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  2020-03-29

  Homemade Food Tasted Different During the Breakout of COVID-19.

  I have a love for baking and cooking which takes up lots of my time when I'm not doing schoolwork. I love trying new and exciting recipes because food from different parts of the world is like a new historical experience. I was a sophomore in college when the pandemic caused us to go into lockdown. We had just come back from spring break, and I remember getting an email saying that we would be moved to online instruction for the remainder of the semester. I was scared because it really hit me that school would not be the same ever again. Luckily, I did not get COVID, but my dad almost died from it. Everyone in my house was separated which meant I had no social life due to not being able to talk to anyone. I turned to baking as a way for me to not think about my sick dad. I basically lived upstairs from my parents. Whatever I made, I would leave for them on the steps to take. Even though my food was delicious, I lost a sense of taste because I wasn't enjoying it with anyone. Food is about culture and people; they go hand in hand. When you don't have that sense it changes how you feel on a social level. When you cook, you want people to enjoy what you're making.
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  2020-03-29

  Cauliflower Fried Rice

  This cauliflower fried rice was the first of many recipes that my family cooked together during covid. It reminds me of the uncertainty we felt, cooking a new recipe during such a weird, unpredictable time. I still value the time that my family and I spent together during quarantine, and I sometimes wish that we could still cook together every night like we did during spring of 2020.
• 2020-03-29

  Eau de Sanitizer: A Home Fragrance

  The early days of quarantine were quiet and calm, as the streets around my home in Southern California were filled with silence since there were fewer cars and people roaming outdoors. Sanitizer and rubbing alcohol were in high demand, and in heavy rotation in our home, as everything that came in was wiped, sprayed, and cleaned before being put away. I remember coming home from the store and wiping down every item with alcohol and sanitizer, and I remember wiping down every counter, surface, and phone. Afterwards, the house was filled with the sharp and dismal aroma of rubbing alcohol, as the fragrance mimicked a well-diffused scented candle. The distinctive scent wafted throughout the living room and lingered within the walls, the drapes, and the furniture. It became the scent of March 2020, and a home fragrance which lacked the expected or traditional calming or soothing properties of a candle or diffuser that is placed in a room. Every outing resulted in rubbing alcohol-infused surroundings, which served as a constant reminder of the changing climate. Eau de Sanitizer recalled the uneasiness, fear, and chaotic shops of the early pandemic, as it was a fragrant reminder of the unknown. The memory of that spring is tied to the scent of rubbing alcohol, and now every time I light a candle in my living room I am reminded of those early days.
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  2020-03-29

  Arizona nurses head north to combat COVID-19

  A press release from Banner Health announcing that ten nurses from three Banner hospitals in the Phoenix area arrived Sunday in Greeley to serve a two-week assignment at North Colorado Medical Center.
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  2020-03-29

  Paranoia to Peace

  I struggled with anxiety around the time the news said there was a pandemic going on, and I healed as time went on and the world around me played a part in that.
• 2020-03-29

  Being affected by covid

  Our family friend Joe Diffie had and died of Covid in March of 2020
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  2020-03-29

  Social funeral: COVID-19 Guidance: Funeral and Bereavement Services

  New Ontario guidelines for handling bodies with COVID-19.
• 2020-03-29

  Start of 14 days of quarantine

  Since March 2020, the Chinese government requires a mandatory 14-day quarantine in hotels for everyone who enters the country to ensure no cases from aboard will cause transmission within the country. This is the confirmation letter that I received after I was placed in the quarantine hotel, it indicates the date and time of my entry and the time of the end of quarantine.
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  2020-03-29

  Covid 19

  my family bought all of us bottles of it we would take everywhere and use because of COVID, ive used hand sanitizer more time in the past 6 months then in my whole life. at all store thier are hand sanitizer stations every other isle. it is everywhere.
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  2020-03-29

  sign of courage

  Early in the pandemic, when we were sheltering in place but were allowed to be outside for exercise (here in San Francisco), I started taking photographs of signs people posted in and around their homes. This became a daily activity while I was out for a walk. Usually the signs were fairly small and were posted in windows. But sometimes they were more elaborate, like this one with a quote about the nature of courage from Maya Angelou. It made me realize that courage isn't the absence of fear; it's something else. The longer quote includes this: "Having courage and showing courage means we face our fears." That has really helped me in this frightening time.
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  2020-03-29

