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• 2020-04-22

  Enjoy Every Second Life Presents to You

  I remember when the pandemic first started just like it was yesterday. It was a very frightening time to be alive. A couple months before the pandemic, I got my license. I couldn’t have done it without my driving instructor. He was a family friend that we’ve known for a very long time. He was full of charisma and always energetic. When he found out that I passed my driving test, he promised to take me out to a local restaurant and celebrate. Everytime we would schedule a time to go to the restaurant, something would either come up on my end or his end. We were always cancelling on each other. March came around, and I went to his driving school site to pick up some paperwork. We were talking about the pandemic not knowing how serious it really was. We scheduled our lunch towards the end of March. Everything was cancelled due to quarantine. I didn’t hear from him or see him for about a month. We found out that he had passed from Covid-19. That changed my whole perspective on the virus. I began taking it very seriously and took every precaution I could take against the virus. What they say is true about people not taking the virus seriously unless someone close to you gets affected by it. You wouldn’t expect someone with such a good heart to be taken off this earth so sudden.
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  2020-04-22

  Understanding the Corona Virus Through the Lens of Racial and Social Justice

  The Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy and the Social Justice Initiative host a conversation on the Coronavirus Pandemic through the Lens of Racial and Social Justice. Moderated by Barbara Ransby from the Social Justice Initiative, panelists include Dr. Linda Rae Murray, Aislinn Pulley from Chicago Torture Project, Ald. Rossana Rodriguez, Ald. Jeanette Taylor, Detention Watch Network's Gaby Viera and Reyna Wences from Organized Communities Against Deportations. This program was edited by CAN TV
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  2020-04-22

  Mask-making during COVID-19

  This article shares how one Canadian museum made masks during lockdown and provides video instructions and sewing patterns for people to make their own.
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  2020-04-22

  AOC Tweet 4/22/2020

  This tweet is by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and reads: “GOP is seriously arguing that it’s worth sacrificing the lives of hourly workers so they can get a spray tan again. If they really wanted to reopen the economy, they’d fund mass testing, contact tracing, & healthcare for people. Instead they’re fighting against hospital funding.” This tweet briefly brings up the not-scientifically-founded idea of “re-opening” in order to boost the economy. And the lack of funding for mass covid testing/tracing, and general healthcare is also mentioned.
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  2020-04-22

  The 3Rs COVID-19 taught me

  COVID-19 pandemic shakes the entire human race and how the disease triggered the press button to let us all “slow-down” or “pause” to almost our entire usual goings remains an enigma to one and all
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  2020-04-22

  Plague Journal, Day 40: CoronaWorld oral history, The Kid

  I'm keeping a Covid-19 journal. Today, I interview The Kid about her 7th-grade school experience, which has been interrupted by CoronaWorld.
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  2020-04-22

  Attack on elderly Asian man with dementia ‘racially motivated,’ Vancouver police say

  "The 92-year-old victim had wandered into a convenience store near Nanaimo Street and East 1st Avenue on the afternoon of March 13, when the male suspect began yelling racist insults at the victim, including comments about COVID-19, police said Tuesday. "Outside the store, the suspect shoved the man, which caused him to fall to the ground and hit his head, police said."
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  2020-04-22

  Coronavirus Cake

  We consider our nanny to be part of our family and she was part of our quaran-team. Her April 22 birthday posed a particular challenge for a cake. We would normally visit Ambrosia Bakery, but with more time, we decided to bake it instead. With extra raspberries on hand and some Valentine’s candy about to go out the window, we threw together the SARS-CoV-2 cake to celebrate the unusual times of celebrating in quarantine.
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  2020-04-22

