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This week’s assignment comes to you courtesy of Steven!  Use the link below to access a collection of political cartoons about the coronavirus.  The genius of political cartoons is that they use humor and visual imagery to make serious political commentary.  Please choose a cartoon that seems to you to be particularly effective and post a 300 word blog post that does the following. In order to receive credit, your post must appear by Sunday, April 26th.:

–includes the image you are writing about

–describes what you think the message of cartoon is

–identifies what is funny about the cartoon

–explores your own views on the issue being addressed

What do you think about this genre? Are cartoons an effective way to make a political point? Why or why not?

https://www.usnews.com/news/cartoons/2020/02/28/political-cartoons-on-the-coronavirus

COVID-19 is Exposing US Racism in a Stark New Way with Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones, Democracy Now 

The podcast I decided to choose was “COVID-19 is  Exposing US Racism in a Stark New Way ” and I’ve been wanting to look into this topic more often. There has been a lot of talk lately on the news about how COVID-19 is exposing the US to racism. Most of the time when it comes to big dramatic events like COVID-19 for some reason there are always other races affected the most than whites. I think this shows how racism will never disappear in my eyes. Racism has been around for over 200 years and now in 2020 with the world being more diverse than ever before in human history for some reason they will always be talking about racism. While I was listening to this Podcast and hearing just the data that was represented of how many blacks and other races that have gotten in low income areas. Places like Illinois, Michihan, New York, Chicago, and Louisiana are stated that most COVID-19 death tolls have come from African Americans! To me I  thought it is because probably those people are not access to resources like others or just people that just din;r care and want to be outside, but the way the podcast explains it seems that reports wanted to make this a racial thing. Also, one thing that interested me was how they gave a lot of news about New York specifically because we are the epicenter for all of this. Also, the podcast was explain reasons that Afrcan American have a lot of death tolls caused by COVID-19 because of the reason that those people living in racially segregated communities meaning that these people are struggling to get things such as food and those communities can have people with other disease such as diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma. Also, another thing is that in the beginning of the podcast they were talking about Andrew Cuomo and how he is taking authority. Meaning that he is being a great leader for New York and doing his best. Differently on how some way any situation can involve racism. An example I can see that started this talk about about how COVID-19 is exposing US of racism is when Trump called COVID-19 the “chinese virus” and not only that shows a so call leader we have, but shows how politicians don’t know what they are talking about when it comes to COVID-19. I believe scientists and doctors should be the only people informing the people about COVID-19 because they are the most truthfully propellant when it comes to these situations. I would recommend fellow peers to watch this podcast because it opens my eyes differently. 

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/4/9/camara_phyllis_jones_coronavirus_race_disparities

I chose this article to represent displacement because what these refugees have to go through in Himalaya is unexceptable and shows an example on how it feels to be displaced. Recently, there has been an issue on global warming in the Himalayas and people in that area are struggling to survive. The area is in a drought and has a lack of food. People can’t even grow crops. The villages are getting dry. A person named Sonam Chhiring Gurung, says “I love this village”. People like Sonam could feel the same exact way about the village and that’s where I feel this shows displacement. These people are being forced to move somewhere else from a place they know their whole life and say they absolutely love. This is a country that 70% of its people work in agriculture meaning they all depend on crops to eat and survive, so going to another place will be hard for them. This is because they would probably have to adapt into a new culture that they are unfamiliar with or even be in a workforce that they don;t have to rugt skills to work with. Forced to move when you don’t want to can cause a person to feel displaced. People are struggling to survive and don’t know what to do! Imagine the people with children. What are the children thinking or what are they going through? Some families are forced to move because of crop failure. Families are struggling to not only feed themselves, but their kids as well. Most people don’t even know their necks move. These people got nothing to depend on like how America is depending on the government with the situation of the coronavirus. These people got nowhere to go or have no access to other resources. These people in the Himalayas are in big jeopardy because without food or shelter how do you survive? You feel worthless and can’t do anything. Displacement is best described for this article because it shows loneliness and feeling you don;t know what to do. This article is interesting to look at because it shows how other parts of the world can have bigger problems than other people. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/world/asia/nepal-himalayas-glacier-climate.html?searchResultPosition=1

