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Title A name given to the resource Homemade Mask Description An account of the resource Homemade mask made during the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nicole Arena Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 2020 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource jpg Subject The topic of the resource Homemade mask sewed by Paula A. in March 2020 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paula A. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Nicole Arena COVID-19 homemade Mask https://archivingcovid19.libraries.rutgers.edu/files/original/64eae197ec2fb5f83bbb50d696302924.pdf 36ee458c24442828044643fa21236a9b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rutgers Responds Subject The topic of the resource Rutgers University responses to the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic, beginning in March 2020 Language A language of the resource English Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Audrey Truschke Description An account of the resource This archive collects some key moments in the responses of Rutgers University, especially the Rutgers administration, to the COVID-19 pandemic, from March 2020 through Fall 2020. This has been a period of unprecedented austerity measures from Rutgers, prioritizing the wealthy and advantaged while laying off hundreds of the most vulnerable of the Rutgers community. Rutgers has faced criticism for its decisions from many corners, including from its own faculty and students, many of whom argue that the administration's approach to the pandemic is heartless, lacking in leadership, and inappropriate for a state university that is supposed to prioritize education. Email A resource containing textual messages and binary attachments sent electronically from one person to another or one person to many people. Email Body The main body of the email, including all replied and forwarded text and headers Members of the Rutgers Community: Fostering a healthy community in New Jersey is core to the mission of our University. While at this time we are not aware of any confirmed cases of COVID-19 in our community, we have been closely tracking its spread across our region. We have an imperative to do what we can to slow the spread of this serious virus and protect those who are most vulnerable. This is a difficult and extraordinary situation, and I recognize that people throughout our community are concerned for their personal health and that of their families and friends. To that end, and with thanks to all members of our community who have taken steps to help us prepare, I am announcing that Rutgers University is taking the actions listed below. We do not undertake any of these changes without careful consideration of the hardships and inconvenience that they may impose. Thank you for your patience and your understanding, as together we navigate this challenging situation. Classroom Instruction at Rutgers – Camden, Newark, and New Brunswick <ul><li>Beginning Thursday, March 12, through the end of spring break on Sunday, March 22, all classes are canceled.</li> <li>Beginning Monday, March 23, through at least Friday, April 3, all course instruction will be delivered remotely. All face-to-face instruction is suspended. This includes any class meetings.</li> <li>Individual instructors are expected to be in contact with their students regarding their plans for remote instruction prior to March 23.</li> </ul> Instruction at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences <ul><li>Courses at RBHS will continue as scheduled.</li> <li>Beginning Monday, March 16, all RBHS classes with more than 15 participants will be provided remotely. RBHS deans from the relevant schools will be in touch with students regarding more detailed plans for remote instruction.</li> <li>Please note there will be no change to clinical rotations and clinical instruction.</li> </ul> Campus Activities <ul><li>Students living in residence halls should leave campus as soon as possible. Students are strongly encouraged to remain off campus through April 3. The University understands that leaving campus may not be possible or prudent for everyone, and we encourage anyone with concerns to contact the student housing office on your campus.</li> <li>Beginning Thursday, March 12, Rutgers events and in-person meetings involving groups larger than 15 participants are cancelled through April 15. Guidance related to this policy will be reviewed again by April 1.</li> <li>Groups with events scheduled after April 15 are urged to begin considering alternative plans in case future events will need to be cancelled or postponed.</li> <li>No new non-essential events should be scheduled until further notice.</li> <li>Athletic directors are instructed to follow the guidance of their respective athletic conferences.</li> </ul> Travel <ul><li>We strongly suggest that all members of the Rutgers community reconsider any upcoming domestic travel, especially to areas where there has been a significant incidence of COVID-19.</li> <li>All Rutgers-led international spring break programs are canceled.</li> <li>All students in third-party study abroad programs are strongly encouraged to return.</li> <li>All international travel sponsored by Rutgers is suspended.</li> <li>Any member of our community returning from a country designated Level 3 by the CDC is required to self-isolate for 14 days before returning to campus.</li> </ul> Faculty and Staff <ul><li>University offices, labs and services will remain open during this time period.</li> <li>Employees are strongly encouraged to use teleconference services, such as Webex, in lieu of in-person meetings.