Author: Jason Turner Publisher: Cloudscape Comics ISBN: 1927742501 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 188
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March 2020 When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Canada, Vancouver-based comic artist Jason Turner recognized that both his community and the world were undergoing major changes that needed to be documented. Outbreak Diaries is an autobiographical diary-style comic that covers the complexities of working, maintaining relationships, and staying sane during an exceptionally difficult period of time.
Author: "Vaidiki Das Alisha" Publisher: Spectrum Of Thoughts ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages :
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The present residing situation has forced each being to change it's regular monotonous routine towards life. It has spectacularly erased irrespective of cast and creed or religion. This book is just the penned down outbrought version of a few very abled writers, who brought out their daily journals, thoughts they faced and some deep held melancholic incidents. A book would be an understatement to what these young minds have women together after they grabbed the chance thrown their way by life to cross paths with their very own mindtype people. By supporting one another we now want to express and also relate to many other hidden writers out there, who might find it hard to come out.... A small message from our writers: "You are not alone, we are there for you. "
Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9781927742495 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 200
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Outbreak Diaries is an autobiographical series of diary style comics that take place from early in the COVID-19 Pandemic through to 2021 when vaccines were being widely distributed. The story is told from the perspective of a household where both members were working in essential services throughout the duration of the pandemic. This story presents first-person experiences from a frontline worker and his thoughts and impressions of the changes in the world, more specifically Vancouver. This memoir is very personal yet relatable.
Author: Matt Hancock Publisher: Biteback Publishing ISBN: 1785907751 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 681
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When Covid-19 swept the world, governments scrambled to protect their citizens and chart a course back to normality. As Health Secretary, Matt Hancock was at the forefront of Britain's battle against the virus, trying to steer the country through the crisis in a world where information was scarce, judgements huge and the roadmap non-existent. Drawing on a wealth of never-before-seen material, including official records, his notes at the time and communications with all the key players in Britain's Covid-19 story, this candid account reveals the inner workings of government during a time of national crisis, reflecting on both the successes and the failures. Recounting the most important decisions in the race to develop a vaccine in record time and to build a nationwide testing capacity from the ground up, Pandemic Diaries provides the definitive account of Britain's battle to turn the tide against Covid-19. Crucially, it also offers an honest assessment of the lessons we need to learn to be prepared for next time – because there will be a next time.
Author: Lance A. J. Smith Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781500645465 Category : Languages : en Pages : 86
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What would you do if you were attacked by a zombie in the middle of a boardroom meeting? The world comes to a halt as a disease that reduces human beings to zombies spreads throughout the population. Jeremiah finds himself stranded in Brussels, and he and Dina have to find a way to survive as the streets run with gore. What would you do if you had to run, but nowhere to hide? They are coming, to take a bite out of YOUR life.
Author: Andrew Duxbury Publisher: Singular Books ISBN: 9780997283143 Category : Languages : en Pages : 360
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Everyone has a COVID pandemic story to tell. Dr. Andrew Duxbury has many: stories of a veteran geriatric physician caring for the most fragile patients in a university health system and in rural homes in the Deep South; stories of his concern for family, friends, fellow practitioners, and the state of our healthcare system nationwide; stories of his own isolation, of the loss of simple pleasures and passionate pastimes; stories of policies and politics that contributed to tens of thousands of needless deaths as well-known preventative measures were actively discouraged by state and local governments and exacerbated by cultural divides. This is a rare account of a rare time in American history, a contemporaneous record from the end of "normal", and the anxiety and despair felt by all, to the beginning of new hope for a better future.
Author: K. W. Callahan Publisher: ISBN: 9781535338486 Category : Languages : en Pages : 400
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It can't happen - our society is too civil, our civilization too advanced, our technology too developed to ever allow for a breakdown of law, order, government, and our way of life and living.At least that's what we tell ourselves so we can sleep soundly at night.But it CAN happen, and now it HAS happened. A pandemic far more deadly than any virus the world has ever seen is spreading worldwide. It puts it predecessors - SARS, bird flu, Ebola, and even horrifyingly lethal outbreaks like Spanish Influenza and the Plague - to shame. Experience this pandemic and its terrible effects first hand through the eyes of a family just doing its best to survive.
