{"id":4314,"date":"2020-05-06T17:46:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T17:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/?p=4314"},"modified":"2020-05-06T17:48:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T17:48:42","slug":"tomorrow-sharing-stories-of-the-covid-19-experience-from-quarantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/2020\/05\/06\/tomorrow-sharing-stories-of-the-covid-19-experience-from-quarantine\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow: Sharing Stories of the COVID-19 Experience…From Quarantine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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by Daniel Zietlow1,2,3<\/sup> and Ryan Vachon1,2,4<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1<\/sup>CSTPR Research Affiliate<\/a>
2<\/sup>Provare Media<\/a>
3<\/sup>National Center for Atmospheric Research<\/a>
4<\/sup>Earth Initiatives<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo above: Filming: social distancing style!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was in a car traveling south on I-25 when I got a message from\nmy director. We had just finished taking down the National Center for\nAtmospheric Research (NCAR) Traveling Climate Exhibit which had been on display\nat Colorado State University. My director called to say it was probably a good\nidea to swing by the office and get anything I may need to work-from-home for\nan indefinite amount of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arriving 30 minutes later, the office already felt bare and\ndeserted. The overcast skies and look-like-rain atmosphere certainly added to\nthe feeling. Only a couple of my co-workers were there. We hovered six feet apart from each other, making small talk\nand debating what we would need at home. I felt a buzz or strange\nenergy. I played it safe and packed everything: iMac,\ncamera gear, papers. Then I grabbed a bottle of cleaning wipes (we had quite a\nfew just sitting around the office) for good measure, made a weak joke about\nseeing everyone soon, and headed out. The dominoes fell a few days later. The\nCOVID-19 pandemic, which had thus far been a distant threat, was finally\nspreading fast in our own backyard. Office closures, suspension of in-person\neducation, restaurant shutdowns. It was one of those few moments in life when you just innately knew\nyou are living through history\u2014such a\nmomentous event that our world, as we knew it, was going to change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quarantine has been a time warp. The measures put in place to slow\nthe spread of COVID-19, and protect our health workers and most vulnerable\npopulations, have made the hours move slow. Strangely,\nthe days and weeks have moved fast. While\nquarantine can feel like a drag at times, we find it important to remember that many of us are the lucky ones. In\nour circle of friends and family, lots of us have not\nbeen deemed essential employees, required to continue showing up at work every\nday. We have a safe home in which to\nshelter-in-place, where access to clean water and food is easy. There\u2019s\ninternet access to continue working from home. But not everyone has these things. As we heard someone say, \u201cwe\u2019re all in the same storm, but we\u2019re\nnot all in the same boat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This scenario, same-storm-different-boats, can reveal inequities, hope, raw emotions, and chinks in the armor of nations, cultures, communities, and families. Like the spring plants popping out of lots of our gardens right now, limbs tender and fragile, we stretch and strain for lessons\u2014important lessons on equity and sustainable futures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: Production meetings: safely at home, yet still heaps of fun.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In partnership with Jenn Paul Glaser (Scribe Arts)<\/a>, we are producing a documentary that shares people\u2019s individual stories of the COVID-19 pandemic. Its title? Tomorrow<\/em>. Tomorrow<\/em> features the humans behind these experiences and celebrates the spirit of resilience. What started with a couple of interviews from friends has blossomed into stories from around the planet, like a health worker in Florida, a professional athlete from northern Italy, and English language teacher in Japan. In the next couple of weeks, we\u2019ll be honored to hear stories from India, Australia and so many more! Even breaking practices of the past, our film intern works from home\u2014in South Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we move to rebuild for tomorrow\u2019s\nmore resilient society (after the COVID-19 pandemic), we will be navigating\ncomplex terrain. Yet we hope that at the roots of these complexities will be the\nawareness of our values and strengths that are awakened today.<\/s><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We welcome participation. Learn more about the Tomorrow<\/em> documentary on our Provare Media website: www.ProvareMedia.com\/tomorrow<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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