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2020-04-09
This article by Brooks says, how during the coronavirus is great time to make arts and crafts. In time religion have always encouraged the pursuit of happiness and well being along with science books. Brooks tells that in three equations is a formula to help oneself to contrast their life into an art form. Then magnify what we draw from the activity to help us see and think from a subjective view. This activity worth thinking about during the bad times we are all going through (Brooks,2020).
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2020-04-07
This article addresses some of the issues faced by various religious communities across the United States of America in the wake of restrictions due to COVID-19. It mentions some ways in which organizations are adapting services to comply with social distancing restrictions, and it provides more examples of organizations that have actively opposed these restrictions. It also incorporates the thoughts about compliance versus noncompliance from others across different religious traditions. The article points out that, for many of the religious traditions addressed, the measures being taken in response to the pandemic, such as social distancing, are in line with the central principles of their beliefs. The article closes by addressing some of the issues that communities face in their attempts to adapt services to these restrictions.
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2020-04-13
This article explains that a pastor from Virginia named Gerald Glenn still held in-person services at his church. The governor of the state ordered that all non-essential businesses and gatherings of more than 10 people are prohibited. However, the pastor continued with his in-person services. According to him, his God and preachings needed to continue because they're bigger than the virus. On Saturday, April 11, the pastor passed away due to coronavirus. His wife also tested positive with COVID 19.
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2020-04-07
News report about nightly howling in Colorado
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2020-04-24
Image of two young people sitting on a park bench, one smirking at the camera and the other sprawled across their friend's lap, legs in the air.
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2020-04-25
COVID-19 has forced widespread closure of one of the most bedrock American institutions: school. Three words on the marquee outside Eastern Senior High School in Washington, DC, capture the uncertainty facing children, teachers, and broader communities.
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2020-04-21
As a result of the pandemic, mask-wearing has become a norm in Hong Kong.
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2020-04-25
YouTube parody of "Just a Spoonful of Sugar" based on President Trump's suggestion that household disinfectants could be used to treat COVID-19.
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2020-04-26
Gennady Khodov provides reflections on the quarantine in their home
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2020-04-26
Gennady Khodov provides his reflections on quarantine
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2020-04-26
I want to tell you about my expiriense of covid-19 isolation.
I'm a little man, 26 age, programmer, introvert, therefore, I endure isolation almost painlessly.
At my student times I sat at home during weeks which served as a good preparation for the present situation.
I almost don't suffer from a lack of live communication, becouse I have a lot of friends at web, and we can call to eachouthers every day and spend our time by playing computer games.
But anyway I have one big problem via covid-19. It is a bigest procrastination.
I want to change my job, and thereby need learn a lot of materials, but all this decadent atmosphere making me lost my time and procrastinating.
This is horrible. Looks like this pandemic situation indulges to my lazy demons, becouse all people don't do nothing, therefore, I do the same.
>_< . Or maybe I justify my laziness in this way.
Any way, I know, that all this problems end, and life will return to it's course again.
This pandemic don't scared me, but I learned that I must be ready to meet face to face situations, which I can’t influence in any way.
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2020-04-26
Описал за 20 минут мои ощущения об эпидемии и разместил их в архиве для будущего поколения.
Такое маленькое поле для описание столь глобальной проблемы, как CORVID19-20. Пишу данный текст на русском, ибо нехватка знаний английского. Прочитавшие это славяни из будущего будут приятно удивлены.
Мне 26 лет, без трёх дней 27. На моём веку происходило разное, сейчас же глобальная эпидемия. Попробую описать её влияние на меня. В связи с опасностью для здоровья мир вынужден сидеть на самоизоляции, делать покупки онлайн, кушать ресторанные блюда из коробочек и сушить свои руки спиртовыми антисептикаи. Последнее очень сушит кожу рук, так что кокосовое масло стоит на прикроватной тумбе, ещё томик Антона Чехова скрашивая мысли о великом иронией и колким словцом.
