The worst days of the coronavirus pandemic were many things: destructive, horrific and – in some cases – inspiring. They were also incredibly confusing.
Faced with all this uncertainty, many people looked at the Internet for clarity. Google search data from March 2020 offers a window in some of the most conscious questions about the minds of Americans during this time, whether Covid can live on surfaces to what, exactly, exactly, Tiger It was everything.
Here is a look at what we were looking for at the beginning of the pandemic.
When Covid first forced the nation to close, scientists diverged to understand how it was widespread. In mid -March 2020, studies were launched, suggesting that objects or surfaces could be a significant source of transmission. This guide has made people wonder if they should disinfect their mail, wash their food, or disinfect themselves from everything that comes from the outside world. We already know that Covid is transmitted mainly through droplets that infected people are released in the air when they breathe, speak or sneeze. It is not impossible to catch it from touching the surface with a living virus on it, but it is much less likely than it is initially afraid.
The Covid Lockdowns associated with a shockwave through the US economy, leaving millions of suddenly idle American workers to wonder how they can connect the edges. At the end of March 2020, the Congress adopted a $ 2.2 trillion economic stimulus package, which included a plan for sending a $ 1,500 per person and an additional $ 500 for their children among its numerous regulations. It was the first of three rounds of stimulation payments, with short contributions coming in December 2020 and March 2021.
The silver lining of Covid’s locks is that many people found themselves with a huge amount of free time to pour themselves into their cultural mania. No entertainment work gives an example of this trend better than TigerS Netflix’s documentary series for the former Zookeper and sentenced to Velon Joe Exotic became a sensation after it was released at the end of March 2020. It ended the year when the fourth most watched original series of 2020, with over 15 billion minutes, according to Nielsen.
One of the areas of the first weeks of the pandemic was a sharp shortage of toilet paper in stores across the country. Although it was often characterized by a result of accumulation at the time, the researchers have since been said that it is more accurate to say that the shortage is caused by a self-governing cycle of “buying panic” by people who have been convinced that they have to stock up on toilet paper because it is so scarce.
In early March, then-Serge-General Jerome Adams published a message on Twitter asking the public to “stop buying masks!” Because, he claims, they are not “effective” for the general public and medical professionals, they desperately need them to care for sick patients. As scientists have gained a better understanding of how the virus spreads in the coming weeks, this opinion has begun to change. At the end of the month, the centers for the control and prevention of diseases weigh whether to advise the public to wear masks when they were out. After all, designer canvas masks and more effective medical masks would become widely available, but at that time the only option for many people was to make their own.
National business closure led to an explosion in the number of Americans who were unemployed. The unemployment rate jumped from only 3.5% to 14.8% over a period of only two months. This led to a huge increase in the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits. Given the exceptional circumstances, the Congress has made the unemployment system much more willing, including the addition of an additional 600 to the weekly benefits.
At the same time, when much of the American workforce was forced without a job, those whose jobs could be done remotely, they had to collide to understand how to be productive while working from home. This meant that in many cases we could learn how to use an increase. The video conferencing platform saw that the users base were increasing from only 10 million in early 2020 to over 200 million only three months later. Products like Zoom have done a remote job, so manageable that a huge share of remote workers have not yet returned to the office – and they can never return.
The preparation of bread in the home had such an unusual moment during the pandemic that the sour dough bread still remains one of the durable cultural tastings of the era of blocking. It seemed that every other person was talking about the condition of his starter or conspired to acquire flour from some secret source. There is no clear answer why the sour dough, of all the potential ways we could spend our time, has become a national mania. Maybe it was the comfort of working with our hands, the satisfaction of creating something at a time when everything was enough or the simple fact that people were worried about where they would take their bread. Whatever the reason, the sour dough still holds a special place for Americans.
March 11, 2020 is often cited as the day the pandemic became “real” through the bigger part of America. One of the most shocking moments that happened that day was the news that actor Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson had tested positively about the virus while in Australia. At this early stage, most people did not know anyone who was confirmed that he had concluded the virus, so the message from a beloved actor may have been the first time I touched someone with whom they felt a personal relationship. Fortunately, Henks and Wilson only experienced minor symptoms before making a full recovery. Later, the Hanks will be described as a “celebrity canary in the coal mine for coronavirus” and will stand up for Americans to “make your part” to prevent the virus from spreading.