  Another Day, Another Puzzle - Day 40

  With calendars cleared as a result of shelter-in-place orders we have had more time to enjoy some of our family's favorite past-times. Cards and board games that were collecting dust have made their way out of cabinets. But what we've spent more time on than anything is puzzling. While each member of our family will puzzle here and there, our 5 year old son is a constant at the puzzle board. His attention and focus to puzzling is way beyond his years. Puzzling has given us the gifts of togetherness, joy, and consistency during these uncertain times. In this image, a glimpse of our family remote learning schedule and some school work are seen in the background. The presence of his "lovey" in hand is also a reminder to remember how young he is to be living during something as big as a pandemic.
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  2020-04-22

  Humans of Covid-19 AU: Adam Yip

  “At the moment, the news industries are scraping just to find stuff! There isn’t much happening. A lot of my shifts have been ‘Go down to Bondi and see if there’s social distancing happening’, which isn’t really an inventive role, and I stand there scratching my head. I wonder when people will stop wanting to see those images. On the other hand, if we didn’t have the media the pandemic could have been a lot worse, they scared a lot of people into staying home (but also scared a lot of people into panic buying). I’d like to think that next pandemic we have, because there will certainly be more, the government will be more active in the beginning, and have everything ready to go. Also, I hope that people will stop panic buying and being so selfish. The scenes of people fighting over toilet paper are horrible. I’m lucky to be in photojournalism though because a lot of other freelance photographers are really suffering at the moment. I used to do lots of portrait shots, but haven’t done one in a while.” Instagram post on Adam Yip, photojournalist, and his experience during the pandemic, which was created by a psychology student living in Melbourne who was interested to hear about how COVID-19 was impacting on different peoples’ lives.
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  2020-04-22

  Humans of Covid-19 AU: Sumeyya

  “Last year I went overseas to work in Turkey. After my return, I was diagnosed with cancer so I couldn't go back to work. Since last year, my life has basically been under lockdown, so nothing very new to me. I just do home things most of the time, such as research, reading, art and walks. I’m really looking forward to being free again. As painful as this pandemic is for many people, we needed this. Everyone is becoming very selfish. Everything has become about the dollar and money, rather than looking around and appreciating life around them. But at the end, they will be miserable because they didn’t really enjoy life. Overseas is like another world, especially in poor countries. But no one stops to think about how these people are surviving. Ramaddan is in a few days' time. There is a mixture of excitement and nervousness. It will be hard because we can’t visit friends and family, or have meals together with lots of people. But a lot of people are working on keeping it positive. This year we can pray just with our family, and it is still rewarding. As hard as this time is, we are going to be part of history!” Instagram post on Sumeyya, student, blogger & model, and her experience during the pandemic, which was created by a psychology student living in Melbourne who was interested to hear about how COVID-19 was impacting on different peoples’ lives.
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  2020-04-22

  HMSC Connects! Earth Day

  Webpage created by the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture to educate and inform the public about vital environmental issues on Earth Day. This resource emphasizes the difference between 2020's socially distanced Earth Day, and how the holiday has normally been seen as a time for people to celebrate their natural environment and continue protecting it. The webpage includes resources for activities as well as lesson plans produced by the Harvard Museums, Harvard University, and other organizations in the Greater Boston area. Resources like this highlight how museums and other cultural institutions sought to continue using public holidays as opportunities to educate, even as they were no longer able to host physical events in their own spaces. https://hmsc.harvard.edu/earth-day
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  2020-04-22

  Before Coronavirus, Theatre Was My Salvation. Where Do I Turn Now?

  1. Due to COVID-19 fears, theaters on Broadway and across the country have shut down. Legendary actor and director, Joel Grey reveals the mental health strain this loss has caused for himself and so many in his position, including the loss of work and the community he relied on for support and companionship. Joel Grey writes "Because of the coronavirus, we’re facing a future that sure feels more tenuous and fragile than ever. Projects have been canceled, milestones have already been missed, and all the shows have gone dark. These are hard times, for sure, and in hard times I, like so many others, have always turned to the theater for comfort. Where do we turn now? This tragedy has been made that much more devastating by having to face the nightmare without the laughter, tears and sense of community that a night in the theater delivers."
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  2020-04-22

