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2020-03-24
Flinders Street Station in Melbourne city is one of the busiest train stations in the metro network. Normally at 7.45 on a week day morning it would be thronged with commuters, all heading off to work. This morning it was almost deserted. From today almost all workplaces, other than those deemed 'essential' are closed and most people who can are working from home. I work at the Old Treasury Building in the city. We are a heritage site and museum, now closed of course. But we are trying to document the urban environment during this extraordinary crisis, while being extremely careful of our own exposure to risk. From time to time we will share some of our photos and experiences. 24 March 2020, 7.45 AM
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2020-03-04
A commercial news website reports on the panic buying of toilet paper. URL for full article here: https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/single-toilet-paper-roll-sells-for-1000-as-coronavirus-panic-buying-reaches-new-level-c-729542
In Australia, supermarket shelves were stripped of many essential items once people understood how serious the pandemic was, but the one that became a national obsession was toilet paper. People were filling trolleys with packs of toilet paper as soon as they realised lockdowns might be ordered. Major supermarkets eventually instituted 2 packs per person limits. A black market emerged online. There were many many memes, videos, articles, as well as serious analysis of this phenomenon.
The irony is that toilet paper is in fact produced in Australia, so it was never going to run out.
So this was an opportunity for us to think about human irrationality and panic; local and global manufacturing (and ignorance of this); enjoy humour as a response... and so much more.
Also an opportunity to think about what people used before toilet paper was the norm - squares of newspaper, leaves etc!
Suddenly ads for bidets appeared in our newsfeeds as well!
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March 21, 2020
Story of a Stratford Ontario Brewery that switched to making hand sanitizer
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2020-03-24
Humorous recount
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2020-03-22
Press release from the Olympics committee in Canada saying they will not go to Tokyo Olympics
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2020-03-23
Utah leaders had condemned the mass gatherings at the airport
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2020-03-23
A sad headlines that is reflective of the desperation that people are feeling during these times. This makes me feel sad and also anxious for what other people may do.
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2020-03-23
Curator's note: the author did not provide the description
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2020-03-23
Article and video of Ontario Premier Doug Ford Shutting Ontario down for non-essential services
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2020-03-23
This is the email that confirms that faculty are non essential services during the pandemic. It assumes that all offices at the university will be closed past April, 2020.
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2020-03-23
Email to Scout leaders, Scouts and families
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2020-03-22
My family chatting via Zoom. We were all goofing around with the backgrounds and having a good time.
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2020-03-21
Ology Brewing Company in Tallahassee Florida made hand sanitizer with its distiller equipment to help in this time of sanitizer scarcity. They gave it free with any curbside pickup of beer.
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2020-03-22
3D Printing Face Sheilds
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2020-03-22
People are requested to avoid in-person social interaction. To connect with neighbors, kids painted rocks, hid them in the neighborhood, and posted clues about their whereabouts on social media.
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2020-03-23
Short text written by Justin Smith
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2020-03-22
Missionaries returned home as a result of the pandemic and were greeted by large amounts of family members despite dire warnings from the government to avoid spread of the disease.
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2020-03-20
This image is of an oxygen meter, which my son-in-law sent. Sequestered in Boston, this is a way that he can take care of us from afar while we are in Toledo, Ohio.
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03/21/2020.
Two men created a daily knitting podcast on YouTube
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03/22/2020.
A meme that makes fun of people who ignore COVID guidelines.
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03/20/2020
An image listing what items the store was out of.
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03/23/2020
I was scrolling through news stories when this suddenly popped up. The US now has the third most coronavirus infections behind Italy and China. Most of the infections in the US have came from New York.
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03/23/2020
Covid-19 is rampant as evident by the transmission of the disease to people who are prominent or well connected
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03/20/2020
Companies are doing their best to keep up cash flow even amidst a pandemic. At first, it was a bit funny, but it's starting to seem ridiculous that they're trying to convince us we need a new pair of shoes to sit alone on our own couches.
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03/20/2020
Chairs piled on dining tables at Cafe Envie, as the local government has banned dining in at restaurants to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus. Cafe Envie can continue to serve take out and deliver food to patrons.
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03/20/2020
Stalls in New Orleans' French Market, typically buzzing with vendors and shoppers, are closed after the local government discourages large gatherings to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus.
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03/20/2020
The French Market, usually teeming with tourists on a beautiful spring day, is empty after the local government discourages large gatherings to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus.
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03/18/2020
A message taped to a neighborhood mailbox encountered while out on a walk with my son.
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March 23, 2020
The Museum of History and Holocaust Education was supposed to open a new traveling exhibit entitled The Tragedy of the St. Louis on Tuesday, March 24, 2020. The exhibit tells the story of the German luxury liner, the St. Louis, which was carrying over 900 refugees from Germany when it was turned away at Havana Harbor in Cuba. The museum curator as well as members of the Simon family, featured on the exhibit panels, were going to speak at the opening event, including Mrs. Ruth Simon Heinemman, a kindertransport survivor and Kennesaw, Georgia, resident. https://historymuseum.kennesaw.edu/exhibitions/traveling/st-louis.php
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March 21, 2020
An appeal from local theatres in the Atlanta metro area seeking help from fans to cover the financial costs of staying closed during the coronavirus pandemic.
