“I think with the pandemic, people are more desperate,” said Luan Ta, a manager of an American Eagle located in the Deptford Mall in Deptford, NJ. “People lost their jobs, they can’t get their...

As an introvert, isolating myself because of COVID-19 was simple. I had a legitimate reason not to go out and began sticking with the same two excuses: “Sorry, I live with my grandparents and my grandpa...