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There is a heavy presence of law enforcement out in the streets. Honestly, given the nature of this pandemic and the horrific pictures coming from Italy and the rest of the world, proper enforcement of the lockdown
衛星写真で見てみましょう。日本は、7000弱の島々が線状に連なる島嶼国です。しかも、国土の約7割は山岳地帯で、森林に覆われています。
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Liberta/ Свобода. Freedom. How much meaning do we put in this short yet beautiful word? I asked myself this question while listening to one of my favorite songs by the famous Italian duo Al Bano and Romina Power while spending another day at home isolated from
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30 March 2020 (Day 1 of Lockdown) As I begin a very late morning on the 30th of March, questions flood my mind endlessly about the pandemic. So far I had been closely following updates about the virus as it
Let’s take a look at some satellite photos. Japan is an island country with a linear chain of a little less than 7,000 islands. Incredibly, about 70% of the country is mountainous and covered with forests. This topographical feature has
In the months following the outbreak of COVID-19, schools and universities in China faced the temporary closure of their campuses. In January and February, teaching was carried out in asynchronous methods under new conditions that are now being experienced all
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The pandemic must be represented by a graph so that it can be managed figuratively, if not literally. The phrase “flatten the curve” and the inverted U-shaped plot now rule the fate of entire nations. With the rather sordid rates of testing for the novel coronavirus in India, the figurative register can at times seem more necessary to control than the actual disease incidences.
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Were it not for COVID-19, I would be in the United States right now. As a visiting scholar at the University of California, San Diego, I would be building my own daily routines—alone, by myself—in a foreign city.
The Teach311.org + COVID-19 collective and the History of Science ON CALL project are pleased to co-present this Note from the Field from historian Angela Ki Che Leung about the role of the humanities in understanding and dealing with the
This is the first of a series of Diary Project entries from Zimbabwe written by Constance Myambo and Nomathemba Sibanda, undergraduate students at the University of Zimbabwe and members of the grassroots organization Ear for Africa. The first entry, by
This contribution introduces the pandemic situation in Africa as seen from a student situated in Zimbabwe. This piece serves as the preface to the Diary Project from Zimbabwe, written in alternation by Constance Myambo, an undergraduate student at the University
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The previous night, the president made a public statement accusing some governors and mayors of being overly concerned. He also asserted that the lockdown itself is being chaotically implemented and is overall an unhelpful measure, because the economy should not
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Of late I have been winning big in the shouting matches with my dear father. The urge of the family patriarch to step out, if only on the pretext of clearing out the garbage, has been manifesting rather strongly after
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We have to go buy some medicine for my mother-in-law and since we were going out anyway, we asked one of our elderly neighbours if he needed medicine as well. We were thinking about helping people who are part of
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For this day, our dear Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggested a voluntary curfew of twelve hours termed the “janta curfew” (people’s curfew), as one way of initiating “social distancing” to “break the chain” of the ongoing pandemic. Quite typically of