"Six Feet Apart" - Making Adjustments
During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, many distilleries in Wyoming switched their production to hand sanitizer to help fill nation-wide shortages. Pine Bluffs Distilling focused their efforts on providing hand sanitizer to first responders in Laramie County. They were bottling in one liter Pepsi bottles and and gallon jugs.
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A true straw poll! Cheyenne voters were provided with these straws to safely operate touch screens in voting booths for both the primary and general elections. Some voters even took a quick selfie with their straws and masks to mark the unique occasion.
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Snowy Range Blue hand sanitizer created by friends, James O'Malley, a scientist at NDC Power, and Alfred Spatz, a local musician, to help with the increasing demand amid the coronavirus pandemic. The sold them to both local businesses and directly to residents in Cheyenne and Laramie. They created the black lid version first but found that the second bottle design with the spray attachment worked better to dispense the product.
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Door openers became all the rage as people aimed to touch fewer public things with their bare hands. The hook helps the user pull open a door, grab a grocery cart etc., and the protrusion at the end assists with things like pin pads and elevator buttons.
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With fewer drivers on the road because of the quarantine, gas prices plummeted. Marilyn Norman documented this at a Shell station where prices dropped below $2.00.
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