2020 - The world in distress

Absolutely fantastic photographs taken by AP Photographers  in 2020 capturing the world in distress.   (151 photographs) Amazing!

Yasmine Protho, 18, wears a photo of herself and “Class of 2020” on her protective mask amid the COVID-19 virus outbreak as she graduates with only nine other classmates and limited family attending at Chattahoochee County High School in Cusseta, Ga., on May 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Imprisoned gang members, wearing protective face masks, sit inside a group cell during a media tour of the prison in Quezaltepeque, El Salvador, on Sept. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

Agustina Canamero, 81, and Pascual Perez, 84, hug and kiss through a plastic film screen to avoid contracting the coronavirus at a nursing home in Barcelona, Spain, on June 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Face Masks now and then

 

Flu Masks From 1918-1919

► In 1918, influenza, the so-called Spanish Flu, or 91918H1N1, to give its proper name, claimed the lives of more than 50 million people in just 15 months. Masks were part of the drive to beat it. Flashbak (via Things Magazine)

►Masks have become a ubiquitous symbol of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the Mask Exhibition project, The Vicki Myhren Gallery hope to call attention to the significance and signification of masking as an issue of public health and a demonstration of civic responsibility. (via Kottke)

Covid-19's known unknowns

►"The more certain someone is about covid-19, the less you should trust them. Acknowledging uncertainty a little more might improve not only the atmosphere of the debate and the science, but also public trust. If we publicly bet the reputational ranch on one answer, how open minded can we be when the evidence changes?" Source: bmj.

►Laughing Squid brings you Clever Illustrations of Life Before and After Covid by Irina Blok.

STAY HOME

STAY HOME Awesome story and illustrations ! Loved it.