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2020-03-28
Online Learning Tips for Deaf Students
An email received by an academic advisor for students with disabilities. It describes several tips for deaf students as most colleges and universities transition to online learning. #HIST5241 -
2020-03-28
Free Online Resources from Vizcaya
An email from Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, a historic house museum in Miami, FL, that describes several online resources available for the public to explore while the museum is closed during the pandemic. #HIST5241 -
2020-03-28
Steps in a week
I track the amount of steps I take with an app on my phone. This shows the amount of steps I took during the week of March 22-28. Since we are encouraged to stay at home as much as possible, I am not getting in as many steps as I would like. However, I occasionally try to go to the nearby park or walk to the grocery store. -
2020-03-28
The Giving Tree (Linden, VA)
The Giving Tree, an organic market in Linden, Virginia (about one hour west of Washington, D.C.) shifts to online pick up only in response to Covid-19. The old country store across the highway remains open with no restrictions, because the owner thinks the whole pandemic thing is being exaggerated. -
2020-03-28
COVID-19 Journal
I am very uncertain as to what to write in these journal entries or what people will want to see years from now when they are learning about the COVID-19 pandemic. I don’t know if anyone will even read this. I have never kept a journal or log, but with the events going on in the world right now I feel like I should. Being a history major I feel like this is a perfect way to preserve something that people will read and learn about years from now. There is a lot of uncertainty in the world at the moment. There are people getting laid off from their jobs because they do not want to work to shelter themselves from the virus. We are all supposed to be in quarantine but I feel like people are not taking seriously. Today at work people were just coming in to get out of the house. -
2020-03-28
Meme mocks those who compare the flu to Covid-19
Memes about covid-19 are prevalent on the internet. -
2020-03-28
Tieks #sewtogether campaign
Tieks, an online retailer of foldable flats, started a campaign to get masks sewn for healthcare workers. Because of the shortage of masks, healthcare workers are reusing disposable masks or even going without. Tieks is offering gift cards for customers that sew masks and then donate them to local hospitals or other healthcare sites. -
2020-03-28
Grace Papagno
I have spent the first half of my life being angry at my mother, and the second half forgiving her. She was insensitive, narcissistic, and at times, downright cruel. There were, of course, reasons, explanations, and perhaps understandings of my mom’s behavior and I have made a lifetime study of her so that I would not be like her as a mother. And I was not. I even published a memoir about life with her and after her. Now, in the time of Corona Virus, I find myself attributing many of my strengths to my mother. I have not been frightened by this pandemic. Rather, I think I’m coming into my finest hour. I am strong, positive, and yes, even happy. When I was a child, my mother would not “allow” me to be sick. There was no sympathy for illness. If I “chose” to be ill, I would have to stay in bed, eat nothing but tea and toast, and there was absolutely no TV nor friends. I was, after all, “sick.” With that scenario, I did not miss a day of school from third grade throughout high school. Now it is as if my body refuses to harbor a virus. I do take the prescribed precautions, but I do not even entertain the thought or fear of this virus. I do sense that if I did contract it, I would not be stopped by it. My mother would not allow me to watch TV if the sun were shining, and so I learned the joy of the outdoors. “Go outside and play,” was her mantra on the non-school days. As an adult, I quickly learned that gardening is “playing in the dirt for adults,” and so now, isolated, I spend the sunny days – even the cold ones, out in my yard, either cleaning it up, laying down compost, or planting seeds. I do not turn on the television until after I’ve practiced my piano lesson and cleaned up the dinner dishes. Even then, I am so tired from the day, I only watch TV for an hour or so before I am off to bed. Busying herself with her job and caring for her home, my mother had little or no time to share with me. “Get busy. Do something. Read a book or something,” was her order of the day. At age seven I taught myself to use the sewing machine; at eight I learned to knit. I embroidered and did crewel work. Later in life I took watercolor painting classes and resumed piano lessons with a magnificent teacher. I got busy. I seem not to have enough time in each day here, isolated at home, to catch up on my pastimes. Now in the day of COVID-19, I finally have time to do all the things I love to do without being interrupted for social events or volunteer promises. And whom do you think I attribute all the myriad interest, health, and self-sufficiency I find myself graced with – my mother, who unwittingly gave me the tools to find joy in isolation and meaning in the mundane. I am doing fine in this time of the pandemic. Thank you, Mom. -
2020-03-28
Facebook group “A World of Hearts” spreads positivity amid pandemic by encouraging members to post a variety artwork with hearts
People are spreading positivity and getting creative in an effort to calm fears and express solitary. -
