Back in 2017, I got the idea that we should designate a weekend to collectively documenting our lives in Ypsilanti. I called the initiative #DocumentYpsi, and the results were pretty awesome. In fact, I was 100% committed, given the response, to make sure that it became an annual thing. But, like so many other things, […]
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Documenting Ypsilanti in the time of COVID-19
Posted in Art and Culture, Health, History, Ypsilanti Also tagged #DocumentYpsi, 1918, 1918 flu, 1925, Alfred Wilkinson Wilson, Ann Arbor, archives, automobiles, Bentley Historical Library, Bill Nickels, coronavirus, COVID-19, Depot Town, desolation, Enchanted Florist, Enrico Caruso, going out of business, Gretchen Whitmer, Kim Clarke, lockdown, masks, photography, public health, ROTC, scrapbook, social distancing, Student Army Training Corps, Unicorn Supply and Feed, University of Michigan, Ypsi history, Ypsilanti Historical Society 5 Comments
Risking our lives to save his own
As of today, there are 53,740 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, of which, 1,700 are here in Michigan. Here’s our current trajectory, based on the data. One would hope that, with about half U.S. states now under some form of lockdown, and testing finally starting to ramp up, we may eventually, over the […]
Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 2020, Anthony Fauci, COVID-19, Dan Patrick, death panel, Donald Trump, Easter, lockdown, pandemic, Presidential politics, public health, social distancing, Texas 38 Comments