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Collected Item: “Covid 19”

Give your story a title.

Covid 19

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmemezila.com%2FMe-puts-on-hand-sanitizer-A-cut-I-never-knew-existed-meme-3763&psig=AOvVaw3nccgUjTZx1th1Sxcmgwde&ust=1598631054248000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCPjB4_niu-sCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

my family bought all of us bottles of it we would take everywhere and use because of COVID, ive used hand sanitizer more time in the past 6 months then in my whole life. at all store thier are hand sanitizer stations every other isle. it is everywhere.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#bakersfield #stinky #helps

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

One version of the story points to Lupe Hernandez, a nursing student in Bakersfield, California in 1966, as the inventor of hand sanitizer after combining alcohol and gel for use by doctors in situations where they don't have time to access soap and warm water before treating patients.

Give this story a date.

2020-03-29
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