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Vader

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First reaction to COVID
- “Worry about all the people that could die from it and about how it was going to change the world and not really for the better.”
What has the pandemic made you realize
- “It’s made me realize there are some people who can be very good at working from home, and there are some people who maybe realize there are some people who are not very good at working from home.”
- “As a business person that’s been a challenge for us, but it’s made me realize there are more proper that can work from home than I thought there were in our company.”
What would you tell yourself a year ago vs now
- “That it’s not going to be over.”
- “A year ago we kept thinking this will be over by last summer and that’s not been the case.”
- “I would’ve made different decisions based on knowing that the pandemic was still going to be on going to the end of the summer, 2021”
What good things came out of COVID
- “I think there was a lot of innovations that came out of COVID that this country has shown that it can pull together, and can innovate like the vaccine that got produced and approved in record time.”
- “There are other technologies in our business around lending and making loans digitally that were proved to be important and I think all that has a lasting change for how the world is gonna function in the future.”

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The pandemic, probably one of the biggest things of 2020.  Since the beginning, I have realized a lot of things since COVID.  First, is that I have realized to make sure you live life to the fullest before the things you love are gone. When we got put into COVID I realized just how much I missed the best things, like going outside without a mask, going to a restaurant without a mask, and hanging out with my friends. I have also realized that you shouldn’t go to the beach during COVID or don’t go outside to any popular spots during spring break in Florida. Why, because of the massive outbreak there was on the beach. Another thing that I realized is be patient. I say be patient because, being patient will allow the whole pandemic to pass. If you are anxious and not patient, you will go outside and may get yourself COVID, while patient people will stay inside and play on their devices. By doing this you will be at a lower risk of getting the virus

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On April 20th Regent said they are creating a flying ferry that would soar above the water at 180 miles per hour. It will be used to make crossing from San Francisco to LA. When I heard about this I thought it wasn’t going to be possible for at least another 4 years, but it is apparently already here. It is a really good idea, that is going to help a lot of people, but what about the prices. Beyond that though, this is going to change the future

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“Amazon One is a fast, convenient, contactless way for people to use their palm to make everyday activities like paying at a store.” When I first heard this I was shocked by what it says it can do. I also was shocked how they said it would be displayed in a few months, which is crazy since I thought it would take a couple of years.

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First reaction to COVID
- she didn’t think it would upend our lives the way it had
- she thought things would have been balanced out by this year
What the pandemic has made you realize
- “The pandemic has made me realize how much I really care for the people around me.”
What would you tell yourself a year ago vs now
- “Good luck with AP European history.”
What good things came out of COVID
- “SAIL 2021 was probably one of the best things that came out of COVID. Sail was a replacement for 4 week summer camp I go to in the summer. Since we couldn’t have the hundreds of normal campers back at camp they decided to do a special two week program for the oldest campers.
- During it she was able to earn her lighting skipper (one of the highest ranks possible)

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In the beginning, I had just assumed it was nothing, but a minor outbreak. Then it came to America and I still assumed it wasn’t anything big, but oh boy was I wrong. Once I had gotten word that school had shut down, that is when I started to worry. I also started to worry when everything like toilet paper and hand sanitizer was going out of stock. I soon went into lockdown mode, or Netflix and Xbox mode, where I was on my devices for 16 out of 24 hours a day. I then moved on to the complete Netflix mode where I would finish a season every day of a show. I then got very bummed out when my summer vacation to Alaska was cancelled and my camp was cancelled as well. Luckily we were able to get on our boat and drive it to Baltimore for the whole summer. Once we got back school, was definitely weird, but it was also cool to be one out of maybe 90 kids at school in 8th grade. Things started to come back to normal, traveling, etc. Vaccines started to be made, but cases were still rising, and now we reached now. People are getting vaccinations, causing the cases to go down, and hopefully by the end of summer mostly everyone will be vaccinated and we will go back to normal.

