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COVID-19
May 8, 2020
Your weekly reminder that there's plenty of room for joy during this pandemic
Enjoy this roundup of good news and celebrations of humanity during the COVID-19 crisis. Stay safe and stay hopeful.
Video via @Mrs_ConCon1787

Your weekly reminder that there's plenty of room for joy during this pandemic

❤️ Kindness, connection and celebration
This melted my heart and made this quarantine birthday which I thought was going to suck to high heavens the most amazing birthday ever 😭😭 To everyone who drove by my house today, everyone who took a moment to text, call, tweet happy birthday, I love you oh so much ❤️❤️❤️
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stumbled on a block party in brooklyn where everyone was on their stoops and a guy was DJing and people were dancing in the street and god i love new york so damn much
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one thing that this COVID-19 pandemic has done is brought people together!! yesterday was my little man’s birthday — so the neighborhood came out and celebrated!!
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Italy’s elderly have perhaps suffered most - not least, being isolated from their families. Reunions with grandchildren are wonderful to see. But this is a national trauma that will take a long time to overcome. Extended report
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People watched the Oscar-winning film ‘Parasite’ from their cars at a makeshift drive-in cinema on the airport tarmac in Lithuania
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It felt weird, maybe even futile, to celebrate my achievement at home, esp as the pandemic exacerbates an already vanishing job market. But, I gotta say, this ostentatious display of support from my Dad, who didn't graduate high school, has got me feeling proud of myself today.
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🤔 Getting creative in quarantine
With no clubs or bars to storm, 21-year-olds are throwing creative birthday parties in quarantine
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A Dutch restaurant tested an idea with friends and family of staff amid COVID-19, using small glass cabins for dining. Waiters wore gloves and face shields and used a board to deliver dishes to ensure minimal physical contact during a trial dinner. abcn.ws/2WvvpOd
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Anyone who wants to get interviewed for my 8 year old's newspaper, Cool and Cute News, get at me. She's particularly interested in nurses, movie stars and mail deliverers. "Pretty much anyone with a job that's hard right now."
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🎓 Getting creative: Graduation edition
Traditional milestones and unconventional celebrations. Some of ’s 2020 seniors are trying to make the best of this life moment altered by coronavirus. Angelica’s family threw her a graduation in her Doylestown backyard. Virtual ceremonies are tomorrow
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AWESOME HONOR!! While it remains unclear whether area high school seniors will get the chance to have a traditional graduation because of the coronavirus, leaders at chose to celebrate their graduates in a touching way on Senior Day!
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💪 Recovery
David Jamison inspired nearly 1 million on Twitter after he memorized 75 individual handshakes with each of his students. Now, he shares his experience beating COVID-19. abcn.ws/3fsBT9a
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#Belgium: hospital staff applaud a 100-year-old patient cured of COVID-19 Julia Dewilde, who has just celebrated her 100th birthday, leaves the Bois de l'Abbay hospital near Liège in Belgium after recovering from a COVID-19 infection, cheered by the medical staff. #COVID19
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🐻 Maybe nature really is healing
SOUND ON: Dozens of sheep flooded the streets of Samsun, in northern Turkey, which were empty due to coronavirus curfews. Shepherds led them to a mountainous area in a neighboring province. abcn.ws/3c80VZc
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Watch: Two penguins at the Oregon Zoo have been kept busy on a hike through the woods while a black bear named Takoda got a chance to splash around in a tub of water. The zoo is closed to the public amid the coronavirus pandemic
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Meet Buddy and Barley, the adorable ‘brew dogs’ delivering beer during social distancing 🍺🐶
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🤣 For laughs
The amount of money I've saved in the last two months really showed me I am the problem.
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