Apparently I Have Opinions About Hand Sanitizer Now?

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Description (Dublin Core)

I graduated with my bachelor's degree in April 2020, shortly after my state began heavy COVID-19 shut downs. The plans I had for my career took an unexpected pause. After several months, I finally found work at a local convenience store as a cashier. To accommodate heightened concerns about hygiene and sanitation, we had several bottles of hand sanitizer set up around the checkout areas for both customers and employees. I didn't know how different hand sanitizer brands could be. I suspect that the sudden demand for it during the pandemic must have led to cheaper, lower quality versions being distributed more widely, but our hand sanitizer was the worst. If you pressed the lid of the bottle, you would suddenly find your hands full of a large, unwieldy blob of what felt like elmer's glue and smelled somewhere between a rotten banana and a doctor's office. Try as you might to rub it away, you would inevitable be left with sticky residue all over your hands until you washed them. I guess in that sense it was an effective sanitizer in that it probably made a lot of people actually wash their hands. I no longer work at the gas station, but every time I think of that first COVID summer and that job that I was both so thankful and a little disappointed to have, I think of the feeling of that hand sanitizer.

Date (Dublin Core)

July 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Esther Spencer Rivas

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Esther Spencer Rivas

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

text story

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Emotion

English Health & Wellness

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

feeling

hygiene

shutdown

disappointment

smell

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

Sensory History

hand sanitizer

graduation

Idaho

smells

2020

Summer

Gas Station

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Sensory history submissions and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

05/28/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

05/28/2022

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Covid 19

This item was submitted on May 28, 2022 by Esther Spencer Rivas 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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