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Imagine getting stuck in your job with many people to serve and they can not leave too. Then the people you served got to leave, but you had to stay. That is exactly how these crew members felt, I read an article called “Cruise passengers have gone home, but the crews that looked after them are still stuck at sea” when I was reading this I realized how many people are still in danger. There are still 57,000 crew members on cruise ships. In total, there are about 74 ships around US ports and the Bahamas and the Caribbean. When all the passengers left, the crew members were questioning why they were still here, they had nothing to do, one member called MaShawn Morton said, “I’m hoping we don’t get forgotten about, to be honest,” later on saying, “It seems like nobody cares what’s happening to us out here.” This is probably true because right now during this crisis families are looking out for their families and themselves only. There are still some people out there that are helping, but that is just not enough. During this pandemic, we need to work together to find a solution, even if that means we have to be on a voice call to talk to each other. We can do this!

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Many people are trying to help people that are in need, wait I read an article called “See how sports stadiums have transformed to help pandemic relief efforts”, this article talked about how stadiums that held sport events are helping people in need. This is an example of how people are helping others on a larger scale, you can still do minor things like donating, checking on your neighbors, keeping 6 feet away from other people, all of these are small things, but they still make a difference. Stadiums are opening to shelter the homeless, take care of people in stadium hospitals, using them as coronavirus test sites, feed the hungry, and some are morgues. It’s not just the stadiums that are helping, Amazon has donated 7 million dollars to help communities, Apple has got 20 million masks and they are giving them to people in need, Google has promised that they would give $800 million worth of aid, I learned all this information from an article called “Amazon, Apple among the companies that are helping Americans fight COVID-19”, by Samuel Stebbins and Grant Suneson. It’s not just these companies that are contributing to this, there are 100’s of companies helping during this pandemic. We all can make a difference by just doing as little as checking on your neighbor or staying 6 feet away.

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Coronavirus is a severe topic when talking about the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, you should be very serious because the coronavirus has already taken people away.

On  Wuhan, during the year 2019, someone at a seafood market was infected with a virus from an animal; this is where it all began.

Ready to help? If you have neighbors try to check on them, make a donation, and take care of yourself. Never forget to wash your hands and cover your sneezes and coughs.

Obviously, the coronavirus is not leaving anytime soon, so stay in your home unless you really have to, if we can control the virus then we can stop the virus earlier.

Nobody leaving their houses would be outstanding, but this is not likely to happen, so instead, we have to make sure we do not gather in big groups.

A time like this is not for panicking, right now is when we should take action,  we need to take precautions, don’t go insane over little things, and lastly be careful.

Vaccines are not out yet, the vaccine is probably coming in the future, but for now, we need to do social distancing.

Interesting facts about falcons, falcons are the fastest animal on earth, it can reach speeds of 200 miles per hour, also they can live up to 15 years.

Right now the situation is sort of getting out of hand in America; people are still going outside.

Until the coronavirus goes away, we cannot return to how we lived like in the past, and the new normal is staying at our houses and leaving a few times for groceries or something

So, now you know what to do, so do not leave your house unless you have to.

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The coronavirus has stopped many events.  In Boulder, Colorado, a 10k marathon has been postponed somewhere at the end of this year, hopefully it will go on. This annual marathon has been going for 41 years, what would happen if they could not host the marathon for this year. Many annual events have canceled, destroying their streak. Many companies are losing tons and tons of money. People that have birthdays during this pandemic have to celebrate with their family, which is a good thing but that means you cannot group up with your friends and have a party with them. Also, all the sports events have been postponed or have been canceled. Unfortunately, this is not the only thing the has happened, flights all around the world have been canceled, causing people that were on business trips to get separated from their family. Imagine having children and then you had to leave them for a week and then you don't know the next time you will see your children. This thought can make people devastated. We can get through this, we humans have gone through many natural disasters and sickness. We have gone through tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, and we survived the disease known as Ebola, so why can’t we survive the coronavirus.

