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The video I chose as a personal document to illustrate the consequences of the current COVID-19 health crisis worldwide was uploaded by the "Vox News" YouTube channel. Called "Why fighting the Coronavirus depends on you", it starts by talking about a statement made by WHO  on March 11th, 2020, where  Tedros Adhanom, head of the World Health Organization calls the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. He explains what will happen in the coming weeks and gives a warning to other countries, they must act before the spread gets out of hand. The narrator then goes in to describe the symptoms of the virus, and a woman on a video call goes into detail and explains how it spreads. They explain what is going on in hospitals, as well as what happens when someone infected goes on and about like normal and how that affects the sanitary system. The narrator explains that social distancing slows the virus and keeps the hospitals from being over-full capacity. They then take th...

The COVID-19 outbreak that we are all facing will be an experience that none of us will forget. While dealing with a global crisis having repercussions on everyone and everything, many people are still un or misinformed about this virus. With the overload of information, fake news is difficult to differentiate from what is authentic. On the news, we hear lots of technical words most of us aren't familiar with. This article by  by John Kelly , a Senior Research Editor for  Dictionary.com entitled " Coronavirus: The Words You Need To Understand" . The News gives us the most important words that we must understand in order to be fully aware of the pandemic. Here are 10 words (and their definitions) that I found the most recurrent and important in the News. 1. asymptomatic Asymptomatic  means “showing no evidence of disease.” Just because a person is  asymptomatic  doesn’t mean they aren’t infected with COVID-19. 2. communicable Communicable  mean...

POST 12: SPACES & EXCHANGES - Exchanges in Real Spaces & Virtual Spaces: Two cartoons  How far is the boundary between real and virtual spaces becoming increasingly blurred nowadays? The first document is a cartoon drawn by  Harvey Schwadron , where we see a man looking up to look at the window of a corner shop. There is a panel on the window that says "Ace Computers" and asks why "eco-tourists" would "travel and add to pollution while they could stay home and visit exotic travel web sites!"   This means that today, thanks to the internet it is so easy to just look up anything and have it in front of us in mere seconds.  For example, you can easily look up "Thailand beaches" and scroll through the endless pictures of idyllic scenery all while being on your own sofa. Today, pollution and global warming is a big question and we all know that planes leave a big carbon footprint. It is an ironic cartoon that pokes fun ...