1. |
Interlude: 2020
02:59
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Alvin: For the most part I've written off 2020. I don't expect to see anyone again until at least January 2021. Yeah.
Lisa: Yeah. I guess it's hard for everyone, like you make a decision at the time on what you know, or what you think is going to happen and it's only afterwards that you can say, oh that definitely wasn't the right thing to do or it was the right thing to do... I'm glad we did it the way we did.
Meropi: I think it like became abundantly clear how like borders mean absolutely nothing when it comes to like things like this.
Juan: I would never expect U.S. to have a crazy president like us and they do. Then I don't know, everything is going a little crazy around the world.
Hanif: The first day of the um lockdown which was lifted and the people are lining up in Mumbai and there are unbelievable videos of like people getting on the buses… like a like a stampede to get on the buses and people falling down to get on the buses and the queues are like more than 1 or 2 kilometers long … So there is no social distancing and the people don't care now anymore… I spoke to a few people and they say either we die outside while working or we die at home without getting paid like starve and all that. So I would rather prefer to go out, er work and you know take our chances and I think, everybody is now mentally prepared to live with the virus because honestly, I don't see this thing going away for a very long time.
Lief: I was thinking about parents fleeing with their children from a war. Comparing Corona to that is just like er it becomes, it becomes silly sort of. Er. I know it’s it’s it’s, a lot of people are dying. But, comparing this to how many people are dying constantly er every every day erm in conditions that we we can’t even fathom erm. I wouldn’t say that Corona warrants more compassion than the ongoing crises of the world.
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2. |
Audible Anxiety
03:12
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But New York is a mass gathering
like it just is
you're interacting
with a hundred people
by the time you get on the train
So I’m scared of
I’m scared of it coming back
I’m scared of it coming back and coming back strong
And then having to do it all again
I've been hyper aware of like
little pains or breathing
Like I'm not a kinda hypochondriac
bit of a tickle in the back of your throat
and it kind of puts you
in touch with your senses
Are you sick? Are you gonna get sick?
Are you sick? Are you gonna get sick?
Are you gonna get sick?
Are you sick? Are you gonna get sick?
Are you gonna get gonna get gonna get gonna get gonna get-
This is like a Global Health Crisis
this is not an ankle strain
changing is inevitable
maybe just like go with it
go go go go with it
Hopefully we'll still be there when it’s over
Hopefully we’ll still be there
and that's fine
and that’s fine
we’re fine
Bit unnerving because you know
I don't know when I'm going to go back home
Apparently nobody knows when
this is gonna end
It's like a three hour effort to silence
what seems to be
even audible racing anxiety
racing anxiety
audible audible racing anxiety
I think being aware of your…
some time you’re gonna leave your body and yeah
you know
no longer exist
I think being aware of your…
some time you’re gonna leave your body and yeah
you know
no longer exist
It puts you in touch with your senses
in touch with your senses
in touch with your touch with your senses
it puts you in touch with your senses
In touch with your senses
it puts you in touch with your senses
in touch with your senses
in touch with your touch with your senses
your senses
This is like a Global Health Crisis
this is not an ankle strain
and changing is inevitable
maybe just like go with it
go go go go with it
Hopefully we'll still be there
when it’s over
Hopefully
we’ll still be there
and that's fine
and that’s fine
we’re fine
I know what it’s like to not be able to breathe
It’s left my lungs weak
so I’m nervous you know
really nervous you know
I don't think I’ll feel safe until we get a -
I won’t I won’t feel safe until we get a-
I’m on the downward spiral now
so anything I want to do I need to do now
need to do now
need to do now
This is like a Global Health Crisis
this is not an ankle strain
and changing is inevitable
maybe just like go with it
go go go go with it
Hopefully we'll still be there when it’s over
Hopefully we’ll still be there
and that's fine
and that’s fine
we’re fine
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3. |
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Seki: I’m in lockdown with my mum and dad up in Leeds
Meropi: I’m in lockdown with my parents um and my sister so there's four of us.
Kiggy: So I I live with my mom and sister. Um we recently just fetched my grandmother so she's with us, too.
Lisa: I was actually over here at mum’s for lockdown and this is the um the dining room table which was my office during lockdown. I don't know if she was super thrilled about me taking over the dining table for six weeks of my office, but there you go.
Kiggy: Having to be with my family has kind of made me want to change that dynamic a lot...
Christina: I’m hoping I reflect on the magnitude of luxury it is to spend this much time with your family later in life.
Kiggy: … so I've stopped looking at my mom as my mom. Like I look at her as a human being and then I go okay, you know, she has her triggers and she has, you know, her her little things that irritate her. How can I make that better?