Author: Michael Berry Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3031168593 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 237
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During the early days of the COVID-19 health crisis, Fang Fang’s Wuhan Diary provided an important portal for people around the world to understand the outbreak, local response, and how the novel coronavirus was impacting everyday people. But when news of the international publication of Wuhan Diary appeared online in early April of 2020, Fang Fang’s writings became the target of a series of online attacks by “Chinese ultra-nationalists.” Over time, these attacks morphed into one of the most sophisticated and protracted hate Campaigns against a Chinese writer in decades. Meanwhile, as controversy around Wuhan Diary swelled in China, the author was transformed into a global icon, honored by the BBC as one of the most influential women of 2020 and featured in stories by dozens of international news outlets. This book, by the translator of Wuhan Diary into English, alternates between a first-hand account of the translation process and more critical observations on how a diary became a lightning rod for fierce political debate and the target of a sweeping online campaign that many described as a “cyber Cultural Revolution.” Eventually, even Berry would be pulled into the attacks and targeted by thousands of online trolls. This book answers the questions: why would an online lockdown diary elicit such a strong reaction among Chinese netizens? How did the controversy unfold and evolve? Who was behind it? And what can we learn from the “Fang Fang Incident” about contemporary Chinese politics and society? The book will be of interest to students and scholars of translation, as well as anyone with special interest in translation, US-Chinese relations, or internet culture more broadly.
Author: Fang Fang Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0063052652 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 348
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From one of China’s most acclaimed and decorated writers comes a powerful first-person account of life in Wuhan during the COVID-19 outbreak. On January 25, 2020, after the central government imposed a lockdown in Wuhan, acclaimed Chinese writer Fang Fang began publishing an online diary. In the days and weeks that followed, Fang Fang’s nightly postings gave voice to the fears, frustrations, anger, and hope of millions of her fellow citizens, reflecting on the psychological impact of forced isolation, the role of the internet as both community lifeline and source of misinformation, and most tragically, the lives of neighbors and friends taken by the deadly virus. A fascinating eyewitness account of events as they unfold, Wuhan Diary captures the challenges of daily life and the changing moods and emotions of being quarantined without reliable information. Fang Fang finds solace in small domestic comforts and is inspired by the courage of friends, health professionals and volunteers, as well as the resilience and perseverance of Wuhan’s nine million residents. But, by claiming the writer ́s duty to record she also speaks out against social injustice, abuse of power, and other problems which impeded the response to the epidemic and gets herself embroiled in online controversies because of it. As Fang Fang documents the beginning of the global health crisis in real time, we are able to identify patterns and mistakes that many of the countries dealing with the novel coronavirus have later repeated. She reminds us that, in the face of the new virus, the plight of the citizens of Wuhan is also that of citizens everywhere. As Fang Fang writes: “The virus is the common enemy of humankind; that is a lesson for all humanity. The only way we can conquer this virus and free ourselves from its grip is for all members of humankind to work together.” Blending the intimate and the epic, the profound and the quotidian, Wuhan Diary is a remarkable record of an extraordinary time. Translated from the Chinese by Michael Berry
Author: Roger Davidson Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing ISBN: 1836150091 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 260
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The diary provides a wide-ranging commentary on one of the most life-changing events in modern history. From the first lockdown in March 2020 through to the Covid-19 Inquiries of 2023 it reflects on the social politics shaping the response of government to the pandemic. Throughout, it juxtaposes the everyday lived experience and coping strategies of a 'shielded' member of the community with the competing agendas of Whitehall, Westminster, and Holyrood in their tortuous, sometimes comedic and often egregious efforts to contain the virus. Part 1 of the diary captures the initial crisis posed by the belated imposition of lock-down, the critical lack of personal protection equipment and of effective testing and contact tracing procedures. It reflects on the shifting role of scientific and medical expertise within the policy-making process and the breakdown in political and public consensus over the timing and content of an 'exit' strategy from lock-down in the autumn of 2020 in the face of a second wave of the pandemic. In Part 2 the focus in the early months of 2021 is on the development of the first vaccines and the medico-political issues surrounding their production and distribution. Thereafter, the diary reflects the continuing efforts of the NHS to cope with new variants of Covid-19 and the re-emergence in government discourse of a 'herd immunity' approach to managing the pandemic. The politics of Brexit and IndyRef2 are seen increasingly to marginalise the pandemic in the media. Parts 3 and 4 record the growing acceptance in 2022 that society would in the future have to live with the virus and that legal restrictions on movement would be replaced by individual risk assessment. The diary focuses on the gradual phasing out of 'test and trace' and 'shielded' status. It also charts the further normalization of the presence of Covid-19 and its variants. The process of investigating the conduct of the Government during the pandemic and especially Partygate and the cronyism in the awarding of contracts, increasingly occupies the entries as does the failure to clearly identify the processes and procedures that are needed when the existential threat of the next pandemic confronts us.
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