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Collected Item: “High Schooler Sensory Memory”

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High Schooler Sensory Memory

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Personal Experience

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, you were only limited to two of the five senses. Those two senses were the sense of sound and the sense of sight.
There wasn’t much to smell, other than all the hand sanitizer bottles. Of course there was nothing to touch or feel, due to the basic rules of social distancing. Although, you could see and hear society slowing dying. Any place other than your own home was silent. There was less face to face interaction you could ever imagine. On the other hand, I would say that people learned how to be nicer to everyone else. After COVID-19 hit, there were more good samaritans.

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#California High School, #American Studies, #San Francisco Bay Area, #sensory history, #San #Ramon Valley Unified School District

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Owen T

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2020-10-26
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