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In this Los Angeles Times article posted at the beginning of the county wide stay at home orders, the writer describes how the indigenous people of Mexico dealt with their mandatory quarantine orders during the smallpox plague . In the 16th century a group of both Nahua and Spanish scholars were enclosed from the world inside a convent in Mexico City. The article describes the dedication of the scholars to try and document the events happening around them and trying to survive at the same time. What was produced was the highly studied Florentine Codex. The codex is made up of 12 handwritten books. Each of the codices is written on both Nahuatl, the indigenous language of the Nahua people, and Spanish. The codex was first written in Nahuatl, and then interpreted into spanish. The Nahua scribes interviewed their elders to get their recollections of life before the Spanish invasion. The Nahua described the encounters with the spaniards and the terrible things done to the people, as well

In Castaic, California several inmates in Los Angeles County jail have been trying to infect themselves with COVID-19. In recent news, the government had decided to release inmates from prisons to make room for more social distancing. In the beginning of April the jail had no cases of the virus. By the middle of the month several inmates were tested positive. Inmates were seen on security footage sharing the same cup of water and passing around and sniffing the same mask. Prisoners who are tested positive for CoronaVirus are released. This is most likely the reason as to why they would want to infect themselves. The sheriff said he is saddened to see actions like this take place, and hopes to educate inmates on the harm they are causing to themselves and others.