Item

Feeling Exhausted from COVID

Title (Dublin Core)

Feeling Exhausted from COVID

Disclaimer (Dublin Core)

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Description (Dublin Core)

When COVID-19 first came to America I was employed as an assistant manager at a warehouse in northeast Wisconsin. Generally speaking, the city I live in is somewhat conservative and reserved. On a day-to-day basis, it is typically tolerable (despite my liberal and progressive philosophies) and the people are, on average, kind and helpful. However, as COVID infections increased and much of the proposed solutions to help curtail the spread were politicized, it became increasingly exhausting to exist around others with less-than-helpful and uncooperative attitudes. This was mentally draining, to say the least. On top of that, I was starting to work more and more as members of the staff were on a quarantine carousel. In a short amount of time, I began to routinely work 16 hours (or more) a day. Not only was I spent on an emotional and mental level, the nature of the work I was expected to do was leaving me physically beaten. As hard as I tried not to be too upset with those that had to stay home, I couldn't help but feel anger at those that weren't taking the pandemic seriously. I felt I was doing double-duty: I was not only working in place of multiple employees but I was doing my part to help stop the spread of a virus that was causing serious harm. To top it all off, I was feeling guilty for having those feelings while still being employed, having a healthy family (and not suffering any losses), and being able to continue my way of life pretty much unaffected in a major way. This was certainly a time of mixed feelings and emotions. Although this may not be exactly what is meant by 'sensory history', it is hard to pick other sensations of a greater degree I had felt.

Date (Dublin Core)

September 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Scott Bartell

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Scott Bartell

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

text story

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Business & Industry
English Health & Wellness

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

warehouse
assistant manager
shift
overworking
exhaustion
Wisconsin

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

sensory history
Wisconsin

Collection (Dublin Core)

Service Industry

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Sensory history submissions and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

02/04/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

03/18/2022
3/25/2022
06/09/2022
06/27/2023

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Covid 19

This item was submitted on February 4, 2022 by Scott Bartell using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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