Coming To Ground

Home of the Brave

Scott Carrier

Society And Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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I recorded these interviews with my family two weeks ago, before George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis. Now they seem unimportant, like from another era. Except that in my family it’s the younger folk who have been mostly fucked by the virus pandemic, and it’s been young people, mostly, who’ve been out on the streets protesting. I hope their efforts lead to real change in our society.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Home of the Brave. I'm Scott Carrier. My daughter, Jessie is sick. She's been sick for more than a month.
0:12.0	She got a test and it came back negative, but she's still
0:16.4	sick with COVID-like symptoms and she's alone, a long way from home. She's 34 living in the Bay Area working for a tech
0:26.7	company as a recruiter, but she's had to take some time off lately because she's been sick and now she's worried she might
0:35.1	get laid off for not meeting her production goals. I don't care so much if she loses her
0:41.5	job. I just don't like that she's alone.
0:47.0	Right now I feel most of my symptoms are gone except fatigue. I feel really tired all the time and if I could guess what's going on in my body my immune system is really is not very strong right now and I think one of
1:06.9	the reasons that I am still sick is because in once I started feeling better I started going for bike rides and
1:14.8	going for walks and exercising a lot and just trying to go back into my normal life and I think
1:20.8	I just didn't have the, I couldn't do it, I couldn't sustain it.
1:25.0	But it feels very strange because even though my symptoms were mild,
1:31.0	it felt like it was really deep inside my body.
1:35.0	And I haven't felt this tight.
1:38.0	It's the kind of exhaustion that I remember, like vaguely remember a feeling when I had mono when I was 12 or something.
1:47.0	So any new kind of emotions are things like, oh, I haven't felt like this before.
1:55.0	I think what I'm grappling with right now is how I don't know what's going to happen.
2:08.5	There's a lot of legitimate anxiety and fear around things not going well.
2:18.6	Like the, you know, the system's meant to help us and protect us failing or you're not being set up to help us in the first place,
2:29.0	like not being able to access medical care or you know losing your job and unemployment being
2:36.2	impossible to access so I think yeah and then and then also just a lot of really contradicting.
2:45.0	People have said this a lot, but that there's no, we don't have a central authority here.
2:52.0	I mean, that's the main thing that I'm feeling right now is just like
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