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2020-04-05
Zoom birthday party - HIST30060
My 20th birthday party, held on Zoom. We tried to convince George that his microphone was muted, and he proceeded to abuse us via Microsoft word and the “share screen” function. While they didn’t compare to real life interaction, Zoom provided many new creative ways to converse which we had a lot of fun exploring. -
2020-04-05
How I started a business during quarantine in 2020
During quarantine in the early stages of the Covid-19 Pandemic, I started my own pressure washing business. I realized that everyone would be at home almost all day everyday so I wanted to make a little money by cleaning neighbors' exterior parts of their homes. My parents had all of the supplies already so I just borrowed their pressure washer and garden hoses. I went door-to-door asking people if they wanted any pressure washing down and it turned out that almost everyone on my street and in my neighborhood wanted me to pressure wash their driveways and sidewalks. In 6 weeks, I made over $3,000 and that was a lot of money for me at the time. I learned a lot about business and how to negotiate a deal during this time. Mostly everyone I know was at home watching Netflix or playing board games during quarantine, but I was outside pressure washing for my neighbors. -
2020-04-05
Game of Thrones
A comic strip about Covid-19 -
2020-04-05
covid and me
Last year when things got closed in California I got pulled over because i was past a curfew that they set. It was really dumb since I was on my way home anyway. Closing off the roads for a virus is not the way to do it. He let me go with a warning but the whole situation was not needed. I was not speeding or driving bad either. A huge waste of time but other then that nothing abnormal happened to me during covid. Its been super boring but we all have to do our part and keep people safe. After I went home I told my parents about it and they just told me to not drive so lae. In conclusion I learned to not break covid rules since those are the ones the government actually cares about -
2020-04-05
Saving the World
The meme about the Covid 19 pandemic describes the differences in how people were cooperating to save the world together, comparing the WWII images from the front and the image of the man sitting on his phone in bed in 2020. Referring to the fact that in 2020 in order to help save the world people had to quarantine at homes rather than fighting in the fields. -
2020-04-05
Anxiety lingers as N.L. officials trace majority of coronavirus cases to funeral home
Funeral home in Newfoundland was linked to a superspreader event -
2020-04-05
New York Through the Pandemic
I am uploading pictures during the pandemic that I took. It shows how empty the streets/bridge were that are normally crowded with thousands of people and cars. -
2020-04-05
Goodbye Family Gatherings
It is almost Easter and my family usually gather together at a park and do a big egg hunt except this year was going to be a little different due to the pandemic. We all had to stay at our homes since there can't be any large gatherings. This was when I started thinking that all of our family gatherings were going to have to be canceled. And up to this day Dec.11 of 2020 it looks like it is going to be canceled. It has been a long time since I have not spend time with family because we are trying to keep each other safe. -
2020-04-05
Working during a Pandemic
For my first artifact, I chose a photo taken in April 2020 of me wearing a sign telling people to stay six feet away at Agway of Cape Cod in Dennis, MA. It is shocking to think about now, but at this time I was not required to wear a face mask while at work. I have worked at Agway for several years and am familiar with the business, products, and customers. However, the experience I had at Agway this past spring was drastically different than what I was used to. Agway had implemented a curbside pick-up only method, meaning customers were no longer allowed to shop in person. This was very difficult for a lot of people, especially considering the elderly demographic that frequented Agway. Many customers were confused or angry about the system, despite its implementation as a method of protecting the health and safety of everyone – employees and customers alike. Agway had never before offered an online shopping option, but they quickly went to work creating a website complete with thousands of products to ensure the simplest and safest means of acquiring essential items like pet supplies that Agway provides for residents of Cape Cod. As a cashier, a typical sale during early COVID-19 times included a customer calling the store, the customer waiting on hold for anywhere between 30 seconds and 15 minutes for the next available employee, the customer listing their items for cashiers to “pick,” paying with card only over the phone, and finally an employee delivering the items to numbered parking spots. Needless to say, this process was a lot to handle and grow accustomed to, and was often very frustrating and stressful as both customers and employees learned together as humans how we were to alter our lives and routines in response to an unprecedented global pandemic. -