2020-03-28
Evictions in Omaha During Covid-19
This article is about Nebraska Governor Ricketts' order to suspend evictions in Nebraska for late rent payments due to loss of income from Covid-19. However, this article makes note of those who are still unprotected by this order and the impact that eviction will have on them in the midst of a global pandemic. -
2020-03-28
Subsido Monetario Peru
Peruvian citizens can check this webpage to see if their household qualifies for the S/ 380 subsidy (approximately $111.50). http://yomequedoencasa.midis.gob.pe/subsidio-monetario.html -
2020-03-28
#Yomequedoencasa website
Peruvian website promoting the public health campaign. Peruvians can see if they qualify for the government subsidy of S/ 380 (approximately $111.50) http://yomequedoencasa.midis.gob.pe/ -
2020-03-28
The only beso I want/the only kiss I want
This meme is a play on the name of a popular chocolate stuffed with marsh-mellow called "Beso de moza." Beso means kiss in Spanish, so the idea is no besos, no kisses during social distancing. -
2020-03-28
Fry's - Tempe, AZ
Empty grocery store shelves at Fry's -
2020-03-28
Arizona State University
A few snapshots of the very empty Arizona State University -
2020-03-28
Shelves inside Publix Super Market
Shelves inside Publix Super Market in St. Augustine, FL -
2020-03-28
Line at the grocery store
Line outside Publix Super Market in St. Augustine, FL -
2020-03-28
Line for Publix Super Market
Line outside of Publix Super Market at Shoppes in St. Augustine, FL -
2020-03-28
AT&T Store in Tacoma, WA sanitizing its store
AT&T store in Tacoma, WA closed to property clean its store -
2020-03-28
AT&T Store In Tacoma, WA clearing its merchandise
AT&T Store in Tacoma, WA clearing its merchandise to property sanitize and prevent contamination on any of its hardware -
2020-03-28
AT&T Store Empying Its Shelves
AT&T Store in Tacoma, WA emptying its shelves to prevent contamination on their phones, tablets and other hardware. -
2020-03-28
OpEd from an ASD Mom
As the general population contemplates their loss of physical freedom and financial uncertainty there is an entire population of people being overlooked- the disabled. As a mother of a teenage son on the autism spectrum I am struggling to help him navigate a new world that I myself can barely comprehend. The basic routine and structure that all ASD children need to thrive has all but disappeared. In its place is only chaos and uncertainty, with parents desperately trying to hold things together. On a normal day my son attends a non-public special needs school with primarily ASD students. That school is now closed for an undetermined amount of time. That school does not just provide a special educator but desperately needed occupational therapy, speech-language therapy and behavioral support. My son also receives various outpatient services, many of which he has attended with the same physicians for most of his life. But, for the public safety, those have now closed- so they have been taken from him as well. As we try to maneuver to telehealth to supplement some of those supports the overwhelming truth of it all is clear- I will now be his teacher, OT, SLP and behavioral therapist. I am a fierce mother, but I am but one woman. How will I balance the need to work with his need for structure and medical care? How can I be at all places at once, doing jobs I am unqualified for? And while I am trying to juggle all professions at once, when will I ever just be mom again? My son is afraid. He is uncertain. But the reality is that there is no way for me to truly make him understand. My only solace is the strong community of ASD parents that have rallied to try to bring some sense of normalcy back to daily life. Our children miss their friends. Friendships are not easy to come by for this community, particularly among neuro-typical peers. So, the friendships formed among this group, within this non-public school, are crucial to their mental/emotional well-being. We all know it and we are all worried. Our children are prone to depression and self-harm. How can we keep them from isolating and regressing in a situation where isolation is required? One parent offers daily Zoom meetings. Every day at 3:00pm. If we can get all of the children to join we can only hope that it will fill the void, and help them feel like they are not alone. But we are all we have. The truth is we are all alone. The services we rely on are gone. The teachers are gone. Our routines are in shambles and the world is crashing down around us. We all understand the seriousness. We all understand the why. But as the world now turns to meet the needs of the pandemic the needs of our disabled children lay in the balance unseen and unheard. -
2020-03-28
Morning flight: Surreal times
Walking by oneself in the dawn light I cannot but wish we too could fly away from the surreal nature of this virus. A tiny speck of life, unable to be seen, has felled the economies of the world and the hubris of mankind in the space of 3 short months. My life continues pretty much as usual except only at home whilst food lasts. All my family continue to be employed - we are one of the lucky ones. I wonder if and when guilt will set in? -
2020-03-28
The social distancing line
The Australian Government has recommended social distancing of at least 1.5 metres. This pharmacist has taped a line on the ground in front of their counters — it makes trying to reach forward to pay for goods a bit like a fairground game of "tap the card reader with your bankcard".