(bell tolling, fireworks
exploding)
(cheers)
("Auld Lang Syne" playing)
>> Happy New Year!
>> On New Year's Eve, I was so
happy that 2019 was ending,
because 2019 was rough!
Um, so... (laughs)
>> What did I do?
Um...
I don't have a clue of what I do
for New Year's Eve.
It was... before times, before
corona.
>> I turned 40 last year, so it
was like, this is my 40th, we
need to do loads of amazing
things and we planned lots of
amazing things.
It was gonna be a brilliant
year.
Um...
Yeah.
♪
(sirens wailing)
>> The latest figures show that
there've been 177 deaths...
>> Cases are now accelerating
rapidly.
More than 40,000 people have
been infected...
>> One million deaths from the
coronavirus.
♪
>> PRAKESH (speaking Hindi):
♪
>> We are the heroes because we
have exposed this "scamdemic"
for what it is.
>> COVID is not more worse
compared to other things that
we've seen.
(explosions, shouting)
♪
(chanting)
>> I don't know how we will go
back to the normal life.
Everywhere there's a shift
that's happening.
>> CARLOS VALENCIA (speaking
Spanish):
♪
>> DARLY (speaking Portuguese):
NARRATOR: Now a FRONTLINE
special presentation: The Virus
That Shook The World.
>> (speaking Mandarin):
>> INTERVIEWER (speaking
Mandarin):
(laughter)
>> XIE QIONGAYO:
>> Hey, you guys.
>> Hello!
>> Hello.
>> It's nice to see you.
>> INTERVIEWER:
♪
>> XIE:
♪
(dogs barking in distance)
>> Tonight, concern around the
world over a mysterious strain
of coronavirus.
>> 170 people in Wuhan have been
treated in hospital, several are
critically ill, and three deaths
have been confirmed.
(overlapping voices)
>> Chinese authorities are
saying that this new
coronavirus is preventable and
controllable.
A city of 11 million people,
effectively quarantined.
(ambulance siren wailing)
>> XIE:
♪
(singing):
(speaking):
>> WOMAN:
>> XIE:
>> WOMAN:
>> XIE:
♪
>> Wuhan's medics are locked in
a daily battle against this
epidemic.
>> The virus has spread to
every region in China.
(overlapping voices)
There's been 259 deaths so far.
(sirens wailing)
>> In Wuhan, two large, brand
new hospitals are being built
in little more than a week.
>> XIE:
(light cough)
>> MEDICAL STAFF (in unison):
(music playing)
>> YANG:
>> XIE:
(music continues)
>> Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday, dear Amy!
Happy birthday to you!
(cheers and applause)
(blows out candles, laughter)
(party audio abruptly stops)
>> I didn't realize that you
actually use those boards.
(laughs)
>> INTERVIEWER: Yeah.
>> Amazing. (laughs)
It's made my day! (chuckles)
Um, I'm Amie Burbridge.
I'm a mom, I grew up in
Wolverhampton, and when I grew
up I wanted to be a makeup
artist.
And somehow I ended up as a
doctor.
♪
Sometime in January, we jokingly
were talking about COVID,
like... (scoffs)
And it just didn't seem real.
It was, you know, thousands
of miles away, so, it was
irrelevant to us, really.
>> I first heard about it in
January, but it wasn't in Kenya.
I knew it's a disease of the,
the whites, the Western people.
>> (speaking Spanish):
>> We didn't think too much of
it because it was in China,
you know?
A long ways from us.
>> (speaking Icelandic):
>> Then Italy started and still
you're like, "Oh, poor Italian,
poor Italian, they are really
having it hard, hm?"
Yeah, yeah.
It's completely crazy just
really playing the ostrich,
which put a head in the sand.
♪
(car horn honking)
>> (speaking Italian):
>> BURBRIDGE: I have colleagues
working in Italy that were
sending pictures, that were
describing the patients they
were seeing, the number of
people dying, the number of
people in intensive care units.
And it still didn't feel real.
"Right, it's not-- it's not
gonna be us."
Um... um, yeah.
♪
>> WOMAN (speaking Italian):
(sighs tearfully)
(crying)
♪
(muffled, labored breaths)
(labored breathing continues)
(medical equipment beeping)
(muffled crosstalk, coughing)
(overlapping beeping, coughing,
talking)
(coughing)
>> (speaking Italian):
(draining sound)
♪
(medical equipment beeping)
(overlapping voices)
>> The coronavirus continues
to spread at speed.
There are close to 90,000 cases
worldwide.
The vast majority of new cases
are outside China.
♪
>> BURBRIDGE: I was getting
scared by now.
Because we knew in early March
that that would be us a few
weeks down the line.
I remember my first individual
who was diagnosed with COVID-19.
