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Collected Item: “Saving the World”

Give your story a title.

Saving the World

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

Meme

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.

The meme about the Covid 19 pandemic describes the differences in how people were cooperating to save the world together, comparing the WWII images from the front and the image of the man sitting on his phone in bed in 2020. Referring to the fact that in 2020 in order to help save the world people had to quarantine at homes rather than fighting in the fields.

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?

#Instagram, #Bored, #Quarantine2020

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

Unknown

Give this story a date.

2020-04-05
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