The Covid Disconnect

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Title (Dublin Core)

Disclaimer (Dublin Core)

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Description (Dublin Core)

The story and my experience are an example of the many ways in which the pandemic affected individuals in different ways. It goes without saying that each person was impacted in varied ways due to Covid-19, however, not all of them were either explicitly negative or an outcome that is easily defined as being either beneficial or harmful. During the height of the pandemic in the United States, I was employed as an Assistant Warehouse Manager in Green Bay, WI. My workload and responsibilities were already a little taxing, but once things got in full swing with Covid they became even more so. I went from working an average of 60 hours a week to over 75. This was mainly due to about a third (or more) of our employees being out of work due to quarantine-type measures or actual illness. This went on for months at the beginning. Many weeks out of that time period there were as few as about a dozen of us running three shifts in a warehouse that normally employed roughly 40 workers. Also at this time, my wife became unemployed because her place of employment shut down. Others around me were losing their jobs in droves and facing financial hardship. But due to my position and the nature of the job, I had never had more job security and we never faced any kind of financial difficulties. On the contrary, during the entire pandemic, my wife and I never went without or struggled. This gave me a surreal feeling and one that I almost felt guilty for living through. Aside from some minor changes in my daily life, I barely noticed any personal changes due to Covid. All in all, it was an extremely odd time to live through; the pandemic wasn't necessarily bad for my wife and me, but I know it was for countless others. And that made it all the more strange.

Date (Dublin Core)

October 17, 2021

Creator (Dublin Core)

Scott Bartell

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Scott Bartell

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

text story

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Business & Industry

English Home & Family Life

English Economy

English Social Class

English Labor

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Green Bay

Wisconsin

privilege

financial

work

job loss

warehouse

guilt

thankful

Arizona State University

HST 643

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

Arizona State University

HST 643

Sensory History

Green Bay

essential

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Sensory history submissions and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

10/17/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

10/20/2021

06/27/2023

Item sets

Covid 19

This item was submitted on October 17, 2021 by Scott Bartell 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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