Are you documenting the COVID19 pandemic?

I've been following this thing since January. My memory planner literally has an entry for it on January 9. And then increasingly more. It's all SARS-CoV-2 for the past few weeks!

I'm trying to figure out how to make 1 general spread about it in my PL album. I am considering doing a sort of DITL to document our confinement life as well (no socialising for a week now).


ETA some photo sources for those looking to document this:

The virus seen under the microscope

The anatomy of the virus

The detailed simulated rendition of the virus

Loads of large photos of Italy under quarantine

Yes, I’ve been making entries about it in my daily journal. The stories are becoming more frequent. Took pictures of the empty bread and meat shelves at Aldi a little while ago. That’s going to be today’s entry.

I have been writing in a "journal" every morning since January 1st as it was recommended in a creative therapy book I'm trying to work through. I have definitely been including Coronavirus (as I told my kids it's a historical once in a lifetime thing) in there. Maybe I'll write a book on it someday and use my notes later or use my notes for scrapbook page journaling. I don't usually include news and world events or negative things in my scrapbooks but this is a big one...

My oldest dd (15) is also journaling the experience although she didn't start until today (when school closed for 6 weeks). Maybe I'll make her make a page too when she complains she's bored

Thanks for the reminder! Definitely something I want to document. I have to figure out appropriate pictures. I may start with the picture of 20 cans of tuna on my shelf. It's a staple for us, and I suggested DH buy lots!

I’ve been collecting pictures and ideas for my book for when I decide how I want to document it (partly depends how things play out, personally and globally, in the long run). One thing I did was an image search of something like “coronavirus news” and take a screenshot of the page of images to use as a background - I tried to get one that was very busy and sensationalized to represent how all-consuming it has been in the media. I might do another one now that it’s escalating even more in the US.

I also took screenshots of some of the messages that have been coming through from the doctor’s office and all the companies who want to reassure me they know what they’re doing. May not use them, but they might be part of a picture collage.

And of course the pictures of empty shelves, full Costco carts, nearby churches calling off mass, etc. I would take those pictures anyway. Memes to find humor in the situation.

The journal is getting more of the detail for now, not necessarily daily updates, but when there’s something that impacts us more directly.

Someone I follow online who works as an ER nurse and was exposed very early in the US community spread phase (who has been cleared and never got sick, thank goodness) mentioned that it’s a really good time for those of us who are more anxious to write down the good stuff too, maybe a daily gratitude log in a journal or planner. A lot of the pictures I’ve been taking lately are actually of flowers and springtime signs, because nature just keeps going.

I’m doing a film 365 since now I’m home while light is out. I took one photo today of us painting. I have a feeling we will be painting a lot. It will probably sneak into my scrapbook but I prefer to document our activities.

I’ll document the empty shelves photos that I’ve taken at work and I’ll include stories of some of the more colorful people I’ve had to deal with. You know the guy that told me it would be my fault if he died, the lady crying with snot that it’s the end of days, and the woman that cursed me out because we don’t have toilet paper.

Retail management is not for the weak.

I've been thinking that I need to create a "non-traveler's" notebook, but haven't started yet.

You can also print newspaper front pages from all over the world.

www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/?tfp_display=gallery

Yes, thank you all for the info for memory keeping. I am totally putting this in my PL and doing a Day in the Life version of this in my PL book too for next week. It's a big historical event.

Here ya go. Her website is wilsonwilson.org

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I just tried and it's still available!

Just saw Meagan made some PL and shared them as well.

http://instagram.com/p/B9t8ctQAvI5