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2022-04-04
Traumatic Event After Traumatic Event
Screenshot I found from @lovedoveclarke on Twitter. A little dark humor surrounding the many traumatic events we keep experiencing -
2021-02-08
Tweets that reflected life during online school
These tweets reflect how I felt while doing my senior year from behind a computer screen in my room. I would put my zoom class on and then spend time on my phone. Life was really boring, I had school everyday and couldn't see many of my friends. My school used Microsoft Teams for class, and it was really bad compared to Zoom. -
2021-10-01
Tucson Epidemiologist Outspoken on Twitter
Elizabeth Jacobs (@TheAngryEpi on Twitter) regularly tweets about the pandemic. She has been vocal about the University of Arizona's mitigation strategy, specifically how the university will not defy Governor Ducey's ban on mask mandates. She is a professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Arizona and has played a big role in the UA Vaccine POD and COVID-related research. She is particularly outspoken about vaccines and masks in education settings, not just at the university level but also for K-12. -
2020-11-30
L’hiver sera difficile
This hopeful message from Canada's Finance Minister, Chrystia Freeland, says that Canadians have a plan to get through the winter, and then will move on to economic recovery. -
2020-12-07
Tweet: Ontario Safety
"In Ontario, It’s unsafe to walk outdoor hiking trails But It is safe to walk to aisles in Walmart & Costco Because science" -
2020-12-07
Dr. Henry extends gathering restrictions over the holidays
Tweet: "British Columbia has banned family gatherings of any kind over Christmas right to January 8! Wow, Merry Christmas & Happy New Year indeed. Will be the worst suicide numbers ever. Why aren’t we allowed to get Covid tests to show we don’t have Covid to visit family?" -
2020-12-04
Tweet: ‘If you don’t think that COVID’s real right now, you’re an idiot’
— This Canadian premier’s message went viral after he said he was ‘stealing Christmas to keep you safe’ -
2020-11-30
Winter, then Recovery
This hopeful message from Canada's Finance Minister, Chrystia Freeland, says that Canadians have a plan to get through the winter, and then will move on to economic recovery. -
2020-12-09
Authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine
Tweet by Health Canada confirming that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has been approved. -
2020-05-26
Isolation Gown Photograph
Hospital CEO Patrick Gaskin takes a photo in an isolation gown created by Barbarian Sportswear in Kitchener, Ontario. Barbarian Sportswear began manufacturing isolation gowns in response to the need for PPE. -
2020-04-11
CERB Approval
This tweet summarizes the relief many people felt when receiving Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB). The replying tweets also sum up discussions and questions about CERB in April 2020. -
0202-10-15
Fears of COVID from within the archive
Yesterday was my first official day as a curator at A Journal of the Plague Year. The only feelings I had were of complete joy and gratitude to be able to have a job, one where I get to do something that interests me, at that. But as the day went on, I began to feel something that many have tweeted about. I started to feel achy and I was coughing. Some have tweeted something like, "is it allergies or COVID?", and while I should have reflected on the fact that I had not taken my crucial allergy medicine in two days (I am severely allergic to dogs, yet I have two of them in my small apartment), I spent a good hour bundled up and lying in bed. By the afternoon, I felt completely fine. It was one thing when I would have these fleeting moments of panic, or see people online posting about their own, in the past. But it seemed to be a particularly interesting moment that right when I start a job at an archive documenting the COVID-19 pandemic, I experience one of the specific anxieties of actually living in that pandemic. I think this short instant shows how the the pandemic is both all-encompassing of everyday life and shows up in particular moments. It is at the same time impersonal and extremely personal. Despite the fact that even the illusion of being an observer is inherently participation, in one moment I went from being an outside observer of the pandemic to being subject to the worries it causes. -
2020-10-15
Senator Harris Suspends Travel Following Campaign Covid-19 Outbreak
California Senator and Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee, Kamala Harris suspends her campaign travel following two positive cases in her campaign staff. This is a precautionary measure by the campaign. Neither Joe Biden nor Kamala Harris were exposed to either staffer. -
2020-10-07
COVID-19 Exhaustion
I chose to submit a few tweets that go along with the exhaustive perspective I’ve had on the pandemic since we first were asked to quarantine back in March. As someone who works in customer service and interacts with people all day, I was immediately on board with social distancing, mask wearing, and limiting being in public spaces. However, it became very clear that this was not everyone’s opinion of COVID-19. Seeing how large majorities of people are so against measures put in place to protect us has been quite frustrating to witness. The lack of empathy toward those who have been negatively affected by the pandemic (such as family deaths, irreversible health issues, loss of jobs, etc.) has done nothing but increased, as people on one side continue to believe all of it is a hoax and being blow out of proportion. How is it dramatic when 200,000 people, and counting, have died? How is it a hoax when it’s still running rampant through our country but other countries managed to get it under control by actually taking steps to do so? Hearing the excuses that we shouldn’t let ourselves be dominated by the virus is incredibly irritating, when we shouldn’t resign ourselves to living with something that could be of great harm to us or others in our lives. We should be trying to eradicate it as much as possible. Alas, my efforts are fruitless. On top of that, seeing the dichotomy of the pandemic with the protests for BLM and such side by side has been an interesting spectacle. BLM protestors have made sure to protest safely and because of it, they have yet to turn into super-spreader events. In addition, the hypocritical outlook on police brutality is puzzling. They say the black and brown men killed by police should have just complied or else they wouldn’t have been killed, yet these are the same people refusing to wear masks because it is their right? It was those men’s rights to