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2020-03-26
I was diagnosed with Coronavirus a little over two weeks later but I had just started to feel the symptoms. My wife swears that everyone she has seen (herself, me and people on television) have these very distinctive puffy Coronavirus eyes. It is May 3, 2020 and I have finally tested negative and my eyes are no longer swollen. I think she may be on to something. #HST643
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2020-04-04
Orlando testing site closed fast again! while sitting in it. 250 tests a day with restrictions to qualify for testing in April is not acceptable from our country in my opinion. #HST643
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2020-04-04
You still need to have a fever and be in a high risk group to get in a huge line for the potential to get one of the 250 tests available daily for all of Central Florida. #HST643
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2020-04-03
The drive up testing site is finally open to those under the age of 65 with a fever and symptoms. My wife and I will try for a week to get tested because there are only 250 tests per day and thousands of cars lined up by hours before they open. #HST643
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2020-03-21
After two full days of traversing the world from Marrakech to two London airports, to JFK airport New York, to Orlando, we found this wonderful surprise in our car when our daughter dropped it off for us, so we could get to our Timeshare without possibility infecting anyone from our family.
*Scott Mentel #HST643 & wife Tammy Mentel
*iPhone photo
*Scott Mentel #HST643
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2020-05-03
Life has changed so much in such little time. The things people used to do on a daily basis has been shaken up dramatically. The stay at home rules were put into effect almost two months ago. I have not been able to see my friends or certain family members even though I am finally back home. I have been trying to get out as much as I can whether that be running by the beach or just going out and exploring nature. It has been really difficult for me dealing with all this, but I have been trying to fill my time being outside. I do not take the beautiful area that I live in for granted anymore. The other day I went to the river by myself, which I hardly ever do, and just sat and enjoyed the sun reaching down on my body. It was quite peaceful and since I am taking a full course load, very relaxing. We now have to wear masks when entering “essential” businesses in our state, California. I was yelled at by a gas station worker the morning it was put into effect because I was not wearing a mask. I was mad at first but then I realized this poor man was just trying to do his job. I tried to reason with the man saying no one else was here and that I had literally seen him the day before when I got some snacks. He ended up kicking me out and I did not get the bottle of water I needed. People have changed a lot too. They are more fearful of each other than they were before. I realize this everyday as I go on walks with my mother. For every person that would smile at us, two others would stray away fearful that our breath may contaminate them. For me and my peers, this is the first time we have ever seen mass-hysteria. I was talking to this with my father about how fear can lead people to do drastic things. That is what is scary to me. What happens when people begin to steal because they can no longer work the jobs they had and provide for themselves and their families? What happens when people begin to riot because they no longer feel able to endure not having a steady stream of income? What will the world look like after all this is over?
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2020-03-21
Videos and pictures were automatically shared in my photo library via the Whats App group “Stuck in Morocco.” I wish I knew the source of the social media commercial as it states in 4 weeks they have “eradicated” the virus and I do not believe that is true for any country. But it also showcases the extreme measures other countries went to in an effort to protect their citizens. We have been in five states towards our journey home to New Jersey for the past six weeks in America and witnessed very little universal and national measures of safety truly being followed.
