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Massachusetts Contact Tracing Log

Title (Dublin Core)

Massachusetts Contact Tracing Log

Description (Dublin Core)

At the restaurant that I work at, the host plays a larger role than just taking people to their tables. There is a designated “sanitation specialist” that clears the tables and wipes down the tables with peroxide and another liquid so that we can seat guests in an orderly manner. There is also the job of the main host to take down people’s phone numbers in case a coworker reports having COVID symptoms so that those in the restaurant can get tested for the virus. This connects to the civic purpose of history as this was one of the new contributions to the people in order to keep them, hopefully, safe from the pandemic and a need to reform how we think about our information in public spheres.

I think that this item is something that “ helps illustrate something particularly significant about the year 2020”. This is through the tracking log as we’ve often seen people protest the government having our information as seen with the microchip scare with the vaccine, but this has become something of a norm at work. Every so often, there is that person that will give me a fake number or protest their information being leaked because “they will call us”, our only defense is that we get rid of the paper after a month before getting our manager. The blurb at the top does a better job at explaining than I do.

Date (Dublin Core)

December 3, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Kasey Moore

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Kasey Moore

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST241

Partner (Dublin Core)

Suffolk University in Boston

Type (Dublin Core)

Photograph

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Business & Industry
English Community Service
English Consumer Culture (shopping, dinning...)
English Science
English Food & Drink

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Massachusetts
waiter
dining
contact tracing
peroxide
sanitation
safety

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

CovidMiniCollection
Suffolk
December 2020
working in COVID
part-time worker
restaurants
Massachusetts

Collection (Dublin Core)

English Foodways
English Vaccine Stories

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

12/14/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

01/23/2021
1/31/2021

Date Created (Dublin Core)

12/14/2020

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This item was submitted on December 14, 2020 by Kasey Moore using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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