</li> <li>Guidance from University Human Resources will be forthcoming advising staff on appropriate telecommuting practices, employee leave management, and related workplace questions.</li> <li>Specific guidance for healthcare workers who have direct contact with patients will be forthcoming from the Executive Vice President of Health Affairs.</li> <li>Please take steps to protect your health and the health of your coworkers by following guidance on prevention and care. If you feel unwell, please stay home.</li> </ul> The COVID-19 Task Force continues to monitor this situation and is updating guidance daily. Further details will be coming from each chancellor. Expansive guidance for the University community can be found at coronavirus.rutgers.edu. I ask that every make it point to regularly visit the website to stay current on Rutgers-related advisories. I urge you to remember that the most important steps you can take are self-care. I thank you again for your patience as we navigate this dynamic and complex situation. Sincerely, Robert Barchi Subject Line The content of the subject line of the email Important Update on University Operating Status Regarding COVID-19 From The name and email address of the person sending the email Robert Barchi president@rutgers.edu To The name(s) and email address(es) of the person to whom the email was sent Audrey Truschke audrey.truschke@gmail.com PRESIDENT_ALLSTAFF@rams.rutgers.edu PRESIDENT_ALLSTUDENTS@rams.rutgers.edu Number of Attachments The number of attachments to the email Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rutgers University-Wide Email March 10, 2020 Subject The topic of the resource The Rutgers University administration announces a slew of responses to the novel coronavirus outbreak. Description An account of the resource Rutgers University-Wide email on March 10, 2020, from Rutgers President Robert Barchi, that announced a slew of responses to the novel coronavirus outbreak, including the cancellation of class and, post-Spring Break, that classes would move online until April 3, 2020. 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Title A name given to the resource Rutgers Responds Subject The topic of the resource Rutgers University responses to the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic, beginning in March 2020 Language A language of the resource English Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Audrey Truschke Description An account of the resource This archive collects some key moments in the responses of Rutgers University, especially the Rutgers administration, to the COVID-19 pandemic, from March 2020 through Fall 2020. This has been a period of unprecedented austerity measures from Rutgers, prioritizing the wealthy and advantaged while laying off hundreds of the most vulnerable of the Rutgers community. 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Title A name given to the resource Return to Research at Rutgers Plan as of May 29, 2020 Subject The topic of the resource Graphic summarizing Rutgers University Return to Research Plan, circulated on May 29, 2020 Description An account of the resource Graphic summarizing Rutgers University Return to Research Plan, written by the Research Team of the University Emergency Operations Committee and circulated to Rutgers Researchers on May 29, 2020. The plan culminated, in August 2020, with a full return to in-person research at Rutgers University with no protective equipment, no social distancing protocols, and no enhanced hygiene. This plan was not followed. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Research Team of the University Emergency Operations Committee at Rutgers University Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available S. David Kimball, Senior Vice President, Research & Economic Development, Rutgers University Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 29, 2020 Language A language of the resource English Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource First Days Records from Rutgers Students and Instructor Subject The topic of the resource Material Related to the experiences of students and their professor during the Early Days of the COVID-19 pandemic, mostly in March 2020. Description An account of the resource Material Related to the experiences of students and their professor during the Early Days of the COVID-19 pandemic, mostly in March 2020. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document A Bet On March 10, 2020, I lost a bet. I had organized a loose group of Rutgers-Newark instructors to go in on a pool – for bragging rights only – about when Rutgers University would close the three campuses due to the coronavirus threat. We all received an email in the mid-afternoon on March 10 that Rutgers was cancelling classes as of Thursday March 12 and, after Spring Break, moving online for two weeks as of March 23. The pool was a light-hearted way to process uncertainty and budding grief about a world we were about to lose. What sticks out in my mind nearly seven months later, however, is how most got involved in this pool. I ran into various colleagues in indoor hallways at Rutgers, with nobody wearing masks or social distancing, and, while chatting, I cajoled them to name a date. Such carefree interactions, even if against a looming darkness, are, for now, a relic of the past. A Dinner On March 11, 2020, I went to a pre-conference dinner held on campus at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. There were about 15 of us present, fewer than originally planned. Our numbers were reduced because some attendees had their flights cancelled and so could not attend. Also, we were complying with new rules, just instituted by Rutgers, that capped the number of people who could gather together on campus. Upon arriving at the dinner, nobody wanted to shake