Every day of the coronavirus pandemic feels more or less the same as we all settle into our quarantine routines and keep social distancing as best we can while burning through every Netflix show imaginable (hello Tiger King). But things have changed and continue to change in enormous ways around the world.
One striking result of the lockdown are the images of empty public squares all around the world. Normally teeming with human activity, these nerve centers are now deserted as everyone remains indoors.
The changes are so global and widespread that they’ve even spawned their own page on Reddit called r/WorldIsClosed that catalogues these desolate images.
It’s a little eerie but on the plus side, Times Square has never been cleaner.
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Wuhan from r/WorldIsClosed
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Times Square at 7pm on 4/9/2020. Somehow, I’m beginning to miss the tourists. from r/WorldIsClosed