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Collected Item: “The Perfect Storm”

Give your story a title.

The Perfect Storm

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

Meme from Twitter

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.

2020 has offered up a number of crises back to back without any break in between. We started with a global health crisis that eventually caused the economy to suffer and millions to lose their jobs. In the middle of the fight over whether or not we were opening too fast, a racial crisis occurred over the death of George Floyd. Halfway through June, I don't know what else to expect from the remainder of the year.

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?

#racialcrisis, #employmentcrisis, #healthcrisis, #2020

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

Twitter used @inGARYwetrust created the tweet, Joey Dorion took a screenshot

Give this story a date.

2020-05-31
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