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2020-04-02
Due quarantine restrictions all the cafes have to be closed, only delivery and take away are allowed. This cafe is using a walkie-talkie to avoid unnecessary contact.
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2020-04-07
The article discusses changes that have been made to religious grieving ceremonies as a result of COVID. Various world religions have traditional services to honor their the dead. For example, Hindus have traditionally burned corpses on pyres near the Ganges river and Muslims have gathered to wash the bodies of their loved ones. However, due to government restrictions on social gatherings, these elaborate ceremonies are unable to continue normally, forcing people to temporarily suspend cultural practices and prioritize health safety.
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2020-04-01
A mask and gloves left lying on the pavement by an unknown person for unknown reasons.
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2020-04-01
A cafe-bus is “wearing” a mask
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2020
The cartoon shows Superman, a superhero, giving his cape to a nurse taking care of a COVID-19 patient. It means that nurses and doctors are the true heroes during these hard times because of how many lives they saved and are saving every single day.
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2020-03-25
This week was suppose to the highlight of the semester at Coastal Carolina filled with activities, food, giveaways, and more. Due to COVID-19, many seniors will not get the opportunity to participate in this week of fun ever again.
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2020-04-25
I’m a freshman at Arizona State University, which was a big jump since I started off my life in a small town in Ohio. But I was ready for an adventure.College just finally started to get good. I was making some really good friends, enjoying work on campus, and doing well in my studies. And then it hit. COVID-19 hit. My job closed down, my friends moved back home, and school went all online. I was distraught. How could I do this on my own? How will I mentally get through this? But my community built me up. Zoom classes turned into a Zoom get together‘s with my classmates and friends. My teachers were understanding and even more helpful during this time. My coworkers and I grew even stronger bonds through this. At the beginning of this worldwide pandemic I thought to myself “how will I manage”, but now I am here to say we have gotten through the bulk of it and it has not only made me a stronger person but a stronger friend and student. All in all, though I thought this would have been the worst thing that could ever happen I’m here to say I’m more confident my studies, I know I have amazing friends and mentors to back me up, and I know any day now things will go back to normal and we will all be grateful and cherish how lucky we are to have the things that we have and to attend a university as amazing as Arizona State. #REL101
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2020-04-24
During the COVID-19 pandemic, churches are being hit hard. They are facing a decrease in donations, making it difficult for them to stay afloat. This is due to their masses being cancelled or moved online. Congregations are beginning to make difficult decisions of whether or not to close their doors or cut the work of their staff. #REL101
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2020-04-07
It's a drawing of a horse with words (Sede in domo tua, lava manus) which I take to be "stay home, wash your hands" in Latin. There's a simple caduceus, the words "COVID 19," and a few other symbols.
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2020-04-25
Part political cartoon turned social justice post, this artwork has been reposted on social media forums to draw attention to the way in which class privilege shapes experience during the pandemic.
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2020-03-17
The article talks about how Iranian police are forced to break apart crowds of people who're forcing themselves into shrines which are normally used for prayers around the clock. It also states that COVID has affected mainly important festivals. The Article also talks about how Italy has opened private prayers and confessions. Europe and the US churches mosques and synagogues have been suspended for public celebration as well. It also talked about how 2/3rds of the confirmed cases of the virus inMalaysia can be linked back to an Islamic conference attended by about 16,000 people.
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2020-04-09
"The nation is growing increasingly nonreligious. Last year, the Pew Research Center reported that 26 percent of Americans now say they are not affiliated with any religious tradition, compared with 17 percent in 2009.
Many of those unaffiliated Americans still believe in God and incorporate spiritual practices into their lives. But the share of atheists has doubled, from 2 percent of Americans in 2009 to 4 percent in 2019. An additional 5 percent now call themselves agnostics, compared with 3 percent a decade earlier."
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2020-04-09
This article is about churches in Georgia, Texas, and New Mexico having to adapt the upcoming Easter services through livestreaming options. However, in some states Governors have determined that church is an “essential” service which would allow Easter services to go on. These churches would use social distancing in order to worship and to avoid the spread of the virus. Moreover, some smaller churches plan to carry services how they normally would without practicing social distancing.
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2020-04-06
This article is about church members who lined up on Palm Sunday for communion at a Calvary Church near Los Angeles. Ten people were allowed inside at a time, but by the end of the day the church had seen hundreds of memebers. While people were attending church, protesters were lined up in the parking lot of the church honking their horns becuase this church was not closed and members were disregarding Los Angeles "stay at home" order due to COVID-19.
