During coronavirus, college towns didn’t just shut down, they emptied out.
A deer loitered in front of the arboretum on a street once choked with cars. The city’s square was eerily deserted. The redbuds bloomed, but in the limestone buildings, most of the doors were locked. Even as the greenery sprung to life, the city felt dead.
The Bath and Body Works ran out of hand sanitizers. “But we still have soap,” the clerk said. “People keep forgetting that.” She’d had a feeling it would happen but pushed it to the back of her mind. Now it was official: Classes were moving online. He walked back into the silent residence hall, up the stairs and past the curated bulletin boards. Past the roll of trash bags splayed on the floor. Past the solid wood doors his residents closed last week, rooms still filled with clothes and mini-fridges and textbooks.Indiana cases: 124 // Deaths: 12Between patients and paperwork, Mary Jo Shaughnessy sat at her sewing machine.
Most days, he was in sweatpants. The other day, it was Cookie Monster sweatpants. His wife called the room “virus jail.”They were already on the brink. Now, coronavirus threatens their existence Escobedo was a four-time All-American, three-time Big Ten champion and an NCAA national champion. When he was in jail, his kids beat him up.“Daddy, you’re watching wrestling.”“I want to teach you some moves,” he told Malachi.
He was one of the lucky ones. He still had a place to stay off campus and friends around him. Some international students were stranded with nowhere to go.The first sunny day in a week, Kant decided he didn’t want to miss one of the most quintessential IU memories. He headed with his girlfriend to the iconic Sample Gates, which for many is the front door to campus.The two posed beside the limestone arches, and Kant smiled at the camera, holding up a peace sign.U.S.
But on the way to the mailbox and back, she took pictures of purple hyacinths. She noticed the blue sky. And she stopped in the middle of the road, just because she could.Indiana cases: 3,029 // Deaths: 202Before she left, Debra Hickman flicked off the lights. She knew it might be more than a week before she would see her rats again.
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