Stories of the pandemic by https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p What was the most absurd or sinister situation you experienced or heard of during the COVID19 pandemic? en-us 2021-11-08 19:47:12 UTC 2025-11-22 18:07:31 UTC hello@padlet.com Toilet Paper s1370381 https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879025108 No matter how much I try to think of all the things that could have happened with COVID. The toilet paper hoarding is just so ridiculous to me!]]> 2021-11-09 17:42:17 UTC https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879025108 panda express https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879026215 At Panda Express with my friend, 2 girls came in without masks and the employee politely asked them to put one on. They got defensive and eventually screamed "F YOU" to the employee while flipping them off. I asked them why it was so hard to be respectful and she whined at me and made a face and left.]]> 2021-11-09 17:42:40 UTC https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879026215 That Indigenous populations were often the hardest hit by the pandemic, with infection rates comparable to larger urban areas such as New York and Florida. Many reservations were applying for states of emergency due to lack of resources and hospital capacity. https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879026216 2021-11-09 17:42:40 UTC https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879026216 Welding https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879026534 During the initial outbreak in Wuhan China some peoples doors were welded shut in order to keep them in and prevent the spread of COVID19 through the city.]]> 2021-11-09 17:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879026534 Panic Purchases https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879026681 People hoarded hand sanitizer and toilet paper; basically all stores were sold out of their medical supplies. I just remember huge lines coming out of Costco and eventually they had to limit the amount of rolls each family bought]]> 2021-11-09 17:42:51 UTC https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879026681 Mask Myth https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879027185 when I worked at Safeway a customer told me the that I would be able to hear better if I didn't have a mask on. Thats not how it works my guy, my ears aren't covered my mouth is.]]> 2021-11-09 17:43:01 UTC https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879027185 Ice Cream Tests Positive for COVID-19 https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879027706 I remember reading an article about a batch of ice cream that tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this year in China. It was a batch of three samples. ]]> 2021-11-09 17:43:13 UTC https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879027706 Iowa's governor outlawed mask mandates in school https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879029690 The day after I graduated, the governor banned schools imposing mask mandates, meaning kids who didn't wear masks began making fun of those who continued to wear masks. Many kids couldn't even get vaccinated at the time]]> 2021-11-09 17:43:53 UTC https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879029690 I saw on the news the story of this doctor who died after taking medication for horses despite CDC guidelines against it. He would prescribe the same medication to his patients as "cure" for Covid christiane_alcantara https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879029736 2021-11-09 17:43:54 UTC https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879029736 Santizing aakkira1 https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879029979 The most absurd situation I experienced was when I went to get 20 hand sanitizers from bath and body works.  ]]> 2021-11-09 17:44:00 UTC https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879029979 Walmart https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879030859 I once went into Walmart towards the beginning of the pandemic and there was nothing on the shelves--no water, no alcohol, no pasta, no food. There were a couple things here and there but the store was practically empty. Felt like something out of a dystopian novel]]> 2021-11-09 17:44:19 UTC https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879030859 Story time? https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879031141 I suppose the one thing that I saw was slightly horrific was just the piles of bodies in other countries with inadequate health care systems to handle it. 
Not only that but smelling the huge shipping containers filled with bodies was gross at times near my neighborhood.  ]]> 2021-11-09 17:44:25 UTC https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879031141 Racism https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879031684 There was a major surge of prejudice and racism towards Asians and Asian Americans, especially East Asians. So many people were violently attacking them, blaming them for the origin of the virus. I remember reading stories of elderly Asians in San Francisco having to wear sunglasses and hats all the time to cover up their facial features]]> 2021-11-09 17:44:38 UTC https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879031684 Family situation https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879031909 So my grandmother does not live in the United States; she lives with my mother's brother and his wife (not a US citizen, but has a VISA). During the pandemic, she was emotionally and verbally abused by these people. We had to book flight tickets for her and slowly move her stuff to another house. She literally left for the airport at night in order not to get caught. It's really sad how domestic violence/abuse rose tenfold during the pandemic, and these people were probably not as lucky as my grandmother.]]> 2021-11-09 17:44:43 UTC https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879031909 I personally didn't experience anything absurd, but the condition of daily wage workers was pretty sad to watch. Thousands of daily wage worker lost their jobs and they had to go back to their hometowns and villages as they couldnt afford to live in the capital. To add to this, public buses nor trains were functioning so people decided to walk for hundreds and hundreds of miles with their children in 45c heat of central india which ended up killing a bunch of those people by heat exhaustion & starvation rather than by covid. https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879034271 2021-11-09 17:45:40 UTC https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879034271 Anti-Maskers Around Me https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879037386 When the pandemic was at its peak, many people I knew decided they were stronger than COVID-19 and thought that wearing masks would not help them in any way. Coincidentally, they all got the virus, and some were even hospitalized. They all quietly started wearing masks only after it affected them. ]]> 2021-11-09 17:46:53 UTC https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879037386 Studying abroad, whoo boy https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879038555 Ok, so my sister was studying abroad in France (she is graduating from ASU this fall!) when everything went crazy and countries started locking down (it was a Thursday, I remember). She had a plane ticket to London to see a friend on Friday and had to pack literally everything she could up in one day from her apartment, get on that flight to London, and come straight back to the US. The US locked down flights from all countries the day after she got back. She loves travelling and was going to travel all over Europe after she finished her studying abroad and we were gonna go with her. She was very depressed when she got back. ]]> 2021-11-09 17:47:21 UTC https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879038555 Covid parties where people would intentionally have contact with infected people christiane_alcantara https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879039129 2021-11-09 17:47:34 UTC https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879039129 Working from home https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879039141 It was weird to me to watch my parents working from home, not allowed to return to their office workspace, even today - two years later. I feel like this puts a lot of strain on the work/home relationship, especially since my dads office is less than 20 feet from his room. I cant imagine every day just going back and forth between rooms hardly leaving the house, for two years and who knows how much longer. ]]> 2021-11-09 17:47:34 UTC https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879039141 Fake Vaccination Cards https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879039606 Title says it all; saw many people selling fake vaccination cards just as they would sell fake IDs, etc.]]> 2021-11-09 17:47:45 UTC https://padlet.com/christiane_alcantara/k0wcv27hmxhfcu7p/wish/1879039606