  Security standing in front of the Beach – Hermosa Beach, California

  A security officer is seen standing behind a closed sign in front of an empty beach letting passersby know that Hermosa Beach in California is closed due to COVID-19. The related Article is about how a surfer who repeatedly ignored warnings to not enter the water due to Coronavirus concerns received a $1000 citation. The article continues to say that most people follow the closures, but despite many similar closures, there is still public flocking towards these non-essential activities, leading officials to temporarily limit vehicle access.
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  2020-03-29

  Social distancing celebration birthday

  I saw some videos on YouTube. A heartwarming new way of celebrating birthdays that self-isolation wasn’t going to stop the kids from feeling the love. Their neighbor and friends decorate their cars with balloons and banners, and drive by the birthday boy or girl’s home, honking and celebrating from a safe distance.
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  2020-03-29

  Plague Journal, Day 16: The Girlfriend and I swap symptoms

  I'm a New York City journalist keeping a Covid-19 journal. Here's the latest, including our inability to make sound decisions because we lack solid information:
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  2020-03-29

  Texas Governor Signs Executive Order to Stop Early Release from Prisons/Jails Due to Covid

  In an effort to slow the spread of covid-19 inside of US prisons and jails some inmates have been release early or sent home, on house arrest. As discussions were happening across the country regarding this idea Texas Governor, Greg Abbott, signed an executive order to stop early release from the states correctional facilities.
• 2020-03-29

  Empty LAX

  The image showcases the Los Angeles International Airport empty. Only a few cars can be seen nearby.
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  2020-03-29

  Payment Options: Now Include Toilet Paper

  A joke found on social media, showing an payment box from an online store which has been edited to include toilet paper as one of the accepted methods of payment in reference to the hoarding and resulting scarcity of toilet paper in stores.
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  2020-03-29

  Poll: Vast Support for Widespread Shutdowns to Protect Mass. Public Health, press release

  Eighty percent of Massachusetts residents support Gov. Baker's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with 96 percent supporting school closures, 94 percent approving the halt of restaurant dining-in, 93 percent supporting the shuttering of bars, and 92 percent agreeing that nonessential businesses should be closed to the public, according to a Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll.
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  2020-03-29

  Pandemic Monopoly

  HUM402 The image depicts the creation of Pandemic Monopoly by a Hobart resident. The homemade board game uses toilet paper as currency, referring to the toilet paper shortage seen across Tasmanian supermarkets. The board game presents players with the opportunity to 'own' key Hobart locations. However, instead of mortgage, houses and hotels, the game allows players to buy hospitals and clinics to place on the properties. Centrelink, the Australian governments social security service, features heavily on the board game, indicating the rise in unemployment due to the pandemic. Whilst being used for comical purposes, the game also critiques the Tasmanian governments early handling of Covid-19 crisis via a chance card, which states "You have a fever, dry cough and Pneumonia to boot but despite having all of the symptoms, you haven't knowingly come into contact with a known carried so they won't test you for Covid-19. The Royal Hobart Hospital sends you home. Get out of iso [isolation] free." This refers to the Tasmanian government in early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic refusing to test individuals who had not been in contact with a known case, or had not left the country.
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  2020-03-29

  European Travel Before and After

  HUM402 This image from Air Traffic Services shows the impact Covid-19 has had on the way we travel. On Sunday 31 2019 there were 7240. This year on March 29, 2020 there was only 832 flights over Europe.
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  2020-03-29

  A photo of the toilet paper shelfs when the corona virus first began

  This image is a photo of the shelfs that used to hold toilet paper. The reason that they are empty is because when corona first hit and quarantine was beginning, everybody rushed to buy as much toilet paper as they could, in case of a lock down or stores being closed. This led to many stores running out and other individuals having difficulty acquiring toilet paper. For my family personally, we came to a point where we had gone to about three or four different stores and all of them were out of toilet paper, so we had to ask some family friends for some in the meantime.
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  2020-03-29

