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  2020-03-21

  A Sudden Flight

  It emphasizes the suddenness of the pandemic through sensory history.
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  2020-03-21

  The Day the Call to Prayer Changed in Cairo

  If there's one thing you can count on in the Muslim world, it's the call to prayer (adhan) audibly marking the sun's path through the sky, and everyone's route to a mosque, five times a day. It might sound a little different in various regions, a little more musical in Egypt, a little less practiced sometimes in Kyrgyzstan, but it's always the call to prayer, and has been for over 1000 years. But across the Muslim world in March 2020, as mosques closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, the call to prayer was adapted. Instead of saying, "Come to prayer, come to salvation" it said in Egypt, "Pray in your homes, pray on your travels." The wording had been changed like this a few times in the past when mosques were closed because of war or plague or weather, but I honestly never thought I'd hear it myself. The call to prayer seems constant and unchanging, part of the highly sensory experience of Muslim prayer, so this adaptation made the pandemic more present for everyone in Egypt. I'm not Muslim myself, but I talked with Muslim friends all over the world about the change in the adhan. One woman in Kuwait said, "It just sounds so... ominous.. especially at maghrib prayer, it's sunset and getting dark, and the voice over the loudspeakers is saying to stay home... also because I have never, ever heard them change it like this before. Ever. It's like I'm waiting for an eclipse, and the flocks of birds flying away, animals fleeing, etc." I took this video during the last prayer of the day on 21 March 2020 at a mosque near our apartment in Cairo, Egypt. If you're not familiar with the adhan, you obviously won't notice anything different, but this rendition is beautiful even if you don't understand it. If you do, the new wording begins at 1:13. The beginning of the video is a little bumpy while we were getting to the right spot, but then it settles down a bit.
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  2020-03-21

  Bakery queue March 2020 HIST30060

  In March 2020 during the first covid-19 lockdown, we heard a lot about toilet paper shortages, queues and fights for it at supermarkets. What surprised me to see on a walk around Brunswick was a substantial queue at a local bakery. It was also one of the first social distanced queues I had seen and certainly the first I had taken a photo of. It summed up the new state of affairs to me, while reminding me of the importance that bread holds in our diets. In some ways I was relieved to see a queue for it rather than something more trivial such as toilet paper. The fact it was a local bakery highlighted to me the importance that people in Brunswick place on locally made produce. This also reminded me of the historical importance of bread, for instance the riots that occurred when bread and flour prices increased in France in the late 1780s or Lenin's promise to the Russian people of 'Peace, Bread, Land' in 1917. To me this photo captured how despite circumstances changing immensely, the importance of accessing staple foods remains more or less constant.
• 2020-03-21

