It’s just that uncertainty that eats away at people: Antarctic expeditioners’ lived experiences of COVID-19
With Antarctic expeditioners popularly portrayed in the media during the pandemic as both heroic stalwarts better equipped than any other people to deal with the rigours of isolation and, paradoxically, the only people untouched by the virus, it was all too easy to ignore the actual experiences of t...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:9662718 2023-05-15T14:04:15+02:00 It’s just that uncertainty that eats away at people: Antarctic expeditioners’ lived experiences of COVID-19 Nash, Meredith Leane, Elizabeth Norris, Kimberley 2022-11-14 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9662718/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36374848 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277676 en eng Public Library of Science http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9662718/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36374848 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277676 © 2022 Nash et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. CC-BY PLoS One Research Article Text 2022 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277676 2022-11-20T02:49:16Z With Antarctic expeditioners popularly portrayed in the media during the pandemic as both heroic stalwarts better equipped than any other people to deal with the rigours of isolation and, paradoxically, the only people untouched by the virus, it was all too easy to ignore the actual experiences of those working in the continent. Drawing on the experiences of expeditioners in the Australian Antarctic Program from 2019–21, this article provides a counter to popular media perspective by exploring how COVID-19 protocols–including quarantine and social distancing–affected expeditioners’ individual well-being and their experiences of the social environment. We argue that Antarctic life during COVID-19 has not been as detached from the rest of the world nor as heroic as the popular media has suggested, but nonetheless provides important insights for survival in isolated, confined, and extreme environments (ICE) and non-ICE environments at a time of pandemic. Text Antarc* Antarctic Australian Antarctic Program PubMed Central (PMC) Antarctic PLOS ONE 17 11 e0277676 |
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With Antarctic expeditioners popularly portrayed in the media during the pandemic as both heroic stalwarts better equipped than any other people to deal with the rigours of isolation and, paradoxically, the only people untouched by the virus, it was all too easy to ignore the actual experiences of those working in the continent. Drawing on the experiences of expeditioners in the Australian Antarctic Program from 2019–21, this article provides a counter to popular media perspective by exploring how COVID-19 protocols–including quarantine and social distancing–affected expeditioners’ individual well-being and their experiences of the social environment. We argue that Antarctic life during COVID-19 has not been as detached from the rest of the world nor as heroic as the popular media has suggested, but nonetheless provides important insights for survival in isolated, confined, and extreme environments (ICE) and non-ICE environments at a time of pandemic. |
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