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Today is the third week of being at home for online school America. I am kind of getting used to being at home doing all my school things. It is getting dull being stuck at home. But this is the only way to stop the virus from spreading. We are all going through this together by staying at our homes and not meeting people. If we can do these procedures a lot more, the virus might stop spreading, and then we could start meeting other people. If we do not stay in our homes, we can risk more lives and we would have to be staying in our homes even longer, then we have to. So do not be that person who walks around shaking other people’s hands and not staying at your house because you think you are fine. Do not get me wrong, being at home is no easy task we have to resist seeing our friends, we can not do things we want to do that involves meeting people. Many people are losing money and many people are panicking. We can get through this together, all we need to do is stay home and stay calm.

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An article I read called “‘Stranded at sea’: cruise ships around the world are adrift as ports turn them away” by The Guardian. Imagine going on a vacation and then coming back tired and wanting to go home and see all your friends and family, but when the vessel arrives at the dock and is not allowed to dock. It extends the vacation in a not so good way. People are getting sick and there are a lot of people on board. Cruise ships are running low on many supplies. People are panicking around you, you do not know what to do. Docks stranding 10 different vessels at sea, leaving thousands of thousands of people aboard, one of those people you might happen to know. If you are a person who has a loved one on board, it can get scary. Already 4 passengers have died on only one vessel called the Holland America cruise ship Zaandam. Also on this cruise ship over 137 additional cases of respiratory illness onboard. On top of that, there are 2 passengers who have tested positive for the coronavirus. Because of the Coronavirus people on cruise ships have to be on lockdown, meaning locked down in their cabins and 3 daily meals served left on the floor outside their door. Imagine what would happen if the cruise ships ran out of food. What would people do?

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A man called Jason Garcia, who recovered from COVID-19, is now trying to save lives from the coronavirus. He donated his A positive blood to a person in need of it, then gave it to other patients. This is important because now that Jason Garcia survived the coronavirus, his immune system knows how to kill it, so if he gave his blood to other people, his blood might kill the virus in the other patient’s immune system. Like Jason Garcia, there are 2 other people that have survived. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has approved for two trials of COVID-19 survivors. This means that these other survivors will also give their blood to people in need. Other countries will do these types of methods to cure people with the virus. The people that Jason Garcia helped soon got a little better. I think this could be a major solution to how we cure the virus. In the future, there will be a cure for sure, but now we do not know when the cure will come so we have to hope for the best and not give up. So this means that there is hope and we will get through this together no matter what.

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As you know there are many people losing money and not making any money. A grad student tries to get to a coronavirus test, but doing so she had to use $536. She says after working for two weeks that’s how much money she earns. Also, she was told that the test would be free. The bill she got was not for the actual COVID-19 test, it was for tests for the flu and adenovirus because her doctor thought she had the coronavirus, so her doctor had to check her for a lot of other things. This is weird because the law says the test is free, but she still had to pay five hundred thirty-six dollars for it. A lot of insurance companies say that they will cover one hundred percent of the test. This did not just happen to her, Ricky Bean tested for the coronavirus, and he said after they tested him he felt better. Then two weeks after he stopped by the doctors, he got a bill for $857 for lab work. That is not it though for the actual test they billed him $1143, but his insurance discount got it to $857. He supposedly got billed because he got an upper respiratory panel that the doctors ordered before he got tested for the coronavirus. I learned all of this from a YouTube video called “Watch Full Coronavirus Coverage - April 15 | NBC News Now (Live Stream)”

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Coronavirus is a very serious topic. If you want to talk about it with someone, make sure you are ready to be serious. There are people in the world that have already left us because of the coronavirus and there are still people that have the coronavirus, so try not to laugh at anybody that has the coronavirus. Also, the coronavirus has made many people lose a lot of money and made people have no money because they have to close their stores down because of the coronavirus. Many people would do anything to get rid of the coronavirus, meaning that if you feel sick or weird, do not go meeting people and walking around thinking it is just a little fever and you will get over it in a day or two, because in reality, you might spread something to other people that are not sick. Just stay at home, unless there is something that you need to do, for example, walk your dog, get groceries, help your family, and maybe exercise. I think if we stayed home and took very careful precautions, the coronavirus would be over by now, but instead, the coronavirus is getting worse because we were not careful enough and now we have to pay for it. So just stay home, if we are lucky the virus will go away in a few months.

