Stories of COVID-19: Clarity, Part 1
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The starkness and suddenness of the pandemic has forced many of us to stop and reconsider our lifestyles. In this episode, our storytellers will share tales of how their priorities and values have come into focus since lockdown began.
Our first story is from award-winning standup comedian and Story Collider senior producer Gastor Almonte. In his story, Gastor is forced to confront his health issues when he almost dies from undiagnosed diabetes at the start of the pandemic. Find photos and transcripts from all of our stories on our website.
After Gastor’s story, our host speaks with Mati Hlatshwayo Davis, who told a story in our Decisions episode. As you may remember, Mati is an infectious disease doctor who researches the impact of COVID-19 on marginalized communities. In this interview, Mati discusses the ways the pandemic has brought clarity to conversations about structural racism in medicine.
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| 0:43.7 | Hello and welcome back to Story Collider's Stories of COVID-19 series. |
| 0:49.5 | I'm your host, Erin Barker, and this is part one of episode nine on the theme of clarity. |
| 0:57.0 | During this pandemic, we've all been forced to stop, take a look around, evaluate where we're at. Many of us have had to confront problems that normally would be brushed under the rug, |
| 1:02.0 | or maybe we've realized how much we really do value relationships and routines that we used to take for granted. |
| 1:09.0 | In part one of this episode, we'll hear our first story on this topic, |
| 1:13.9 | and then we'll talk to Infectious Diseases Doctor |
| 1:16.5 | and recent Story Collider storyteller storyteller, Matty Flatchwai O. Davis. |
| 1:21.3 | Our first story is from Gastor Almonte, |
| 1:24.1 | who is an award-winning stand-up comedian and senior producer for Story Collider. |
| 1:28.9 | It was recorded in his home in East New York, New York. |
| 1:42.6 | It was already awkward before we got to the oatmeal. |
| 1:48.3 | You know, everybody was sitting down in the living room. |
| 1:50.9 | We just got home from the hospital. |
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