*Scott Mentel #HST643
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2020-03-20
This article contains a political cartoon drawing stating that "We Can Do it!" The political cartoon reminded me of past political images I have seen in the past. It communicates that we can all unite to wash our hands and get rid of COVID-19. Julian Lapidus, CSUS, HIST15H
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2020-03-20
Excited our flight out of Morocco to London was really leaving. We missed video taping the cheers when it landed. The flight was packed and we still did not have an onward flight home, but with London not closing down like Morocco, we knew we would have more options. We did finally make it home to Orlando via JFK and the joy was short lived because the virus crisis in America was clearly not being taken seriously and 9 days after we left Morocco we had Coronavirus. Although we could not get tested for another two weeks because America had no tests. #HST643 Scott________ & wife Tammy ________
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2020-04-30
A song about social distancing
*Lil Baby Official 4PF
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2020-04-17
From Facebook: "Join for a discussion about Arizona's LGBTQ Community reponse to being quarantined. Special Guest will be Equality Arizona, RipplePHX, Social Distancing Hotline, Virtual Arizona Pride, and PHX Gayborhood Pride. Hosted by the Arizona LGBT+ History Project"
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2020-03-20
Thankfully due to an American outcry for help because the first flights were announced so last minute, the US Embassy arranged for another flight out of Morocco on March 22, 2020 Morocco ACSCasablanca@state.gov #HST643
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2020-04-21
This is one of the first shows that comes out in wake of stay at home order imposed by the government. This shows just how long the United States has been at a standstill because now TV shows that depict a celebrity at home, avoiding Covid-19 but still needing to make money so they had no choice but to do it from home.
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2020-03-20
Repatriation flights from other countries had to fly one of 11 airports in our nation. Cities now with some of the highest outbreaks of Coronavirus. Coincidence??? US Embassy Rabat and screenshot from my wife via the Facebook group
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2020-03-20
This is a screen shot of the email sent to stranded Americans in Morocco who registered with STEP when traveling, letting us know there would be several flights chartered out of Marrakech Morocco only. A signed waiver to repay the $1475 cost of the flight was required. This was the first correspondence Americans received since the shut down of Morocco and many were too far away to get to these flights. Many were in Rabat waiting hours to get into the Embassy only to be turned away. With public transportation limited and Americans dispersed all over Morocco, these chartered flights left at 25% capacity to London while many other countries opened their repatriation flights to everyone into, the US flights were not full, with people from other countries waiting and went to London first. Not only did they fail to help their own citizens in a timely and acceptable manner, they selfishly refused to help anyone else. Embarrassed to call ourselves American during a pandemic impacting all nations and people’s. Scott Mentel & wife Tammy Mentel #HST643
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2020-03-19
A screen shot of f this tweet to share with others in my What’s App group “Stranded in Morocco.” My wife and I were able to book this flight for a reasonable price. Might I note we were out in the Sahara Desert without service or news when the country shut down and after desperately trying to get help from our Embassy, with no success, we turned to the British Embassy for help and support. Original iPhone screenshot from Twitter. #HST643
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2020-03-20
Getting close to check-in time for our Ryanair repatriation flight to London from the Marrakech Airport in Morocco. Repatriation flights for England, Turkey, Germany, France and the Netherlands were taking off all week thanks to arrangements made by their governments. The United States finally replied to their citizens announcing there would be a few flights out on March 20, 2020 at a repayment cost of $1475 a person. This announcement was made at 12:01am on March 20, 2020, not allowing enough time for all Americans to get to Marrakech and flights were leaving at 25% occupancy. We worked with the U.K. Embassy and were able to get on a fully packed repatriation flight to London and then onto Orlando via JFK Airport in New York for a total of $925. So disappointed to be an American during this time. We had been traveling the world since late December and got caught up in the Coronavirus pandemic trying to out-run it. Only to have it finally catch up to us in Morocco. Original iPhone video. #HST643
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2020-03-20
This is a video my wife Tammy took from the Marrakech airport approximately 8 hours before we were to board a flight on Ryan Air to London and then onto Orlando, Florida as a repatriation flight negotiated by the United Kingdom after Morocco abruptly shut down all flights in and out of Morocco. It was a surprisingly happy place but also a potential hotbed for the spread of the virus. #HST643 Scott and wife Tammy Mentel, iPhone video
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2020-03-03
I set up a Zoom call for my 3rd grade son and his friends. This picture shows that no matter what, boys will still be boys. They had their nerf guns, made faces at each other, and were as silly as usual. Yes, this is hard, but boys will still be goofy and crazy.
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2020-05-03
Finding hope in the midst of a pandemic.
