Casper Carter, 4, makes faces next to homemade signs on Tuesday, March 24, 2020, at his family’s home on Miami Avenue across from Mt. Lebanon High School. The Carter family plans to change their joke sign every few days while in self-isolation from the COVID-19 pandemic. “Living in Mt. Lebanon…we find it a friendly, walkable community,” Tess Carter said. “There’s a lot of scary negative stuff…but hopefully we can add a smile to people’s face.” (Steph Chambers/Post-Gazette)Tyler Friel, news director of the Butler Radio Network, talks to Butler Area School District teachers before recording them teaching a lesson over the phone, Thursday, March 26, 2020, at the radio station in Butler. The lesson will be broadcast on WISR 680 AM the following morning. The district decided to use the radio to continue teaching students during the schools’ closures due to COVID-19 so that families without computers or reliable internet have another option to access the lessons. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)An aerial view of Heinz Chapel in Oakland during the shutdown on Wednesday, March 25, 2020.(Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)Holly Lewis, right, shows photos to her roommate Katie Schuetz, in cap and gown, on Wednesday, March 25, 2020 in Oakland. Lewis and Schuetz, both physical therapy grad students, are graduating this spring. The roommates swapped the same cap and gown to take photos on campus since their commencement ceremony was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.(Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)A person wearing a face mask walks along Fifth Avenue, Tuesday, March 24, 2020, in Downtown. On Monday March 23 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced a stay-at-home order to residents in seven counties hardest hit by the pandemic, including Allegheny County. (Michael M. Santiago/Post-Gazette)The baggage claim area is empty on Tuesday, March 24, 2020, at the Pittsburgh International Airport in Moon Township. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)A hors and Amish buggy makes their way along a scenic Cotton Road, Tuesday, March 24, 2020, in Pulaski Township, Lawrence County. (Darrell Sapp/Post-Gazette)Bishop David Zubik, right, of the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, seminarian Erik Pintar, left, and others attend a mid-day prayer Wednesday, March 25, 2020, at the St., Paul Seminary in East Carnegie. Bishop Zubik called on Catholics in the Diocese of Pittsburgh to mark Wednesday as a day of prayer for those affected by the coronavirus and COVID-19. He chose the date because it is the feast day of the Annunciation, marking the biblical account of the angel Gabriel appearing to the Virgin Mary to announce she would be giving birth to Jesus. (Nate Guidry/Post-Gazette)Sarah Campbell-Needham, of Dormont, sings “Do You Hear the People Sing?” from Les Miserables on her porch during the “Dormont CoronaChoir”, where neighbors came outside at 7 p.m. to sing together while maintaining social distance, Sunday, March 22, 2020, in Dormont. The event was organized by Amy Kline, of Dormont, through the community’s Facebook page, and it was inspired by viral videos of Italian people singing together on their balconies. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Ted Swartzlander, a Butler Area School District police officer, loads a van with meals to be delivered to students in the district, Wednesday, March 25, 2020, at Butler Senior High School in Butler. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Guest mourn during the live-streamed funeral of Norbert Coyne McDermott III, better known as Bert, amid the COVID-19 pandemic on Saturday, March 21, 2020, at Mt. Royal Cemetery in Shaler. Guests were asked to social distance “to preserve the lives of our cherished elders,” according to McDermott’s obituary. (Steph Chambers/Post-Gazette)A sign reading “We are essential and open” is seen during the COVID-19 pandemic on Wednesday, March 25, 2020, at Ronnie’s Tire Service in Carrick. Usually the sign features funny messages, in which some have been featured on ESPN. (Steph Chambers/Post-Gazette)Don Ruffing works on his shop’s 1988 T10 Chevy Blazer that he uses to pick up parts locally on Wednesday, March 25, 2020, at Ruffing Automotive in Dormont. “Some people make the most of time when they don’t need their car and others are staying confined to their home and don’t want to be exposed,” said Ruffing of his steady business during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Steph Chambers/Post-Gazette)Paul Krawiec, the owner of Cafe du Jour, sprinkles porcini dust onto a New York strip loin for a takeout order on Wednesday, March 25, 2020, at Cafe du Jour on the South Side. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)A cyclist rides past a cherry blossom tree on Thursday, March 26, 2020, outside of Jim Ludwig’s Blumengarten Florist along Penn Avenue in the Strip District. (Steph Chambers/Post-Gazette)A nearly empty Market Square photographed on Monday, March 23, 2020 during the COVID-19 shutdown in Downtown Pittsburgh. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)
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