Collected Item: “"COVIDOPOLY"”
What type of object are you contributing?
Image
Provide a brief title for the object you are contributing.
"COVIDOPOLY"
Provide us with a brief description of this object and, if it is not obvious, how it connects with the Chippewa Valley. For example, if this object is an image describe for us what the image displays and why it is significant.
The pandemic continues to affect my day-to-day life and I began to realize that there are many new terms and phrases that have been introduced. I have never heard the phrases “unprecedented times” or “CDC guidelines” more in my life. The COVID-19 virus has truly changed everyone’s lives and continues to do so every day and when creating this primary source these new words and phrases became my focus. Monopoly is very much a simulation of life as there are companies and products to invest in and setbacks to overcome all well trying to gain the most profit. Many families, including my own, are struggling with finances due to the pandemic, so I found it only fitting to make Monopoly the template for my new game, “COVIDOPOLY.” I filled the board with relevant terms that I have heard almost every day from my family or every time I turn on the news. You work your way across the board, still trying to gain a profit, but with the overwhelming fear of being sent to quarantine or having a positive COVID test.
When was this item created? Please use a "month day, year" format, for example, "April 10, 2020."
September 27, 2020
Share with us the geographic location where this item was created. Please include, if possible, a ZIP code and an address or cross streets to help us map this location. For example, "Rice Lake, Wis., 54868, intersection of Main and Knapp."
S4202 Whispering Pines Drive
Who created this object?
Rachel Walter
Tell us who is contributing this object to the Covid-19 archive. For example, "John Smith."
Rachel Walter
Help us identify a category for this item by selecting one option from this list that best fits the item you are contributing.
Health and medicine
(Optional) If there is another category that this item also fits please select it from the list.
News
Is there anything else you would like to tell us about this object? Feel free to add relevant hashtags or a course hashtag if applicable.
#UWECHIST125
Your name.
[private]
I have read and agree to the terms and conditions associated with contributing objects to this project.
Yes