2020-04-05
Corporate Growth
This is a photo of Elon Musk smoking marijuana on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, captioned with the phrase “show me the money.” This is a reference to the astronomical growth of the Tesla Corporation in 2020 and the average investor’s potential to secure massive gains, as well as a joking reference to the near worship of Elon Musk that can be found in the subreddit ‘WallStreetBets.’ This subreddit often features ‘absolute madlads’ making huge gambles on stocks (usually TSLA, AAPL, or AMZN) and subsequently either securing massive returns tallying into the hundreds of thousands or losing everything. When most of my family was laid off from their jobs, my brother and I turned to day trading to keep ourselves and our family afloat. I was one of the only ones still employed at the time, and I was doing this in addition to working up to 75 hours a week to take advantage of overtime pay stacked on top of hazard pay. Although only my father and I were still working, everyone in the family still had bills to pay and the rent was still due. Tesla’s stock, specifically, has grown almost 500% this year and is set to grow even more. This meme is somewhat of an inside joke my brother and I had as we began securing leverage and buying covered calls on TSLA to increase our overall cash flow with the little savings we had to work with. We were quite literally counting on Elon Musk and his revolutionary car company that we had placed our faith in during this time to pay our rent. Luckily, it worked out for us. Ironically, the massive transfer of wealth to corporations from small businesses that went under as a result of COVID-19 was incredibly beneficial for my family and I since we invested in the right stocks at the right time. -
2020-04-05
My First Homemade Mask
Back at the beginning of April, when the CDC had just finally recommended that the general public wear masks when going out, I was eager to follow this guideline to the best of my abilities. Unfortunately, I didn't have any masks nor any good way of purchasing masks. (Online orders of anything were taking very long at that point in time, and masks weren't readily available in most stores not that I could get to one anyway.) So, I decided to try to make myself a mask. I wanted to make a really good mask. I did lots of research to find out what the best mask materials were for blocking the virus and everything. I searched my home, looking through my clothing, my towels, my reusable bags, trying to find the "right" material. I wasn't satisfied by anything I found. Given that, I decided that my best option was a relatively thick hand towel. I found a template online and proceeded to spend a couple hours hand sewing the mask that you see on my face in the picture. (I have very little experience hand sewing, so I didn't do a very neat job at all.) The final product was this huge mask that covered the entire lower half of my face. I mean, it worked, but it looked pretty hilarious. I did wear this mask out a number of times. It was basically my only option until I was able to order some better masks off the internet. I'm glad I don't have to wear that ridiculous homemade mask anymore, but I'm actually pretty impressed that I managed to make one at all. -
2020-04-05
How Covid-19 Broke Apart and Reassembled My Life: My Mental Health During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The Coronavirus is not a one person issue. Everyone has had to deal with it and no one has been unaffected. I would like to recount for the archive my personal struggles during this pandemic so that they may be used for research purposes in dealing with something like this in the future. Before the pandemic started, I was a senior in high school. I had just asked my girlfriend to prom, which was just a few months away, and I had a 4.5 gpa for my senior year compared to my 3.5 for the rest of high school. I was excited to run spring track and try to break 5 minutes in the mile for the first time in high school. I hung out nearly everyday with my best friends. I had just committed to Suffolk University and was excited for the future. I didn’t really realize how bad Covid-19 was going to be until what would be our last day of school. It was a thursday, and all of us thought it would be a quick two week break to get rid of the virus and we would all be back. Obviously, that was not the case. I am a pretty social person, so