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03/26/2020Cultural Insights: Interviews in the Creative Sector #7 … Susan Colaricci Sauls, University of Southern Indiana
In response to COVID-19, the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science launched the mini-series, "Cultural Insights: Interviews in the Creative Sector," to highlight colleagues and professionals working in the same or similar field of museum professionals. -
03/26/2020Abner Bonilla Oral History, 2020/03/26
As part of Everyday Boston's Essential People Project on YouTube, Aunnesha Bhowmick interviews Abner Bonilla, a Roslindale mail carrier. Abner describes what it's like to deliver mail to more than 1,000 people during a pandemic, including his concerns about the lack of social distancing; his worry for his elderly customers; and the outpouring of gratitude he and other mail carriers have gotten. -
03/26/2020Kurt Boone New York City Covid 19 Photo Collection #1
New York City CVS Drug Store in Manhattan worker services customers behind a plastic shield with PPE gloves and mask. -
03/26/2020Little Free Library
In response to worries about shopping and access to food/paper goods, the Middlebury Little Free Library, which normally holds books, was switched over to a Little Free Pantry, where people could donate or pick up grocery staples. -
03/26/2020Walgreens Prescribes “Social Distancing”
As the COVID-19 spreads across the world, essential businesses such as grocery stores and pharmacies take precautionary measures. Following the guidelines issued by the CDC, businesses such as Walgreens request that while in (and out of) their pharmacy, customers distance themselves by at least 6 feet. Inside the pharmacy, customers distance themselves physically and socially, exchanging looks from 6 feet away that seem to say, “you are too close to me.” Tape across the floor dictates the CDC’s guidelines of what is too close. Novelist George Orwell’s writings come to mind, whose literature warns of dystopian societies. The entire Walgreens experience, from walking in, to shopping, to walking out, reminds customers of the often asymptomatic virus that anyone could have. #DePaulHST391 -
03/26/2020Rent strike poster
A flyer taped to a lamp post in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood advertises a rent strike against MAC Properties, one of Hyde Park's biggest leasing companies. The flyer reads "MAC tenants, organized" and includes an image of an apartment building with the words "keep your rent, April 1." -
03/26/2020Pascua Yaqui Tribal Council Establishes Incident Command System
The Pascua Yaqui Tribal Council has declared a tribal emergency and passed a resolution to create an Incident Command System (ICS), comprised of representatives from police, fire, health, IT, and communications. The ICS and has been authorized by the tribal council to communicate directly with the community about information regarding Covid-19. It is a way to funnel information through "a central source" so that it is accurate and up-to-date. #IndigenousStories -
03/26/2020Alexander Oral History, 2020/03/26
Rounding up what I've been doing since the first log I posted on March 24. There was a few things I felt like I didn't cover very well originally. -
03/26/2020Trump says New York doesn’t need as many ventilators as are being requested
President Trump downplays the level of response needed fo combat the virus.