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2020-03-24
Mental Breakdown
My sister, Heidi, passed away in Washington, DC, on March 23, 2020. I wasn’t allowed to be with her when she died. My sister was my best friend. I was so lost. Her children, Significant other, my mother, her best friend, and I couldn’t have a funeral for her because of the rules put into place for Covid. So, we could not have a memorial for her till and year and four months later. At the same time, everything began to shut down. My husband works for the NYPD; I was terrified of him getting sick and losing him. Every day after he left for work, I would fall on the floor and break down in tears. I live next to a nursing home facility on Beach 119th St. in Rockaway Park. At this time, I would stare out my windows to look at the ocean to try to calm myself. For weeks, I would see out the right side of my windows and the ambulances and medical examiner vans showing up non-stop to the nursing home for ten days. Bodies were being taken out morning, noon, and night. The flashing red lights signaled that my mental health was in danger. I felt myself crashing many times. I was devasted. To this day, I carry so much internal trauma, I don’t know if I’ll ever recover. I hate this world and the cruel people in it. People have become so ugly because of Covid. I doubt I’ll ever be able to escape the mental anguish that lives in my soul... -
2020-03-24
COVID-19: but make it McDonalds.
March 2020 When the pandemic began, I was two weeks into my first job at McDonalds. At this point in the pandemic, masks cost $700 for the case we got at work. One day, when I walked into McDonalds, the manager called me back to the office. I thought I was getting fired since we were overstaffed, and I was trained to work at the kiosk in the now-closed lobby. To my surprise, she didn’t fire me. She explained that we have a new part of our uniform: a McMask. If I said I laughed, that would be an understatement. People were wearing them upside down, so they made a sad face. Even the customers laughed at us. I was always the first person to show my McSpirit, but the McMask would not be seen on me outside of a McWork setting. I noticed other changes at work aside from our spectacular new dress code. Since we were drive-thru only, customers started acting crazier than usual. Due to supply chain shortages, our menu was somewhat limited. While some customers took it for what it was (we’re in a pandemic, yanno?), some were not so understanding. I had money, drinks, and some very hurtful words thrown at me. Some may wonder: Did McDonalds take the proper precautions to stop the spread of COVID-19 within the restaurant? The short answer: McNo. During the beginning of my McWorking career, I stayed on the customer service side of things, so I wasn’t in the kitchen. However, the people in the kitchen rarely wore masks, since the lobby wasn’t open, and the customers couldn’t see them. Since we were during peak Shamrock Shake season when the pandemic began, there was rarely time between orders to change gloves or wash hands. In conclusion, McDonalds had quite a few McChanges during the pandemic. Although, none of them sacrificed the Mac’s dirty nature, it was quite the experience to hop into this new way of life with all my filthy McPals by my side. -
2020-03-24
Sample Virtual Learning Schedule for Middle Schoolers
When we returned from spring break in 2020, we were sent a PDF of a sample schedule. Online school was mostly asynchronous (async) for a few weeks before we switched to a live virtual format. We would usually have one or two synchronous advisories per day and the rest of the day would be independent work. I had just returned early from a family vacation and we had only just begun quarantining. When we received this schedule, we still thought that the shutdown would only last a few weeks before life would return to normal and this schedule marks the very beginning of my pandemic experience. -
2020-03-24
Closing My Street Library (HIST30060)
(HIST30060) This is a photo of the closed sign my Mum and I put on our street library after we found out about the pandemic in 2020. It reads: Dear Street Library Patrons, Our library will be closed as of Tuesday 24 March until further notice due to scientific findings that the coronavirus was detected for up to 24 hours on cardboard. Our community safety is my priority <3 I look forward to re-opening soon! We made the street library in 2019 so the community could share our love of books. People could take a book, read it and, if they wanted to, put their favourite book back in. It made us sad to close the street library but after the lockdown was over we started it back up again! -
2020-03-24
Symptoms on the Youth