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2020-04-20
I love this image because it represents an event that never would have occurred had we not all been home together. My husband was on a conference call with the doors to his office shut. While on the call, my son built a wall in front of the door. My husband literally had no idea it was happening. Shows that during all of this craziness we can still have some great laughs!
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2020-04-16
I took this picture because it demonstrates a new reality alongside the old. Masks hung up to be taken when we go out, next to the backpacks that haven't been touched since school was canceled.
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2020-05-03
This is a short record of the changes in my life that took place due to the pandemic.
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2020-05-03
Letter for COVID-19 brides
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2020-04-01
This image shows how thousands of employees at Gap INC were furloughed due to the closing of all stores. Many of my coworkers have families to pay for and are now on unemployment. A screenshot of the general manager at my work informing us that we have all been furloughed. cshsecon
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2020-05-02
Attached you will find my admission letter to the School of Nursing and Health Professions at the University of San Francisco. Upon writing this entry, I have been admitted and secured my spot at the institution. I was admitted approximately one month ago, during the crisis itself. This photo of my admission letter is beyond meaningful to me even more so because of the circumstances we all are now facing. My passion for nursing has always been the driving force for how I conduct my school efforts. Despite my extensive family size, I actually am one of the first to enter the medical profession. I was inspired to enter into this field in high school when I shadowed a fellow family friend. I visited her at the Mercy San Juan Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and immediately was drawn to this unit. From that day, I never could consider any other field of study. I am in continuous awe of those on the frontlines, especially nurses and doctors. Upon admission to nursing school, typically clinicals would be a part of one’s first-semester curriculum. Due to the pandemic, my clinicals have actually been pushed back an additional semester. With nursing school especially, and the current incoming cohorts curriculum has drastically shifted. I point this out because no matter how big or small, in some way each of our lives has been changed by this event. At this point, I'm unaware if even my first semester will be held on campus. There is a rather high chance I will be online for my first semester of nursing school. All of our lives right now are for lack of a better word “tentative”, who knows how things will change or when things will resolve to normalcy. #CSUS #HIST15H
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2020-05-01
This music video of the song “6 Feet Apart” from Luke Combs serves as a message for gratitude during the pandemic crisis. With our constantly busy lives, we often take certain things like family time or going to a restaurant for granted. In times like this, we are reminded that all the little things are privileges and we should cherish them the most.
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2020-05-01
At this point in isolation, my Twitter feed is flooded with images such as this. This point evokes a great deal of emotion for I assume all that comes across it. I have the utmost respect for medical professionals. I myself have recently been accepted into the University of San Francisco Nursing Program. Being accepted during a time of great uncertainty has led me to an even greater appreciation for all those that serve on the frontlines, not just medical professionals. We are all affected in some manner during this pandemic; however, it is how we respond that will affect the outcome. Working together, maintaining a positive attitude, following instructions, and faith is what will get us through this disheartening time. Although this image is a piece of art, the message still rains truer than ever. Nurses and doctors are giving of their own time, safety, and placing their lives at greater risk for contracting the CoronaVirus as well as any other ailments, infections, diseases, etc. Men and women are left with bruising, scratches, and other facial discomforts as a result of having to wear PPE for extensive duration periods. Not only the physical discomfort but these individuals have endured emotional and mental difficulties as well. This photo saddens me as well as frustrates me. I continuously pray that people follow as the photo illustrates, “Stay at home for us” for the sake of these selfless people. For those who are not taking this issue seriously, I pray for them as well and that they might be awoken to the true reality of the world as it is right now. #CSUS #HIST15H
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2020-04-23
• This tweet is from Pope Francis on April 23, 2020. His message sums up the importance of unity in our world during critical times like this. In the midst of a pandemic, we need to be reminded that all lives matter, despite our differences. We must come together as one and help each other.