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04/09/2020
On March 31st Texas governor Greg Abbott added religious worship to the state’s list of essential services. This order allows for in-person religious gathers after other local officials had already ordered religious gatherings to be live-streamed only. The governor’s order proceeds the news of the arrest of several religious leaders for holding services with hundreds to thousands of attendees.
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2020-03-22
writer and priest James Martin grapples with the "problem of suffering" during the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. He poses the question of why does God allow such suffering and tribulation to plauge the world. He comes to the conclusion that it is impossible to know and that the faithful must be able to keep their faith even when they don't understand the actions of their God.
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2020-04-02
The article describes one church community's response to COVID-19 and Gov. Ducey's proclamation to practice social distancing except in "essential activities." A spokesperson from the church community stated that they are not practicing social distancing and would continue to meet.
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2020-03-27
This article talks about Trump's towards the corona virus pandemic and how the denial of science and critical thinking amongst religious ultraconservatives is affecting the American repsonse to the covid 19 outbreak. The article talks about how religious ultraconservative people in America are in denial of the facts about the pandemic because they have a religious response towards the virus which in result causes a lack of concern amongst those groups of people.
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2020-04-03
In the article, it is discussing how a Muslim gathering increased the number of coronavirus cases in India. Many Indians, especially the Indian government, are angry because Muslims recently held a large gathering with people who came from abroad. From this situation, many Indians are seeing Muslims as individuals who are creating more problems in the country by attending these congregations carelessly and not following the government’s advice. Therefore, there has been an increase in Islamophobia due to this event, and the Indian government has even charged the Muslim clerics for not taking the coronavirus despite the government’s warning.
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2020-03-27
In this article it shows how an observance is affected for Catholics. Bishops around the nation are given special permission for parishioners to eat meat on Fridays during Lent. Their reasoning is that people have giving up so much already, i.e. gatherings, mass and other activities. In addition to social distancing food stores have sparse if not empty shelves in terms what is available for the special dietary rules for Lent. They want to ease the difficulties in finding food as well as making sure they are not endangering their health in order to fulfill their requirements for Lent.
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2020-04-24
I recently ordered a pair of shoes from the Keen shoe company. When they arrived, I opened the box to find four stylish face masks made by Keen. The card suggested I keep some for family members and give some to any health care workers I know. For me, this is an indication that face masks have gone mainstream-- they are now a branding opportunity, an opportunity to build customer loyalty. I've been using flimsy blue medical-style masks for the past couple of weeks. They are about to fall apart, so I appreciated Keen sending me sturdier masks. This was a pleasant surprise. I may be wearing these for months to come.
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2020-03-15
The parking lot at a large church sits empty, and volunteers explain to anyone who tries to enter that all services will be held online in order to decrease the risk of spreading COVID-19. Regular church attendees are currently having their sense of community challanged. This is because their relgious practice routines have been disrupted.
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2020-04-25
We are required to wear masks anytime we're out in public now, so I am sewing masks for my family. I'm cutting up t-shirts and old clothes, to create a mask that's special for them. This is my daughter Laura ("My Little Pony") and her husband Andrew ("Deadpool")
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2020-03-29
Many state governments are being pressured by health professionals to set restrictions on religous gatherings. However, some state governments feel like they do not have the authority to set restrictions on religous practices, while others are limiting the amount of people per gathering, or even banning it completely.
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2020-04-25
Isolation in Russia
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2020-04-02
Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton issued guidance for houses of worship and religious services. In the state of Texas, churches and other houses of worship are classified as essential services. The guidance document states that institutions can provide these essential services under certain conditions. The governor is directing religious activities to be practiced at home or through audio or video services. If they cannot conduct activities remotely, houses of worship should follow White House and CDC guidelines for social distancing, personal hygiene, and sanitizing public surfaces.
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2020-04-05
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.
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2020-03-26
This article is about a Muslim and Jewish paramedic who work together in Jerusalem, a land of so much conflict. Despite general tension between the two religious groups, both men find time during the day to pray together, in their own ways. The picture of the paramedics is powerful because it shows how both men have faith in God, respect for each other, and the desire to be of service to their community.
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2020-04-14
The article describes how the COVID-19 virus is being used to promote Islamophobia. The COVID-19 virus is being used by political groups to promote Islamophobia. For example, in India the BJP named the COVID-19 virus “corona jihad” and blame Muslims for spreading the virus. Multiple media outlets have presented Islamophobic ideas that Muslims are responsible for the COVID-19 virus.
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2020-04-01
This article explains how Vatican City is being affected by COVID-19 (with the first few cases of COVID-19 having been reported just as the article was written). The article then further explains how the Catholic Church in Mexico specifically has responded to COVID-19, and the extent of the church shutdowns.
