{"id":43096,"date":"2021-03-13T16:45:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T00:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=43096"},"modified":"2021-03-13T16:45:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T00:45:26","slug":"covid-a-year-in-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/13\/covid-a-year-in-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID: A Year in Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it will be a LONG<\/u><\/em> time before I use photos in a GIF that really require captions for clarity.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t that terribly hard to find out how and teach myself, but the process is slow, tedious and boring!<\/p>\n

When I learned that Pres. Biden was going to address the nation last Thursday, marking the one-year anniversary of our lockdown, I decided I would do a “photo essay” type of post.<\/p>\n

But since it’s been a top story for over a year, I wanted to try to find some photos we haven’t all seen dozens of times \u2013 which was a challenge.<\/p>\n

And then I wasn’t sure how to categorize them into sections since they obviously all had an underlying common thread.\u00a0 So there’s some overlap between the different GIFs.<\/p>\n

No doubt a common impact of COVID here and around the world is that it’s made our lives much more insular and lonelier.<\/p>\n

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Of course it’s had a profound impact on the medical community<\/p>\n

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And its repercussions on individuals, families, friends, institutions and government will cause ripples for years and years to come.<\/p>\n

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I will close with a photo I’m sure we’ve all probably seen, but if I had to pick just one iconic photo representative our lives in the time of COVID, it’d be this:<\/p>\n

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Well, it will be a LONG time before I use photos in a GIF that really require captions for clarity. It wasn’t that terribly hard to find out how and teach myself, but the process is slow, tedious and boring! When I learned that Pres. Biden was going to address the nation last Thursday, marking […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4305,4307,4304,4306],"class_list":["post-43096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-anniversary","tag-captions","tag-covid","tag-lockdown","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}