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263 El Paso, Texas, county jail inmates help load bodies of coronavirus victims into a refrigerated truck. These %u201clast responders%u201d represent the many thousands who handled the remains of the dead, according to photographer Mario Tama. Mario Tama/Getty Images QUESTIONS Understanding and Interpreting 1. The photo of Lori Spencer visiting her mother in the care center was widely circulated. Why did it touch a chord? What emotions does it evoke? 2. Look carefully at the signs in the photo from the Navajo Nation. How do they suggest community? What common understanding do they assume? 3. In the photo of protesters on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, nearly every person is masked. Why, beyond safety reasons, do you think they were so careful to wear protective gear? 4. Todd Heisler, the New York Times photographer who shot the photo of the empty Citifield baseball stadium in New York, said that on television the cutouts and piped-in sounds created some normalcy. What in the photo seems normal for a baseball game? What seems anomalous? 5. Look carefully at the photo of the nurse running to the ICU in the medical center in Oregon. In what ways does it honor the medical profession? In what ways might it voice a critique? QUESTIONS Analyzing Style and Structure 6. Note the vertical line formed by East First Street in the photo of Los Angeles after the governor issued a statewide stay-at-home order. How does the street%u2019s emptiness and the way it seems to end at the foot of the city comment on the effects of the restrictions forced by the pandemic? QUESTIONS Understanding and Interpreting QUESTIONS Analyzing Style and Structure 5 The COVID-19 Pandemic2020%u20132021Copyright %u00a9 Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers. Distributed by Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers. For review purposes only. Not for redistribution.