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Collected Item: “A Sign of Things to Come”

Give your story a title.

A Sign of Things to Come

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

Photograph

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.

Early March 2020. We were out of toilet paper and stopped at the grocery store to get some. We sort of knew things were about to get crazy but this scene really cemented it for us.

About a week later, LAUSD shut down for “two weeks.”

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, #toiletpapershortage, #2020 #pandemiclife

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

Theresa Solis Pollard

Give this story a date.

2020-03-06T14:57
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