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An article called “Coronavirus Lockdown: How are our pets coping with us?” by Helen Burchell. This article talks about how people are reacting or feeling being around their pet twenty-four seven. For instance, Rea Dominguez has a dog named Fidget. Fidget normally works out with 13 other dogs, but since that makes it easy to spread the virus, Fidget has all this energy that is for working out with his fellow dog mates and his owner does not know what to use that energy for. Also in this article, it talks about a dog named Jones which is a labrador-retriever cross. Jones helps a sixty-three-year-old person. Jones would join this sixty-three-year-old to the office every day, but now because of the coronavirus Jones and Roy Richards, the sixty-three-year-old person has to stay at their home. Jones is so used to be being with other people and now that he can see no one else because of the coronavirus, Jones feels very depressed. It is not just about us, it’s not just us who do not get to see our friends and other people, it is also our very own pets, they do not get to interact with other pets, making them depressed, like Jones the dog. If you bring your pet to work or somewhere during normal days, your pet will have to adapt to not seeing people every day. So give love and time to your pets.

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Today I learned something new from an article called: “Tiger tests positive for coronavirus at Bronx Zoo, first known case in the world”. I learned that a Tiger has coronavirus. Also that this tiger is only 1 out of 7 tigers that have COVID-19 symptoms. A Pomeranian, German Shepherd, and a domestic cat tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. So many animals are getting sick and we do not know if these animals can spread to animals or even spread it to humans. Scientists are worried about the wild cats out in the world because right now they have a small population and if they get the virus, the species of wild cats will drop dramatically. Also, Chinese studies have found that cats may be able to infect each other with the virus. If this is true, I think there is still a chance if you have a pet cat, it can give you the virus, this is just a chance though. There is still a lot we do not know about what type of animals can get the virus spread and if animals of certain species can spread between themselves or to other animals or us. This means that we should be careful and only leave the house to do things that you can not do in your house, for example exercising, otherwise stay home.

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I read an article called “Live updates: Trump attacks WHO as U.S. reports record coronavirus death toll; Wuhan lockdown lifted after 76 days”. From the article, I read “The 24-hour death toll from the novel coronavirus surpassed 1,850 in the United States on Tuesday, a record for any country in a single day.” This made me realize that because we did not be careful, the death toll has risen by a lot. If we stayed home and did not interact with other people besides our family members, the death toll would be very low. Because of the coronavirus, people are losing money and jobs. Another six point six million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the economy continued to spiral down, says The Washington Post. This means that the coronavirus is not just hurting us physically, but it is also attacking our economy. When people do not come to stores because they fear to get too close to people or stores need to close because they are losing money and not making enough, they can not buy food and if they have a family, they can not support them so they have to apply for unemployment benefits. Still, people are acting like nothing is happening. People are still going to parks in big groups. If this continues a lot more people will get hurt, and more people will suffer.

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This morning I watched a YouTube video called “Watch Full coronavirus Coverage - April 7 | NBC News Now (Live Stream)” taught me a lot of new things about the coronavirus and what people are doing. For example, areas in America keep parks open with signs saying to stay 6 feet away. People are still exercising and getting close together with people. During an interview with a pedestrian, they said that to prevent getting the coronavirus You should stay away from big groups and most importantly stay home. Also, with an interview with Dr. John Torres, he says that people think the virus is going away, so that means they can start grouping up with friends and other people because they think it’s gone and then the virus will come back. Beaches are being open, and people are going. He thinks people should not be going to beaches because they do not go to beaches to have masks and stay 6 feet away. So it would be better just to leave your house when you need to. He also said that in the entire world there are 4 cases of animals having the coronavirus, later on, he said that pets have not gotten it, so it would be best if you keep your pet away from other people.

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I have been thinking about why we can not get together if no one sneezes or coughs. I thought it could be because of the chance of someone sneezing or coughing. I do not know anyone who has the coronavirus. My friends parents said that it only takes one mistake for something to go bad, so that could be why people are very scared, but also if we just take very careful precautions we will be okay. If we panic, and we start to do things that we should not do, a lot more people can get hurt. In my opinion there are three things we should be careful with. First of all, we should wash our hand for at least 20 seconds, so we do not spread germs to other people. Also, respect social distancing, in case someone coughs our sneezes it is less likely for it to reach you. Last but no the least,  if someone does not want to see you then do not push them to see you. From all of this, the most important thing you should take away is to stay away from people, besides family.

