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Policing the Plague

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Policing the Plague

Description (Dublin Core)

This is a photograph of myself that I took just prior to the service of a search warrant on March 21st 2020 in Salinas, California. The state of California was the first to issue a statewide lock down order due to COVID-19 and had done so just the day before on March 20th. Officers in my department were required to don our gas masks for the service of search warrants and other specific activities at this time due to concerns of contacting the virus. These specific gas masks are issued to be used in environments in which CS or CN gas is introduced. They are also designed to be effective in nuclear fallout and are subsequently extreme overkill in regards to protection against COVID-19 and additionally utterly unpractical for officers whom work 40 plus hours a week. The requirement to wear these masks was very short lived as we soon downgraded to surgical masks and cloth masks. Nonetheless, this exemplifies the fear that has surrounded COVID-19, especially in the early days of the pandemic, and the often drastic reactions we as a society have had in response.

Date (Dublin Core)

March 21, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Jeffrey Arensdorf

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Jeffrey Arensdorf

Type (Dublin Core)

Photograph, taken personally

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Government State
English Social Distance
English Technology
English Health & Wellness
English Science
English Social Issues
English Business & Industry
English Government Local
English Crime
English Emotion
English Labor
English Cities & Suburbs
English Public Health & Hospitals

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police
precaution
mask
gas mask
CBRNE
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cop
law enforcement
fear
contamination
biologic
threat

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

police
Salinas
California
masks

Collection (Dublin Core)

English Law Enforcement

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

10/16/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

10/18/2020
03/10/2021

Date Created (Dublin Core)

03/21/2020

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Covid 19

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This is a black and white photo which depicts a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and two dogs staring out of a screen door. James Rayroux's JOTPY Portfolio Link Interactive Resource

This item was submitted on October 16, 2020 by Jeffrey Arensdorf 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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