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2020-04-15
This article explains how three Kentucky citizens are accusing Governor Andy Beshear and other government officials of violating their religious freedom. The three plaintiffs attended Easter church and were issued quarantine notices on their cars that instructed them to quarantine themselves at home for at least 14 days. They claim that because they practiced social distancing at the church, they have no need to quarantine themselves and are refusing to do so. They are filing a class action lawsuit to fight this order and to ensure their religious freedom in the future.
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2020-02-17
The image illustrates the extreme measures the world has become to take to isolate the virus, and quarantine those infected. In this photo, one can see two people at the home of a resident checking her temperature to determine whether or not she may have contracted Coivd-19. You can see on the female's face that she is terrified of those at her door, and even more terrified of the results of her exam. #REL101
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2020-04-13
Three Southern California churches filed a law suit against California Governor Gavin Newsom and other government officials’ due to the stay-at home order. The churches are “arguing that social distancing orders violate the 1st Amendment right to freedom of religion and assembly”. Church officials state that they can practice the same social distancing manners that occur in grocery stores and other outlets. The article also mentions that similar lawsuits are occurring across the nation.
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2020-04-11
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2020-04-25
I recently had the chance to observe a Catholic prayer group, done remotely due to COVID-19. The meeting lasted about an hour. The group was made mostly of women and they performed the rosary, as a devotion to Mary. After this was complete the women went into discussion.
What I found was that many of these women were struggling due to recent events. Unemployment, anxiety, and sickness were all cited as problems for them. They asked each other to pray for them. This sort of group therapy, creates a sense of security, belonging, and hope. Many expressed how important the meeting was to them, as they needed an outlet to express their fears. The talk therapy, coupled with the ritual of rosary, helped these women during a difficult time. It is a testament to how many religious people may cling to their faith in times of distress.
Karl Marx famously called religion “the opium of the people”. This experience showed me that in a way this is true; it did place these women at ease with their situation. Marx expressed this in a negative light, but what I saw was a necessary attempt to seek out community amidst an ordered isolation. To these women, it seems not an opium but rather a medicine for mental and spiritual well-being. #REL101
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2020-04-25
My heart was broken right before the quarantine begun.
During this time I didn’t actually care about the virus. I was empty, devastated, alone, feeling miserable, feeling guilty, coz it was my fault. I was soo in love. I v never had this feelings before in my life. I felt like I was in heaven, I couldn’t believe that somebody could love me also. And because of that I fucked everything. The thing is that during the quarantine you can’t go anywhere or see much people, or meet new people for heeling yourself.
This is one the hardest times I had so far.
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2020-03-18
A sign on the door of the 540 Club, a dive bar in the Inner Richmond district of San Francisco. This picture was taken the day after the city issued its stay at home order. Many businesses throughout the city put up signs thanking their customers and hoping they come back when the pandemic was over, but this one really captured the spirit of the time (and of the bar!).
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2020-03-29
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2020-04-14
This article discusses the continuation of the First Amendment "even in times of emergency". As a small Baptist church in Mississippi was supposedly penalized for continuing to hold drive-in church services, the Justice Department confirmed its support in the church's lawsuit against the city of Greenville, and showed their approval and understanding of their new drive-in services. The main argument and point of support they touched on was the fact that even as times are changing and the world around is chaotic, people are still given their religious freedom and their right to defend it.
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2020-04-25
WIRED Magazine managed to get a print copy out this month with actual current Coronavirus related coverage. It was written and compiled while they were socially isolated and was achieved by replacing the first section of the existing next month's issue as well as the cover with new Coronavirus related coverage. The cover is extremely rough quality and has a look of having been created on the fly under difficult circumstances
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2020-04-22
Picture of a journal. I designed the Isolation Journal to help people cope and process through their feelings.
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2020-04-04
I slid my finger across the volume bar. The opening notes of Lauv's Invisible Things tumbled out thick and fast like cordial as I snapped my headphones into place. Little did I know that this would be one of the last trips I'd make to the hospital for a while. 'It's the invisible things that I, that I love the most. It's the way that I feel when I, when I hold you close,' crooned the singer. In less than a fortnight, those lyrics would take on a much greater meaning. Life as we knew it had begun to change already.
As a student cohort, we were 2 months into our research projects; many of us had settled quite comfortably into the pace of academic life with new papers to read, and theoretical concepts to imbibe, distill, and analyse. Time was not slowing down for us final year graduates, and the turning of the leaves would signal our foray into applying for internships. Already, the year felt different from previous ones because we had swapped the bedside for the bench. Patient-contact varied between the different projects we were assigned; and I found myself wondering if all my clinical skills were going down the drain, purely from lack of practice. That was until our country became a growing red dot on the map of a global pandemic, and the distance became a privilege I would dread.