when the lockdown was announced a week later, I really struggled with staying inside. Even with facetime, xbox live chat, and texting, I was not able to get enough social interaction. I felt extremely lonely. Spring sports were obviously also cancelled. This was just the first domino to fall in a long list of unfortunate events for me that, no doubt, many others experienced as well. A few weeks into lockdown, my girlfriend called me in tears telling me that her blood condition, which affects her nerve endings in almost her entire body, had gotten much more severe. Even worse, Covid-19 was making it harder to go to the hospital for the treatments. For her health, we had to break up, and I have not talked to or heard from her since. My older brother had also moved home from college at this point from UMass Amherst. While my younger brother and I have always done well in school and been well behaved kids, the same could not be said for my older brother. An avid weed smoker and oftentimes alcohol abuser, I had to share a room with him for all of quarantine, and continue to do so now. He experienced a lot less rules and a lot more freedom while in college, and did not transition well back to the stricter rules of our household, and often took this out on me. While he did not physically harm me, as I am much stronger than him, he continued to throw flurries of insults and mental abuse at me, ruining my every day. He also did this to the rest of my family, making it hell for everyone at home. At one point, my mother kicked him out, and he had to live with his boyfriend for a while. My mother also did not deal well with staying inside. She has struggled with her weight almost her entire adult life, and the closing of gyms during Covid-19 made her lose all motivation to stay in shape. She gained almost 100 pounds back in 2 months. My older brother coming home also caused her mounds of stress. Since my younger brother hid in his own locked room, and my older brother screamed or stormed out when my mom got mad at us, she took out all of her frustrations on me for the smallest things, taking away the devices I used to contact all my friends just because I had forgotten to put my shoes away or do the dishes. My father and my younger brother both dealt much better with the situation, but that did not save me from the rest of my family. After missing school and all my friends, getting my spring sport cancelled, losing my girlfriend, my brother and mother constantly berating and harassing me, and having nowhere to go but my shared room with no privacy, I began to free fall into a major case of depression and suicidal thoughts. Prior to this pandemic, I had never spoken with a therapist. I used to get bullied in elementary and middle school, but I always had ways of coping such as sports, hanging out with friends, and focusing on school, but now I had a real problem on my hands. After about 4 weeks of struggling inside of my own head, I finally realized I needed professional help. My parents set me up with a woman named Rachel via Zoom, and I talk to her every thursday. She is a licensed therapist, and is part of the new wave of technological medical care in this time of a pandemic. While she has not solved my problems, both the easing of restrictions and her mental guidance has helped me to cope with my situation. I am very grateful for her, and although I am not fully back to where I was before the pandemic, I am continuing to recover to this day. I leave to move in at Suffolk in 5 days, and I could not be more excited for the change of scenery, new friends, and a chance to continue my sport into college. The pandemic has been hard on everyone, and I am sure that I am not alone in my struggles. I wrote this so that people can look back in the future to realize just how devastating an impact can have on one individual’s life if not handled properly, because Covid-19 genuinely rocked my world. -
2020-04-05
A very different Pesach
Pesach 2020: This night that is different from all other nights is going to be even more different this year. -
2020-04-05
Coloring Sheet
Coloring has been therapeutic during COVID-19. Charlotte, NC-based artist Stephen Wilson distributed a coloring book over email and social media to encourage everyone during this time. -
2020-04-05
Pesach across three continents and four cities
First night seder of Pesach took place on zoom with ten different extended families from across the globe. Whilst it was chaos to the max, it was actually one of the most fun-filled interactive seders I have ever experienced. -
2020-04-05
A COVID LOVE LETTER