#CSUS
#HIST15H
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2020-05-03
Routines during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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2020-05-03
#CSUS
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2020-04-20
People are frustrated with those who will not take the pandemic seriously or refuse to follow safety guidelines. Most want to make sure the numbers match the decision to reopen America. However, many believe us to be opening too soon and fear a rebound in cases and ultimately an increase in deaths.
Full text of post included here: So - this is the least stupid picture I can find to illustrate what I think is about to happen. This process is called a lot of things, and often, in this context, it is called "will power fatigue."
Focused, intentional action for primates is often a short-lived thing. It is very costly in terms of overall energy expenditure and - evolutionarily speaking - we MOST often can get through MOST threats in just a few minutes (oh fuck its a tiger) to a few weeks (oh fuck its tiger season).
Occasionally the thing we need to have intentional action to defeat has a much longer half-life than our own personal or community will. Human will is less matter of strength of character or any other such waspy bootstrappy Enlightenment nonsense: It is more a matter of biology and statistics. Intentionality is energetically expensive. Habit is cheap as fuck.
We can usually only easily do really hard, non-intuitive things for 3 - 6 weeks at the very mostest.
And then our pre-frontal cortex (=PFC=the thinky smartypants part of our brain) just says, well, there you go! Gave it our best shot. Did what we could. Cheerio! Back to tea and biscuits.
This part of our brain is simply not designed for the protracted, complex cognitive and social labor required for things like, say...a pandemic.
This is when even very determined people most often relapse after quitting whatever is really plesaurable (booze, porn, cat videos, twizzlers, playing tiddlywinks, or - er...being a social human).
This is when our determined career of trying to fix depression through yoga fizzles.
This is when you stop responding to your duolingo alerts about your Tagalog lessons.
This is when....social distancing falls apart.
Watch for it.
I suspect we will see our first resurgent C19 "wave" very soon as many of us lose our ardor for staying alive and for keeping everyone else alive by giving up the things that we love and that come instinctually to us. Like interacting with the rest of our primate troupe.
Giving up these things has taken a great deal of intentional will power.
And the system is becoming fatigued.
And yeah - it is not a surprise that the first surge of this behavior is from a bunch of white guys that have never had any practice managing their own selfish desires. (Take note - do not be like these numbskulls.)
And none of us are immune, but yes - looking more toward what we care about and noticing our increased desire to do what we want or crave (often connection)...this can help keep our intentional selves online long enough not to kill any more John Prines. The trick is to notice that it is really hard, And still do the right thing.
Please.
Stay the fuck home.
The main thing that keeps the PFC online and functioning - even when it is fatigued - is values. What we believe in. We can push the system a little if we decide to act on something other than what we WANT, but rather, what we think is MEANINGFUL.
The better we are at keeping that super smart, ethically-driven, complex-thinking, empathic, compassionate and thoughtful part of our mind on line despite stress and fatigue, the fewer people we kill.
STAY THE FUCK HOME.
These next few weeks are going to be way way way harder than the first few.
Stick with it.
Maximize your virtual interconnections, your exercise, good food, self care, help of others, sleep, reruns of Friends, whatever it takes...these self-kindnesses will all help the will power fatigue from eating your brain.
Stay. The. Fuck. Home.
#HST643
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*graph added as an illustration to a social mediapost
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2020-05-03
Poem about isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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2020-04-28
PUBLISHED TUE, APR 28 20202:45 PM CNBC.COM. Key Points • Vice President Mike Pence toured the Mayo Clinic without a mask despite that renowned medical facility requiring all visitors to wear masks to avoid potentially spreading the coronavirus. • Pence, who leads the White House’s coronavirus task force, when asked about going unmasked, said that he is regularly tested for the virus, and so far has been shown to be negative for it. • Donald Trump has said that he will not wear a mask, even as more than 1 million Americans have contracted the virus that causes Covid-19.