  Public Service Announcement from Shoshone Business Council Vice-chair Karen Snyder

  “Thank you for joining us today and thank you for staying home. I speak to you today on behalf of the Shoshone Business Council and for those of you who don’t know me, I am Karen Snyder and currently serve as the Vice Chair for the Eastern Shoshone Tribe. First and foremost, the Eastern Shoshone Tribe sends our condolences to the families of those affected by the recent deaths on the Wind River Reservation due to the COVID 19. We extend our hearts and sincere prayers to the Wheeler Family and the Northern Arapaho Tribe. As you all know, these are challenging times and there is no playbook on how to deal with a global pandemic combined with a shutdown of the economy. Our goal today is to talk about some of the measures the Shoshone Business Council has taken and let our membership and all residents of our communities know we are very concerned and absolutely do not have all of the answers. One message that we want to send loud and clear to all of the listeners today is that COVID 19 did not start on the Wind River Reservation-- our tribal members were exposed through an exposure outside of our borders. Please do not place blame or point fingers, as that is the type of divisive behavior that creates barriers. I am a firm believer in unity, collaboration and open, candid discussions and that is how we flatten the curve and work to overcome this crisis.”
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  2020-04-22

  Jan Fran- Text From Facebook Post

  I have included Jan Fran’s name in this only because the facebook post was public and she is an established political commentator, but I was somewhat anxious about publishing her words in this way. When I first saw this facebook post it honestly probably took me about a week to get over my sheer rage at the amount of money Jeff Bezos has personally made profiting from the pandemic, which wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for that fact that his personal wealth is so staggeringly incomprehensible already. I read the other day that he has pledged a billion dollars to charities in the wake of coronavirus, which is just under a third of his personal wealth. How is it that one man can accept brownie points for donating a billion dollars in a context when he can justify keeping nearly two billion dollars in personal wealth while income inequality is a driving force in the deaths of over a hundred thousand people in his own country alone. How can anyone can claim to have ‘earned’ or ‘deserve’ such a staggering amount of money in a world rocked by a global pandemic is just so incomprehensible. Jan’s point about this false trade-off between the health of the economy and safety, which is made on so many levels above and beyond public health in a pandemic (because funding free education is bad for the economy rather than billionaires) is so striking, and I can only hope there are enough people who are more disgusted with the two billion dollars Jeff Bezos decided to keep than there are wanting to pat him on the back for donating the one billion.
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  2020-04-22

  Death of a Legend

  "It has been three months since we lost one of the greatest athletes to walk the earth, his name was Kobe Bryant." This article describes the legacy and impact of Kobe Bryant and was written by a senior journalism student following a beat developed and thought about in terms of the "local" in a journalism course at Pratt Institute that was upended by the pandemic.
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  2020-04-22

  Online Education: The New Normal

  Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Higher Education scenario in Nagaland, India has been challenged with the need to either adapt to the use of technology or fall behind. As online education becomes a forced necessity, problems faced by the economically weaker certain sections of society alongside the lack of infrastructural support in the State remain stumbling blocks in transitioning to online education. On the other hand, deny it or not, online education is the Future of Education and although not all Institutes are ready, many others are ready to push ahead.
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  2020-04-22

  Isolated indigenous tribes risk extinction from coronavirus, experts say

  "The threat of COVID-19 in the Amazon to indigenous peoples and the peoples in isolation is a very real threat of possible ethnocide,"
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  2020-04-22

  Wild animals take over lockdown cities around the world

  As people living in cities are shut away amid countries' COVID-19 lockdowns and the hustle and bustle of city roads are brought to a standstill, wildlife has taken over urban spaces. Penguins run riot in a Cape Town housing estate, Coyotes roam the streets of San Fransisco. A Kangaroo hops around Adelaide and Venice canals have become so clean and peaceful jellyfish have been spotted swimming in the canals of the ancient city.
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  2020-04-22

  Earth Day April 22, 2020 during Covid

  An account of my Earth Day
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  2020-04-22

