What I Notice About Reactions to Facebook Posts About Covid-19

Barbara Alvarez
4 min readOct 9, 2020

The Reality

Coronavirus (COVID-19) is highly contagious. It is also potentially deadly to those with underlying health issues, lowered immune systems, the elderly and the overweight. Everyone I know has been taking recommended precautions to keep ourselves and others safe — we haven’t been exposed, but we conduct ourselves away from home as though previous exposure was a possibility.

In New Mexico where I live, case numbers have gone up sharply. Several counties are facing increasing infections. Our…

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Barbara Alvarez

Barbara has been a writer for the past 12 years, after earning her Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communications at NMSU.