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4. |
Essential Divide
03:23
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There’s an essential divide between like child and parent
just to be like a functioning adult
There is an element of like skewed truth
like you curate certain certain responses
I haven’t been at home for such a long time
and it feels like I’m starting to know my parents er for real
cause like people change and I changed
they’re trying to learn this new aspect of me
and I'm trying to learn this new aspect of my parents
I was a little nervous of like
we haven't all lived together in a pretty long time
I was more worried like as I sort of like try to find more consciously who I am
I tend to like withdraw and close up
because I expect people not to get it
So I think that has been a thing mostly for me
trying to re-relate to them
To them to them to them to them
trying to re-relate to them
trying to learn
people change and I changed
trying to learn
people change and I changed
I guess if you’ve got things that you’ve brushed aside
then you kind of don’t, you don't dwell on them really in day-to-day life
But I think being kind of locked down with them
I can get stuck in bringing up things in my head
It just prompts the question of like
Should I be here right now?
Should I be in my own space providing for myself?
I feel like I'm intruding a little bit
and then that goes away and like I indulge in the sense of comfort
I indulge in the sense of comfort
I think it has brought us closer that’s the craziest thing
Honestly I know for a fact that because of this
We talk a lot more
and a lot more freely
I want to say I'm thankful
not thankful for the situation
but I'm thankful for its outcome
Thankful I’m thankful for its outcome
not for the situation
but its outcome
Just being able to enjoy those like little moments
because again there was a real sense that they might
you know they might not be here very soon
I guess that's always the case
but having that put right in front of you
You try you try I think to make make the effort
to make make make that time count
and then on the flip side of that there is I guess all this this kind of other stuff
that you maybe don't want to think or feel about
and yet it's also you know, it's there and it's true
People are people, you know not everyone's like you
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5. |
Interlude: Make A List
01:13
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Matthew: Make a list of all the things that we were told were politically impossible uh in relation to the economy.
Uh we were told um it was impossible to pay people uh, more reasonable wages uh if they were in so-called unskilled work. Um what do we make of that assumption now? We were told that because they didn't have skills, these delivery drivers, these hospital porters, these cleaners, whoever it is that they are, that they didn't deserve more than the minimum wage. What do we think of that assumption now?
We were told that governments can’t spend their way out of difficulties. Well that looks a rather stupid thing to say at the moment doesn’t it? We were told that it was impossible to inflate the public debt at all. Well if we don't do that now then the economy just disappears. Um so we know that that was always a sham as well. There are all these things we were told that we couldn't have, because ‘the economy’ wouldn't let it. Now it looks as though we have to have all those things because ‘the economy’ needs it.
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6. |
Never Waste A Crisis
04:40
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The story, the how did it come to this story
How did it come to this?
We need to tell one another stories
About the sort of world we want to live within
It’s a moment of great opportunity
So many certainties have been ripped up
The world as it’s narrated to us politically
Has been shown not to hold at all
I hope very strongly that it’s going to be different
and I don’t mean just different to how it is now
but different to what the now
was like before we went into what is now the now
Well I hope very strongly that it’s going to be different, uh and I don’t mean just different to how it is now but different to what the now was like before we went into what is now the now
Never waste a crisis
Never waste a crisis
Everyone who’s lined up on the other side
Of the political divide
Also has that same view
Never waste a crisis
What all of us should do is to make a big list
A sort of stock take / of what was normal
Which aspects now feel really rather shit?
We shouldn’t treat what we had before as unchangeable
I hope to have a conversation about
What it means to allow people to be poor
Because that’s what’s happened
it isn’t just that some people have become poor
We’ve allowed that to continue / patterns of consent
Patterns of consent / the way that we live
The way that we work the way that we consume
The way that we consume the way that we consume
It's revealed um what that economy required people to do to themselves and to one another. Uh the amount of money that was being generated within it… came from particular human interactions, and those human interactions are the ones that the government want to get restarted as quickly as possible. This is a straightforward example of exploitation, dressed up as the freedom to work.
Never waste a crisis
Never waste a crisis
Everyone who’s lined up on the other side
Of the political divide
Also has that same view
Never waste a crisis
I just want happiness to spread
An outpouring of a desire to be kind, um
that desire to try to do good / to do good
extended to strangers in the future, um
Someone has to fetch it
Someone has to load it
Someone has to send it
Someone has to deliver it
We press the button
I’m very lucky
Living your life itself
is a political act
So I think normal people need to want to be involved.