  Communities of Indigenous Peoples of Yakutia Call on the Leadership of the Republic to Preserve Tribal Lands

  "Indigenous communities of the North of the Aldan region are concerned about the news that as a result of an auction initiated by the Ministry of Ecology, Nature Management and Forestry of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), forest cutting agreements with a total volume of 231,943 hectares of Angara and “Angara” logging enterprises and “ Wundlen 24 ”with a long-term lease for a period of 46 years." #IndigenousStories
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  04/22/2020

  Moments at Home

  This short video, created using the app One Second Everday (1SE), is a collection of photographs each day taken during the initial weeks of the stay at home order in Boston. The images demonstrate the ways that life shifted during this time. For example, many people spent more time than ever inside, took up baking bread or cooking more elaborate meals, and began to wear homemade masks anytime they would leave the house. *A short video, created using the app One Second Everday (1SE), is a collection of photographs
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  2020-04-22

  2020 April 22 - Yahoo News headlines

  Screenshot of Yahoo News headlines pertaining to the Covid19 outbreak.
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  2020-04-22

  Save the USPS, United States Postal Service

  The graphic illustration depicts the struggle of the US Postal system especially during the pandemic, they are loosing money significantly.
• 2020-04-22

  Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups

  This is an report form the CDC giving statistics of the rate in when Black and Brown people are disproportionately affected by COVID-19
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  2020-04-22

  Bringing Photography Back to My Life

  The image is of a white flowering tree in a family member's garden, that has a ray of light in the corner of the photo. This was taken during a social distancing visit with family, and in way made me realize that I would like to bring photography back into the forefront of my professional career and don't want to be stuck in an office all day.
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  2020-04-22

  Brass Band Plays Outside, New Orleans LA

  A brass band plays music in a fenced-off field during the COVID-19 stay-at-home order.
• 2020-04-22

  COVID-19: Jakarta extends PSBB through Ramadan

  News about Large Scale Social Restrictions in Jakarta
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  2020-04-22

  Continuing Student Learning at Home

  A letter from the Government of Yukon offering ideas, resources, and potential lessons for students and families to continue education during school closures. The letter offers numerous ideas for students of all ages, including on-line resources, and ways to incorporate learning into everyday activities such as cooking, gardening, and caring for siblings or elders in the home.
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  2020-04-22

  FLOW for Frontliners

  This is a video landscape about myself as a student community organizer using his platform to do his part to give back to those who give so much to us, the Frontliners. VART3030
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  2020-04-22

  Voicemail

  It talks about keeping you hands clean
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  2020-04-22

  Suffolk University Instagram April 22, 2020

  Suffolk University Interfaith Center online programming during pandemic
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  2020-04-22

  Chief of Penobscot Nation Offers Condolences for the Loss of Three Tribal Citizens

  “I understand the frustration; we are all feeling it, but it is important that we stay focused and continue to follow the community restrictions to protect the health and safety of our community, especially our most vulnerable elders and those with health issues. It is only through our own combined efforts that we will succeed in protecting our community. Although no one knows when this pandemic will end, we know it will end; and we are already making plans about what safety practices we will continue to follow when we lift the Tribal workplace and community restrictions.” #IndigenousStories
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  2020-04-22

  #REL101 #FLATTENTHECURVE #OURNEWNORMAL

  This is a picture of my self at work. During this pandemic, Starbucks, the company I work for, is requiring all employees wear face mask. We also have to take our temperature before our shift begins.
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  2020-04-22

  "The Hermit Herald" vol. 1 Issue 19

  50th earth day; hammer & Dance-early openings; Nursing homes; Treatment update; Happy Science bajou.
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  2020-04-22

  USPS note left in mailbox

  My apartment complex front office isn’t receiving packages anymore. USPS left this note in the mailbox and I went down to the post office the next day to receive my package (a book from B&N).
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  2020-04-22

  Michael "Cam" White

  A personal account
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  2020-04-22

