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Collected Item: “The Difference 12 Weeks Makes”

Give your story a title.

The Difference 12 Weeks Makes

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Meme taken from a groupchat

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

At the beginning of quarantine, myself and others were hopeful that the experience would be quick and relatively painless. It would be an opportunity to work from home, relax, and learn to bake bread that much better. After 12 weeks of a patchwork effort at the Federal, State, and Local levels people were restless. When George Floyd was murdered, people poured out into the streets to protest. Now, people have been radicalized and are ready to fight.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#coronavirus, #protests, #banana, #bread, #quarantine, #racial, #tensions, #HST, #485, #ASU

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Image was originally found on iFunny by an unnamed creator, Joey Dorion took a screenshot

Give this story a date.

2020-06-09
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