Talk Magazine

VOLUME 41 NUMBER 2

Talk Magazine

5 MAY 2020

Since 2012

When the World Unites, There is Hope

STORIES FROM THE 2020 PANDEMIC

When the World Unites, There is Hope Talk Magazine | Volume 41 Number 2

Book Design // Esther Elvira Instructor // David Hake Typography // FF Milo & FF Milo Serif Text // New York Times, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), John Hopkins Medicine, Bloomberg, Wired, Vogue, FontShop Images // New York Times, Bloomberg, Wired, Domus, Vogue, Metropolitan Opera, National Geographic, WAMC, Unsplash

Š 2020 Esther Elvira All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any means without permission from the publisher.

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Coronavirus

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What is a Coronavirus?

How it Started Risk Factors Prevention

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Pandemic Impact Unemployment Anxiety Creativity Spark

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Coronavirus

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Coronavirus

Coronaviruses are a type of

As of now, researchers know that the new

virus. There are many different

coronavirus is spread through droplets released

kinds, and some cause disease.

into the air when an infected person coughs

A newly identified type has caused

or sneezes. The droplets generally do not travel

a recent outbreak of respiratory

more than a few feet, and they fall to the ground

illness now called COVID-19.

(or onto surfaces) in a few seconds—this is why social and physical distancing is effective in preventing the spread.

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What is a Coronavirus?

Coronavirus

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Many health experts believe that the new strain of coronavirus likely originated in bats or pangolins. The first transmission to humans was in Wuhan, China. Since then, the virus has mostly

How It Started

spread through person-to-person contact.

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local area.

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Those most at risk of severe illness are older adults and people with chronic health conditions, such as high blood pressure, heart or lung disease, or diabetes.

such as highly populated cities.

can also spread more in certain areas,

such as healthcare workers. Viruses

contact with people who have COVID-19,

The risk is higher for anyone in close

People at (Higher) Risk

“Staying home saves lives.�

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Coronavirus

Clean your hands often

Avoid close contact

Cover your mouth and nose with a cloth face cover when around others Cover coughs and sneezes

Clean and disinfect

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The best way to prevent illness is to avoid being exposed to this virus.

Prevention Coronavirus

The new coronavirus has spread rapidly in many parts of the world. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. A pandemic occurs when a disease that people are not immune to spreads across large regions.

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With the coronavirus outbreak shutting businesses in every state, fresh evidence of the economic devastation was delivered Thursday as a government report showed that 6.6 million more workers had lost their jobs.

The Labor Department announcement, reflecting last week’s filings for unemployment benefits, meant that more than 16 million people had been put out of work in just three weeks, an unheard-of figure. Two years of job losses from the last recession produced barely half that total.

The Federal Reserve redoubled its effort to break that fall on Thursday with an ambitious plan to help companies and state and local governments gain access to funding. The Fed said its new and expanded programs could pump $2.3 trillion into the economy.

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Unemployment in America

Carrie Martin Occupation Environmental decontamination coordinator Location Rahway, New Jersey Age 31

Clemence Rouxel Occupation Pharmacist Location Paris, France Age 27

Sangeeta Gupta Occupation Hospital assistant and community food kitchen worker Location Faridabad, India Age 24

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The Ones Who Can’t Work From Home Charles Stallings Jr. Occupation Truck driver Location Des Moines, Iowa Age 46

Tony Lau Occupation Food delivery worker Location Hong Kong Age 29

Hiromichi Akiba Occupation Grocery store owner Location Tokyo, Japan Age 51

Pandemic Impact

Students studying abroad have been stranded throughout the world with dwindling financial resources, but the problem is particularly acute in the United States.

Many of the more than a million international students who left their home countries to study in the United States had been living in college dorms. They were left to find new housing after campuses shutdown.

International students stranded in the U.S. face an array of daunting troubles.

A substantial number of them are also watching their financial lives fall apart. Visa restrictions prevent them from working off campus, but campuses are now closed. And while some come from families wealthy enough to payfor their housing or whisk them home, many others had already been struggling to cobble together tuition fees, which tend to be much higher for international students. And many currencies’ values have collapsed relative to the U.S. dollar.

Some international students say they have had to turn to food banks.