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I watched an interview with an associate health editor, Julie Mazziotta. She talked about how there are masks that are effective, for example in the interview she mentioned that we properly place an n95 on your face, it is effective. She also explains that people that do not have the coronavirus should not wear masks, meaning they should not buy it so people that have the virus can use the masks. She said this was a problem because there are not enough masks now that people are buying masks, even if they do not have the coronavirus. Most importantly she says that the coronavirus has many similarities to the common cold which can make it difficult to detect whether you have the virus. If someone thought they just had a normal cold that will just go away after a day or two, they might have something else. It is important to at least wash your hands for twenty seconds so you can kill the germs. Also, hand sanitizer has to be 60% alcohol to be effective, but cleaning your hands is a lot more effective.

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I feel like if we do not be careful, the number of people that die can raise by a lot of people. People around me think the coronavirus will pass by fast, while others do not, they think it will last for another five months. This video I watched about an interview with Dr. Fauci, who is a doctor in Washington DC. He said that the coronavirus will get worse. I think that this could be true because so many people do not know they have the coronavirus, and they are just walking around spreading it not knowing they have the coronavirus. This is important because, in my opinion, I think nobody wants coronavirus. Also, he says that when someone has the coronavirus they could either have no symptoms or a lot which can be very dangerous, not seeing any symptoms, because as I said before they might spread it, if they think they are fine and walk around people and interact. From all of this, I think people should not get close to each other even if both of them feel well, because you never know if someone else has the coronavirus or even if you do.

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This meme I saw the other day had a picture of a dog and a human with a cone around his neck, the dog was saying, “It’s for your own good. You’ve got to stop touching your face.” from Parade. (https://parade.com/1011521/juliebawdendavis/coronavirus-memes/) This got me thinking why the dog was not wearing the cone too. It turns out that certain animals can not spread the virus. Chinese studies say that cats might be able to spread the virus to each other. I thought the meme was funny because normally the pet would have to have a cone on it so the pet would not scratch their face, lick or bite other areas of its body, but it was placed on the human because of the coronavirus, and you should not touch your face. This meme can also inform if we do not touch our faces we are less likely to get sick or even get the coronavirus. I also like this meme because I like dogs, and it is cool that the pet is caring for its owner but also hilarious at the same time because the dog should have the cone, not the owner.

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I do not remember which date it was on, but I went to the dentist to check my teeth. When the dentist and an assistant were cleaning my teeth, they talked about something and never said the actual word and kept referring to the coronavirus as “it”.  I was thinking at first what they were talking about, and then the dentist said to his assistant that they were putting their faces in front of people when they were doing their dentist stuff. After he said that he said, “and we’re still fine.” I realized that they were talking about the coronavirus and I understood what they were talking about. While they were talking, I was thinking of why they did not get the virus since they were putting their faces so close to other people’s faces.  Could it be because they always used clean materials, have masks on, and clean their hands really well? I will never know how they stay safe. The coronavirus might not spread as fast as it could if we did not make sure we do everything and be responsible.

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An article I read from the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/us/politics/coronavirus-liberty-university-falwell.html) taught me things and made me realize things I already knew about the coronavirus. First of all, I realized that the coronavirus spread throughout America like wildfire; I realized this because when I read the article; the article says that a university opened up and people that went to the school started getting the coronavirus or sick. Also, I learned that the coronavirus spreads a lot when there are many people in a certain area. This means that we should not be going in big groups anywhere, maybe family, but that should be it. It doesn’t matter if you are with the group for just a few minutes, someone can sneeze or cough and then there’s no stopping you from getting sick. The coronavirus might not be that bad for you, but you can still pass it on to someone that can’t handle the coronavirus, which could be very dangerous for them. From reading this article I think the article is trying to tell us one thing, don’t go into close to big groups or you have a high chance of getting the coronavirus. This is affecting all of us, we have to resist seeing our friends face to face, we can still face time but we can not meet in person.