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A beauty salon in Liberty Hill, TX that has been closed due to not being classified as an essential business. The recent stay at home order protests have shown people holding signs saying things including "I need a haircut". I say, cut your own hair.…

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A sign outside of an essential business in Liberty Hill, TX which reads "Only one person can enter at a time." to abide by social distancing rules

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Open and Essential were words we began to hear constantly. I took this photo outside of Mac Haik Ford on the first day we started working from home.

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Signs like these began popping up at all our favorite restaurants. No contact delivery, curbside or to-go service was the only way to eat out.

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Masks were deemed as necessary. PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) became the new acronym we were all familiar with by this time.

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On March 26, 2020, the county judges in both Travis and Williamson County signed an emergency order declaring that all "non-essential" workers were to work from home. Trying to figure out how to do that was a challenge.

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Due to an ongoing oil barrel price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia, plus the decreased driving because of the stay-at-home orders, a dramatic drop in gas prices resulted.

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Highlight of my week. Standing in line at the grocery store before it opens just to buy toilet paper is just not feasible. A student worker told me about this helpful service several months before, but it took a pandemic for me to take advantage of…

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The item is a poem expressing the feelings of the author in the wake of COVID-19 and their concerns as an education student for the disabled and oppressed students they teach.

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Letter from Interim President, Dale Knobel, to the Class of 2020 about changes to commencement due to COVID-19.
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