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A Roadside Appeal

Title (Dublin Core)

A Roadside Appeal

Description (Dublin Core)

This sign implores Wichita residents to save a life by wearing a protective mask, thereby underscoring face masks' growing importance, when it had been previously dismissed as a relatively ineffective non-pharmaceutical intervention early in the pandemic. Not only does this sign attempt to reinforce the city's mask mandate, its wording also hints at how COVID-19 had become a threat to all age demographics by the summer of 2020. At the time of this photograph, the average age of an infected patient in Wichita had dropped from the mid-60s in the spring to 37, thus Wesley Hospital's appeal for everyone to do their part to help stop a rapidly accelerating and demographically expanding contagion.

Date (Dublin Core)

August 4, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Aaron Peterka

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Aaron Peterka

Partner (Dublin Core)

Northeastern University

Type (Dublin Core)

Photograph

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Health & Wellness
English Clothing & Accessories
English Healthcare

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

mask
sign
Wichita
Kansas
health
Wesley Healthcare
hospital

Collection (Dublin Core)

Healthcare

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

08/04/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

08/04/2020
08/18/2020
11/03/2020

Date Created (Dublin Core)

08/04/2020

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This item was submitted on August 4, 2020 by Aaron Peterka using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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