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Link https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2021/03/27/median-age-covid-19-cases-florida-has-now-fallen-35/7030775002/
“Florida health officials logged 2,039,062 COVID-19 cases as of Saturday, a 5,883-person increase from the day prior.” Florida was obviously the hotspot for Spring breakers, but it came with consequences. It is a little concerning that over 2 million people got the virus that day

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A billionaire’s story

Broke and dumb,

Couldn’t pay rent,

Did anything to survive,

Even ate out of the trash,

Family told him to turn around his life,

Got up and went to school,

He got into M.I.T. with a scholarship,

In no time he became the top of class,

July was when his parents got very sick,

Klebsiella pneumoniae killed them,

Left in tears Zack made a promise to never give up,

Many months later, Zack became the top engineer in Michigan,

Now with the expansion of his company, cash started to roll in,

Omega engineering soon became a National company,

Places with no population soon became the new spot,

Quite, small places now have the most tourism ever.

Remembering his parents, Zack knew he would make them proud,

Statistics show that Omega engineering now has over 40% percent of the industry,

The wealthiest businessmen were impressed,

Ultra focus was key,

Very hard work was tough but paid off,

When Zack was ready he handed his company to his best workers,

Xeonodochial was the main thing that helped him to the top,

Year after year he spent time with his family and ended up having children.

Zack went from rags to riches all from the promise he made with his parents.

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Ah Netflix, probably one of the business that made the most amount of money during COVID because of their various shows and accessibility. Since Corona started I have watched many shows and movies. The Mandalorian (which is on Disney plus), all the Star Wars movies a least 4 or 5 times, the clone wars, Outer Banks, Criminal Minds, Cobra Kai, Karate Kid 1, 2, and 3, Rocky 1,2,3,4,5, Rocky Balboa, Creed 1, and 2, every mission impossible movie, every James Bond movie, Kong vs Godzilla, Kitchen Nightmares, H3lls Kitchen, etc.

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When we first heard about COVID, people thought it was nothing, until it started to grow massively, and that is finally when things started to shut down. For example, I was supposed to go on a cruise for spring break, but 6 or 7 days before we left, it was shut down because of COVID. Besides that though, my family and I still had a good summer. What we did was get on our boat and drive it from fort. Lauderdale to Jacksonville to Charleston to Norfolk to Annapolis. (We went to many other places, but I just naked some big ones.) We saw that the more north we went, the more the COVID guidelines were enforced. But with this it wasn’t all sunny and calm waters. It was the complete opposite when crossing passages such as the Chesapeake. The waves were 4-5 to sometimes 6 feet making the ride uneasy. Also in summer we stayed in Wilmington, NC for a week and a half, and during that time we stayed on the beach. Though it was nice, there was the unexpected: A hurricane. A cat 3 hurricane was coming for us and we were on the front lines. Luckily nothing much was destroyed, except for our car’s windshield. Other than that storm and everything, it was beautiful. We got to be with our cousins and go swim in the waves at sun down and at sun rise making the vacation just all that more amazing. After 3 months of traveling, we had to go home to the not, so normal life of school.

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This photo resembles the office, from that one episode where the gps tells Michael to go right into a lake, proving that technology sucks sometimes.

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This is just baby yoda eating Kermit and memes of this have occupied me for 1% of my quarantine time.

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At the beginning of quarantine, I wasn’t as good at gaming as I am now. I placed like 50,000 in the world in the cashcups at the beginning and in August, I placed in the top 3000. It doesn’t sound that good, but that is a significant difference than the 50,000 prior. Then, Epic games most famous game fortnite, got taken down by Apple for evading the 30% game fee on purchases. On that day, I had to adapt to playing on Xbox then. I couldn’t get back into the rhythm and lost every game in cash cup and placed 30th or 40th. However, I got a pc, and an no time i have climbed back up to my position. I have grown so much more, more than I would have ever been able to grow on iPad. I have also gotten top 200 out of 1.7 million people in other games such as for a horizon 4, putting me in the top 1% of the game.