Item

"...come all the way back around to the plague doctor posey mask"

Title (Dublin Core)

"...come all the way back around to the plague doctor posey mask"

Description (Dublin Core)

A tweet by author Anne Thériault featuring a screenshot of a Facebook post extolling the benefits of putting herbs in the pocket many masks have in order to make the experience of wearing a mask more pleasant. The intended purpose of these pockets is as place to put an added filter to cloth masks should you need to enter a high risk area such as a hospital. The tweet itself points out how this is essentially identical to the practice of placing dried herbs and flowers (posies) in plague doctors masks during Bubonic Plague outbreaks- in that case to keep the scents which were thought to spread the disease at bay.

Date (Dublin Core)

July 5, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Anne Thériault

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Hope Gresser

Type (Dublin Core)

Tweet

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://twitter.com/anne_theriault/status/1279876152040009728
https://web.archive.org/web/20200705204401/https://twitter.com/anne_theriault/status/1279876152040009728

Publisher (Dublin Core)

Twitter

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Clothing & Accessories
English Environment & Landscape
English Health & Wellness
English Social Media (including Memes)

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

mask
herb
fresh
calm
history
bubonic plague

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

mask
herb
herbal medicine
#historyrepeatsitself

Collection (Dublin Core)

Environment

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Refugee advocates beseech bylaw to 'warn and inform' after man handed $880 fine

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

07/06/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

07/19/2020
10/02/2020
10/23/2020

Item sets

Covid 19
Canada

This item was submitted on July 6, 2020 by Hope Gresser using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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