Others are couch surfing in the friends’ homes, but don’t know how long they will be welcome. Those who were able to fly home before international borders closed are now not sure they will be able to come back to finish their studies.

Pandemic Impact

In Israel, where nearly everyone has someone to mourn from wars and continuing conflicts, Memorial Day—which is observed from Monday at sundown until Tuesday at sundown—ordinarily draws hundreds of thousands to national cemeteries.

But fears that crowds could spread the coronavirus have prompted the government to plead with people to stay away.

“It causes me immense pain that I won’t be with my brother on Memorial Day, but I know the right thing is to stay home,” said Frida Shniderman, 72, referring to her sibling, Meir Rozenchtroch, who was killed in the wake of a conflict between Israel and Syria in 1974. “Cemeteries get very crowded every year. It’s simply too risky to go now.”

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Israel Warns against Large Gatherings for Memorial Day

Defense Minister Naftali Bennett said at a news conference that observing Memorial Day as in past years would create “a coronavirus ticking time bomb.�

Pandemic Impact

At-Home Gala The Metropolitan Opera’s At-Home Gala—a worldwide relay of live streamed performances that, in contrast to opera’s usual grandeur, is being filmed using only household devices—is underway at metopera.org and will remain available until Sunday evening Eastern time.

It has an only-in-opera level of aspiration and difficulty: a roster of more than 40 of the company’s starriest singers, plus members of the orchestra and chorus, performing live across nine time zones. Among them are Lisette Oropesa, in Baton Rouge, La.; Anna Netrebko, in Vienna; and Piotr Beczala, in what he described to Peter Gelb, the Met’s general manager, as a village at the end of the earth in Poland.

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The Met halted performances on March 12 in response to the coronavirus pandemic— and eventually canceled the remainder of its season.

The Metropolitan Opera’s gala concert is now live, with a worldwide relay of performances via smartphones.

Mr. Gelb—who is hosting from New York along with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Met’s music director, who is in Montreal—said that the idea came about because “I am determined to keep the Met in the consciousness of the broader public, and I am determined to use any possible means to do that.”

Pandemic Impact

This New York Couple is Turning Quarantine Into a Surrealist Fashion Fantasy

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The New York photographer David Brandon Geeting’s work is characterized by its meticulous composition.

Geeting often creates hyperrealist images in his studio, where he makes even the most mundane things, like oven mitts and lemon peels, look uncanny. With his latest book, last year’s Neighborhood Stroll, Geeting turned his eye on his neighborhood, compiling photographs that he took while walking around Greenpoint, Brooklyn, over the course of three years.

There’s a shot of the rear window of someone’s car, which is decorated with a cluster of different fish decals, and a Budweiser can gently resting underneath some yellow wildflowers. “After trying to pull interesting compositions out of whatever the world presented to me, getting acquainted with the white walls of my studio again has been like pulling teeth,” Geeting said.

Geeting has channeled this feeling into what he’s calling a “self-quarantine residency,” which he’s embarked on with his collaborator (and girlfriend) Lina Sun Park. For every day of their joint quarantine so far, they’ve shared a set of photographs that they’ve created solely in their apartment. Park, who works at the Simone Rocha store in SoHo, assists with the styling, hair, and makeup. Their compositions include purple geodes displayed on fruit-printed blankets, smiley-faced potatoes, dirty white socks draped over bags of apples, and portraits of Park in a pair of overalls and playfully upturned Pippy Longstocking braids (complete with ribbons).

Pandemic Impact

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Typefaces FF Milo Designed by Michael Abbink and Paul van der Laan in 2006. Mike Abbink’s initial concept with FF Milo was to create a compact sans with very short ascenders and decenders. This resulted in a versatile tYpeface that’s well suited to magazine and newspaper typography.

FF Milo Serif Designed by Michael Abbink in 2009-2010. FF Milo Serif received an ISTD International Typographic Award in 2011 and—along with its Sans counterpart— was selected by the ATypI as one of the best typefaces of the first decade of the

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In the Headlines: Leading

Coronavirus Turns Urban Life’s Roar to Whisper on World’s Seismographs Leading is the spacing between the baselines of type.

The term leading is derived from the practice of placing lead strips between lines type on older hand set printing presses such as a letterpress.

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Grid

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Right

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Gutters

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Grid System

Book Size

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