This time of year is usually buzzing with family and community. Passover is often referred to as a holiday of freedom, but this year it was for some people the furthest thing from that. As the Rabbi of an ever-growing synagogue and community centre, I host the Seders (traditional Passover feasts) at my home with community members and extend invitations to anyone willing to accept. However, this year there wasn’t anyone to invite. Leading up to this usually joyful holiday, I became quite dispirited as the calls started streaming in from community members that had lost their jobs, savings in the stock markets and now couldn’t even see their grandchildren. What’s ironic is that throughout the year I am the one chasing community members to bring them to the centre for events and prayer services. I also make calls, send WhatsApp and post on Facebook to catch their attention and attempt to entice them through the doors of the synagogue. Now I’m lamenting with them, trying unsuccessfully to find some reason as to why G-d is putting us through this test. The best I came up with was, “we are all in this together, we are all in the same boat”, none of us are unique in this corona-quarantining. Then a late-night call last week after the Sabbath really rocked me, a Holocaust survivor, 98 years old, had passed away and I was asked to officiate her funeral. Due to social distance regulations no more than 10 people were allowed to attend the funeral. This lady that I was laying to rest could’ve been my great-grandmother. I agonised about how I was to console this family that had just lost their matriarch. Who was I, some young rabbi, to give this family comfort and words of healing when they had had such a momentous loss, and their friends and extended family weren't even able to mourn together with them. This woman survived German slave labour camps during the Holocaust and now because of this silent killer was unable to have her grandchildren and great-grandchildren at her farewell. The reality of the situation is that COVID-19 has fundamentally changed my rabbinic role. As time goes on and this becomes our new normal, the constant calls from community members looking for support have been integrated into my schedule. My role has changed from preaching on a pulpit to one of reassurance and consolation during this time of social isolation and loneliness during the festive season of Passover. Whenever I am on the phone to a congregant I lighten the mood by facetiously joking “thank G-d crèche is an essential service!" With four children of my own under the age of five, or should I say with four babies under the age of five, I would have never been able to do anything if the government had pulled the plug on crèche. I was quietly praying together with my wife that they wouldn’t. I started dreading the upcoming school holidays, what am I going to do for two weeks locked in the house with my kids especially over Passover? Is my Passover Seder going to be 10 minutes because of nappy changes and bedtime will be in the middle of it? Incredibly without guests, my wife and I had the most wonderful two weeks locked up at home with our children. Our Seder was a lively event with re-enactments of the exodus of Egypt, as well as long speeches and songs from my 3-year-old who lively sang way past his bedtime. I even dressed up as Moses one night. I saw the silver lining in this turbulent time-I finally had time to be fully present with my children, no phone to disturb me, as on Jewish festivals we don’t use electronics, I had no sermon to fine-tune and I was finally able to spend the entire time with my family. My 4-year-old even learnt how to ride a bike without training wheels, an impressive feat that his grandmother told him over FaceTime “your daddy could only do it when he was 5”. Yes, the fridge has some scratches and dents that came about with children 2 and 3 trying to break into it for some milk. The curtains to their room have been ripped down and I am trying unsuccessfully to find a tradesman to come and fix it. But, I must say lockdown was a sort of blessing that I didn't know I wanted. Spending quality time with my kids without having to run to an urgent meeting or being required to write emails, was in a way an Exodus from real life I much needed (hopefully temporarily). But...I think my wife now needs a holiday. -
2020-04-05
Plague Journal, Day 23: A Sumatran bus story
I'm keeping a Covid-19 journal. Today's entry, with more thoughts about my time in Indonesia, its parallels with New York City in CoronaWorld, and a bit about baking: -
2020-04-05
How to make a Face Mask
I created a video about how to make a face mask out of paper towels and hair bands. -
2020-04-05
Joint DOD-USAF Guidance on the Use of Cloth Face Covers
These documents outline the proper use of cloth face masks on US military installations per the US Department of Defense and the Department of the Air Force. Also included is a memo to all personnel at Joint Base San Antonio (Fort Sam Houston, Lackland and Randolph AFBs, and Martindale Army Airfield) from the base commander addressing the DOD's COVID-19 responses, and how they will be implemented on base. This resource also includes a tutorial on how to wear and create homemade PPE. -
