Collected Item: “Getting a COVID-Safe Haircut”
Give your story a title.
Getting a COVID-Safe Haircut
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
Text / photograph (taken by myself)
Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.
With COVID-19, even things as simple as getting a haircut were never the same. The photo above shows what that looked like.
In Bahrain, where I live, hairdressers were closed down in March and were only reopened months later.
When they finally did, patrons and customers had to abide by certain restrictions.
There was only a fixed number of customers allowed in. Body temperatures had to be taken. Contact details had to be provided for the purposes of contact tracing in case anyone was exposed to the virus.
Masks and face shields were mandatory for the persons giving the haircuts.
Moreover, many people seem to not want to handle cash, and as a result, cashless payments are more popular than ever.
This reflection was submitted as part of the HIST30060 Making History project at the University of Melbourne.
HIST30060.
In Bahrain, where I live, hairdressers were closed down in March and were only reopened months later.
When they finally did, patrons and customers had to abide by certain restrictions.
There was only a fixed number of customers allowed in. Body temperatures had to be taken. Contact details had to be provided for the purposes of contact tracing in case anyone was exposed to the virus.
Masks and face shields were mandatory for the persons giving the haircuts.
Moreover, many people seem to not want to handle cash, and as a result, cashless payments are more popular than ever.
This reflection was submitted as part of the HIST30060 Making History project at the University of Melbourne.
HIST30060.
Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?
#HIST30060 , #Haircut , #Bahrain , #Restrictions , #Masks , #Face_shields , #PPE
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Yusuf Abdulwahab
Give this story a date.
2020-11-09