Stories of COVID-19: Cooperation, Part 2
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In part 2 of this episode, we’ll explore the theme of cooperation further with two more stories, from a volunteer and an organizer.
Our first story is from neuroscientist (and Story Collider senior producer!) Paula Croxson. Longing for connection, Paula decides to volunteer at a local hospital, despite her anxiety about the risks.
In our second story, organizer Kiani Conley-Wilson struggles to figure out how she can effect change during the pandemic.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Story Clyder's Stories of COVID-19 series. |
| 0:17.0 | Today we're bringing you part two of our episode on cooperation. |
| 0:21.8 | If you missed part one, we shared a story from researcher Deanna Bertolt-Garcia, |
| 0:26.4 | who was in the Patagonian Fords with her research group when she received a satellite phone call telling her they needed to return home due to a pandemic. |
| 0:35.4 | And we had the opportunity to interview Athena Activis, a psychologist who has been studying cooperation during the pandemic. And we had the opportunity to interview Athena Actippus, a psychologist who has |
| 0:39.7 | been studying cooperation during the pandemic. If you didn't get a chance to listen yet, |
| 0:44.0 | I highly recommend going back and checking it out. For now, we have two more stories for you |
| 0:49.5 | on the theme of cooperation. Our next story comes from Neuroscient and StoryClyder Senior producer Paula Croxon. |
| 0:57.6 | It was recorded in the living room of her New York City apartment. |
| 1:07.5 | It's early April 2020 and I'm walking north through Harlem toward the hospital. |
| 1:13.6 | I'm wearing a face mask that I stitched last night out of some old bed sheets and a piece of ribbon. |
| 1:20.6 | And as I'm walking, I realize I've made my face mask wrong. |
| 1:24.6 | It's clinging to my face and it's really tight and I can't really breathe properly. |
| 1:32.3 | So here's the thing. I haven't actually been outside my apartment for over two weeks at this point. |
| 1:39.2 | A couple of weeks ago back in mid-March, I wake up with a fever and whole body aches and I've completely lost my sense |
| 1:46.4 | of smell. There are no COVID tests available for people with mild symptoms, so I just |
| 1:53.6 | quarantine myself for 14 days and hope for the best. And as I'm starting to feel better, I see the call for volunteers to go in and help out at the hospital. |
| 2:07.4 | I call my family to talk it over with them. |
| 2:13.8 | And when I call my dad, he tells me that he doesn't want me to go in, |
| 2:19.3 | but that if he was in my position, he would do it and he understands why. |
| 2:24.3 | At the end of the call, we're both in tears. |
| 2:28.3 | I don't think I've ever seen my very British dad cried before. |
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