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.
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