And it was like, "Oh, my God,
it's come, it's arrived."
Um, and it was, uh... a shock,
that first case, 'cause it was
quite early on, actually.
I can't remember the exact date.
We didn't really know how to
manage it because nobody did.
There wasn't any research, there
wasn't any evidence.
(indistinct chatter)
Yeah, who else have we got for
medics just so I'm on top of it?
That's it, isn't it then?
Ooh, thank you!
Okay...
She's poorly, isn't she?
(audio fades)
♪
A lot of the stuff we did in the
early stages turned out to be
wrong, some of the treatments
that we tried, because we
didn't know.
I went from having an incredible
conversation with a lovely,
lovely individual, um, and
within two hours, um...
she'd been transferred to the
intensive care unit.
She was intubated, she was
ventilated, and she died.
And I did absolutely nothing
to help her, apart from give
her false hope-- to her and her
family.
"Oh, it's absolutely fine, we'll
give her some oxygen, you'll be
fine," and she died and that was
my first, um, patient who died.
And I remember her hair, her
makeup, I remember what she was
wearing.
I remember her name, I remember
everything.
I just felt like I was a
bystander.
Hm, and I've felt like that in
a lot of cases.
Because people just deteriorated
quickly and died.
We need to keep you in hospital.
>> Yes.
>> BURBRIDGE: You have COVID-19.
>> Yes.
>> BURBRIDGE: Are you-- you know
you have coronavirus?
So we need to keep you in
hospital, and we'll just keep a
close eye on you tonight, okay?
>> Okay.
>> BURBRIDGE: Can I listen to
your chest?
>> Yes.
>> BURBRIDGE: Okay.
You feel very hot.
(heavy coughing)
>> Europe has now become the
epicenter of the pandemic.
>> The government acknowledges
that millions of us may get
COVID-19 because the virus
can't be stopped.
>> Now is the time for everyone
to stop non-essential contact
with others.
>> Spain declared a state of
emergency on Saturday, placing
the country in lockdown.
>> (speaking Spanish):
(laughter)
>> France is the latest country
to take drastic measures to
control the coronavirus
pandemic.
>> (speaking French):
>> VERONIQUE (speaking French):
>> VERONIQUE:
>> A day of somber language...
(overlapping voices)
>> The pandemic is bringing
life in the United States to a
grinding halt.
♪
>> My name is Dan Rossi, I live
in New York and I'm a vendor.
You know, we sell hot dogs in
front of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
And we've been there about 13
years, but I've been in the
business 40.
40 years.
We got hit hard.
You go down New York City, you
expect mobs-- there was nobody.
It was like a ghost town.
You know, people did what they
had to do.
But we got hit hard.
And that location, in front
of the Met?
It's basically a tourist
destination.
And the only thing these
tourists want is a New York hot
dog, and it can be pretty, uh...
rough, sometimes, you gotta
really move sometimes, real
fast.
Everyone's talking their
different language, you don't
know what the hell anybody's
saying, but they point to a
picture and you give them a hot
dog-- it's fun, it is, you
know.
♪
Uh...
I said, well, in two months,
I'm in the red.
I need maybe $2,000 or $3,000
a month.
To get us through, I'm gonna
borrow that money, I'm gonna
find someone and borrow the
money, I know people who
borrow the money.
I've been in some really tough
situations in my life, and this
just seemed like, if it... if
it's just money, we'll get
through it, if it's just money.
And I'll make sure everything's
okay.
You know, don't panic, just...
it'll play out, it'll be all
right.
Ah...
So what do you wanna do?
I got a marriage, I've got four
daughters, I've got 14
grandchildren.
My oldest grandson is 21 and my
youngest granddaughter is
three-months-old, so that's
quite a mix, you know.
Get outta here.
Leave this kid alone.
That's what makes me go to work.
Knowing that I have
responsibilities.
>> Yes, Vinny, yes!
>> Keep your mouth closed.
Keep your mouth closed!
(laughter, weight clanging)
>> ROSSI: I went ahead and I set
up an area for weights and
everything so my grandsons could
work out, you know.
(indistinct chatter)
I mean I think those few
months were the hardest months
of my life, just staying home,
you know, and doing nothing--
how can you do nothing every
day, you know?
Anybody who retires has gotta
be crazy.
How can you, how can you not
work-- I don't get it.
(laughs)
It was pretty boring, I gotta
tell you. (laughs)
I understand everything that's
going on, and it's the right
thing to do, the distancing,
the keep things closed, the open
things up in portions, I
understand all that.
But it's still taking a very
big impact...
>> Yeah.
>> ROSSI: On everybody, and I'm
not just talking about us.
(clanging sound)
Sitting around everyday,
every day, I go downtown every
day, I sit there for a few hours
and there's absolutely nothing
going on-- nothing.