  Gardening During the Apocalypse

  I can't think of the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the shut downs and lock-ins, the stay-at-home orders without thinking of my brief foray into gardening. My husband and I bought our house in northwest Baltimore in April 2019. Our little duplex sits near the end of an unbelievably picturesque street in a fairly affluent neighborhood known for its garden communities and HOA-hosted wine and cheese parties you have to pay to attend. The neighborhood is surrounded by much poorer neighborhoods and heavily-trafficked streets, the direct product of red-lining in Old Baltimore. While the Original Northwood neighborhood is much more diverse - demographically and economically - than it was when it was first established in the 1930s and 1940s, my husband and I, as some of the only residents under 40, still felt like we didn't necessarily fit in with our older, more well-to-do neighbors, despite absolutely adoring our little home, which had been lovingly renovated and reimagined by its previous tenants. Come March 2020, however, the noise from the crowded streets, the surrounding neighborhoods, and from our own neighborhood, died down substantially. Our streets and its surrounds have always been a great place to go for a walk, but now every day people were strolling by in ones and twos, sometimes in small family units. Everyone needed to get out of the houses they were now cooped up in, and I was no exception. Much to my mother's chagrin - and likely to my neighbors' embarrassment - I did not inherent my mother's green thumb. Because I am a millennial I found an app that identifies plants and set about rooting out weeds, pruning the flowers the previous tenants had not intended for me to neglect, picking up the endless stream of leaves from our several 100+ year old trees, digging up more weeds and debating with my husband about whether we should start an herb and vegetable garden or put in a patio in the little garden area that connects our front and back yards. I did not become proficient at gardening. I am much better than I was, however, at identifying the truly astonishing diversity of plants in my own garden and in my neighborhood by scent and even touch. I learned that the dried and withered allium stalks pull effortlessly out of the ground after they die, that African violets also give way to a gentle scooping from the earth, and that thistle, of course, will still try to prick you as it attempts to cling to the soil. I learned that those thin but tough shoots of elm and oak born from the seeds and acorns the squirrels missed not only grow rapidly, but are extraordinarily difficult to rip from the earth. And no matter how much seemingly-delicate clover one claws at, its roots will always remain beneath the surface, as virulent in a day or two as when one earlier tore at it in complete dismay of its sheer stubbornness. I did not become proficient at gardening. But I did relish the feeling of cool, damp earth underneath my hands, even in my fingernails, the crunch of dry leaves, the slick sliding of wet leaves, the red, angry weals left on my hands from those stubborn oaks. I felt accomplished as I pulled lovely, but ultimately threatening African violets and wild raspberry from underneath the spreading cover of the hostas, and as I pulled wild mint, lemon, and rosemary for tea and cooking. I told myself I'd use the ramps (a species of wild onion that smells and tastes sort of of like a combination between garlic and scallions) in a soup, as a college roommate of mine had done, but I forgot to harvest them in time. From what I recall, summertime is best, particularly late summertime. The other thing I remember about this time spent in my garden, hands in the dirt, sweat on my brow, bug bites inflaming every available inch of skin, is the new sense of connection I felt with my neighbors who stopped to wave hello, nod and smile at my gardening efforts. Neighbors who I hadn't gotten to know before the pandemic which now prevented us, due to fear of contamination from contact with other people, from truly getting to know each other still. But somehow, the simple act of being out in my garden, doing this simple, repetitive toil, made me feel like I was participating in a ritual, an activity that linked me to the less unsavory past of the community, and to neighbors who otherwise might have remained alien in a plague environment that seemed to bring a new apocalypse with every week.
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  2020-03-21

  COVID-19 1 year later

  I found this tweet to be funny and also interesting as people look back on COVID as it has been over a year since it started. Many people, myself included, were not doing much of anything in the end of March 2020 except for following all the simple rules put out there to keep people from spreading the disease, like you hear when you're 5 (don't put your hands in your mouth, wash your hands, etc). This tweet reminded me of how far we have come from when we were not able to do simple activities we had always done like go to school and work and how people's actions have changed over time, even when the pandemic was still present.
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  2020-03-21

  (HIST30060) Empty Footy Games and Empty Supermarket Shelves

  (HIST30060) As an avid footy fan, it was upsetting and very strange to see the 2020 AFL season starting without being able to attend the game at the MCG, or there be anyone in the seats when watching it on tv. This post reflects this strange moment in AFL history, but also the coinciding rush on supermarkets, particularly toilet paper, leaving lots of shortages and empty supermarket shelves. I still don't understand why seemingly everyone in Victoria and Australia decided they needed to stock up on toilet paper, but it was definitely an aspect of a very strange and stressful period at the start of the pandemic.
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  2020-03-21

  stmarysstulife Instagram posts

  This is a series of Instagram posts from the @stmarysstulife account when St. Mary's University began adjusting to COVID-19.
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  2020-03-21

  Policing the Plague

  This is a photograph of myself that I took just prior to the service of a search warrant on March 21st 2020 in Salinas, California. The state of California was the first to issue a statewide lock down order due to COVID-19 and had done so just the day before on March 20th. Officers in my department were required to don our gas masks for the service of search warrants and other specific activities at this time due to concerns of contacting the virus. These specific gas masks are issued to be used in environments in which CS or CN gas is introduced. They are also designed to be effective in nuclear fallout and are subsequently extreme overkill in regards to protection against COVID-19 and additionally utterly unpractical for officers whom work 40 plus hours a week. The requirement to wear these masks was very short lived as we soon downgraded to surgical masks and cloth masks. Nonetheless, this exemplifies the fear that has surrounded COVID-19, especially in the early days of the pandemic, and the often drastic reactions we as a society have had in response.
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  2020-03-21

  Faith over Fear

  The lockdown caused by COVID-19 pandemic banned religious gatherings, including hearing the mass. Determined not to deny the faithful a chance to venerate the Blessed Sacrament, the parish priest of Cubao, Quezon City conducted a motorcade that carried him and the Blessed Sacrament.
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  2020-03-21

