Stories of COVID-19: Cooperation, Part 1
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🗓️ 20 November 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we explore the ways in which we’re working together to help one another and get things done, despite the significant obstacles and social-distancing restrictions presented by COVID-19.
Today, in part one of this episode, we’ll hear a story from Brazilian biologist Diana Bertuol Garcia. In this story, Diana and her research group are alone in the Patagonian fjords when they receive word of the pandemic and must find their way home.
After Diana’s story, our host interviews Athena Aktipis, professor of psychology at Arizona State University, and co-Director of The Human Generosity Project, about her research into how we’re cooperating during the pandemic.
Find transcripts and photos at https://www.storycollider.org/stories-of-covid19 And stay tuned for part 2 of “Cooperation” on Monday, Nov. 23!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Story Clider's Stories of COVID-19 series. |
| 0:17.0 | This is part one of episode two on the theme of cooperation. |
| 0:22.6 | Let's face it, as human beings working together can be difficult in the best of times. |
| 0:28.2 | But now the pandemic has made things even more challenging. |
| 0:32.1 | And whether we're researchers, activists, or volunteers, I think we're all kind of wondering, |
| 0:37.3 | how do we organize, how do we organize, how do we |
| 0:39.4 | collaborate, how do we help each other, given that it's not safe for us to gather in person |
| 0:44.8 | or travel or do any of the things we normally do to make teamwork happen? And under the |
| 0:50.5 | circumstances, is it still possible to accomplish anything meaningful as a team? |
| 0:56.0 | Our first storyteller of cooperation is Brazilian researcher Deanna Bertouel Garcia. |
| 1:03.0 | Her story was recorded at her home in Sao Paulo. |
| 1:06.0 | Because we weren't able to ship equipment to Deanna. Her story is recorded using her smartphone microphone, |
| 1:11.6 | and we appreciate your understanding with regard to the audio quality. |
| 1:14.6 | It's March 13th, 2020. Me and my group are part of a probably very small percentage of the world population that does |
| 1:33.7 | know there's a pandemic going on. |
| 1:35.3 | So in case you don't remember, the pandemic was declared like two days before that. |
| 1:39.3 | So sure, we know about COVID, we know it's already in a lot of places, but it seems like a very faraway disease that has nothing to do with us. |
| 1:48.0 | Why? We're in the middle of the Paragonian fjords in Chile at a local Forest Service shelter. |
| 1:54.0 | So it's a seven-hour boat ride from the nearest town and a 10-hour drive from the nearest airport. |
| 2:00.0 | So this is one of the most remote places on Earth. |
| 2:03.9 | It's a landscape carved by glaciers. |
| 2:06.7 | Steep, fjord walls covered by tamper rainforests, |
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