I think normal people need to want to be involved and and need to think that they have a right to be involved in voicing their opinions as to how things will be different. And that will mean uncomfortable conversations because not everyone will think in the same way that we do, not everyone when they have the vision of the world that that they would like to fight for would be fighting on the same side. Um and so it it does mean having uncomfortable conversations with people who view the world differently to you, uh cause I don't think there's any easy route.
I don't think there's any easy route.
So where do those conversations actually take place? That's a difficult one isn't it?
I hope very strongly that it’s going to be different
and I don’t mean just different to how it is now
but different to what the now
was like before we went into what is now the now
Someone has to fetch it
Someone has to load it
Someone has to send it
Someone has to deliver it
We press the button
I’m very lucky
Living your life itself
is a political act
Never waste a crisis
Never waste a crisis
Everyone who’s lined up on the other side
Of the political divide
Also has that same view
Never waste a crisis
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7. |
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Well, I guess it's very er confusing for for us here, for people in China here to, to understand why the situation got so bad in West Europe ‘cause as a developed country, they have better like medical treatment and like better economy. They have more money to treat their people, and I guess we was just wondering why they got so bad. There is a theory here that erm people in the west are less inclined to follow what the government said and they refuse to wear face masks. They refuse to do, like stay at home, like the government said. So er … I guess it’s just different cultures.
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8. |
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Boris Johnson: And I must level with you, level with the British public, um more families, many more families are going to lose loved ones before their time
BJ: But I I am I I I’m shaking hands continually, I was at, I was at a hospital the other night where I think there were a few, there were actually a few coronavirus patients and I shook hands with everybody er you’ll be pleased to know and I continue to shake hands and er er I think it’s very important that we you know, people obviously can make up their own minds, I think that Matt has said that people must make up their own minds but I think the scientific evidence is, well I’ll hand over to the to the experts but but -
Chris Whitty: Wash w wash your hands
BJ: but our judgement is, our judgement is wash, er washing your hands is the crucial thing.
Matt Hancock: Er rightio, well er I’ll tell you what happened, um the um Prime Minister talked to er Daniel Rashford, he er considered it, and made his decision. I think it’s terrific. I’m I’m in favour of er making sure we get as much support as possible to people who obviously you know that are in difficult circumstances especially with coronavirus
BJ: Take it on the chin, take it all in one in one go and allow the disease as it were to move through the population population population population...
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9. |
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Subjugation, subordination
This taking the knee
taken from the game of thrones
You must stay at home,
Sorry I’m late, we drove
for nearly half an hour, Barnard Castle tower
My eyesight,
Drive to an isolated cottage,
In what way was I not honest?
Thunderclap of the economic
consequences, if covid was a lightning flash,
Together build our way back, come together to clap
Social distancing
Take it on the chin
Change of emphasis
Phased reopening
You can now shop and shop with confidence
Good solid British common sense
Social distancing
Take it on the chin
Change of emphasis
Phased reopening
You can now shop and shop with confidence
Good solid British common sense
This has been a disaster
We risk going backwards
Black Lives matter…
Daniel Rashford
We will take action
Build back better
I don’t believe in gestures,
A moment of remembrance,
Modify our measures
Get that infection rate down,
Let’s not blow it now folks, I will not support those who flout
Conversations with Dominic, and he followed the instincts
Of every father
Drink a yard of ale,
The restrictions
have been lifted,
We are not out the woods
Show some guts
Can’t afford to stuff this up (follow the)
Social distancing
Take it on the chin
Change of emphasis
Phased reopening
You can now shop and shop with confidence
Good solid British common sense
Social distancing
Take it on the chin
Change of emphasis
Phased reopening
You can now shop and shop with confidence
Good solid British common sense
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10. |
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Lief: I mean social distancing in Sweden in one regard is very easy because they are we are fairly social distanced people from the beginning. I mean er if you compare to Italy or or Spain I guess er with all their kisses and er and hugs and er lot of close relations in that way. I mean we do hug in Sweden, at least younger generations. But going from this to do the, like the elbow bump is er I mean it’s pretty smooth, it’s not, it doesn’t feel awkward. It feels like more more feels like the hip thing. Like er the kids do.
Christina: What has surprised me most about myself? ..don’t, I, that I don't really want to talk to people. That's been really um, highlighted for me. So yeah, I guess I am in fact an introvert.
Kiggy: Oh, no, that's always in the crapper. I, I also generally don't speak about my romantic life because I I I really can't say much on it but it's always a challenge. I mean, it's forced me to think about it a lot more. Um. But it's just it's it's not fun.