When the pandemic first broke out out, many people didn't know what to think. In millennial and gen z fashion, many young adults turned to the internet to crack jokes and voice their opinion about the upcoming crisis. This meme pokes fun at the uncertainty of the viruses' signs and symptoms many medical and governmental officials had at the beginning of the pandemic. The mem also pokes fun at the idea of teenage angst and anxiety a rapid number of young adults are starting experience more and more during this recent decade. The pandemic may cause your nose and mouth to not feel anything but the real question is if young adults are really "feeling" the impact of what is going on? A Forbes report in April of this year has indicated that young people between the ages of 18-24 are starting suffer from more mental health problems than any age group since the pandemic started. Think what you will but this study definitely proves that more young adults will suffer long lasting effects of pandemic during and after the global crisis comes to a end. I liked this meme because it a representations of some of my numbs feelings I have had during this pandemic. -
2020-03-24
Feeling Again
When the pandemic first broke out out, many people didn't know what to think. In millennial and gen z fashion, many young adults turned to the internet to crack jokes and voice their opinion about the upcoming crisis. This meme pokes fun at the uncertainty of the viruses' signs and symptoms many medical and governmental officials had at the beginning of the pandemic. The mem also pokes fun at the idea of teenage angst and anxiety a rapid number of young adults are starting experience more and more during this recent decade. The pandemic may cause your nose and mouth to not feel anything but the real question is if young adults are really "feeling" the impact of what is going on? A Forbes report in April of this year has indicated that young people between the ages of 18-24 are starting suffer from more mental health problems than any age group since the pandemic started. Think what you will but this study definitely proves that more young adults will suffer long lasting effects of pandemic during and after the global crisis comes to a end. -
2020-03-24
How to Talk to Your Kids About Coronavirus
A blog post from Banner Health Blog about talking to children about Coronavirus and the pandemic. -
2020-03-24
Banner Health offers ways to help health care workers
A press release announcing how the community can help healthcare workers and that the Banner Health Foundation is accepting donations to two charitable funds. -
2020-03-24
Banner, Vitalant partner to encourage blood donations
A press release announcing that Banner Health is partnering with the region's blood bank operator in an effort to restore blood donations, which have significantly dropped during the outbreak of COVID-19 cases. -
2020-03-24
Disabled People React to Coronavirus Work From Home Accommodations
Individuals with disabilities have fought for accommodations to work from home for years. The pandemic has seen the development of widespread teleworking, with employers now providing accommodations for their workers to work at home. This situation is bittersweet for disabled individuals, who have experienced job loss and job frustration because of the lack of accommodations they faced in pre-pandemic times. It is hoped that now that employers are providing alternative work options including working at home they will continue this trend post-pandemic and provide more job opportunities and job growth for disabled individuals who require work-at-home options. -
2020-03-24
Climate change, Wildlife, and the pandemic
In this article by PBS it is discussed how climate change, wildlife, and the pandemic all have a connection. One of them being that with more habitats for wildlife being destroyed, the higher risk for contact with wildlife increases which increases the chances of another pandemic. This is a short but informative article and they interview a doctor from Harvard as well who gives his input to this topic. He explains that direct contact with animals is the cause of the pandemic and if we do not do something about this soon, it will just reoccur again. -
2020-03-24
Covid-19 affected my life on eating habit, sleeping habits, and emotional wellness
When the pandemic started, it affected my life. Before the pandemic, I attend class on campus from Monday through Friday. I will have to wake up super early around 7 am or 8 am to get ready for class. After class ends, I will rush to my part-time job and begin working. This is what I do every day and I feel like this is what life is supposed to be like. After the pandemic started, I needed to stay home and attend an online course. When attending online courses, it gives me the anxiety of worrying whether I will pass the course or not. It is my first time attending the course online and I’m scared that I might not catch up with my education. I lost my part-time jobs and my parents stopped working due to the pandemic. I started to worry about the family income and planning to get a job. However, it is hard to find jobs during the pandemic and it is too risky for going outside. I started home every day and felt bored to the point I felt emotional numbness. My eating habits and sleeping habits change. I sleep almost the whole day at home and it causes some aches in my head. I often feel like I am lacking energy and easily tire. I also lack the motivation to do anything and think that the world is boring. I sometimes skip breakfast and lunch when I wake up at 4 pm when I sleep too much. These eating habits and sleeping habits are bad for my body. I decided to change a little to fix my health and I will start from sleeping and eating first. I feel like I need to find a goal or something to do in life to keep my motivation. -
