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2020-03-14

The Calm Before the Storm

This photograph was taken as Garden Grove High School began to go into lockdown and at the time, students and even teachers did not take the situation very seriously. We jokingly said that “The school would never shut down over this! Yeah right!” I took this picture and posted it onto social media captioning it “pSa: donT tOuCh yOur FacE #coronavirus” using the capital and lower case letters to emphasize my sarcasm. As time went by I began to understand the severity of the problem at hand and took it more seriously. It just goes to show how fast the pandemic evolved from something that we heard about that was happening across the globe to affecting us and the tens of millions of people worldwide.