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11. |
With You And Without You
05:54
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Oh gosh
I don’t even have the words
all of a sudden…without them
it makes your heart hurt
Oh gosh
the lovers, they’re lovebirds
you know what lovers do
Every two weeks we get together
And fuck each other’s brains out
Or you know we’ll do we’ll do
A little visual party on the Facetime.
You’re telling them to keep social distance
You’re telling them to keep social distance
You know, so we talk, two to three hours a day
You’re telling them to keep social distance
I sit at home and I wait
I wait in hope
I wait for it all to end
I sit at home and I wait
I wait in hope
I wait for it all to end
I wait with you and without you
With you and without you
I wait with you and without you
For it all to end
all all
It’s not all been happy and fun
Obviously, because
I’ve never spent so much time with my-
Yes testing times
Maybe the idea sounds good
But in reality… it doesn’t work
I could go to my sister’s house
Otherwise I would have gone crazy
I haven’t got a romantic life
Thank goodness, thank goodness
I like being on my own
Thank goodness, thank goodness
I’ve had enough of that
I’ve had enough of that
I’ve always had disasters
I’ve had enough of that
I sit at home and I wait
I wait in hope
I wait for it all to end
I wait with you and without you
With you and without you
I wait with you and without you
For it all to end
all all all
I don’t have sex for five months!
I’m becoming virgin again!
The city will be a total anarchy, everyone
Will go out for sex for running for everything
For sex for running for everything
For sex for running
You can’t meet people that live like
Three blocks away from you
So why not um talk to people
Who live like thousands of miles away from you
Like it’s made distance sort of disappear
Distance sort of
Disappear
Disappear
Distance sort of
Disappear
I want hugs and crowds
That jostle and bustle
Bright smiles and hellos
Like it seems so simple
That’s the most I can say about it
That’s the most I can say about it
I miss getting hugs. That’s it.
That’s the most I can say about it
Like it seems so simple now
When you like can’t really meet people
That’s like it’s so simple
To meet people
I sit at home and I wait
I wait with you and without you
With you and without you
I wait with you and without you
For it all to end
all all all
With you and without you
With you and without you
I wait with you and without you
For it all to end
all all all
Meropi: I have not reached out to any ex, um, ha- have been tempted but was like no this, I will not, go there -
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12. |
Interlude: Battenburg
01:13
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Iranian Interviewee: So I haven’t er exercised for two months. P.S. I’m lazy.
Lynn: Well, I think it’s.. it’s.. I'm not, I wouldn’t say I'm eating more, I’m just eating wrong things because I’m eating things that I like, like Battenburg cake, and lemon drizzle cake. And normally I don’t buy cakes, you know but because you just feel a bit fed up you want something... it’s comforting isn’t it? It’s comfort food eating yeah.
Kiggy: I've learned that I'm a better cook than anyone I live with which is fun. Yeah. Everyone was super confident, but I kicked their ass throughout this whole thing.
Chinese Interviewee: I remember this one night when we ran out rice. That's like the main course here, you can’t eat without rice. So we just went to our grandparents, scraped up all the food that we, we have in our place and we just cooked together and had a very nice meal. It's kind of like the highlight of our quarantine time.
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13. |
26 Days
05:52
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For me I’m a very - I’m into lists a lot
So I like to tick things off a list
Go for a walk
Take some vitamins
Try and read because I’m really bad at reading
But the best thing I did
the only one that I consistently did
I would say every day I phoned a friend which was awesome
That was my favourite thing
That reconnecting
My daughter
I have missed all her birthdays, till now
This is the first time I celebrated her birthday
She's 26 now
And in my entire life I have never spent 26 days with her
When she was growing up I was travelling and I'm still travelling
First time I actually like, you know, got a chance to meet her
Be with her
These are like things which never happened before
All this never happened before
For the first time in a really long time it didn't feel like I was really missing anything
It didn’t feel like the world is in a catastrophe
It just felt like wow, you know, it's possible to be happy
If you just look for the joy
If you just look for the joy
For the first time on Sunday
I went on a picnic and I saw a waterfall
I went on a picnic with someone I really love
and we made stupid jokes and we just hung out
Drank non-alcoholic wine
and then I came home and slept
I think I got drunk either way
We had seafood and Nandos
I think got drunk either way
All of our neighbours were on their balconies
People we hadn’t like seen or talked to in years
Wishing everyone like a Happy Easter
and you could tell that people meant it
We're yelling to for other people to hear us
they're yelling like to for us to hear them
I remember sitting thinking that this is life