They say it takes six degrees of separation to bring two people together. In a perverse kind of way, the transmission of COVID-19 from bat to human host seemed to materialise out of thin air from a perfectly-aligned set of circumstances. An innocent inoculation became the repository of ill-fate. And the rest is history. Over the next few days, I watched in horror as news stories and press releases about the virus accreted in alarming magnitude and frequency. No one talked about anything else. I realised I wasn't the only one feeling lost in all this. In a manner stereotypical of this generation of selfie-takers, I found myself grappling with the consequences that this virus had on my own worldview. What did it mean that gyms and restaurants were closing? Where would I go if not to the hospital? How did toilet paper become the one paragon of stability and control within this society?
Those initial days felt like I was living in a dystopian reality. Time slipped away like a melting clock, as routines were stripped bare and streets became eerily empty. I was frightened and naive because life had never been so limited before. Everything became swiftly condensed into a four square metre box with only the Internet for company.
Admittedly I was slow to realise the significance of the curve until I read about the sacrifices. Then I understood, quite distinctly, that staying home would make a difference to those who did not have the luxury or choice. I read about an intern struggling to adjust to an ever-changing landscape, an emergency doctor segregated from his wife and family to work endlessly gruelling shifts. An anaesthesiologist intubating COVID-positive patients and making invisible risks: each breath carrying with it some chance of aerosolized virus, each step forward more opportunistic than the next. In a profession so grounded in the practice of human touch and connectedness, medicine had become a minefield of inconceivable threats.
Inside and outside the hospital, we were all fighting our own battles. Some people talked about skin hunger, and I instinctively felt it too. I missed the seconds before a hug when the anticipation was as sweet as the resolution. I missed feeling like a moving part in a well-oiled machine. It seemed almost cruel that in times like this, physical closeness could do more harm than good. I dared not even imagine a patient's desolation behind a ventilator. Or a doctor's despair at facing limited supplies. The truth was, the safety afforded by my age and clinical inexperience meant that I was shielded from the worst outcomes. Meanwhile, those at the hospital seemed to conduct their duties with ineffable courage and grit.
Over the next few weeks, messages flooded in which helped to bridge the physical distance. In the invisible space once occupied by warmth and companionship, I began to witness the resurgence of a greater empathy. Paradoxically, our isolation drew us closer to the realities we would be fighting for. Our friends, our family, the wider community; their wellbeing. We were tasked with the responsibility of looking out for each other beyond the clinical setting. Reaching out took on a different meaning, but an important one nonetheless. It was a strange and beautiful experience to be bound by this common humanity. Like many others, I hoped that one day soon, we would look back on this time with a certain fondness for the connections we sustained and cherished.
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2020-04-19
Social distancing has meant families have celebrated Easter separately. Grandparents have felt the effects of isolation. FaceTime with their grandchildren put a smile on their face. Although Maria & George Tsagouris didn’t crack their eggs with their grandchildren they could exchanged Easter greetings-“Christos Anesti’
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2020-04-24
It communicates the Victorian government ‘s regulations on remote learning. Schools have transitioned to remote learning.
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2020-04-01
Children can go to school and child care but can’t play on public play equipment. This makes me think about the all the energy small children are having to contain when confined to their homes.
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2020-04-01
The Astor Cinema, an Arthouse cinema, has put up 12 Monkeys posters in its poster windows at the entrance of the cinema. A tongue-in-cheek reflection on our times.
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2020-04-25
With the cancellation of mass gatherings including music concerts, street posters about music concerts suddenly stopped appearing. The poster in this location before these demonstrated exact how far you need to stand to be 1.5 metres apart. Now an ad for making your will. Death is on people’s minds and I believe there has been a rush on people updating their wills.
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2020-04-25
‘Keep smiling’ painted on paling fence. Painted for the local community by the local community.
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2020-04-25
Just before Easter our Coles reorganised itself. It closed the entrance via the arcade and made one door and entrance and the other an exit. There are signs on the wall instructing people to stand a supermarket trolley apart. People mostly do this (not like at the Aldi that I also passed today!). Someone stands at the exit door counting the people leaving and they let the person at the entrance know how many people to allow in. The only time there’s been a queue has been the Easter weekend and this Anzac Day weekend. Strangely the smaller Woolworths across the road has no queue.
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04/25/2020
An example of an affirming message created by and for the local community.