Моя самоизоляция проходит за городом в кругу родных, благо у нас большой дом и пересекаться постоянно нет надобности. В это время я прочувствовал свою интровертность ещё лучше, мне хорошо одному, как бы современные учёные не говорили о важности коммуникации. Я человек своего времени, постоянное общение онлайн и тонны информации не дают мне оставаться наедине с собой. Отличное время: я учусь не спешить, работаю над самодисциплиной, много читаю (Чехова в частности). Время когда всё остановилось, когда у людей появились новые возможности, но и новые проблемы и чего больше пока не ясно. Территориально я в Украине, город Днепр. Небольшой город до миллиона жителе, с огромной еврейской общиной. Шаббат Шалом, ребята!) Кстати ведь можно провести параллель между этой традицией и происходящим сейчас, когда ты сидишь дома, ничего не делаешь и только молишься. Молитвами в данной ситуации думаю не поможешь.
Ситуация в моей стране не критичная, смертей не много, люди ещё не обозлены, государство принимает минимальные меры, которых я думаю должно хватить для прекращения и старта привычного ритма жизни. Вопрос, будет ли эта жизнь привычной? Неизвестно. Мы же существа легко адаптируемые, если открыты и готовы принимать настоящие каким оно является. Да, читаю немного философии, что собственно и влияет на такие вопросы и мыли. Кстати, рекомендую Кришнамурти - это для вас из будущего. Он будет актуален и при вашем времени. Буду ли я в нём, непонятно.
В целом ситуация не выбила меня из колеи, я её принял и стараюсь работать с ней, не скучать и унывать.
Вдруг, это кто-то прочтёт, хочу сказать что мы такие же как и вы в вашем сейчас. Те же люди, ведь мы не меняемся уже тысячи лет. На просто становится больше. Сейчас чуть больше семи миллиардов. Интересно, если вас там меньше. :)
В целом современный мир отлично справляется с эпидемией такого уровня, мы сильные и умные существа.
И такая злая мысль, пусть это будет естественный отбор, в мире, которому и без нас хорошо - стало лучше в этом спокойствие. Животные размножаются, природа восстанавливается. Так что из страшного, это невозможность сходить в бар с друзьями, если у вас есть такие.
Спасибо, если прочли. Обнял!
Всем любви и улыбок. Двигайтесь, не забывайте об этом.
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2020-04-26
Reading the news earlier this year, I came across information that people in China got coronavirus, and some even died because of it. When I read the news, I thought it would pass soon and thought the virus wouldn't reach our country. But I was too naive. After a while, the situation in the world was getting worse and the virus had gotten into many countries. At that time, I was beginning to realize that it was all very serious and that the virus was very dangerous to human civilization. In many countries, the authorities took strict measures to protect people from infection. In mid-March, a state of emergency was declared in Kazakhstan. People were in panic. Many people went to shops and bought a lot of food. I had the impression that the apocalypse was coming. But I was calm about the situation and did not buy a lot of groceries. Then I started monitoring the situation and reading the news about the coronavirus almost every day. There was a shortage of masks and antiseptics in our city and the prices of these things were very much up. People started to lose their jobs and I was afraid that I would lose my job too. I was working in another city, and I lived far away from work and in the city where my father and grandmother lived. And now I've been quarantined in many cities in our country.
I didn't know what to do when they quarantined me. I couldn't go to another city for my work. I got depressed. I was afraid I would be left without money and all my clothes and documents were left with my grandmother in another city. I couldn't get my stuff to my girlfriend's. My girlfriend is pregnant. And I was also afraid for her. She's about to have a baby, and I lost my income. At that moment I was even thinking about suicide. How can I provide for the girl, myself and the future child in this situation?) These thoughts have tormented and tormented me until now. I got another job, but they don't pay me much here. And this money will probably not be enough, and the baby will be born this summer. Cases of coronavirus are only growing and I understand that the quarantine will last a long time and I will not see my grandmother and father soon. But for now, I'm trying to stay strong and keep my spirits up. I hope for the best... But I don't know what's gonna happen next... Uncertainty is a little scary.
