by Kevin Cody
In anticipation of the one year anniversary of the pandemic, the New York Times posed the question on its Learning Network, “What has it been like to be a teenager during the first year of a historic pandemic?”
The newspaper received over 5,500 responses. On March 7, one year from the day the World Health Organization declared the world was in a pandemic, the Times published a dozen of the responses.
Among the entries chosen for publication was Mira Costa sophomore Maddox Chen’s commentary on Presidential politics, done with Legos. Chen submitted the following note along with his Lego photo:
“This photograph was taken on Sunday, Nov. 8, on my iPhone propped up on my cramped white desk against the wall of my room/sanctuary in my house. Using my preferred medium of Lego bricks, I created a physical mock-up of my typical spot for the past eight months: glued to a screen, whether that is my phone, laptop or the TV.
Politics has dominated everything this year, from racial, social and economic inequities to the simple act of wearing a mask. One cannot refer to this time without mentioning the diametrical struggle between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.” ER