This is just magic, this is just magic
Everyone was very close together that night
When the lockdown start my my sister was pregnant
now he's already born and we talk every day
I did something I genuinely enjoy
I really erm
I went on a picnic with someone I really love
Erm start to enjoy every single moment with my family
Just the other day it was my cats’ birthday,
we had a little bit of a celebration there for the two of them
Er my sister gave birth on Saturday
Yeah
It’s amazing
It’s the first kid so
In my entire life I have never spent 26 days with her so this was a very good opportunity
That was my favourite thing like that
reconnecting with people
Oh we had a birthday party on Zoom
he had a cake, he cut it, he blew out his candles
I remember sitting thinking that this is, this is life, this is just magic
There was a very communal feeling um in that night
And er a great feeling of like solidarity and like, not feeling alone
Everyone was very close together that night
For the first time in a really long time it didn't feel like I was really missing anything
It didn’t feel like the world is in a catastrophe
It just felt like wow, you know, it's possible to be happy
If you just look for the joy
If you just look for the joy
If you just look for the joy
If you just look for the joy
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14. |
Don't Go Back To Sleep
08:08
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There was this night I couldn’t sleep
I’ve always kind of always kind of
Struggled with early mornings and I
I dunno maybe like half five quarter to six
I couldn’t sleep
‘Cause I was like I think just kind of
Yeah worrying and anxious
And not feeling so good
And not, not feeling so good
And I got up and went to the park
I’ve always kind of always kind of
Struggled with early mornings and I
Probably got there at like 6am
And it was absolutely quiet
Like there was no one in the park
And the sun was coming up and er
And I just kind of sat at the top of this hill and um
at the top of this hill and um
‘The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you
Don’t go back to sleep
You must ask for what you really want
Don’t go back to sleep’
Just said the poem out loud
Looking into the sun
And just felt really peaceful
Just said the poem out loud
‘There are people passing back and forth across the doorsill
Where the two worlds touch
The door is round and open
Don’t go back to sleep’
I think I think being inside is probably the biggest challenge
The other day I decided to look out of my window for like thirty minutes
I’ll probably lose it soon if I don’t get some sunlight
The sun kind of rises by my window
and sometimes when there’s a full moon
I’ll probably lose it soon if I don’t get some sunlight, sunlight
Looking at the moon looking at the moon looking at the moon looking at the
Like it could be anything we could just walk through the park
Don’t go back to-
Walk through
Don’t go back to-
Walk through
Feel the sun on the skin and on the skin and the sun on the skin and the sun on the skin
Don’t go back to sleep
‘Cause this window here
This piece of sky
I can rest my eye but
Don’t go back to sleep
This new piece of sky is like new life to me
This new piece of sky is like new life to me
It would be nice to spend more time
It would be nice to spend more time out in the middle of nowhere
Um where that nowhere is
On the top of the hill on the top of the hill on the top of the hill
Or a beach or wherever
Just being able to stand and look
Just being able to stand and look
I’ll probably lose it soon if I don’t
Lose it soon if I don’t
If I don’t
If I don’t get some sunlight
I’ll probably lose it soon if I don’t
Lose it soon if I don’t
If I don’t
If I don’t get some sunlight
‘Cause this window here
This piece of sky
I can rest my eye but
Don’t go back to sleep
This new piece of sky is like new life to me
This new piece of sky is like new life to me
Don’t go back to sleep
Don’t got back to sleep
Don’t go back to sleep
Don’t go back to sleep
Then I sit and I look
Don’t go back to sleep
That’s like ten fifteen minutes
Don’t go back to sleep
Looking at the moon
Don’t go back to sleep
I have good lighting in my room because
Don’t go back to sleep
The sun kind of rises by my window
Some blackbirds and robins and a little jenny wren
Some blackbirds and robins and a little jenny wren
Some blackbirds and robins and a little jenny wren
Don’t go back to sleep
And it’s so beautiful and I
And it’s so beautiful and I
And it’s so beautiful and I
(The smell of the spring, the smell of the spring)
And it’s so beautiful and I
(The smell of the spring, the smell of the spring)
This piece of sky
(Some blackbirds and robins and a little jenny wren)
I can rest my eye
And it’s so beautiful and I
Don’t go back to sleep
I went out and saw like this new piece of sky
‘cause my window here, this piece of sky,
that piece of sky that was out of our gate, was like the two,
was the two things that I can see,
that I can rest my eye with,
and the day that I can see this new piece of sky out of our community was like this new life for me. It was so refreshing.
I live in a, in a flat but we have a small place outside and I really remember his smile all the time that I just open the door and he could go out and breathe the, the air, the, feel the sun on the skin, on the skin this was really the, yes,
the best memories. Just open the door.