2020-03-24
Worldwide pandemic street art
USA Today, like many other media outlets, uses their platform to share images of street art that conveys community messages about COVID-19. Photographs range from March 2020 to January 2021 and include graffiti tagging, murals, paste-ups, and stencils. Many styles of art are represented and can be telling of how artists represent emotions of fear, solidarity, hope, thanks, and humor during the pandemic. Several of the contributions are put on boards covering windows of businesses that shut down during the pandemic, others are on hospital buildings, streets, and businesses. -
2020-03-24
Perspective of how I see covid
So when this whole thing started people knew what it was but no one really thought of it. Nothing really changed besides that people started to use sanitizer and things like that to stay clean. After a while there were rumors that things were going to close down. Then those rumors became true, school started to go online and everything started to close down. People were buying toilet paper and necessities and it was hard to find those things in any stores, masks were mandated and everything was closed and we were on a mandatory lockdown. I am a person that loves going to restaurants and taking out food just wasn't good, so i was trying to make food a lot at my house and I have almost burnt down my house multiple times. Life was really boring and you couldn’t see friends or family. U would facetime with relatives and friends all the time because of this. That is basically what happened from my perspective of the pandemic. -
2020-03-24
Walsh Family's Missed Funeral
Scott hasn't been able to properly mourn the death of his Grandmother. She was in the high risk category of people that could die from Covid-19 infection with having Alzheimer's disease and her family missed the opportunity to have a proper funeral for her. -
2020-03-24
Shelter-in-Place University Email
On March 23, 2020, Bexar County issued that there would be shelter-in-place ordnance effective at midnight on March 24th. The week leading up to this ordnance my supervisors and I began preparing to telework. This required adapting my workload to be performed remotely, and I would essentially have to re-learn the ordering process for items like eBooks. I work in the acquisitions department of the university’s library and since the semester was still going on it was essential that I continue to preform my duties in a timely manner. As a department we had to adapt our methods of communication, extend the amount of time allowed to preform duties, and do our best to maintain morale in an uncertain and often isolated environment. The purchasing of physical items for the library were put on hold and any pending orders would be received but remain unopened until staff was allowed to return. -
2020-03-24
An Unforgettable journey story
It's my personal experience related to the pandemic. This experience prepared me to overcome greater challenges which I may still have to face in the future. -
2020-03-24
Mrs Middleton's Facebook Live Video
When first in shut down I made this video for my classroom facebook page. -
2020-03-24
Borders slamming shut - echoes of my parents conversations
As borders around the world were slamming shut, I organised for my daughter to return home from Israel very fast, experiencing the anxieties of my childhood overlaid with the stories of my parents . -
2020-03-24
Virginia School teacher hugs student goodbye before school closures – Henrico County, Virginia
Sara Black, a teacher at Glen Lea Elementary School is shown hugging students before they board a school bus. Due to school closures for at least 14 days, it is assumed that she is saying goodbye as they are unsure when they will see each other in person again. -
2020-03-24
We're Not Going to Run Out of Food—so Don't Panic Shop
Of many ways in which the coronavirus has changed American life, people are panicked and started to go shopping. Food producers, distributors, and warehouse operators say supplies are plentiful, so long as stores can be restocked. People are panicked and their buying patterns reflects how this coronavirus affect their lives. -
2020-03-24
"Ponca Tribal Closure"
"Based on the Ponca Resolution 19-03192020 for Declaring a State of Emergency Related to COVID-19 passed by the Ponca Tribal Business Committee on March 19th, 2020, All buildings will be closed until April 6th except Finance, Social Development Center, and The White Eagle Health Center. Most programs have already been working from home at this time. The safety of our employees and tribal members are taken seriously and admin leave is granted for all employees on leave." -
