Collected Item: “The First Mask”
What type of object are you contributing?
Image
Provide a brief title for the object you are contributing.
The First Mask
Provide us with a brief description of this object and, if it is not obvious, how it connects with the Chippewa Valley. For example, if this object is an image describe for us what the image displays and why it is significant.
This is the first mask I ever received in relation to COVID-19. My father gave it to me before I came back to UW-Eau Claire for the spring semester. I didn't think COVID-19 would be a big deal, which was obviously wrong. When everything shut down, it was thrown in with my dorm materials and lost until September of 2020. It reminded me of how inconsequential I thought this virus would be, and I even had it with me in Putnam Hall when I was in isolation for COVID-19. I have never used it or even opened it, but I will hold onto it for the rest of my life to remind myself of the good and bad I saw during the pandemic.
When was this item created? Please use a "month day, year" format, for example, "April 10, 2020."
January, 2020
Share with us the geographic location where this item was created. Please include, if possible, a ZIP code and an address or cross streets to help us map this location. For example, "Rice Lake, Wis., 54868, intersection of Main and Knapp."
St. Paul, Minnesota, 55116
Who created this object?
Katie Johnson
Tell us who is contributing this object to the Covid-19 archive. For example, "John Smith."
Katie Johnson
Help us identify a category for this item by selecting one option from this list that best fits the item you are contributing.
Home and family
(Optional) If there is another category that this item also fits please select it from the list.
Health and medicine
Is there anything else you would like to tell us about this object? Feel free to add relevant hashtags or a course hashtag if applicable.
#UWECHIST386
Your name.
[private]
I have read and agree to the terms and conditions associated with contributing objects to this project.
Yes