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2020-05-03
A plethora of graduation decorations I acquired in order to celebrate my husband's canceled college graduation from home. Being the first in his family to graduate from college deserved to be celebrated, even if in our own backyard.
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2020-05-03
This is the mask station we have created near the door. It has everything we need to streamline the process of PPE both leaving and coming back in the house. There is a bag with coffee filters to use as mask filters plus a pair of scissors to cut them and medical tape for the bridge of our noses ; my partner and I wear glasses and this prevents fogging. There are hangers for drying masks when they have been boiled and a reclaimed cell phone holder we call "The Mask-ed Man" that holds masks which are ready to be worn. We have already collected several different styles of mask from homemade to bought on Etsy to made by a large swimwear company to a scarf repurposed for emergencies. It still takes at least 5 minutes to get out the door now and 15 to come back in but this little station has made it a bit more convenient.
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2020-05-03
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2020-05-03
College student's experience during the COVID-19 pandemic
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2020-05-03
This is my makeshift mask making area. I can take credit for only about 10 of them but as of today the mask sewing group I am a part of has sewn 675 masks for people in 4 different states, for elder care facilities, homeless people and a juvenile psychiatric facility. The group is made up of members of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spartanburg. You can see pipe cleaners and floral wire for nose pieces and elastic for ear bands plus my ever present Mio energy drink to keep going! Our group trades material like fabric, wires and elastic as shortages of these items affect one member or another.
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2020-03-07
The image I displayed shows the sheer panic Covid-19 has caused nationwide. It shows the distress and precautions Americans are taking to make sure they are prepared for the situations the pandemic could cause.The image was originally by Tacoma News Tribune and expressed the seriousness of taking precautions before Covid-19 becomes a serious issueThe empty shelves in a grocery store caused by the panic of Covid-19.
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2020-05-03
This art piece “Revival of life once again” portrays dance moves of a life that we once had and took for granted before COVID-19. The girl in the center is dancing to the music as the music sways with the emotions of her body. There is a man on his knees playing the drums next to her and adding to the beats that the girl is dancing to. This painting also makes me hopeful of times
after the quarantine when we will all be able to dance to the music the way that the girl is moving and play instruments the way that the man is playing his drum set. The Ferris wheel in the background is also reminiscent of summer festivals and amusement parks. We all desire to go back to fun Ferris wheels in summer festivals and amusement parks. Festivals brought a sort of fun and liveliness in our lives represented by all the different colors.
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2020-04-12
This is part of a series exploring the role of language, typography and design in informing the general public.
#FordhamUniversity #VART3030 #SignSeries
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2020-04-12
This is part of a series exploring the role of language, typography and design in informing the general public.
#FordhamUniversity #VART3030 #SignSeries
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2020-04-13
This is part of a series exploring the role of language, typography and design in informing the general public.
#FordhamUniversity #VART3030 #SignSeries
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2020-04-19
This is part of a series exploring the role of language, typography and design in informing the general public.
#FordhamUniversity #VART3030 #SignSeries
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2020-04-12
This is part of a series exploring the role of language, typography and design in informing the general public.
#FordhamUniversity #VART3030 #SignSeries
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2020-04-08
#friendswhogive was started to teach my children that GIVING to others can be just as rewarding as receiving, especially at the Holiday time."- Denise Heckelman, Founder
#friendswhogive organized a "rainbow hunt" for kids. Families can post drawings of rainbows in their window and as children walk and bike ride around they can count how many rainbows they pass along the way.
#FordhamUniversity #VART3030 #RainbowSeries
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2020-04-24
#HST643
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2020-05-02
My husband and I visited Brookdale hoping to take our puppy to the dog park but it was still closed. The first day New Jersey reopened its public parks. Photograph taken by Andrew F. depicting Sakura (Instagram: @asavageheart).
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2020-04-02
Play School has been the leading early childhood education television program for over 50 years in Australia. This special episode communicates the changes happening, empathises with the children as well as telling them what they can do to help.