2020-03-24
Filipinos Coping With Covid - Series
I am doing a series, Filipinos Coping With Covid, published in my blogs and some in Positively Filipino -
2020-03-24
Plague Journal, Day 11: Devolution: Thermometer Edition
I'm keeping a Covid-19 journal. Here's the latest entry, including discussion on the devolution of the household thermometer: -
2020-03-24
Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Health Orders: March 24 - March 26 2020
Because of the coronavirus's potential to overwhelm the healthcare system at virtually every level, the Massachusetts Public Health Commissioner issued these orders to address the maintenance of adequate hospital staffing, the need for more medical personnel to perform a greater range of functions, and the steps grocery stores and pharmacies need to take to ensure customer safety. While providing a look into COVID-19's effects upon the public health system, these orders also render a snapshot into how the "new normal" began to take shape in Massachusetts. -
2020-03-24
Red in Blue
People in the blue state (California) are turning to guns, as the pandemic spreads. It seems interesting how the pandemic situation has changed how people's mindsets. -
2020-03-24
Senior Citizen Hours at Grocery Stores Poster
During the pandemic, not only were we faced with empty grocery store shelves, but there were lines around the block to get into a store. This was difficult at best, and scary to many of us, making us wonder if this was a sign of the collapse of our way of life. Soon, most stores offered "senior hours" which allowed the older citizens to shop early without waiting in the lines and with less people in the store, thus reducing the risk of contagion. This is a flyer the town of Glendale, California put out to inform those who needed to shop early. -
2020-03-24
Sending pictures to my parents that I am good
This was the initial time of the self-quarantine. My parents wanted to know if we had sufficient supply to live. I had taken this photo in the supermarket nearby. -
2020-03-24
Extreme Measures
Medical staff moves a patient in an isolation bed into a room during the COVID-19 pandemic. -
2020-03-24
Blog Post: Life in Tokyo in the Age of Plague
A blog post by an American postdoctoral scholar living in Tokyo, about his experience of self-isolation and working from home. -
2020-03-24
Kindness is Contagious Too
Kids around the country are using chalk to spread positive messages on the sidewalk. This image taken in the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood of Boston is just one example. The link below is to a video that shows more images like this from around the city. https://www.nbcboston.com/news/coronavirus/kids-spread-cheer-on-sidewalks-during-coronavirus-pandemic/2096368/ -
2020-03-24
People look, but no one ever finds it.
I just finished making dinner. Day 2 of distance learning. My emotional bandwidth is low. A cat is meowing, persistently. Can you guess which one? This afternoon, I went out today to shop for food. I felt the acute weirdness of distancing bodies on our quiet neighborhood sidewalks. This and the occasional thank you from folks who appreciated me quite literally going out of my way to avoid them. I go shopping. Not every day. I don’t know what else to do. I wash my hands. I wipe down the high-touch surfaces in our apartment. I wear a glove and wash that and my hands afterwards. I don’t know what else to do. A package arrived today containing Tylenol, Wet Wipes and a small bunch of pussy willows and lavender. Thank you. At home, I could hear Brendan opening the box and telling the girls to take it to me, seated on the couch, distantly learning how to teach something. I opened up the bundle, smiled, and put my face directly into it. I inhaled deeply, then burst into tears. Where is outside anymore? I’m so very sad about this loss today, one that I picked out of a field of so many other losses. Later, outside for a moment, I wanted to hug a tree, but my sister, standing 8 feet away from me, told me not to so I put the sole of one shoe onto it and leaned back like the most awkward senior picture for a school year without a graduation. I used to (a couple of months ago) volunteer at a hospital in the city. This was separate from my other hospital work and each year, for my medical clearance, it would be required that I take a respirator fit test using an N95 mask. Spoiler alert: I’m a size small. During the test, which to me always seems a bit like a bizarre performance art task and/or good modern dance, the person administering it asks you to do a variety of tasks: move your head slowly side to side, slowly nod up and down, deep breathing, normal breathing, and speaking. The text they ask you to recite is printed on a piece of paper taped to the wall at eye level in front of them. Here is the text: When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act like a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long round arch, with its path high above, and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon. There is, according to legend, a boiling pot of gold at one end. People look, but no one ever finds it. When a man looks for something beyond reach, his friends say he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. I don’t have to look all that far. There are rainbows all over the place if you have the right map. -
