-03-31

  Plague Journal, Day 18: What if the war comes?

  I've been keeping a Covid-19 journal. Here's my latest entry, discussing my father, parsimony, war, and toilet paper.
• 2020-04-28

  Fort COVID

  My laptop died, so I headed to Sawyer Library in search of a replacement laptop, a much needed item in this COVID time. With only a select few stores open and selling electronics and with no inventory due to manufacturing restrictions, I was forced into the possibility of borrowing one from the library. Passing through security, I noticed that Tom, who said he never left, still collects the university's newspapers, which are piling up. The newspapers behind him belong to other depts. on campus. Meanwhile, the library's newspapers sit in buckets around the corner waiting to be claimed. I call these piles "Fort COVID".
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  03/17/2020

  Handmade ‘glove’ using crocheted wrist band with recycled plastic bags.

  I didn’t want to waste gloves that Health workers might need. We were all getting inventive about protective gear.
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  2020-04-07

  Emergency water packets strewn in the street

  These emergency water packets were lying in the middle of Orchid Street on an early Tuesday morning. Accident? Litter?
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  2020-04-03

  Trash

  My college closed the trashrooms on all the floors so I have no place to put these bags of trash. But there is no bugs or anything. and its mostly empty wrappers and bottles so its doesn't smell either. I chose to pick this because it shows how much waste humans make just being stuck in the house for weeks.