hands. How do you greet people professionally, in Western contexts, without shaking hands? One of the last attendees to arrive put out her hand for me to shake, and I almost did so before jerking back my hand. So awkward. After dinner, it came out that one of the people present was a medical doctor, and so we all surrounded him and began bombarding him with questions. Will the pandemic really be that bad? What’s going to change in hospitals? Should we pull our kids out of school? Why is there no testing available? What can we do to protect ourselves? A Conference On March 12, 2020, I attended and spoke at a conference on Islamophobia at Rutgers-New Brunswick. We had anticipated a large crowd and so were holding the event in a cavernous auditorium with hundreds of seats. But now that the pandemic was on, we proceeded sans audience and livestreamed it. There were never more than about twenty of us in a room that could seat 500. I had given a lot of talks in my academic career to sparsely populated rooms, but never one quite as large and quite as empty as this one. One of my co-panelists emailed us before he came to the conference saying that one of his kids was sick with a cold, but that he could not imagine it was coronavirus and so would attend the conference anyways. I found this exchange odd at the time, both that my colleague would bother to mention a child’s runny nose and that I felt slightly uneasy about it. Later I came to see how his email represented a transitional moment, where the just-declared pandemic had changed us enough that you would bother to disclose that your kid had a daycare cold but we had not yet reached the point where such symptoms meant you stayed home. We all had lunch together at the conference, in a small room, indoors. While at the conference, I kept up on coronavirus news on my phone. My husband sent me this photo from our local Trader Joe’s grocery story, taken around 5 p.m. on March 12, 2020 that depicted bare shelves. Writing that evening, I closed my journal entry for March 12, with this: News is coming fast and furious on COVID-19. Time of uncertainty and fear. It is a scandal that the US had so little testing and the resulting ignorance is fuelling fear. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data word document Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A bet, a dinner, and a conference Subject The topic of the resource Account of Audrey Truschke's First Days of the COVID-19 Pandemic, March 10–12, 2020 Description An account of the resource Account of Audrey Truschke's First Days of the COVID-19 Pandemic, March 10–12, 2020 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Audrey Truschke Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 10–12, 2020 Language A language of the resource English Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant New Jersey https://archivingcovid19.libraries.rutgers.edu/files/original/5a465f085e17343a87ff0a2e0e1daa37.jpeg 2edafdc2e5b384d9007acb011e5b311b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Trader Joe's Shelves on March 12, 2020 Subject The topic of the resource Trader Joe's Shelves on March 12, 2020 Description An account of the resource A photograph of Trader Joe's shelves, in Hoboken, New Jersey, taken around 5 p.m. on March 12, 2020. The shelves are empty due to panic buying associate with the COVID-19 pandemic. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Thane Rehn Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Audrey Truschke Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 20, 2020 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource digital photograph First Days food shopping shortages Trader Joe's Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource First Days Records from Rutgers Students and Instructor Subject The topic of the resource Material Related to the experiences of students and their professor during the Early Days of the COVID-19 pandemic, mostly in March 2020. Description An account of the resource Material Related to the experiences of students and their professor during the Early Days of the COVID-19 pandemic, mostly in March 2020. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document On March 10th 2020, the day before Coronavirus was declared a global pandemic, I had my first moment of realizing that this was going to change the way we do things. I was in class at Stevenson University in the morning and my professor told us about students at Towson University being exposed to Coronavirus over the weekend. My roommates and I would go to Towson every week, so that news was a bit alarming. She also offered that school could possibly be cancelled for the week or moved online. In the middle of my next class, both TowsonUniversity and Johns Hopkins announced that they would be closed for the rest of the week. I asked my professor in my last class of the day if there was a chance we would follow suit and he told me there was a zero percent chance. At 8 pm we got the email saying that Stevenson classes were cancelled for the rest of the week and classes were going to be online for the week after spring break. I remember thinking that it was just going to be a few weeks and then we would be back at school in early April. I was nervous not so much for myself but for my parents and grandma. In the early stages, I was stressed that the elderly and immunocompromised were most at risk. I still had plans to go to Boston for St Patrick's day, and I still planned to visit my sister in Orlando, Florida. I don't think that the severity of Covid really hit me until March 20th, when Stevenson’s classes were moved to remote instruction for the rest of the semester. It just seemed that after March 11th everything was shutting down. The world was coming to a standstill. I