social distancing

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/6/2020
  

  Americans Gave Up a Lot to Stop the Pandemic. Our Leaders Wasted that Sacrifice.

  by David Perry

  Nearly everything our most prominent leaders did was wrong, even as a not-so-silent majority of Americans keeps trying to do the right things.

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• SOURCE: Click2Houston
  4/27/2020
  

  NAACP Houston Condemns City Council Member Over Rosa Parks Reference

  Councilman Michael Kubosh compared the violation of social distancing orders to the actions of civil rights icon Rosa Parks.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/24/2020
  

  What If Colleges Don’t Reopen Until 2021?

  "John Thelin, a University of Kentucky professor and the author of the definitive 'History of American Higher Education,' told me that he’s never seen anything like the dual crisis colleges are facing right now."

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• SOURCE: CNN
  4/21/2020
  

  Today's Biggest Act of Patriotic Love

  by David M. Perry

  Under quarantine, a majority of Americans are more united than ever, argues historian David M. Perry.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/20/2020
  

  We Need a New Social Contract for the Coronavirus

  Our collective behavior will be the primary determinant of whether we can keep this virus in check.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/6/2020
  

  What Moms Always Knew About Working From Home

  The obsession with office “face time” hurts women. When the coronavirus pandemic is behind us, let’s not return to it.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/26/2020
  

  The Fashionable History of Social Distancing

  by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox

  Historian Einav Rabinovitch-Fox discusses how clothing has promoted social distancing since the bubonic plague.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  3/30/2020
  

  The History of Loneliness

  by Jill Lepore

  Until a century or so ago, almost no one lived alone; now many endure shutdowns and lockdowns on their own. How did modern life get so lonely?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/14/2020
  

  Older Americans are More Worried About Coronavirus—Unless They’re Republican

  Almost no Democrats of retirement age identify Fox News as their main source of political or election news. Fully half of Republicans did.