  Pandemic Monopoly

  HUM 402 The image depicts the creation of Pandemic Monopoly by a Hobart resident. The homemade board game uses toilet paper as currency, referring to the toilet paper shortage seen across Tasmanian supermarkets. The board game presents players with the opportunity to 'own' key Hobart locations. However, instead of mortgage, houses and hotels, the game allows players to buy hospitals and clinics to place on the properties. Centrelink, the Australian governments social security service, features heavily on the board game, indicating the rise in unemployment due to the pandemic. Whilst being used for comical purposes, the game also critiques the Tasmanian governments early handling of Covid-19 crisis via a chance card, which states "You have a fever, dry cough and Pneumonia to boot but despite having all of the symptoms, you haven't knowingly come into contact with a known carried so they won't test you for Covid-19. The Royal Hobart Hospital sends you home. Get out of iso [isolation] free." This refers to the Tasmanian government in early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic refusing to test individuals who had not been in contact with a known case, or had not left the country.
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  2020-03-29

  Medical Workers Express Gratitude for Community Donations, New Orleans, LA

  LCMC Health shares New Orleans media coverage from local television station WWLTV entitled "Medical workers feeling the love as people donate food to hospitals" during COVID-19 pandemic.
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  2020-03-29

  COVID 19 Journal: 03/29/2020

  COVID 19 Journal by Kaitlin Whalen written 03/29/2020
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  2020-03-29

  The Covid Diaries Entry #5

  My experiences of this pandemic. Entry 5. soaking in vital sun rays while in queue to buy groceries - 6ft - *important to support olders/wisest & local business/* March 29, 2020.ps the masked dog is fictional. Though I would not be surprised to see this as people are weird with their pets.
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  2020-03-29

  Classes to be pass/fail, work study and orientation updates discussed at SGA meeting

  The Suffolk Journal, Suffolk University's student run newspaper, reports on Suffolk's Student Government Association decisions during the pandemic.
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  2020-03-29

  Miller Hall to house homeless during COVID-19 pandemic

  The Suffolk Journal, Suffolk University's student run newspaper, reports on Suffolk's efforts to help the community during the pandemic
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  2020-03-29

  As states crack down on gatherings, some religious exemptions could keep pews full

  Many state governments are being pressured by health professionals to set restrictions on religous gatherings. However, some state governments feel like they do not have the authority to set restrictions on religous practices, while others are limiting the amount of people per gathering, or even banning it completely.
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  2020-03-29