2020-04-05
Harvard Museums of Science and Culture Explorers Club
An Instagram page created by the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture in 2020. This page's first post was from April 5th, during the pandemic. The page posts photos, offers activities during social distancing, and different ways to engage with science and other cultures in one's neighborhood or immediate surroundings. The page also promotes virtual events that are put on by the Harvard museums. This page highlights new approaches to engagement that museums have had to develop as they have been forced online, and how they're relating their collections and expertise to the current pandemic. -
2020-04-05
The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Causing Kenya’s Maasai To Change Its Ancient Habits
"As people across the world struggle to adapt their way of life to the unfolding COVID-19, the Maasai people of east Africa are already having to change ancient customs to minimize the impact of the disease." -
2020-04-05
Zoom University
I personally had to make the transition between in- person classes and online classes through zoom. At first it was kinda hard, but as time passed I got used it. Now its quite pleasant and I enjoy zoom classes a lot. -
2020-04-05
Ceci n'est pas une ecole
Parody of the famous Rene Magritte painting "The Treachery of Images (This is Not a Pipe)." During this crisis, many schools around the world have moved to an online-learning format. Most educators (and most students) say this is no substitute for in-person classes, however. There may be pressure once this is all over for online / distance learning to remain a prominent element of education, but many educators are pushing back against this. -
2020-04-03
Virtual Arizona Pride First Press Release
This is the first official press release from Virtual Arizona Pride. -
2020-04-03
Virtual Arizona Pride Presenter/Performer Information
This document shows the guidelines for presenters and performers at the first Virtual AZ Pride event. In addition to logistical challenges such as scheduling, this document also shows the care put in to ensuring online safety and security of the space. -
2020-04-03
Virtual Arizona Pride Call
This document is a description and outline of the first Virtual AZ Pride event. -
2020-04-05
Steak, Discounts, and Toilet Paper
This particular restaurant on Maize Road in Wichita, Kansas, demonstrates the various strategies businesses employed to remain viable as COVID-19's easy transmission forced many restaurants to close their dine-in rooms and switch to online, carry-out, and delivery services. Along with the 15% discount for online ordering, this restaurant added the rather interesting incentive of a free roll of toilet paper for each order, thereby highlighting the acute hygiene product shortage that emptied store shelves across the United States in the wake of the virus-inspired "panic buying" that gripped the country. Photo taken by Aaron Peterka -
2020-04-05
Troon North Golf Club
I live in next to the Troon North Golf Course in North Scottsdale. At the begging of April, when we were first told to stay home, I realized that everyday there were hundreds of people golfing. This definitely didn't look like social distancing to me! -
2020-04-05
Neighbors prepare for surge. 2 of 2 - Scituate, MA
Image of food pantry stocked with fruits, vegetables, munchies, sweets and wine, after new warning from Gov. Baker. -
2020-04-05
Neighbors prepare for surge. 1 of 2 - Scituate, MA
Image of cleaning/disinfectant supplies in stock for home use, after new warning from Gov. Baker. -
2020-04-05
DIY mask making. 3 of 3 - Scituate, MA
Image of DIY project to make masks at home -
2020-04-05
DIY mask making. 2 of 3 - Scituate, MA
Image of DIY project to make masks at home -
2020-04-05
DIY mask making. 1 of 3 - Scituate, MA
Image of DIY project to make masks at home. -
2020-04-05
OBriens discover some masks in storage - Scituate, MA
Image of 3 different types of masks available for personal use in preparation for Massachusetts virus surge. -
2020-04-05
COMERCIANTES MAYORISTAS Y AMBULANTES SE APODERAN DE MERCADO AVELINO HACIENDO CASO OMISO A REGLAMENTO POR COVID-19
Comando Regional COVID-19 dispuso el cierre de puestos de mayoristas en el Avelino, pero no hicieron nada contra el comercio ambulatorio. El recorrido empieza, en el video podemos observar que las personas piden que el general que dio la orden del cierre haga también que otros centros comerciales como Tottus , Plaza vea entre otros acaten la misma orden. Ademas mencionan que ellos no pueden cerrar ya que no solo abastecen a Arequipa sino también a Puno, Cusco y otras provincias aledañas. Los comerciantes muestran sus productos como cebolla , papas, manzana, camote, las cuales están en grandes cantidades ya que distribuyen por mayor dicen "No podemos cerrar nuestros puestos de un momento a otro a quien vamos a vender nuestros productos se van a malograr". En el video se muestra también como los comerciantes ambulantes se apoderaron de los exteriores de este centro de abastos de Arequipa los cuales generan desorden y sus ventas son solo al por menor. -
