Decameron Journalism was a collaboration collecting Covid-19 tales of isolation, solidarity and human experience by Sam Cox
and Danielle Olavario.
Read through our archive:
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Grace Healy - South Korea
This sense of calm and trust in the government and in each other had resulted in things dying down, in taking the necessary steps. Now, she says, they’re watching the rest of the world with equal measures concern and bafflement.
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Switzer and Marner Catamin - Mandaluyong, Philippines
“When our president announced that Manila will be put in lockdown, that’s the time I decided to tell my company that I wouldn’t come to work anymore,” Marner says. “Because I’m afraid that I will contract the virus, I will go into quarantine, I will not see Switzer. Who’s going to take care of him?”
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Gabriel Augusto de Castro Becki -Santa Catarina, Brazil
“There are a lot of Brazilians in Ireland – I have a theory that in 20 years they’ll have the best football team in the world.”, he quips, before quickly turning serious again. Two of these friends had moved to Ireland in the few weeks prior and were struggling to find both employment and a home.
“We are all in the plague…. All I know is that one must do one’s best not to be a plague victim.”
- The Plague, Albert Camus
Decameron Journalism gathers stories from across the globe during the Covid-19 pandemic. For some, isolation has provided respite. For others, stress and pressure have resulted from quarantine. Conducting interviews through Skype calls, we try to encapsulate as much of people’s experience - both unique and shared, as possible. Believing all experiences are equal, we hope to capture the humanity between the lines of the history books.
Sam Cox is a Junior Sophister Psychology student at Trinity College Dublin. He enjoys long-form journalism and nonfiction. His dream job is to write regular feature-length mental health pieces for a publication. He is the current Crossword Editor at Trinity News, despite having never finished a puzzle to completion. His pieces have appeared in the Dublin InQuirer and with Euronews NBC.