And I want to finish my small text with a quote from Arthur Schopenhauer: The world is definitely bad in every respect: it is aesthetically like a caricature, intellectually - like a madhouse, morally - like a fraudulent brothel, and in general - like prison.
(Translated the text with a translator. Thank you for reading it...)
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Как бы это удивительно ни звучало, но моя жизнь никогда не была столь разнообразной. Хотя первые несколько недель новости о изоляции и вирусе повергали меня в уныние, хотелось лежать, смотреть сериалы и унывать. Но потом я поняла, что это надолго и я трачу время, которое стоило бы тратить на развитие. Раньше я много путешествовала и работала, дома только ночевала. Моим любимым занятием был макияж и подбор наряда каждое утро. Теперь же я всего этого лишилась и постоянно хожу в пижаме. Идея собираться и сидеть так дома, якобы это помогает настроиться на рабочий лад, явно не для меня. Когда ко мне пришло понимание того, что моя жизнь это теперь вот так (последняя из стадий принятия неизбежного), я смогла начать работать, писать диплом с невиданной доселе концентрацией. Более того, в освободившееся время я наконец-то начала читать образовательную литературу, рисовать, ухаживать за телом. Словом всё то на что не хватало времени раньше. Вернула домашние тренировки. Сделала квартиру уютным домом. Много готовлю и у меня это начало получаться, хотя раньше - никогда.
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2020-04-26
The pandemic disconnected me and the person I got acquainted with just before the lockdown in Moscow, but I know the meeting was crucial for both of us and was the beginning of something great in the future. The disease is stealing the time and the chances we could use to finally change our lives. But the worst part is that I have no opportunity to contact him and simply tell to be careful and stay home. Whatever I did to reach him, whenever I sent emails or whoever asked to tell him the thing, I got nothing. All my messages were ignored or made fun of and sent to trash bins. Probably good intentions are never good enough to be heard? It’s feeling like a glass cage-in the internet and globalisation century you can’t provide a person with a care, at least it could change things for the better for him? I wish I was aware if he is okay because no one knows when the pandemic will end and no one can be sure he will survive until it does. There was no day I didn’t recalled our meeting, feels like it wasn’t 4 months but just few hours ago. I was so eager to meet him again and discuss so many things we both like, I’m sure we’re meant for each other and finally our paths crossed. Now all I pray for is not to see his death on the news one day. I know that probably he even doesn’t remember me already but I don’t care.
Imagine you cannot care of a beloved person and have no idea how he’s feeling and never do the same mistakes humanity is doing right now. If you’re the person who is able to help someone for good or have an ability to connect somebody, please, forget arrogance and disregard and help. Sometimes it’s not this difficult and doesn’t require too much effort from you, but could save life. Be kind.
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2020-04-26
I was prepared for this for all entire life. All the day playing videogames, and watching tv series. Stop complaining, you maggot!! The whole world have a vacation.
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2020-04-02
This is me and my friends watching a movie together via special website. Though we weren’t together physically, we still were there for each other and had fun.
*Me
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2020-04-26
*Wanted to share my experience with the whole world
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2020-04-26
I decided to help people in game dev find each other and help them collborate and make their projects together. I'm studying for websites making, so it will be good practice. Who knows, maybe even I finally will find help with my own gameved project on my own site
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2020-03-28
When a high teacher and university director begin working from the same week their elementary school children begin having school from home, it becomes clear the middle of the night is the best time to get work done.
*Original video, posted on Instagram Stories
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2020-04-12
My kids, being unable to attend the yearly Easter festivities and egg hunt at their church, hunt for eggs hidden as a scavenger hunt throughout their house. Their church's children's minister, wearing gloves and a mask, left a bag of stuffed eggs, toys for Easter baskets, Peeps and other things for families to use on the doorsteps of each of the families that were part of the church to make it easier for families to be able to celebrate the holiday with their kids at home.