Coronavirus: Fact vs Fiction

This podcast covers a variety of news about coronavirus by speaking to professionals or people that was part of each section. It also explains some false aspects that are spreading, and people are falling for them, Doctor Sanjay Gupta guides us through this podcast and explain what happens in every single aspect. People that are being exposed to the different aspects are the ones explaining their experiences, which might lead to biases like being the victim, also from leaders of different institution.

The first section of this podcast is about how we people can help others. Doctor Sanjay Gupta says that we can help by donating to blood and food to food banks to have enough supply to the big amount of people that need help during this pandemic.

The second section of this podcast talks about how people are dating at distance. He says that the use of dating has increased now that we are all in our homes. The numbers of texts send is larger during this time. He tells the story of a video of a guy that used a drone to ask to a girl to be with him, and because of it, they are texting, and they are together, but with the distance.

In my point of view, the three next aspects are the ones that I find the most interesting about this podcast, and they are new things that I learned from the podcast. The first one is called analyzing antibodies. This is a different kind of test than the COVID-19 test. This is used to try to know which people are immune to the COVID-19. But this is not a famous test. However, this test can be very helpful for essential workers. People that are immune can continue their normal work life.

Another new thing that I learned, and I find interesting is about the section called “A Crisis in Our Prisons”. I find this interesting because it is about places where people must be close to another people. A testimony from a prisoner he says that not everybody wears masks and there are a lot of people that do not distant themselves from others.

The third section that I find very interesting is called “Profiting from Pandemic”. In this section, Doctor Sanjay Gupta talks about how a lot of people are using today’s situation to benefit from it. They are literally selling false hope to people that want to protect from COVID-19. Some people are selling medicine that does not work for nothing and say that it will cure COVID-19.

This is an interesting podcast that covers a lot of factors of COVID-19. It does not influence my point of view; it adds new information. I recommend this podcast to other people that want to learn about different subjects of COVID-19. The format is very simple to follow, and it’s divided into the different subjects.

https://www.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/corona-virus

Here’s one more article.  I think this one speaks most directly to Steven’s research question – how does this story end? I found it really interesting, albeit somewhat depressing: “Our Pandemic Summer” by Ed Yong from The Atlantic:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/pandemic-summer-coronavirus-reopening-back-normal/609940/

Here’s another very current article.  This one is about Mental Health and the Coronavirus, from the New England Journal of Medicine.

Mental Health and the Covid-19 Pandemic Betty Pfefferbaum, Carol S. North | New England Journal of Medicine

Thought I would share this interesting article from the current issue of The New Yorker.  Its topic, inequality and health in the coronavirus crisis, relates directly to Dylan’s research question, but I think it will be of interest to all of us.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-coronavirus-and-the-interwoven-threads-of-inequality-and-health

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11:15  Kevin

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How will Covid19 impact on education?

• How will students with disabilities get an equal access to education?
• what happen with those students that don’t have any access to online education?
• How are teachers dealing with the amount of work?
• Are learners really learning anything being thought on online education?
• For college graduates, how will it affect the probability of getting a job?
• In terms on environment, how has learning changed?

I just want to explore the impacts and changes that this pandemic has caused on education.

Proposal

What is the psychological impact of the coronavirus?

I want to talk about the psychological impact of the corona virus because it is very important to think about how the situation that we are living in it’s going to impact our mental health. I want to research about the impact of how we are going to react to any new viruses. Also, about how being in quarantine affects our mental health and our future decisions. I would like to explore these impacts in our brain.

Guide:

• How everything started
• Why are we in quarantine?
• Why are we social distancing ourselves?
• How can it impact the way we think?
• How it can to affect our future