  Some Megachurches Are Still Packing In Crowds

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  2020-03-29

  Diary Entry

  The ”lay off” Day 7 Whatsthisday, the 307th of Archpril The clocks changed tonight. I only know because I happened to be awake when they switched. An odd experience. One minute it’s 01:59 and the next 03:00. Yesterday was Earth Hour I’d missed that too, but Magdalena remembered and we spent a sleepy hour reading by candle and lamplight before heading to bed at 21:15. It’s a sort of tradition now. I missed both of these events because the available bandwidth to process news is simply overwhelmed with Covid-19. For a microscopic virus, it’s footprint in the macro world has become gargantuan, undeniable. Even for those for whom denial had become a way of life. I went to bed too early and now I can't sleep, so I’m browsing The Guardian and eating Clementines. We used to call them Mandarin oranges when I was a kid, but in Sweden, they call them Clementines for some reason. The US news is just apocalyptic. That’s a word I use far too much, but it really is the only one that fits now. Multiple, simultaneously accelerating sites of infection, the death rate approaching a thousand a day and the federal response remains jerky, incoherent, contradictory. At every news conference, Trump is like a bear in a trap, enraged, striking out blindly, snout spraying foam and blood with every snarl. He seems to sense a looming future that involves piano-wire and a sturdy lampost on some broad american boulevard. The lunacy is incomparable, without precedent in my lifetime. We are watching the Suez-cide of an empire in real time. In Sweden, things remain comparatively calm, but the undercurrent of concern is electric. We all feel it. We all know the exponential curve is on the way for us too. Our own local "Empire", the EU, is under tremendous strain as well, but here at least the causes remain pedestrian and institutional: the predictable outcome of a deliberately weak central authority rather then some bloated Nero. When this is over, we need to take a closer look at that. The house is cold – I’ve turned off the electric heating as spring pushes the temperatures higher, but it’s 0 degrees out there – so I creep down to start a fire. This is a delicate business at 03:30 in the morning or 02:30, whatever. The point is, it’s the middle of the night, and starting a fire tends to be a noisy obtrusive business, what with the roaring blaze, cast iron stove and so forth. I manage to get it just right, a minimum of metallic pings and ticks, the air flow turned down low to throttle brighter flames but not the coals. Satisfactory. I get back to writing. We’ve been in voluntary lockdown for about 2 weeks now. The first week was just a conventional work from home and then the layoff came. That was week 2. Today/Tonight/This morning, we are heading into week 3. That doesn’t mean we don’t do anything and I’d planned a series of activities with a minimum of social interaction for Saturday. Two things actually, a trip to hand stuff in to the 2nd hand place (Vinden which literally translates as Attic) and the open air recycling center. The fruits of a week with too much time on my hands. To that we've added a trip to ICA Maxi for a final round of supplies buying. The handoff at Vinden was perfect. There were some other people dropping stuff off, but we waited in the car for them to finish and then dumped our stuff. Eight bags of assorted clothes, utensils and older electronic odds and ends. Social interactions? Zero. Then we headed to Maxi. It’s dawning on me that this isn’t ideal. I’ve had misgivings about heading into an enormous shopping center in the middle of a global pandemic. Shopping should really be done only during off peak times and Saturday morning is about as on peak as you can get. This is feeling more and more like an avoidable error. I clutch my hand sanitizer and pull on my gloves. However, when we finally pull into the parking garage I’m encouraged. There are very few cars. We don’t need that much stuff, so instead of a trolley we get one of those rolling baskets and head in. There are plenty of people about, but Maxi (as the name suggests) is very large. It has acres of floor space and I can immediately see that people are distributed for maximal social distancing. There is a weird synchronicity to their movements, as if everyone is generating a repelling magnetic field, they slide past each other with meters of clearance. Even when people are speaking to each other or staff, they seem to be standing on either side of a 2 meter gorge. We pinball our way to the cat food (these goddam cats will be the death of us), traversing a wide arc through pet toys and obscure cleaning products, it’s a very lightly trafficked part of the store and we meet no one. Then down into fruit and vegetables to pick up oranges, clementines, apples and bananas. I read somewhere you can freeze fresh fruit and I want to try it. Magdalena has more practical goals in mind and selects the ingredients for a salad. In the fruit and veg section we actually bump into our handyman, Lars. Not literally of course. He has a heart condition and we don't want to kill him, so we stand either side of the gorge and shout pleasantries. Then onto dairy for milk (reason number two, after cat food, we are here at all) and two big plugs of cheese. Then I decide I want to get a loaf of freshly baked bread, but it’s a dilemma. No packaging. If I touch the bread with my gloves, anything on the gloves will transfer and then I’ll shove that material into my stupid fat face when we get home. I opt to remove the gloves, sanitize, pop the bread into the bags provided, then put the gloves back on. A month ago this aberrant, peculiar behavior would have attracted stares. Today, not the merest ripple of interest. The world has moved on. We head to the check outs. They are well manned and we immediately find one with a single shopper finishing up. I realize then we should have self-scanned all this crap. Now the checkout person is going to touch all our stuff, breath on it and so forth. While they contaminate everything I’m blipping my card. The blipping is great because you just hover the card over the reader. Nothing actually touches anything. You still have to punch in the code on the keypad (I shudder at this even though I’m wearing gloves) but the whole business is so much superior to the epidemiological nightmare of handing physical cash back and forth. Uuurgh. Cash. Filthy lucre. What a mad unsanitary idea cash is. Or more correctly in Sweden, was. Another big plus in Sweden’s fight against the spread of the virus. Cash is no longer king. It’s not even a local warlord and all its Statues were pulled down years ago. We head out to the car, sanitize, and home. Social interactions? Two.
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  2020-03-29

  Escaping Reality

  This photo was taken on a boat to escape the quarantine. My family and I were going stir crazy so we decided to go out on our boat and take a break from staying inside all day. I took this photo for others to appreciate the beauty of the outdoors. #FlaglerCollege
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  2020-03-29

  Valley churches offer drive-thru confessionals while closed during COVID-19 spread