>> It's crazy.
>> ROSSI: This time, if it was a
normal year...
>> We'd be so busy.
>> ROSSI: But we're all right,
God bless America.
♪
(engine rumbles)
♪
>> VALENCIA (speaking Spanish):
(radio playing)
♪
(engines revving)
>> (on phone):
>> VALENCIA:
>> (on phone):
(engines revving)
♪
>> VALENCIA:
♪
(indistinct chatter)
(music playing)
>> (speaking Spanish):
>> VALENCIA:
(man singing in Spanish)
>> MAN:
(cheers)
(cheers and applause)
♪
>> VALENCIA:
♪
>> The Colombian army fighting
the guerillas on a growing
number of fronts.
The guerillas and the drug
cartels are shipping up cocaine
and heroin at will.
♪
>> VALENCIA:
♪
(laughter)
(phone vibrating)
>> CHILD (on phone):
>> VALENCIA:
>> CHILD:
>> VALENCIA:
>> CHILD:
(laughs)
>> VALENCIA:
>> CHILD: Sí.
>> VALENCIA:
(cheering on phone video)
>> Coronavirus has reached
every continent except
Antarctica.
(overlapping voices)
>> The number of infections
worldwide, 400,019...
(news reports in multiple
languages)
>> In Wuhan, which has been on
lockdown for nearly two months,
the quarantine rules have been
slightly relaxed.
If no new cases are reported
for 14 days, the restrictions
could be reduced further.
♪
>> XIE:
>> YANG:
>> XIE:
(humming happily)
(folk music playing)
>> Belarus resisted a lockdown
together.
The country's football matches
are still being played.
President Alexander Lukashenko
has suggested vodka would help
against the disease.
>> (singing in Belarusian):
(singing where video left off)
(accordion solo)
>> KOLANTAY (in Belarusian):
>> (singing):
>> ♪ We don't need no
Coronavirus, we don't want
now just to stay at home ♪
>> (speaking Portuguese):
>> It goes away, it's going
away.
Let's see how it all works out
but I think it's gonna work
out fine.
You do certain things that you
do when you have the flu, I
mean, view this this the same as
the flu.
>> Meanwhile, in New York,
they're struggling to manage
the sheer number of deaths.
(Belarussian song continues)
>> ♪ We don't need no...
>> ...Chinese virus.
>> ♪ We don't want now just
to stay at home ♪
(finishes song)
>> ROSSI: I did two tours in
Vietnam, enlisted when I was 17
right out of high school.
Donald Trump is not the kind of
guy who I would ever want to be
leading me, he just doesn't
have it, you can just see it.
♪
All we had to do was just say,
let's take a precaution and wear
a mask.
But his arrogance and stupidity,
thinking that he's smarter than
the doctors, that he's smarter
than everyone, it just... he's
gotten a lot of people killed.
His thing was this virus is
gonna disappear, why do I need a
mask?
You gotta be a clown to wear a
mask, I'm a tough guy, you know.
It's stupid, people, people are
dying, you know?
What is the big deal about
wearing a mask-- what's the big
deal, you know?
(birds chirping)
Every day I would go down there
sometimes twice a day and just
check on the cart.
What we would do is we kept the
carts in position where we work.
So that nobody takes my spot,
you know?
I do that a few nights a week.
And then I have somebody else
check on it the nights that I'm
not there.
I'll be sleeping there tonight,
so yeah.
No one's gonna help you, you
know?
You're on your own.
We had one year... there was
a blizzard.
We're talking snow.
And I did a $600 day.
In a blizzard, where people
couldn't even move, I mean,
that's how bad it was.
Now there's zero.
♪
(applause, whistling)
♪
(clanging, applause)
(applause)
(more applause, ringing)
(siren wailing)
(clanging)
>> Good evening, it is 8:00
and this is for Britain's NHS
workers, carers, and everyone
helping to fight this
coronavirus pandemic.
(applause, clanging)
(applauding)
(applause)
>> BURBRIDGE: Oh, has it
started?
Ooh...
Ah!
(applause, cheers, whistles)
(laughs)
>> Thank you!
>> BURBRIDGE: It's amazing...
(cheers, applause)
Do you know, I'd forgotten
about that.
Isn't that crazy that so much
has happened, that every
Thursday, 8:00 p.m., clap for
carers, yeah, yeah.
(cheers, applause)
Lockdown was the right thing
to do.
And when it did happen it was
like, oh, this is, this is what
we need.
On your marks...
get set...
>> Go!
>> BURBRIDGE: But, I knew
everything was gonna change.
The children went to stay with
their dad, because I was like,
I can't contact them, they can't
come to the house, because the
house is clearly riddled with
COVID, and if they walk in
they're gonna get it and they're
gonna get sick.