The smell of the spring, the smell of the spring, the smell of the spring
Hear the birds singing
Feel the sun on the skin and on the skin and the sun on the skin and on the skin
Hear the birds singing
The smell of the spring, the smell of the spring, the smell of the spring
Hear the birds singing
Even if, you know, um
even if people die and and things go wrong
or I die or anything else it’s it’s
it’s all okay.
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15. |
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Elsie: They need to work, they need to work, pandemic or not they need to work.
Iranian interviewee: With the sanctions that the US have put on Iran it means that the government don’t have money and the people themselves financially are weak as well. So there’s not- we haven’t had a lot of ways to cope because the government doesn’t have enough money to continue the lockdown and the people themselves don’t have enough money to carry on being on lockdown. So our people because of political problems are suffering. Because to foreign governments their own profit is the only thing that’s important to them.
Hanif: I mean we can sit here and complain, you know, like in our houses you know like and watching Netflix and all that. But actually we don't deserve to complain.
Elsie: My mind goes on to Kenya; the people who live in slums. Oh my goodness. I, I could not imagine what they're going through. For starters slums are packed completely packed together - large acres of land completely packed together so they can't isolate even if they wanted to. These are people who work every single day, who need to work every single day to survive. I truly wonder how they're surviving and it scares me to think about, and er the most I can do is just carry my prayers with them.
Awiti: I’m from Kenya, and I live in Nairobi, in Mathare slum. People in the slum here they live from hand to mouth and er, almost 300,000 people lost their jobs, you understand? So the lockdown in Mathare slum has actually affected a lot of families. People don’t have food. You understand?
You understand?
You understand?
You understand?
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16. |
Conflict & Chaos
02:00
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People in the slum here live a kind of hand to mouth kind of life
They go work, buy food, then pay rent
Tomorrow they’re on the road again
300,000 people lost their jobs, you understand?
Rents are not paid
Kids are not going to school
Then what happens?
The conflict and chaos
The conflict and chaos
The conflict and chaos
The conflict and chaos
I’m used to doing a morning run
Like hit the road every day
But currently I’m very much unable
to wake up early
Now the curfew time ends around 5.30
and that is also the time
gang members around this place operate
I cannot go outside
unless I lose my life
unless I lose my life
unless I lose my life
unless I lose my life
so I can’t run here
so I can’t run here
so I can’t run here
We have to take care of each other to survive
I have dreams to achieve
I don’t want to go outside
The conflict and chaos
The conflict and chaos
The conflict and chaos
We have to take care of each other to survive
I have dreams to achieve
I don’t want to go outside
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17. |
Bicycle
01:43
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The worst affected people are the migrants you know
I don't know if you’ve read in the papers or news or whatever?
From all over the country they come to Bombay to work
They were like starving over here
Hand to mouth existence
And they lost everything
They couldn't afford their rents
They thought it's better to go back home
You know to North India, South India
Thousands of kilometres away
They had to walk in the heat
You know husband, wife, pregnant women
Children, small children, 3 years, 5 years old
Lot of people died along the way, people died
Lot of people died along the way
Lot of people died along the way, people died
Lot of people died along the way
One girl hardly 14, 15 years old
Her father was stuck somewhere
She took a bicycle and she rode a bicycle
And brought her father back on the same bicycle
A girl
She rode that bicycle for over 1200 kilometres
She rode that bicycle (a girl) for over 1200 kilometres
she rode that bicycle (in the heat) for over 1200 kilometres
she rode that bicycle (a girl) for over 1200 kilometres
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18. |
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Noreen (interpreted by her daughter Lisa): They’ve been saying things on telly ‘if you find out you have this illness or you’ve got symptoms ring 111’... But er I don’t even know what 111 is! And what about deaf people, how’re they gonna be able to phone? There was nothing available to give you information like that.
I had a mask I took a mask with me and I went to the bank, this was last week…. and I wanted to say something so I wrote it down. And the lady had a mask on and just started talking And she wouldn’t pull her mask down to be able to, to allow me to lip read her. So I said to her, write it, write it down please. And er, oh it was so difficult to er you know to have that conversation. So my daughter had just been to the other shop and come in and it’s a good job she had because then she spoke on my behalf er and I said to my daughter, why, why wouldn’t she pull the mask down when we were talking so that I could lip read her. You know we had some social distancing, I was certainly wasn’t near her... But I felt like giving up you know. Giving up with the world. And just staying at home.