  COVID-19 Air Quality Report by IQAir

  Worldwide shelter in place orders that were implemented in response to COVID-19 resulted in dramatic reductions in particulate pollution levels. *IQAir is the primary entity responsible for this resource. *Nathaniel G Skinner #HST643 @ ASU *This is a research report produced by IQAir, along with a website for tracking air quality.
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  2020-04-22

  A Letter from 4-year-old Hattie to her Great Aunt, New Orleans, LA

  A letter from 4-year-old Hattie Jane Parker of Josephine, Alabama, dictated to her mother, to her 73-year-old great aunt in New Orleans, LA. The letter reads: "I hope we can visit you soon. We can come visit you when the germ is gone. We are at the beach right now. We are having fun swimming and Dada got a new sticker book for me, We want to have fun with you but we can't until the germ is gone. 'Hi Shaun the Sheep!'"
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  2020-04-22

  Spotify Announces In-App Artist Fundraising Feature

  Artists can now raise money for themselves, their crew, or a charity directly through the Spotify app
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  2020-04-22

  Clorox as medicine meme

  Many shocked jokes, late night comedy skits, and more about Trumps remarks. Traditional role of the nations leader is to give advice about how to protect the entire country and to show that he cares about Americans. Instead, Trump suggested something deadly and showed he doesn’t care at all. This meme is particularly good because Clorox bleach is upside down as if attached to an iv and turned into an inhaler and pills. In the current pandemic, disinfectant products like Clorox or 409 can be hard to find. Public health agencies are scrambling to teach people not to use bleach or Lysol internally because some might try the President’s ideas. It’s dangerous and it never was a joke as we all know. The memes help us cope by laughing at the utter horror of covid19 deaths and the terrible federal response led by the president.
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  2020-04-22

  Readying for Invasion: How the rhetoric of “Invasive Species” prepares us to be on the defensive

  This is a picture of Japanese Wineberry, surrounded by Lesser Celadine, a European species of buttercup. Both species are introduced. Lately, I have been taking a lot of walks. Getting out of the home is a luxury, now more than ever. As I walk, I have been trying to better familiarize myself with the world around me. What does it consist of? What do I recognize, what don’t I? What are the flora and fauna I am surrounded by that I fail to give my attention? I have been using the Seek app by iNaturalist to gain a better grasp of these species. What has been most striking, for me are the number of “introduced” species that exist around me. My sister and I have been making pesto out of garlic mustard, an introduced species from Europe. Brought over to be a spice, garlic mustard knows no bounds; now that I have seen it once, I see it everywhere. But we don’t readily recognize many European plants as invasive. From the beloved honey bee, to the seemingly integral “earthworm,” to the iconic Kentucky bluegrass – these species have been naturalized – on our landscapes and in our minds. As Alfred Crosby has pointed out, the introduction of species is key to ecological imperialism. And yet, in popular consciousness, we are relatively comfortable with Europe’s legacy of plants and animals that populate our landscapes. It is currently species from Asia – the Emerald Ash Borer, the stinkbug, the spotted lanternfly – that are branded “invasive,” that are campaigned against, and remarked upon for the havoc they wreak to the environment – especially the European environment that exists within America – when the grapes and stone fruit are eaten by the lanternfly. What happens when the introduced European environment is challenged by the introduced Asian environment? And what are we doing by labeling certain species “invasive” while seeing others as natural, when none of them are native to the land? We are preparing to be on the defensive. We are articulating rhetoric that builds consciousness and prepare us to be readily distrustful of Asia, to see the region as generative of harmful things that threaten the United States. We don’t see invasive species so much as a result of trade, and interaction, but rather as an “invasion” – a takeover – a biotic war waged in flora and fauna. What shifts within us when we recognize our environments as patchworks? As the knitted together histories of migration, immigration, exoticization, xenophobia. When we look at introduced species as memories, do we value them more? Do we begin to see ourselves become medleys of time and space, situated in the histories of other people’s choices? This is not to advocate on the behalf of introduced species, because I understand they can be particularly damaging to the environment. Rather, I challenge the word choice, and the placement of blame. I argue that understanding our history, and perhaps the ethnobiotic routes of the past, present, and future trajectory of species will help us undo this nationalist rhetoric, that prepares us to be suspicious, prepares us to be on the defensive, prepares us to blame Asia, or specifically China, for a wrongdoing. Perhaps this will allow us to situate the blame of our current crisis on inequalities specific to the U.S., and to failures specific to the state.
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  2020-04-22