just exist and you think they deserved to die because of it? The privilege of it all is absolutely baffling. Those who don’t want to wear masks believe it is their right to protest it, then turn around and scream profanities and spew hate at those protesting with Black Lives Matter. You can’t demand justice for your minor inconvenience yet hope to tear down the efforts of those fighting for a real cause. Your rights are the same rights as others. Overall, the past six months have been eye-opening to say the least. Our country has never been more divided: socially, politically, economically, or financially. The fact that we aren’t all on the same page about taking care of each other, having empathy, and wanting everyone to thrive and live is so mind-boggling when these things are basic human decency. My heart hurts reading every news story that comes out each day, knowing that we continue to push farther and farther away from one another, when really we should be striving for a better goal. I can only hope that 2021 holds better times for us, but things appear bleaker than ever. For now, I continue to point out the hypocrisy and indecency of it all so others may understand. -
2020-08
Tweets from Inside a Prison 08/16-08/22/2020 by Railroaded Underground
These Tweets were posted by a man inside a prison using a contraband cell phone. This week he talks about their nutrition, lack of air conditioning, lack of showers, the wildfires near Vacaville Prison in California and the lack of plan for evacuation, a friend that recently died of Covid, and how good it felt to finely be allowed to go outside for a bit. -
2020-08-10
Tweet Changes Headline
Language is changing to be more people focused. This has happened in several arenas including incarceration. Instead of calling people inmates, prisoners, or convicts there is a movement to change the language to a people first option such as incarcerated person. One activist, Adnan Khan, of Restore Justice, a California based nonprofit seeking to change the criminal justice system, saw his Tweet about people first language cause the Los Angeles Times to change their headline. -
2020-07-03
What the %$#king %$#K America
James Steven sums up the year 2020. -
2020-07-03
Understand What Privilege Means
A contrast between people protesting for a haircut and protesting for the right to live. -
03/18/2020
I can only hope
The image makes fun of how many some Americans overreacted to the news of toilet paper shortages and that they were stupid for doing so. It also shows that not all important events will make good movies. -
03/12/2020
Rudy Goberg tests positive for hubris
In March, during the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak reaching Europe, Australia, and the USA, some people were still taking the risk less seriously than others. Twitter has a nose for irony, and a lot of people picked up on what happened to basketballer Rudy Gobert. In early March when the NBA was still denying the need to shut down the season, he touched every microphone and surface he could reach to mock the possibility of COVID-19. A week later, he was sick with it, and the NBA season was called off. Twitter user Jeffery Cook (@JefferyCook) -
2020-05-15
A current trend of epidemics/pandemics
This picture is food for thought, and for a while was pretty popular as it circulated around the internet. This meme is misleading as it implies that outbreaks are "planted" and do not occur naturally. These kind of posts drive more ideas into the brains of civilians that conspire against the government. The meme itself has incorrect information of the years that the outbreaks have been reported, such as SARS being first reported in 2003 and swine flu pandemic was reported in spring 2009. Posts like these are trending on all different social media platforms that are misleading people with wrong information, making them have more hatred for the government. It is interesting to see how much people want to blame the government for outbreaks and create patterns in order to place blame on other human beings, not taking into consideration the biological factors that of the viruses themselves. #CSUS #HIST15H *Submitted text in "Creator": unknown, taken from twitter and a secondary source. taken from a blog written by Bethania Palma on March 3, 2020 -
2020-04-23
Pope Francis's Twitter Message
• 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 -
2020-03-12
Find All Collectibles Trophy tweet
A common trope in video games is to find a mysterious place where someone has died, and to find journal entries, letters, and other mementos to find out what happened to the person. This tweet uses this trope as a joke since people were in isolation for so long -
2020-03-17
Twitter Roaring 20's Meme
It is a tweet making fun of the fondness of the roaring 20's even though they are disastrous like they are now. #FordhamUniversity #VART3030 -
January, February and March 2020
President Trump's Corona Virus Tweets Timeline
Tweets by President Trump concerning COVID 19 -
2020-03-26
Missing My Homies
This is a tweet stating, "tested positive for missing my homies" with a picture of a man crying. This completely describes my personal experience while social distancing during this pandemic. -
2020-03-14
#CoronaVirusUpdates
This tweet went viral. It is humorous and it ties together conversations surrounding precautions taken regarding COVID19 and preexisting narratives regarding New York public transit. In 2019 and 2020 New York's MTA began a campaign to stop train fair avoidance that became largely unpopular in the city and was subject to much critique on social media. #HIST5241 -
2020-03-23
Wall Street Journal: "Profit Over Health"
This is a tweet representing the pushback against opinion pieces arguing that social distancing was too threatening to the economy, and that public health should be sacrificed for economic growth. -
2020-03-22
Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot tells President Trump to lead or get out of the way, after President sends out tweet attacking state governors over Covid-19
Conflict between local and federal government is evident amid covid-19 outbreak. -
2020-03-14
President Promotes Social Distancing
Representative of reactions from the President amid the outbreak. -
2020-03-14
Deaths in Bergamo
Reporting on Twitter revealed the obituary pages showed the dramatic increases in deaths in Bergamo Italy as a result of the Corona Virus. -
2020-03-14
Dark humor
Dark humor has colored social media, especially as regards shortages of odd things such as toilet paper. To wit: "As UN doctors move across a dead America, sifting through 300 million corpses, a trend emerges: Their assess ... spotlessly clean. All of them... "