I really don’t know how other deaf people are managing I I genuinely don’t. I I I I mean for me, I I don’t know it’s just a good job I’ve got family here really.
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19. |
I Have To Keep Going
05:20
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When we first had the lockdown, lockdown at home
The government did the briefing around,
half past four, half past four, four thirty, four thirty
My daughter Lisa finished work
She used to immediately get onto FaceTime - hi! hi! - and interpret the news
She watched the news, and interpreted
And I understood
I’d ask her, you know, what things meant
It was all well and good reading the subtitles, trying to understand,
but I couldn’t understand what those English words actually meant
those long, long English words,
what did they mean?
And there was one word, a new word to me was:
Pandemic, pan-dem-ic
Pandemic was a new word for me
Pandemic
I used to watch the Scottish news
I used to watch because they provided a BSL interpreter
A signing interpreter, at the back
the speaker was at the front and the interpreter was at the back, signing
and I could understand it so clearly, the information was clear and there was
clear access
The interpreter at the back
Signed a little bit different, but I could follow it,
I could follow it easily, I knew what she was signing,
and I could understand
I watched the interpreter at the back, signing the information, and it was so clear
My friends used to text me
My friends, my deaf friends
They’d say
“I’m going out here, I’m going to do this and that”
And I’d say no no no no,
my daughter’s told me!
You can’t! You can’t! You can’t!
It was really hard but I wanted to help them
I wanted to help
I wanted to help all of them
It was really hard
But I have to keep going don’t I?
I have to keep going
For the first time in my life, I’m depressed
It’s not been as bad as some other people but
For the first time, I’m depressed
I took a mask and went to the bank
And I wanted to say something, to sign, but I wrote it down
I wrote it down
and I had a mask and the woman had a mask
and I wanted to sign but I wrote it down
and showed her
And the woman in the mask, she spoke to me, but she had a mask on
I couldn’t see her mouth, she had a mask on
I said no I’m deaf, deaf
She wouldn’t pull her mask down
To allow me to lip read
I certainly wasn’t near her, but
She wouldn’t pull her mask down
And I feel like, you know, giving up with the world
Top of the list, I miss my family
You know the kids
Maybe they’re thinking
Does grandma not love me?!
I really miss the kids
Their cuddles, having them close, holding them, their kisses
My granddaughter got married
We were in the countryside…we stayed in a wee cottage, so cosy
We had to be careful but it was so lovely
But I’ve come back home and I just-
I’ve come back home and I just-
But I have to keep going don’t I?
I have to keep going
For the first time in my life, I’m depressed
For the first time in my life, I’m depressed
It’s not been as bad as some people but
for the first time, I’ve been depressed
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20. |
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Juan: I was surprised about UK, you know, er the president not doing any any quarantine at all, and then he was positive on covid so that was a little unexpected. You know, you expect er England to be a little more responsible than South America. But, it's crazy or and you know when they say okay, I believe in herd immunity, but come on, you know, yes herd immunity exists, but take years or centuries to get herd immunity. You're saying ‘Okay. So all the old people will die by by that time.’ ... I mean if you don't care about old people that's okay but, that was the risk... and you know, you expect people like the Brazil president er to actually want that because he's that kind of person. They say, okay all the poor and old people if they die we are better, but well from a a Europe country I wasn’t expecting something like that. Well, you're not Europe anymore anyways!
Meropi: I have not been proud to be a Greek person from this version of Greece, or like the current world version of Greece in a long time and I think I've been feeling pride um, in how this country has handled it and I think, I think other countries are recognizing it. Like I saw a Guardian article and a New York Times article and some other respectable newspaper article that were like praising Greece about how well it's done, which hasn't happened, like people have not praised Greece in maybe millennia, maybe since like everything started here or like whatever.
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21. |
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Juan: I think it should be up to everyone to take care, you know, er but people are so irresponsible that in the end you need the government to push for it.
Lief: Most people I meet are really erm yeah, they’re they’re, they’ve taken it to heart taken it to heart to to social distance, not to shake hands, to keep the distance to not meet too many people so
Lisa: I think overall people were pretty compliant with the rules... Like there was a hotline that you could call and dob people in for um breaking the rules behaviour. So I think that was quite busy apparently, that phone line! Um
Lynn: But I think on the whole they’ve been very good. But I would say that quite a few young ones aren’t taking much notice, but then again, young ones don’t do they? You know we’ve always had, you go through a rebellious phase, and also when you’re young you think nothing’s gonna ever happen to you.
Leif: But then of course there’s always some shitheads not not caring about others but
Seki: You know we've seen some amazing things from people and some some not very amazing things from people and I guess that's, that's kind of always the case.