  Isolation Journal

  Picture of a journal. I designed the Isolation Journal to help people cope and process through their feelings.
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  2020-04-22

  Central Park

  While the pandemic seems to have stopped time for mankind in many ways, the trees bloom on schedule and nature goes about its daily business. My colleague Joe Lawton at Fordham University has been taking walks through Midtown and Central Park during the quarantine and photographing what he sees. These are some of his images of the park. Shortly after the city went on lockdown, a field hospital was set up in Central Park’s East Meadow. But the rest of the park remains largely empty, save for the occasional quirky character or New Yorker in need of an escape from their apartment.
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  2020-04-22

  Hong Kong: Street Portrait

  As a result of the pandemic, mask-wearing has become a norm in Hong Kong.
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  2020-04-22

  Copeland's of New Orleans Offers a Jazz Fest Food Lineup Without the Actual Festival, New Orleans, LA

  Copeland's of New Orleans keeps true to Jazz Fest time in New Orleans and offers a full Jazz Fest food lineup. The post offers a link to additional meal options. The restaurant offers 19% of proceeds to the Jazz Fest musicians.
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  2020-04-22

  Loch-Ness Sousaphone March

  This gentleman has been sighted a few times marching around Watertown, MA. He first passed my window on April 2nd and he returned on April 22nd. At first I thought that his sousaphone was decorated to be a dragon, but I later learned from a NBC Boston News story that it is a Loch Ness Monster. He plays songs like "When the Saints Go Marching In" and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." I was delighted to see him and told everyone I know about his one-man parade. It truly felt like something out of the TV show M*A*S*H.
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  2020-04-22

  If Disney Songs Were About Quarantine

  The comedy family known as the Holderness Family posted a video remaking Disney songs into songs about quarantine. Quarantine entertainment has varied but this is a creative outlet for families and it's entertaining for viewers. #NortheasternJOTPY
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  2020-04-22

  Hospital en la Selva Peruana Colapsa [REVIEW]

  Esto sucede en la selva del Perú exactamente en la ciudad de Iquitos (Región Loreto al nor oriente del Perú), que actualmente es la región que ocupa el tercer lugar en el registro de casos infectados; en el cual el principal Hospital de la región ha colapsado. Como se observa en la fotografía, los cuerpos se encuentran almacenado en la morgue del hospital y deben seguir el protocolo de manejo de cadaveres existente para pascientes de Covid19, estos deben ser embolsados herméticamente, luego desinfectados, y puestos en un ataud, para luego ser ser cremados o enterrados a la brevedad; pero lamentablemente no se puede cumplir con todo el proceso por el incremento de víctimas. En esta región se registrta 23 personas fallecidas con esta enfermedad y la atención de casos confirmados va en incremento, teniendo pendiente la confirmación de mas casos que se presumen no estan registrados y que siendo asintomaticos podrían estar contagiando a mas personas. Las camillas de la unidad de ciudados intensivos (UCI) estan al maximo de su capacidad de atención y se espera que las medidas tomadas por el gobierno como el : Aislamiento social obligatorio, toque de queda y medidas sanitarias de aislamineto puedan controlar la expanción que se ha originado en esta región; por lo cual se espera que la curva de crecimiento pueda disminuir y lograr mitigar el crecimiento de la enferemdad.
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  2020-04-22

  How One Military Base Is Handling COVID-19

  Article describes how one military base in Africa is handling the coronavirus