[Facebook post by Eric Christensen regarding a surgical center waiting room]

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Screenshot of a Facebook post by Eric Christensen regarding another patient's behavior in the waiting room of a surgical center while Christensen's mother awaits cochlear implant surgery. The photograph in the post shows Christensen's mother sitting on the left and the one other patient in the waiting room sitting in a chair close to Christensen's mother while many other chairs are empty. The text reads "In a surgical center waiting room doing pretests for my Mom's cochlear implant surgery on Wednesday. In the middle of a global pandemic that had killed 150k Americans. Where does the dumbass on the right … continued below

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Christensen, Eric July 20, 2020.

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  • Main Title: [Facebook post by Eric Christensen regarding a surgical center waiting room]
  • Series Title: COVID-19 Response

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Screenshot of a Facebook post by Eric Christensen regarding another patient's behavior in the waiting room of a surgical center while Christensen's mother awaits cochlear implant surgery. The photograph in the post shows Christensen's mother sitting on the left and the one other patient in the waiting room sitting in a chair close to Christensen's mother while many other chairs are empty. The text reads "In a surgical center waiting room doing pretests for my Mom's cochlear implant surgery on Wednesday. In the middle of a global pandemic that had killed 150k Americans. Where does the dumbass on the right decide to sit? Really wonder if we deserve to survive as a species sometimes."

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Item description from donor: "Facebook post from a Surgical Center waiting room where people are supposed to maintain social distancing and every seat is empty- yet this person chose to sit right next to my 78 year old mother."
Series description from donor: "These are a few Facebook posts that I have made during the pandemic. My sister recovered. Apologies for the language in the waiting room pic, but I was pretty floored at the time. I finished my MSIS in December '19 and luckily found a job in Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi's Special Collections Archive before the virus hit. I'm now working on a Graduate Certificate in Archival Management at UNT and in the INFO5375 class where we were asked to submit three memories about Covid 19 for extra credit. I have been working remote since April 1, which has made processing collections an interesting challenge. "

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  • Preferred Citation: University Memory Collection, University of North Texas Special Collections

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  • July 20, 2020

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  • Aug. 24, 2020, 4:18 p.m.

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Christensen, Eric. [Facebook post by Eric Christensen regarding a surgical center waiting room], image, July 20, 2020; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1706453/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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