Collected Item: “Layne Williams Oral History, 2021/02/22”
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Mini oral history with Layne Williams, 02/22/2021
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
audio interview
Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.
Transcript for interview:
Speaker 1
Okay. Hello, my name is Matthew Williams, and I am a graduate student intern with the Covid-19 archive at ASU. The date is February 22 2021, and the time is 6:19pm, and I'm speaking with Layne Williams.
I want to ask you a question about your pandemic experience but before I do, I would like to ask for your consent to record this response for the Covid-19 archive.
Do I have your consent to record your response and add it to the archive with your name?
Speaker 2
Yes.
Speaker 1
Thank you. First, can you tell me your name, age, race and where you live.
Speaker 2
Okay. Layne Williams, 61, Hackettstown, New Jersey.
Speaker 1
Alright, and let me ask you. Just a quick question about the pandemic so we've experienced a lot of changes in 2020, and many have been negative and disruptive.
But perhaps it's not all bad. What's one positive thing you've experienced during the pandemic?
Speaker 2
As a medical professional.
I work in an acute care hospital. We’ve seen many. We've seen devastation but we've seen changes, that require extremely different thinking. And we have been up to the task, and we have persevered and conquered all of the different things that we had to literally change in our thinking and the way we do things overnight.
Speaker 1
Excellent, thank you for your time today. We appreciate your response.
Speaker 1
Okay. Hello, my name is Matthew Williams, and I am a graduate student intern with the Covid-19 archive at ASU. The date is February 22 2021, and the time is 6:19pm, and I'm speaking with Layne Williams.
I want to ask you a question about your pandemic experience but before I do, I would like to ask for your consent to record this response for the Covid-19 archive.
Do I have your consent to record your response and add it to the archive with your name?
Speaker 2
Yes.
Speaker 1
Thank you. First, can you tell me your name, age, race and where you live.
Speaker 2
Okay. Layne Williams, 61, Hackettstown, New Jersey.
Speaker 1
Alright, and let me ask you. Just a quick question about the pandemic so we've experienced a lot of changes in 2020, and many have been negative and disruptive.
But perhaps it's not all bad. What's one positive thing you've experienced during the pandemic?
Speaker 2
As a medical professional.
I work in an acute care hospital. We’ve seen many. We've seen devastation but we've seen changes, that require extremely different thinking. And we have been up to the task, and we have persevered and conquered all of the different things that we had to literally change in our thinking and the way we do things overnight.
Speaker 1
Excellent, thank you for your time today. We appreciate your response.
Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?
HST580, Arizona State University, silver linings prompt, healthcare
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Matthew Williams
Give this story a date.
2021-02-22