had called my mom multiple times throughout the day of March 10th. She thought that I had been in direct contact with people exposed, and she was beyond concerned. She called my dad and told him that I had been exposed even though I thought that I hadn't. My parents even tossed around the idea of quarantining me at my Uncle’s home for two weeks. That day was just a lot of uncertainty and trying to convey it to my parents in a way that wouldn't make them worried. The early days of the pandemic were chaos in trying to find Lysol, wipes, and toilet paper. On the 10th, my mother had asked me to see if I could find wipes while I was still in Maryland. I went to ten different grocery stores and pharmacies and couldn't find any. After finally getting back home, my own family had started to quarantine to the extent that we could before it was required by the state of New Jersey. It was only a hint at what was to come in the following days when stay at home orders were issued. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data word document Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Being a Student on March 10th Subject The topic of the resource Account of Stephanie Czeslowski's First Days of the COVID-19 Pandemic, March 10–12, 2020 Description An account of the resource Account of Stephanie Czeslowski's First Days of the COVID-19 Pandemic, March 10–12, 2020 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stephanie Czeslowski Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 10-12, 2020 Language A language of the resource English Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Maryland, New Jersey First Days pandemic Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource First Days Records from Rutgers Students and Instructor Subject The topic of the resource Material Related to the experiences of students and their professor during the Early Days of the COVID-19 pandemic, mostly in March 2020. Description An account of the resource Material Related to the experiences of students and their professor during the Early Days of the COVID-19 pandemic, mostly in March 2020. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document My Worst Fear Confirmed On March 11th, 2020, COVID-19 was announced as a pandemic, and the world was struck with fear and confusion of what was to come. Not since the Influenza outbreak in 1917 has the world been thrown into a time of comparable economic turmoil and health hysteria. On that day, I found myself at my Rutgers University apartment in Newark, New Jersey, microwaving a cup of Ramen noodles while browsing through social media on my cell phone. I sit down to blow off the steam hovering from the cup, hoping that my first sip won’t burn my tongue off. But as I lifted the cup and fork closer to my mouth, something strange popped up on my feed. The title of the post said: “The WHO has classified COVID-19 as a pandemic,” while linking a statement written by the World Health Organization (WHO). I dropped my cup Ramen upright on the table in shock, accidentally spilling a little of the searing hot soup on my leg but barely even noticing it as I tried to wrap my head around the title of the post. I quickly scanned the article, and my worst fear was confirmed: COVID-19 was here to stay. The next day, I called my parents and I got ready to move out. Rutgers had announced that spring break would start earlier due to COVID and I decided to use that opportunity to move back home as soon as possible. I said goodbye to all my roommates and friends, knowing full well it would be a long time before I would see them again. When I got home, I unpacked after a long day and just rested out. My family and I were definitely in a bit of a panic. We made sure to get non-perishable foods like canned goods from the supermarket and tried buying some toilet paper, which ended up already sold out. Much of my time for those first few days was spent on FaceTime where I would call my friends up to see how they were doing, what precautions they were taking, and if they knew anyone who had the virus. As a pre-med, I was also deeply interested in the science behind COVID-19, and I read many journal papers and articles online to grasp a better understanding of what this virus was. I also discovered COVID-19 number tracking sites like Worldometer.com that influenced my mood based on whether the number of new cases and deaths each day was rising or falling. The worst part about my experience for the first few days of the Pandemic was how the terrible news of spiking cases was unavoidable because of social media. After those initial days, however, I started to calm down and accept the state of the world and just made sure my family and I followed COVID-19 health guidelines to stay safe. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Google Document Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource My Worst Fear Confirmed Subject The topic of the resource Record of Varoon P's First Days of the COVID-19 Pandemic from March 11-15 Description An account of the resource Record of Varoon P's First Days of the COVID-19 Pandemic from March 11-15 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Varoon P Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 11-15, 2020 Language A language of the resource English Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant New Jersey, USA 2020 COVID-19 First Days Media WHO https://archivingcovid19.libraries.rutgers.edu/files/original/275ca8c1782ad7a1aa0bc6856cea4b0f.png da92c42b978b1a914c6f6189845df6dc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource First Days Records from Rutgers Students and Instructor Subject The topic of the resource Material Related to the experiences of students and their professor during the Early Days of the COVID-19 pandemic, mostly in March 2020. Description An account of the resource Material Related to the experiences of students and their professor during the Early Days of the COVID-19 pandemic, mostly in March 2020. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Digital Image Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks on COVID-19 on March 11, 2020 Subject The topic of the resource WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks on COVID-19 on March 11, 2020 Description An account of the resource The WHO Director-General's announced during a media briefing that the WHO recognizes SARS-CoV-2 as a Pandemic. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource World Health Organization Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbT6AANFOm4&ab_channel=WorldHealthOrganization%28WHO%29 https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---11-march-2020 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Varoon P Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 11, 2020 Type The nature or genre of the resource Digital Image COVID-19 First Days WHO Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource First Days of the Pandemic Oral Histories Subject The topic of the resource Oral history accounts of the initial days of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. Description An account of the resource Oral history accounts of the initial days of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Fall 2020 Archiving COVID-19 class, students and instructors Language A language of the resource English Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document From Ignorant Bliss to Informed Fear On October 4th 2020, I interviewed Liana about her first days experiences of when COVID-19 was announced a pandemic on March 10th 2020. Liana is a 20 year old college Junior who attends Rutgers University-Newark for their nursing program. During the interview, Liana seemed to remember the early days of when COVID-19 was first announced as a pandemic very well. This may have been because the announcement of the pandemic, Rutgers starting spring break early, and Liana visiting the University of Delaware all happened within the same week. It is worthwhile to take note that although she was aware of the virus’s presence in the U.S., she still was not worried about it because of her lack of information about this disease. As a nursing student who was learning about health related information like pandemics in her Microbiology class, Liana was not necessarily aware of the state of the world outside Rutgers and how the virus may have been affecting the country. However, when she returned home, it was compelling to understand her shift in cognition where she was more aware of the dangers of the virus after reading through studies and reports. Before leaving Rutgers-Newark to go home, Liana’s used the first days since the announcement of the pandemic to travel down to the University of Delaware. It was interesting to learn from Liana about the reactions of those students who were also told to leave campus within a few days. What was surprising was that the students were not necessarily worried about the disease itself but rather concerned about figuring out how to get back home. While booking a flight within a short time period is troublesome, it was interesting to see that they were not too anxious about catching COVID-19 since Liana stated that they all still went out to eat. This scenario shows how pervasive the unawareness of the severity of COVID-19 was for some college students. Liana’s description of how she felt as though she was in a bubble at Rutgers-Newark seemed to fit the same atmosphere at the University of Delaware, where people also had a lack of information. When she first arrived home, Liana described that she had a more mellow attitude of COVID-19 because she wanted to offset her grandparents’ worry. However, after a few days at home reading through some reports of COVID-19, Liana was able to understand how harrowing this disease had become. The information she gained was the catalyst needed to burst her bubble of ignorance and help her understand how harrowing this disease had become. Her whole family began to take more precautions to help protect the grandparents and Liana’s father, who was recovering from cancer. Apart from just actions, Liana's feelings changed as well. She went from being indifferent about the virus to afraid of leaving the house. The thought she may pass the virus along to more vulnerable family members made her fearful to go out and do things as she normally would. Overall, Liana’s first few days of COVID-19 being announced as a pandemic was a transition from nonchalant unawareness to a fearful realization of the potential devastation of COVID-19. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Google Document Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource From Ignorant Bliss to Informed Fear Subject The topic of the resource Account of Liana's days before and after the announcement of COVID-19 as a pandemic. March 8-16, 2020 - Based on an Interview with Liana Description An account of the resource Account of Liana's days before and after the announcement of COVID-19 as a pandemic. March 8-16, 2020 - Based on an Interview with Liana Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Varoon P Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Liana Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 8-16 2020 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Liana's permission for interview granted over email Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Google Document Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Account of Oral History Interview COVID Fears COVID-19 First Days Lack of Information Safety