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Added date created and date submitted to their respective fields. 5/22/2020 LM
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03/18/2020Charmin Farmin
Toilet paper became very hard to find as the pandemic set it to the US. This meme was very humorous when it came across my Facebook feed. -
03/18/2020King County Field Hospital
An article from the digital version of the Seattle Times discussing the building of a 200 bed field hospital on a local soccer field. -
03/18/2020Can I come into the out?
The phrase, "can I come into the out," is from a movie that was released in 2015. The movie was about an alien, the one pictured in the freezer, that came to Earth and was learning about the world. In this scene he visits a convenience store and climbs into a refrigerator and then asks his human friend "can I come into the out now?" This meme was particularly funny when everyone was staying home to avoid exposure. -
03/18/2020Order take out food, get free toilet paper
As it became increasingly clear the coronavirus was going to effect the United States people began stockpiling food and other supplies, especially toilet paper. It quickly resulted in no store, online or brick and mortar, had toilet paper in stock. As restaurants tried to quickly shift to pick up and deliver as their only options for remaining open many got inventive with how to attract customers. This restaurant, on the square in Georgetown, Texas, like many others, offered customers a free roll of toilet paper with their take out order. -
03/20/2020Virtual concert
The Tennessean Newspaper online covers the "Luck Reunion" concert -
03/18/2020Stay Home for Us
This image shows hospital workers expressing their wish for the public to stay home to lessen the number of people that would contract covid and become their patients. Basically asking people to "flatten the curve". This was the phrase that became the tag line for the second half of March.