  This article presents the situation of how the Catholic Churches here in Arizona are dealing with the virus spread by holding confessions in thier parking lots and having people drive up to the priest in their vehicles in order to practice the Sacrament of Reconciliation and be forgiven of their sins. There are many other churches throughout the country doing this as the priest that was interviewed said he got the idea from a viral post that was taken in Kansas and wanted to do the same for his congregation. Of course they practiced Social DIstancing as they would be six feet apart and the priest when they would give the Prayer of Absolution would just raise his hand and not touch the individual at all.
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  2020-03-29

  Wiped Out Bulk Cereal

  Shoppers wiped out the bulk cereal aisle at Walmart in Belmont, North Carolina.
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  2020-03-29

  Stay Six Feet Back

  A sign at the Walmart in Belmont, North Carolina, warns to stay six feet back from the shopper ahead of you, demonstrating how corporations that still operate for "essential needs" are making moves to protect their shoppers.
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  2020-03-29

  Email Updates from Michigan Avenue Primary Care

  The Michigan Avenue Primary Care clinic in Chicago has been providing weekly updates to patients via email regarding operating procedures to prevent the spread of the virus and how it is offering COVID-19 testing.
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  2020-03-29

  Rationing at Walmart in Belmont, NC

  Walmart in Belmont, North Carolina hangs signs in the toilet paper aisle limiting people to how many products they can purchase at once. They state: “we respectfully ask you to limit your purchase to 1 per item.”
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  2020-03-29

  Empty Shelves at Walmart, Belmont, NC

  Empty toilet paper and paper towel shelves at the Belmont, North Carolina Walmart. Many shoppers persist in getting their groceries and still gather items that they deemed essential and chose not to wear masks.
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  2020-03-29

  West Jefferson Medical Center thanks Community Members, Marrero, LA

  Owners of Who Dat Nail Spa drove all the way to Destin, Florida to bring back cases of gloves and alcohol disinfectant for local hospitals.
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  2020-03-29

  First zoom birthday party

  One of my son's classmates turned 5. We were invited to make cupcakes and zoom into a celebration - it felt poignant, and incomplete.
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  2020-03-29

  Este partido lo jugamos todos

  Tweet from President Martín Vizcarra
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  2020-03-29

  "Travel" in Quarantine Meme

  It is a meme about "traveling" from your bed to your couch to look at your phone in quarantine.
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  2020-03-29

  Internship Meme

  A meme about internships during COVID.
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  2020-03-29

  Economy cartoon

  It is a meme about a dinosaur screaming "the economy" while an asteroid is seen in the sky. This image aims to caricature how America often appears to be more concerned about the economy during this pandemic than people's lives.
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  2020-03-29

  Dubai on Lockdown

  how the normally busy and restless city of Dubai looks during the lockdown
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  2020-03-29

  Apaguen todas las luces (meme)

  El presidente debería ordenar que durante el toque de queda se apaguen todas las luces de la ciudad así el virus no podrá vernos
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  2020-03-29

  A Nurse Shared A Harrowing Photo Of COVID-19 Victims To Show How Horrifying The Outbreak Is

  A scary story and photo of how horrifying the Covid-19 outbreak is.
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  2020-03-29

  two friends and a balcony

  A photo has been taken in Italy of two neighbors sharing a bottle of wine on their balconies. They put a piece of wood between the space that divides the two balconies as a table. This shows how some people find company and in the same time respect social distancing.
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  2020-03-29

  Flight Cancelled

  This is a screenshot of flight back to China being cancelled. Many other international students have faced this issue for not able to fly back home.
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  2020-03-29

  "A Nurse Shares Harrowing Photo Of COVID-19 Victims To Show How Horrifying It Is"

  "A Nurse Shares Harrowing Photo Of COVID-19 Victims To Show How Horrifying It Is"
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  2020-03-29

  Como pasar la cuarentena

  Columnist Maki Miró Quesda published an article on 3/29/2020 calling the family employee an "hdp" for passing the cuarentena with his/her family instead of returning to work in Quesada's home. The article was later deleted from the Peru21 website and an apology issued.
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  2020-03-29

  ‘Stay safe from Coronavirus’ sign at beach

  ‘Stay safe from Coronavirus’ sign from Bayside council.