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22. |
Good People
03:20
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Other people
Good people
Old people, vulnerable people
People around me
People can be really vicious
I always thought I had Good People around me but
People are very scared of each other
It's not easy, but
Alright people are old but, you know,
They’ve a right to be safe
Prioritising the other person is just
So rare I think in modern times
We’re all kind of focussed on ourselves right now, ourselves right now
We’re all kind of focussed on ourselves right now, ourselves
There’s like underlying kindness
There’s like underlying kindness
We’re all kind of focussed on ourselves right now, ourselves right now
It’s actually not about you
It’s about other people
We were doing this lockdown
To help each other in the end
It’s tiny things you know
You might want to scream and run around
You just have to calm and compose yourself
That’s been really hard for the people around me
We’re all kind of focussed on ourselves right now, ourselves right now
We’re all kind of focussed on ourselves right now, ourselves
We’re going to have a lot of comforting to do
Because people lost their loved ones
It's not easy, but
People did come together
I could see it
There was a sense of solidarity
Like we’re all in this together
It’s brought people closer together
More caring, more caring
Perhaps these things are sent for a reason
We were getting to distant I think
Perhaps these things are sent for a reason
I was more optimistic in the beginning
There’s like underlying kindness
There’s like underlying kindness
We were getting to distant I think
Perhaps these things are sent for a reason
I was more optimistic in the beginning
Other people
Good people
Old people, vulnerable people
People around me
People can be really vicious
I’m hoping that that sense
That sense of solidarity
Is going to stick around
But
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23. |
Interlude: Horror Movie
01:31
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Alvin: Americans, they're very stubborn. We tend to think that we’re untouchable and if it's never happened to us or we don't see it in our face then we kind of er just ignore it and be like, ‘oh that's over there’ and then, I was actually mentioning this to one of my friends the other day. I was watching this horror movie and in the beginning of the movie this one girl was telling everyone ‘Oh my God, don't do this. This is how you save yourselves,’ and everyone was calling that girl the crazy girl, but then when it starts happening, they run back to her and they're crying and begging her to save their life and it's already too late and I was like ‘you guys are so dumb. Haven't you ever seen any horror movie ever? You always listen to the person telling’- and then I was like, wait a second that's like us with coronavirus and that was like my moment where I was just like, every single horror movie that I ever laughed at where people don't listen, that's happening right now!
Hanif: This is a completely life changing event, you know like moment, and um, now we appreciate all, the one thing we will do is we will appreciate the smaller things in life after the lockdown because we took a lot of things for granted.
Iranian interviewee: I’ll probably explain.. that we went to shit...
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24. |
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You suck as much as I do
Your country’s as shit as mine
You suck as much as I do
We’re all very boring
You suck as much as I do
Your country’s as shit as mine
You suck as much as I do
We’re all very boring
When this is over
I will go out
When this is over
Go back to school
When this is over
See my friends and my nan
When this over
Breathe again b breathe again
When this is over
Go to McDonalds
When this is over
Hug everyone
When this is over
Bounce on the trampoline
When this is over
Feed the neighbours cat
Don’t wanna touch you
Don’t wanna touch you
Don’t wanna touch you
Don’t wanna touch you
We just want our lives back
We just want our lives back
DANCE!
See my friends and my nan
You show me how you are surviving, I’ll show you how I’m surviving kind of thing
You show me how you are surviving, I’ll show you how I’m surviving kind of thing
I also realised that I need to adapt quickly, adapt quickly and be ready, you know for whatever happens. ‘Cause like I still think that after you know, whatever, we’re probably still going to have interesting shit to say. So might as well just get ready to say it when the time comes.
When this is over
Coming out of prison
When this is over
Trusting science
When this is over
Buying insurance
When this is over
The world at large pffffff
When this is over
Made it through 2020
When this is over
Not much happens
When this is over
Like, gratitude
When this is over
DANCE!
So many strange decisions
So many strange decisions
So many strange decisions
So many strange decisions
We just want our lives back
We just want our lives back
DANCE!
See my friends and my nan
You show me how you are surviving, I’ll show you how I’m surviving kind of thing
You show me how you are surviving, I’ll show you how I’m surviving kind of thing
Adapt quickly
Adapt quickly
Adapt quickly
Adapt quickly
You suck as much as I do
Your country’s as shit as mine
You suck as much as I do
We’re all very boring
You suck as much as I do
Your country’s as shit as mine
You suck as much as I do
We’re all very boring yeah
Jävla skitvirus
Fuckingshit virus
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