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Collected Item: “German cafe tells customers to wear pool noodles to enforce social distancing”

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German cafe tells customers to wear pool noodles to enforce social distancing

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Article

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I love that this German café found a way to inject some humor into social distancing. It is absolutely hysterical. Of course, my brain immediately went to wondering if the café re-uses those hats. Although customers may not catch COVID-19, they could catch lice. Eeek!

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HST580, Arizona State University, humor, pool noodle, hat, café, social distance

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https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/15/europe/german-cafe-noodle-distancing-scli-intl-grm/index.html

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

Nadine Schmidt and Jack Guy

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2020-05-15
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