  Flattening the Curve

  I was walking through Princeton University area and near the old movie theater I saw this poster. I thought that this would be a great thing to share on WhatsApp to help keep my friends and family safe during this time.
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  2020-03-21

  Alone Together

  Social distancing, self-quarantine, community lock down have all taken a toll on people's mental health one way or another. I wrote this short piece to remind people to connect with each other in a more meaningful way, at least virtually for now, and reach out to those who may be feeling alone.
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  2020-03-21

  Plague Journal, Day 8: The Circle of disease tightens

  The Girlfriend's friend enters the hospital with lung problems, awaits test results; also, her colleague is a possible Covid-19 vector. The Girlfriend experiences tension with her mother in a nursing home, her children at her apartment. Meanwhile, my mother adjusts to her new isolation.
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  2020-03-21

  The Remote Learning Experience

  Story about the pandemic
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  2020-03-21

  DOJ Seeks New Emergency Powers Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

  Almost everything has been effected by coronavirus and incarceration is no different but one request from the Department of Justice is exceptional. The DOJ has asked Congress for chief judges to be allowed to suspend court proceedings indefinitely. This would allow the suspension of habeas corpus - a defendants right to appear before a judge to seek release or bail - and would apply to criminal and juvenile cases. HST580, ASU
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  2020-03-21

  Socially Distanced Birthday

  My birthday fell just before the height of the pandemic. While staying at home was not yet mandatory, social distancing was starting to be brought in. Luckily, some of my amazing friends dropped off this birthday present and left it outside my door.
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  2020-03-21

  Quarantine Hobbies

  This painting on a polaroid was made on March 21st, it was the first time in awhile that I had finally gotten some free time. I had always had a passion for artsy activities although I was never good at them. I looked around my desk and found a ruined polaroid laying around so I thought I’d turn it into something pretty. When quarantined, I had a lot of time to think about what I wanted to do when I got the chance to be out in the world freely again. I had wanted to see the cherry blossoms and maybe one day rack up enough money to travel to Japan and experience that. But with a lot of time on my hands and my sudden interest to paint at 10 at night, I grabbed my paint and brushed and started to paint the things I loved. This COVID-19 experience has opened my eyes to the goals I want to achieve as well as hobbies I want to experience, but of course I miss what I had before this pandemic, which is my friends and fresh air.
• 2020-03-21

  Wild goats take over Welsh town amid coronavirus lockdown

  Wild goats take over Welsh town amid coronavirus lockdown
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  2020-03-21

  Graffitti on MBTA fence, Jamaica Plain neighborhood, Boston, MA

  Poor people, Black people, and Latinx people are suffering and dying during the pandemic more than others. Most frontline workers in Jamaica Plain-- from the cashiers and stockers at Whole Foods and Stop & Shop grocery stores, to the pharmacy's staff, to the aids at Brookside Community Health and Spaulding Rehab, are mostly low wage workers, many of them immigrants and/or people of color. The pandemic is forcing people to address longstanding social inequities, and the White House is failing to gain any trust that it will help those suffering. As recently as the day before I'm writing this, Donald Trump was pushing for all states to begin re-opening businesses that are not necessary at this time, largely staffed by people who are financially and socially vulnerable. Someone is taking out their frustrations by graffito-ing walls around JP; this is but one sample. *Graffitto painter is unknown. Photo taken by Ashley Enochs *03/22/2020; graffitti was painted over within a week of this picture being taken *Ashley Enochs, Boston MA
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  2020-03-21

  United Airlines

  The pdf screenshots are emails sent by United Airlines to me (passenger) during the pandemic. The emails are in regards to the flights and cancellations that were made due to cut down on airlines and aircraft.
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  2020-03-21

  A perfect return home gift from our daughter

  After two full days of traversing the world from Marrakech to two London airports, to JFK airport New York, to Orlando, we found this wonderful surprise in our car when our daughter dropped it off for us, so we could get to our Timeshare without possibility infecting anyone from our family. *Scott Mentel #HST643 & wife Tammy Mentel *iPhone photo *Scott Mentel #HST643
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  2020-03-21

  A commercial message of Coronavirus action and hope via my Whats App group “Stuck in Morocco”

