The Smell of "Clean"

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Description (Dublin Core)

How I personally remember the pandemic is mainly through the olfactory sense. The smell of bleach and Lysol filled just about every public area during the time of the pandemic, and many things spent more time than needed being disinfected with bleach water. The smell of Lysol makes me feel a bit in despair since it is so heavily linked to a very lonely and sad time in the world. The smell of bleach makes me feel a bit ill now, even three years later. I had only ever used bleach for cleaning while at work, disinfecting changing tables and toys, but now I remember it as a time of sadness and sickness. The idea of "clean" will likely never be what it was years ago, and the population will probably never be able to live well knowing the existence of germs.

Date (Dublin Core)

March 11, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

University of Maine

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Shai Vanderstelt

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

text story

photograph

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Emotion

English Health & Wellness

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

smell

bleach

Lysol

disinfectant

despair

cleaning

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

Sensory History

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Sensory history contribution to COVID-19 Archive

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

08/18/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

08/26/2022

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Covid 19

This item was submitted on August 18, 2022 by Shai Vanderstelt 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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