Item
I Missed Normal Hand Sanitizer
Media
Title (Dublin Core)
I Missed Normal Hand Sanitizer
Disclaimer (Dublin Core)
DISCLAIMER: This item may have been submitted in response to a school assignment prompt. See Linked Data.
Description (Dublin Core)
I am a high school teacher, so I used a lot of hand sanitizer long before COVID-19. One of the things that I will never forget from the pandemic was the smell of the hand sanitizer. There were shortages on all disinfectants for months, and the hand sanitizers I could find were brands I had never seen before. The worst part about this new hand sanitizers was the smell. They all had a sharp smell, much worse than the normal alcohol smell. Some smelled truly terrible, almost rotten. I put lemon essential oil in one to try to change the smell, but it made no difference. It just smelled like rotten citrus.
When my school went back in person in the fall of 2020, the worst part was having to sanitize all the time with the stinky hand sanitizer. I gained a whole new appreciation for Germ-X. It was almost sad how happy I was when I found a bottle of Germ-X stashed in my cupboard (because teachers were hoarding cleaning supplies before it was cool). I put it on my teacher desk behind my computer and hoarded it from the kids!
When my school went back in person in the fall of 2020, the worst part was having to sanitize all the time with the stinky hand sanitizer. I gained a whole new appreciation for Germ-X. It was almost sad how happy I was when I found a bottle of Germ-X stashed in my cupboard (because teachers were hoarding cleaning supplies before it was cool). I put it on my teacher desk behind my computer and hoarded it from the kids!
Date (Dublin Core)
August 15, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Amy Koppenhafer
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Amy Koppenhafer
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST643
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
text story
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Education--K12
English
Health & Wellness
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
sanitizer
smell
acrid
teaching
high school
Arizona State University
HST 643
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
Arizona State University
HST 643
sensory history
shortages
sanitizer
Collection (Dublin Core)
K-12
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Curatorial Notes (Dublin Core)
Olivia Langa
added pdf of text to create thumbnail OL 10/25/2021
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
10/17/2021
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
10/20/2021
10/25/2021
06/27/2023
Item sets
This item was submitted on October 16, 2021 by Amy Koppenhafer using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive
Click here to view the collected data.