*Personal video
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2020-04-01
On April 1, the UC schools announced their plan to accept pass/fail grades and AP scores from Spring 2020, as well as make the SAT/ACT optional for students applying to the UCs in Fall 2020. With many rumors still circulating, Bryan Jue of UCI Admissions made an informal video for Kathryn Jue's high school students explaining to them the updates.
*Original video shared on Instagram
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2020-03-23
Early into stay at home, Quarantine Challenges began circulating social media, with the push up challenge being especially popular. Users were encouraged to "do 10 and tag 10," meaning post yourself doing 10 push ups and tag 10 more people to continue the challenge.
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2020-04-14
Kathryn Jue and Ellen Galindo, both teachers, were planning to celebrate their high school students' acceptance and commitments to college. However, with schools closed, this could not happen in person. This captures the moment their student Tran submitted her SIR to UC Berkeley, with both her teachers, and her classmate Albert, online with her virtually to celebrate the moment.
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2020-04-03
In March, the College Board announced all AP exams would be at home, online, 45 minute tests. April 3, they released the details of each exam. Attempting to present the redesigned rubric in a way more engaging than just explaining the new rubric, Kathryn Jue made a Tik Tok explaining the changes for her 11th grade AP US History students.
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2020-04-13
The Chinese Embassy is allocating 500,000 "health kits" to overseas Chinese students. Each "health kit" contains 20 disposable medical masks, 2 KN95 masks, disinfection wipes, 2 Lianhua Qingwen Capsules, and a handbook. The capsule in the "health kits" is a Chinese medicine that has an inhibitory effect on respiratory infection and it works for infected persons with mild symptoms. The Chinese government provides epidemic prevention materials for overseas Chinese students to protect their health and safety.
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2020-04-25
I used to hate baths. The tub too shallow, the water lukewarm. But my husband fixed the hot water heater so I could immerse my body into steaming water, sweat out the impurities of fear and indecision, lethargy and tears for what has been lost. It's a new Ritual. Day 30 of coronavirus lockdown in Aurora, Colorado
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03/17/2020
I didn’t want to waste gloves that Health workers might need. We were all getting inventive about protective gear.
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2020-04-08
Everyone in the street invited to hang artworks about life in shutdown
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2020-04-12
In Young Street Annerley we started a Facebook group 'They Young Ones’ and shared garden edibles, books and art materials.
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2020-04-24
Print on paper, ink and oil pastel, created in my home studio during lockdown.
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2020-04-24
Print on paper, ink and oil pastel, created in my home studio during lockdown.
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2020-04-25
This meme is based on the level of boredom everyone is experiencing during quarantine. It is a lighted hearted form of humor that emphasizes the useless purchases we are all making.
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2020-04-25
This picture is a perfect depiction of the unnecessarily extreme measures some Americans are taking during grocery shopping, i.e. covering up abundantly, stocking up on toilet paper, etc. This humor is more targeted at making fun of the ignorance of some people.
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2020-04-26
This meme explores the interesting dynamic quarantine creates between extreme productivity and extreme laziness. There has been a mental healthy struggle to not drown oneself in trying to be productive with all of the extra time everyone has.
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2020-04-26
This image comedically explores how in North Korea there was a man who tested positive for Corona Virus and the leader of North Korea Ordered him to be shot and he was killed. This is a more detached form of humor because the post is American, but we truly only know what North Korea wants us to know about them.