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2020-03-22
MEMA information update for citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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2020-03-20T22:13:00
On Friday March 3, I set out to find optimism in the face of COVID-19. I did not find it. Instead, I found quet stories of despair and defeat.
Friday nights, this boxing stadium is the busiest place in town. With Covid-19, the entire economy has collapsed
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2020-03-20T22:54:00
On Friday night, I went looking to find optimistic stories and found none. Shop owners without customers, Tuk tuk drivers without fares, a boxing stadium without any visitors, security guards with nothing to guard.
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2020-02-20T23:00:00
On Friday night, I went looking to find optimistic stories and found none. Shop owners without customers, Tuk tuk drivers without fares, a boxing stadium without any visitors, security guards with nothing to guard.
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2020-03-23
As an Australian who has just arrived back from overseas (Thailand) on 20 March 2020, I am required to self-isolate for 14 days. As I am sharing a small one-bedroom inner urban apartment. I need to stick to my own room, while my fellow inhabitant lives in the lounge room. I’m also a PhD student in the final throes of trying to get my thesis done and do various casual research jobs at two different universities. This is my makeshift desk set up at the side of the bed to enable me to hopefully get some work done throughout this uncertain period. I also have a tiny 1.5mx2m space set up on the other side of the bed to try to do some yoga during the isolation period.
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2020-03-09
The video satirises the 'Australian spirit' and the panic buying of toilet paper which is still - 23 March - a feature of the response to the Pandemic in Australia
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2020-03-22
First PowerPoint of 55 min recorded lecture. First time I’ve ever added voice over to PowerPoint images I usually show in class. Usually I see my students, I ask them questions and interact with them. I use the blackboard to underline points as well. They break into groups to discuss primary sources. It took 10 hours today, Sunday, to learn this new skill and translate my lecture into a new format: new images, voice recorded for each one. Most poignant is the first one in which I am saying hello, talking about the weird situation we are all in, telling them that i miss them, and that they should not worry. The goal is for them to learn as best they can under weird conditions but this class should not add to their stress. They need to take care of their own health and their families. The image represents what every professor in the country was asked to do over spring break—in the flurry of stress, shopping for possible 2-week quarantine, thinking about Home-schooling and absorbing conflicting information. And an election in Illinois and other states. We do as best we can because we care about our students. But the dozens of messages from the administration are unhelpful. This icommand from above for instantaneous online education represents hard work. We will all do the best we can.
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2020-03-22
Historian Kevin Kruse compares the unemployment rate during the Great Depression to the potential unemployment rate as a result of Covid-19 based on information from the Fed.
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2020-03-09
CNNhealth
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2020-03-22
Conflict between local and federal government is evident amid covid-19 outbreak.
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2020-03-22
Tensions between state governments and federal governments are evident amid the Covid-19 outbreak.
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2020-03-21
Schools were closed down and I had already pulled my son 2 days prior to the announcement out of fear. A mandatory lockdown is looming so we dropped the kids with my mom for what may be the last time in awhile and went to grab groceries and one last take out from Chilis.
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2020-03-22
While many graduations across the world are being canceled, many parents and students are looking for other options of graduation. One parent shared a possible option of planning a parade of cars to go around Dickson County, Tennessee. This would help everyone stay safe, and make sure that seniors can still have a graduation ceremony.
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2020-03-23
Banks experiencing high volume of calls re financial hardship
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2020-03-20
A global pandemic during a presidential election year presents more challenges.
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2020-03-22
Covid-19 has forced LDS missionaries to return home.
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2020-03-22
Trump deploys national guard to help state governors with response to Covid-19,
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23 March 2020
Announcement of leisure centre closure in line with Government requirements
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March 13, 2020
During this time of social distancing and restraint of large gatherings, my brother was graduating from Army Basic Training. I, along with my parents and many other family members, made the trip from Dickson, Tennessee to Fort Benning Georgia. We went to watch his graduation ceremony and spend the few days he was allowed leave with him. However, the night before we were to leave we received word that the ceremony was cancelled and we wouldn’t be allowed to see our soldier as of that time. After hours of waiting to see what might change we finally were notified that the ceremony was still canceled but we were allowed to see our soldier and bring him off base. After traveling down to Fort Benning we got to watch his ceremony on our laptops and were then allowed to go pick up our soldier. We spent the remaining day catching up and doing as much as we could in as little as possible. Finally the end of the night came and we were headed back to our hotel when my brother got a a call that said he had to go back to base. Furious but helpless we had no choice but to bring him back. Once again because of the coronavirus precautions, and President Trump declaring the virus a pandemic that day, we had no clue when we might see him again. The next morning we got our final notification that we could go on base and spend the day with our soldier but he wasn’t allowed to leave and it would be his last chance to see us. We then went on base and spent what little time with him we could. That night we said our goodbyes and started home. My brother is now somewhere in the middle of the woods with the rest of his platoon in isolation. We have had little communication with him but he said that they will be spending five days in the woods, going back to the barracks for a shower, and right back into the woods for five more days. His base is now on lockdown and no civilians are allowed to enter. After this whole mess and scramble to see my brother I’m just happy we got to spend what little time with him we did.
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2020-03-22
The Salt Riverbed, reclaimed wetlands leading west from Tempe Town Lake to the airport, is always gorgeous. But the skies are usually a line of airplanes. Today scarcer than waterbirds.
