The Point Issue 5, Vol. 25 - March 12, 2021

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PALOS VERDES HIGH SCHOOL - ISSUE 4, VOLUME 25 - MARCH 12, 2021

Reflecting on One Year of COVID-19 By Aurora Khatibi Garrity news editor

Under normal circumstances, friends and families joyfully celebrate anniversaries, yet the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 shut down feels more like a time of mourning. This long but fleeting year has held death, justice and resilience. Over a year ago, on Jan. 9, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced COVID-19 in Wuhan, China. Twelve days later, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed its first United States COVID-19 case. Nine days later, on Jan. 30, 2020, WHO declares COVID-19 a global public health emergency. March 13, 2020 marks exactly one year ago, the day of Breonna Taylor’s death, and the day the Palos Verdes Penninsula Unified School District canceled in-person schooling. Students have lived out this “new-normal”, opening computers each morning for Zoom class, with the annual shutdown of in-person schooling being March 12, 2021. Confinement and loss of structure from quarantine have seemed to blur days into weeks, weeks into months, into a whole blur that is this past year.

COVID-19 Politics and Social Justice Education Culture


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