2020-04-05
A Great Sacrifice
This west Wichita, Kansas, church marquee sign reflects the state-mandated social distancing restrictions that went into effect on March 30, 2020; restrictions that prohibited large social gatherings, shuttered K-12 schools for the remainder of the spring, required 6-feet of space between individuals in public, and closed all non-essential businesses, such as retail stores and gyms. Photo taken on April 5, 2020. -
2020-04-05
Touro Infirmary Supplies Groceries to Employees, New Orleans, LA
Employees at Touro Infirmary can get essential goods from the hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic. -
2020-04-05
My blog/diary: 04/05/2020
My name is Egor and i write my thoughts and emotions in my blog https://starcatcherrus.tumblr.com every day for more than 6 years. And i want to share some of posts about life in self-isolation. And also i'm working in a city hospital as a radiologist. -
2020-04-05
"The Hermit Herald" vol.1 Issue 9
Co-morbidity risks; the Capt. Crozier – CV affair -
2020-04-05
COVID 19 Journal: 04/05/2020
COVID 19 Journal by Kaitlin Whalen written 04/05/2020. -
2020-04-05
Signs From Around: #4, Philadelphia, PA
"Signs From Around: #4, Philadelphia, PA" is part of a series exploring the signage surrounding COVID-19 from different parts of the world. Residents of this building can quarantine knowing their building is in good hands. #FordhamUniversity #VART3030 #SignsFromAroundSeries Creat -
2020-04-05
Priests, ministers, rabbis and other religious leaders go online to connect with faithful, but miss the personal touch
Though nearly every religion has used online streaming to connect with their congregations during the pandemic, preachers and parishioners alike are missing the personal contact that comes with in-person services. -
2020-04-05
COVID-19 pandemic will have lasting impact on how religious communities connect with members, faith leaders say
In the presented article it focuses on the challenges that Covid-19 has imposed on religion by challenging religious leaders to be more innovative in how they practice their faith both privately and in public, while simultaneously getting their members to actively participate as well. The social restrictions have challenged the way people are able to participate as a community to fulfill their religious endeavors, which as a result has altered their understanding of community and collectivity. Throughout the article it discusses that religious leaders are being proactive and are finding ways to get people to participate religiously. Although, self-imposed distance has carried a negative stigma since most people are beginning to miss socializing and fulfilling the emotional void that only in person human connection can resolve. -
2020-04-05
How Zombie Films Reveal the True Dangers of COVID-19
Essay likens COVID-19 virus to Zombies, because both infect a host to become viable. -
2020-04-05
Amid Coronavirus outbreak, Pope Francis Celebrates Palm Sunday Mass Without the Public
The articles desxcribes how Pope Francis had to celebrate Palm Sunday Mass in solitude. Typically, thousands from around the globe attend the service at St.Peter's Basilica. He had a few aides, nuns, and a choir all adhering to the social distancing protocol of six feet between them. Other priests took to rooftops so followers could participate and view them from the safetly of their homes. In the Pope's native land of Argentina, congregants used house plants instead of the usual palm leaves used to participate. Palm Sunday opens Holy week, leading to Easter. Currently the Vatican has seven reported cases of COVID-19 among residents and employees in the very small independent city state. -
2020-04-05
PANDEMIC 2020
Description of statistics related to death and how it compares to COVID-19 deaths. -
2020-04-05
Covid-19 Landscape
Palm Sunday, normally a high point in the social life of our church, was celebrated remotely. Palms were left outside the church to be collected by parishioners. -
2020-04-05
Self check out at a Frederick, MD grocery store
Plastic covering credit card number pad telling customers it has been disinfected. -
2020-04-05
Jobs
Personal Reflection -
2020-04-05
Noella Spa Flyer #3
This is a questionnaire that my family's business may use when they decide to reopen. It is to be used as a precautionary measure, to decide whether or not a customer is allowed inside.