  Videos and pictures were automatically shared in my photo library via the Whats App group “Stuck in Morocco.” I wish I knew the source of the social media commercial as it states in 4 weeks they have “eradicated” the virus and I do not believe that is true for any country. But it also showcases the extreme measures other countries went to in an effort to protect their citizens. We have been in five states towards our journey home to New Jersey for the past six weeks in America and witnessed very little universal and national measures of safety truly being followed. *Scott Mentel #HST643
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  2020-03-21

  Detroit Bus Driver Jason Djinfiniti Hargrove

  Detroit Bus Driver Jason Djinfiniti Hargrove's complaint about a woman on the bus who was coughing without covering her mouth. Hargrove's recommendations to comply with public health recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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  2020-03-21

  La Jolla Band of Luiseno Tribal Chairman Addresses Tribe

  Tribal chairman addresses community, giving a brief history of the tribal response to date and offering the results of a recent survey among tribal members where 55% said that they had underlying health conditions that put them at greater risk. As a result, the Council has decided to close the tribal offices temporarily and close tribal enterprises to the public. #IndigenousStories
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  2020-03-21

  Suffolk commencement pushed until at least August

  The Suffolk Journal, Suffolk University's student run newspaper, reports on Suffolk's decisions around campus during the pandemic.
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  2020-03-21

  Travel Authorization Letter Allowing a FedEx Essential Worker to Travel During Quarantine in Los Angeles County

  A document authorizing travel to FedEx essential workers during quarantine. Shows how strict people and companies assumed the quarantine would be. That people wouldn't be allowed to go out.
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  2020-03-21

  Unmasking Kindness

  Days before Minnesota's official shelter in place, people's homes began to transform into small factories. Turning out masks by the dozens, and sometimes even hundreds, Minnesotans answered the call for the protective headwear. Isolation did not stop people from joining together in common cause. Local businesses gave away materials, and local hospitals created drive-by drop offs for people to donate masks. Once we ran out of fabric, my mother turned to old clothes to meet the demands. Pictured above, I am modeling on of the first masks she made. We donated to family members, friends, neighbors, and also to a local hospital. We also shipped some to my brother's coworkers at the Pueblo, Colorado Health Department. In total, my mom has made around 100 masks, showing that not all heroes wear capes, but they do wear masks. #DePaulHST391
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  2020-03-21

  Farmers Market

  I never thought about how everyone normally touches the food at the farmers market, until they put up these signs preventing it. This will make us think differently, I think, about many of our normal routines if and when we do go back to normal.
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  2020-03-21

  Paul Robertson, The Soul Rebels Trombonist, Quarantine Jam, New Orleans, LA

  Paul Robertson, trombonist for New Orleans brass band The Soul Rebels shares music video made during quarantine. Unable to jam with other musicians during the stay-at-home order, Robertson plays all six parts. Like many New Orleans musicians, Robertson is also soliciting financial contributions from fans.
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  2020-03-21

  Kermit Ruffins and the BBQ Swingers Live at Mother in Law Lounge, New Orleans, LA

  Kermit Ruffins and the BBQ Swingers stream a live performance from Mother in Law Lounge. Many New Orleans musicians, no longer able to work during the stay-at-home order, solicit donations from viewers for online performances during the pandemic.
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  2020-03-21

  Enjoying the little things

  During times like these, it is important to go out and enjoy the little things.
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  03/21/2020

  Angelo Brocato Ice Cream and Confectionery New Operating Procedure

  Angelo Brocato Ice Cream and Confectionery continues to operate with adjusted procedures to comply with new regulations placed on New Orleans businesses in response to the pandemic.
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  2020-03-21

  Angelo Brocato Ice Cream and Confectionery Adjusts Hours and Operating Procedures Again

  Angelo Brocato Ice Cream and Confectionery adjusts its operating procedures to comply with new regulations placed on New Orleans businesses in response to the pandemic.
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  2020-03-21

  Angelo Brocato Ice Cream and Confectionery Limits Operating Hours and Procedures

  To limit the spread of Covid-19 and operate within the changing regulations for New Orleans businesses, Angelo Brocato Ice Cream and Confectionery closes its dining area, prohibits walk ins, and adjusts operating hours.
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  2020-03-21

  Fully stretch out your arm. When you are about six feet * away from someone, their face fits into your hand roughly like this:**

