{"id":3666,"date":"2023-05-23T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=3666"},"modified":"2023-05-23T18:23:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T23:23:03","slug":"you-definitely-dont-wish-you-were-here-postcards-in-the-age-of-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/05\/23\/you-definitely-dont-wish-you-were-here-postcards-in-the-age-of-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"You definitely don\u2019t wish you were here: Postcards in the age of covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2023\/05\/09\/covid-postcard-collection\/\">Washington Post <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For someone who never actually tested positive for the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/coronavirus\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\" target=\"_blank\">coronavirus<\/a>,\u00a0<strong>Clarissa Ferraris<\/strong>\u00a0sure has a house full of it. The virus is on hundreds of postcards that the Columbia, Md., collector has amassed over the last three years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are postcards of health-care workers battling the spiky globular virus, of cityscapes emptied by the pandemic, of fanciful outfits designed to maintain social distancing (a hat six feet in diameter, for example). So many covid-related postcards have come out in the last three years that Clarissa and a fellow collector have created an online database of them. They\u2019ve posted lectures on YouTube about this very specific interest, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPostcards have always been a witness of what happened,\u201d Clarissa said. \u201cSo it was logical that there would be covid postcards.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it was logical that Clarissa would collect them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been collecting since I was probably 13,\u201d Clarissa, 67, told me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She started when she found 2,000 postcards that her late grandfather had amassed. That was in Italy. Her grandfather, she said, was something between a collector and a pack rat, which probably describes any of us consumed by the desire to acquire \u2026 things \u2014 or lots of a&nbsp;<em>certain<\/em>&nbsp;thing, anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Postcards, Clarissa said, are especially collectible. That\u2019s because a single postcard can appeal to myriad types of collectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA postcard can have a carriage with a horse in a small town and some people dressed in folkloric costumes,\u201d she said. \u201cThere could be many different reasons why the postcard is taken by three different collectors. For some it\u2019s because of the horse and carriage. For some it\u2019s because of the village. For some it\u2019s because of the costumes the ladies are dressed in.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post For someone who never actually tested positive for the\u00a0coronavirus,\u00a0Clarissa Ferraris\u00a0sure has a house full of it. The virus is on hundreds of postcards that the Columbia, Md., collector has amassed over the last three years. There are postcards of health-care workers battling the spiky globular virus, of cityscapes emptied by the pandemic, of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":3667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":false,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psychological-and-sociological-impact"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-23-at-19.22.21.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3668,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions\/3668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}