2020-03-24
Signs From Around: #13, Vancouver, Canada
"Signs From Around: #13, Vancouver, Canada" is part of a series exploring the signage surrounding COVID-19 from different parts of the world. Businesses try to prevent the virus spreading by not accepting paper currency transferred hand to hand. -
2020-03-24
Wildcat Connections
Due to the pandemic, my university had to switch over to online classes and this email helps students go through that sudden change by offering guidance and support. -
2020-03-24
LCMC Health Creates Webpage to Share Stories, New Orleans, LA
In a Facebook post, LCMC Health recognizes that even though the virus has caused us to be a part it has brought the community together by everyone stepping up and helping each other out. LCMC created a webpage to share positive stries from their family of hospitals. -
2020-03-24
"The Hermit Herald" vol. 1, Issue 3
CV protocols; therapies Update; CV and gun sales; Libya; CV & Religion. -
2020-03-24
COVID 19 Journal: 03/24/2020
COVID 19 Journal by Kaitlin Whalen written 03/24/2020. -
2020-03-24
The Covid Diaries Entry #2
My experiences of this pandemic. Entry 2. enjoying toast, but miss the toasty warmth of a coffee shop. March 24, 2020. -
2020-03-24
2020 Summer Olympics postponed
The Suffolk Journal, Suffolk University's student run newspaper, reports on the postponement of the Olympics during the pandemic. -
2020-03-24
COVID 19 Journal
COVID 19 Journal by Kaitlin Whalen written 03/24/2020-04/24/2020. -
2020-03-24
East Jefferson General Hospital Receives PPE from National Guard, Metairie, LA
National Guard brings much needed PPE to local hospital -
2020-03-24
Medical Center Reports First Patient to Recover from COVID-19, Westwego, LA
West Jefferson Medical Center celebrates the first patient to recover from COVID-19. -
2020-03-24
Central Park Field Hospital, New York, NY
Hospital tents set up in Central Park in anticipation of medical facilities overcrowding in Manhattan, a major epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. -
2020-03-24
Louisiana Tribe Joins Forces with Pharmaceutical Company to Increase Covid-19 Tests
“As the First People of this land we carry the genetic memory of the devastation pandemics cause, but in this present moment of crisis we are one tribe,” said David Sickey, Tribal Chairman of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana. “COVID-19 does not discriminate. The virus doesn’t care what ethnicity we are or what our political ideology is. We are facing an invisible enemy that we must unite to defeat. The CoV-2 Rapid Test brings visibility to this faceless foe so that our heroes on the frontlines, the doctors, nurses and first responders, know where to take the fight and how to treat our fellow citizens who have contracted the virus. Fear is stoked by the unknown. With these tests we can reduce the fear factor for people across the United States.” #IndigenousStories -
Taken on a walk through Logan Square, Chicago
"Capitalism is the Virus"
During this pandemic, it is not hard to notice the flaws that have been exposed in capitalist society. COVID-19 has shown what the effects massive layoffs and a surge of unemployment has on the economic infrastructure. There is a weak, built foundation behind capitalism—the framework is insufficient in providing for a large portion of the American public. As many of us are ‘sheltered in place’, unemployed, and struggling to pay rent, another worry places pressure on the public—the failure of the economy, and another Depression era. Anxieties are high, and the reasoning is valid. #DePaulHST391 -
2020-03-24
Red Sox Introduce New Socially Distant Logo
The Boston Red Sox change their logo so the iconic "red socks" are separate to reflect social distancing practices. -
2020-03-24
Virtual Beading Circle: Social Distancing in Indian Country
Indigenous women continue connecting even in when faced with the call to social distance through virtual beading circles. #IndigenousStories -
2020-03-24
"'I'm shell-shocked': New Orleans musicians face canceled tours, no income amid coronavirus shutdown"
Musicians and music venue owners discuss the impact of COVID-19 related shutdowns. -
2020-03-24
Texas Tech University Move to Phase IV 03/24/2020
Announcement of campus closure, meaning faculty & staff should no longer go to campus for any reason. -
2020-03-24
New Orleans' Commander's Palace Asks for Donations for Employees Relief Fund
Commander's Palace starts an Employee Relief Fund and asks for donations from followers of the restaurants' Facebook page to aide employees out of a job.