  An informational drawing made to help with social distancing, the drawing shows what a person's face would look like if the viewer were standing six feet away, holding their arm out, and looking at the persons face through their thumb and forefinger. From the artist, Mona Chalabi: "I know this is a bit dumb but I was speaking to my friend in France last night and when I said that the advice here is to stand 6 feet apart, she asked 'how much is that in meters?' so I came up with this. I also wanted to make an image that’s informative but not scary (right now, it feels like it’s hard to separate out those two). Finally, I wanted to figure out if people in the line at the supermarket really are standing too close to me. They are."
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  2020-03-21

  Standing 6ft apart at Trader Joes

  This photo shows the chalk linea being drawn outside of the Trader Joes on Newbury Street in Boston, MA to keep customers 6ft apart while waiting in line. #HIST5241
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  2020-03-21

  Starbucks Cafe Closure/Drive Thru Open

  Starting on Saturday, March 21st, Starbucks closed its cafe stores until further notice. Drive thru stores also closed down their cafes, but are still open for mobile order and drive thru order. Picture is the Hayden and Osborn Starbucks location in Scottsdale, AZ.
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  2020-03-21

  Drawing of an Orange Instagram Story

  This image is a screenshot of an instagram story trend that became popular at the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in the US. People drew a picture of an orange, then posted it on their temporary instagram story and tagged their friends, friends then reposted the story with their own drawing of an orange - similar trends went around with drawings of carrots and strawberries. The instagram fits with a larger social media trend, developed during COVID19, of various story posts and reposts, used as a tactic to "kill time" while people are social distancing.
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  2020-03-21

  Apple App Store Social Distancing PSA

  The Apple app store on my phone featured a public service announcement about social distancing, featuring Dr. Anthony Fauci. It shows how different companies are attempting to help inform people on the importance of flattening the curve.
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  2020-03-21

  Drone Footage of Ann Arbor, MI

  Drone footage of Ann Arbor MI #HIST5241
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  2020-03-21

  Drone Footage

  Drone Footage Nashville
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  2020-03-21

  Letter from Boston Mayor

  Photo of a letter from Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, advising residents on ways to prevent the spread of the virus. Also provides information on how to receive regular updates. #HIST5241
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  2020-03-21

  Socially Distanced D&D Game (Dungeons and Dragons)

  This photo by my mom (from her bedroom window), shows me, my sister, and two friends playing D&D, while seated 6 feet apart. This is before Northampton county PA instated a "stay at home" order to limit all "non-essential" social contact.
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  2020-03-21

  Text Messages

  snippets of a text message conversation capturing information about the state of grocery stores and a call for a friend to come out on their porch to say hi from a safe distance away
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  2020-03-21

  Empty Shelves at a Wegmans Supermarket in Bergen County, New Jersey.

  Shows the reaction people are having to this pandemic, many people are hoarding essential household items.
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  2020-03-21

  Adelaide Street overpass, London, Ontario

  Lack of cars is very noticeable on an otherwise busy street. Normally this time of day, the cars can be backed up from the traffic lights to well over the crest of the overpass. York street, which runs under the overpass, is the main truck route through the core downtown of the city of London, Ontario, Canada, and is very quiet. *Taken on Saturday, March 21, 2020 around 4 pm EDT; Drone photograph. Taken at roughly 100 feet above ground level with a Yuneec H520 survey drone and the E90 camera (large 1" sensor).
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  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.
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  2020-03-21

  Free toilet paper

  A store front in South Melbourne offering free toilet paper to those who may need them, as they have become in short supply due to stockpiling and panic buying in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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  March 21, 2020

  Local distillery, factory re-tooling to supply Ontario with much-needed medical items

  Story of a Stratford Ontario Brewery that switched to making hand sanitizer
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  2020-03-21

  Ology Hand Sanitizer

  Ology Brewing Company in Tallahassee Florida made hand sanitizer with its distiller equipment to help in this time of sanitizer scarcity. They gave it free with any curbside pickup of beer.
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  2020-03-21

  Date night in the car.

  Schools were closed down and I had already pulled my son 2 days prior to the announcement out of fear. A mandatory lockdown is looming so we dropped the kids with my mom for what may be the last time in awhile and went to grab groceries and one last take out from Chilis.