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Working Through The Pandemic

Title (Dublin Core)

Working Through The Pandemic

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Going through the Covid-19 pandemic is truly a test of endurance and adaptability. Wearing masks, sanitizing everything, and social distancing with the hopes these efforts help slow or help communities manage the virus was always talked about and put into action in day to day life as the new normal. I wasn’t concerned at all about the virus as I am pretty germophobic normally, always trying to sanitize my hands and surfaces that I want to involve myself with because of past experiences with being sick. When I got sick, I got sick hard, and I wasn’t about to take a chance with Covid either. However, this became an increasingly daunting task after I started working at a small mom and pop health foods store in my small town of Hilo, Hawai’i. Our clientele consists of people who don’t exactly want to cooperate with government mandates or fully believe in pharmaceutical science. Trying to be understanding of people’s beliefs and wants is one thing, but trying to be professional in spite of the outrage toward the mandates and that outrage being directed toward crew for upholding those policies is another. For the past year and a half, I have been stretched pretty thin on towing the line between being understanding and accommodating for customers and crew while also trying to maintain my own personal responsibilities and upholding local government restrictions. It is not easy to constantly hear complaints, belligerency, or contrasting opinions on the subject constantly with the added caveat of the building being an extremely small space. My solace that kept me going is the hope that this will be over at some point and not a new permanent reality. Until recently, we only had a limit of twelve (excluding crew members) allowed within the store at any given time. I was relieved when Gov. David Ige finally announced lifting restrictions and mandates on March 25th, as with high hopes we can all return to some semblance of normalcy before the new normal hit hard. The thing I look forward to the most? People not being upset at the mandatory mask policy, and crew not constantly voicing their opinions about

Date (Dublin Core)

March 17, 2022

Creator (Dublin Core)

Preston Long

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Preston Long

Type (Dublin Core)

text story

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Labor
English Conflict
English Government Local
English Business & Industry

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Hilo
Hawai'i
working
tired
understanding
differing belief

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

Hilo
Hawai'i
working
tired
understanding
differing belief

Collection (Dublin Core)

Asian & Pacific Islander Voices

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Explore the archive assignment for ASU HST580 interns week 1
Preston Long Biography Sheet

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

3/18/22

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

3/21/22
04/21/22
04/21/2022
05/21/2022
06/08/2022

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Covid 19

This item was submitted on March 18, 2022 by Preston Long 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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