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2020-04-26
This meme plays up the possibility of the COVID-19 pandemic lasting into the summer. It light-heartedly explores a way to still do a summer activity, like tanning. It highlights the human condition of still wanting to try regardless of circumstance. #VART3030
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2020-04-24
This meme connects to a very funny scene in the show 'The Office'. This meme is poking fun at the executive order that mandates groups of 5 people as the maximum number of people that can be together. Making a joke out of this order might illustrate the lack of severity Americans are viewing the pandemic with. #VART3030
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2020-04-06
Police and Military personnel guard the Travelodge Hotel in Surry Hills, NSW, Australia. At the start of the lockdown due to COVID19, travellers returning to Australia were subject to mandatory quarantine for 14 days and were assigned hotels. They were isolated in rooms and police and army personnel guarded the premises around the clock.
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2020-04-24
Everyone on Earth has more time than they have had or will ever have again. Luckily for many people, they have been able to do so much. I have not been doing as much as I should be doing. But, that might be ok. I might as well do some relaxing while I have the change, but I also need to keep working so I don't lose too much time. There is much to do and much time to do nothing as well.
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2020-04-25
During his news briefing on 23 April, President Trump suggested that injecting disinfectant or UV light into the body could cure coronavirus. This is just one of the many memes Making a mockery of his assertion. Which he has since attributed to sarcasm.
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2020-04-24
As COVID-19 began to spread rapidly, the film industry has had to make changes not only in production, but release dates. Many film productions have been suspended until further notice since March. There have also been some movies that have recently announced they will be going to Demand on release day. As of now, the film industry has stopped, with no tellings when production will pick back up.
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2020-04-25
Connecticut (where I'm from) has been one of the top states with most Coronavirus cases, however I think we are starting to see the bright side of the tunnel. My mom is a hospital nurse and although her hospital hasn't gotten the most cases, it is still not a place you want to be. However, she's told me that less and less people are coming in with the coronavirus which to me, shows that social distancing is really working for us and it is great to see people doing what they should be. Let's hope we can keep it up.
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2020-04-25
The meme is a can of Clorox as if it is drinkable soda. It is playing upon the recent conference President Trump had in which he said we could 'inject Clorox to prevent the virus'. This was so significant that Clorox came out with a statement addressing this, stating their product is not meant to be consumed or put in the human body at all. The type of humor present in this meme is very satirical. It brings to light the humorous and unfortunate reality of our ignorant President.
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2020-04-18
This portrait of my son was the first time I have painted since my child was born. Although our household is busier than ever, I was inspired by my son’s love of art. We will look back on our time together at home as a special time.
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2020-04-22
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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2020-04-25
My partner and I bought these masks off Etsy and accessorized them from our own collection. Kids especially love my partner's mask and yell "Pitbull! Pitbull!" when they see him. He makes claws with his hands and goes "GRRRRRRR!" and he always gets a giggle. We lose so much communication without being able to smile at one another. These masks are fun and invite a little social interaction (at a safe distance of course)
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2020-04-25
My friend gave me the scarf patterned with roses and skulls About 15 years ago when I was 25 and lived in Chicago. Today I put it on thinking so much of her because we are both 40 now and I just read today that people our age are experiencing strokes after having mild or asymptomatic cases, and a scarf with skulls seems like an appropriate “mask”. I also put it on because I was about to take a walk around the block and masking up in Wisconsin, where I live, feels a little extreme because I often don’t encounter anyone else while walking, and if I do, I’m able to get well away from them. Still it’s nice to have a scarf at least something to dip my face and when I feel vulnerable. Even if I know it doesn’t really work scientifically it helps to have a gesture
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2020-04-25
As the strict quarantine in Madrid extends to its 40th day, many residents are looking for cures or other possible fixes so that they may return to their normal life. Conspiracy theories are particularly rife, and 5g has been a popular target. After the destruction of cell towers in the U.K., it remains to be seen if that kind of action will immigrate to Spain as well.
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2020-04-25
Since the quarantine was declared in California, the local branch of Wells Fargo that I use has been filling up their windows with more signs and announcements. With each new development or health recommendation, a new sign went up. It has reached the point where you cannot look through the doors anymore because of the number of postings.