Just thinking about it now, the
fact that, um... I couldn't hug
my children...
Yeah, it was, it was horrible.
Hm.
What was incredible, everybody
just did it.
When we were meant to finish
work, often we just hung around
in the wellness of chatting,
because we didn't really want to
go home, because a lot of us
were going home to empty houses.
We've finished work and we've
decided to have a dance!
Whoo!
(cheerful music playing)
(laughter)
>> ♪ Come on, baby
let's get it on
♪ Like a...
♪ I got a whole lotta lovin'
♪ Ooh yeah!
♪
(laughs) Oh, God...
We laughed, we cried, and it
just brought us together, and
it was, it was magical.
We even had disco lights.
You know, we really made it a
big thing. (laughs)
Um...
you know, everybody was dancing.
>> The latest figures show that
there have been 177 deaths.
>> Cases are now accelerating
rapidly.
>> 335 people have died from
coronavirus, that's six times
more than last week.
(coughing)
>> 5,373 people have died in
hospital.
The U.K. could become the worst-
affected country in Europe.
♪
>> BURBRIDGE: Nobody should
have to die alone.
No one-- that is not dignified,
that is not humane.
Yet, that's what was happening
every single day.
You've got some incredible
people who've done incredible
things, have incredible lives,
and then they pass away, and
they've got me there.
And it seems so unfair on them
and their family-- it's cruel.
It's a bloody cruel disease.
Um...
It's... it's just crap.
It's horrible, and... (sighs)
And, um...
I... yeah.
Mm. (sniffles)
(deep exhale)
>> ARNY (speaking Icelandic):
(waves crashing)
♪
(indistinct chatter)
♪
>> (speaking Icelandic):
>> ARNY (on iPad):
>> ARNY: Hello, Mama!
>> WOMAN:
>> ARNY:
>> WOMAN:
>> ARNY (voiceover):
>> WOMAN:
>> ARNY (on iPad):
>> WOMAN:
>> ARNY:
>> WOMAN:
>> ARNY:
>> ARNY (voiceover):
(indistinct chatter)
♪
>> (speaking Icelandic):
>> ARNY (voiceover):
>> (speaking Icelandic):
♪
(deep exhale)
>> The World Health Organization
says that the number of
coronavirus cases around the
world is set to hit a million
within the next few days.
>> ARNY:
Hmm.
♪
>> Let's take a brief look at
some of the other coronavirus
developments around the world
today.
The prime minister is spending
a second night in intensive care
being treated for coronavirus.
The U.S. state of New York is
on the verge of overtaking
Italy for confirmed cases.
The Chinese city where COVID-19
first emerged, the city of
Wuhan, has allowed people to
leave the area for the first
time since it went into
lockdown in late January.
>> After its initial
faltering steps, China
eventually hit this virus hard,
shutting its whole economy
down, and while there is some
doubt about the detail of the
official figures, it's clear
the government believes the
trend is going in the right
direction, which is why today
we've seen the re-opening of
the city where this whole thing
began.
♪
>> XIE:
(both speaking Mandarin)
>> YANG:eaking Mandarin)
♪
>> XIE:
>> YANG:
♪
>> TRAIN ANNOUNCER:
>> XIE:
>> YANG:
♪
>> YANG:
>> XIE:
>> TESTER:
>> YANG:
>> XIE:
>> YANG:
♪
>> VALENCIA:
(blowing horns)
(crowd chanting, blowing horns)
♪
(crowd chanting, blowing horns)
(crowd chanting, tapping object)
>> OFFICER:
(countdown continues,
crowd chanting)
♪
(loud bangs)
>> VALENCIA:
♪
(shouting, whistle blowing)
(crowd chanting)
(crowd shouting, whistling)
>> America, baby!
♪
>> That's the thing about
COVID-19, it doesn't care about
how rich you are, how famous you
are.
>> Is that Madonna?
>> How funny you are.
It's the great equalizer.
And what's terrible about it is
it's made us all equal in many
ways.
And what's wonderful about it
is that it's made us all equal
in many ways.
>> Girl, bye.
Like what?
I knew Madonna was out there
already, but she's... no, girl.
It's not the great equalizer.
Yeah.
I mean, and then folks are like
shocked when other folks say,
"Eat the rich."
I mean it's stuff like that,
that makes them look pretty
yummy.
So...
(laughs)
♪
>> We can beat the virus only
through solidarity.
It is time to leave no one
behind.
(overlapping reporter chatter)
>> ...more draconian measures
across the globe...
>> We are all in this together.
♪
>> All right, guys, come on,
let's get back into it.
And one, two, three...
So my name is Tanya Denise
Fields.
Come on, one, two...
Founder and executive director
of the Black Feminist Project,
Bronx-based activist and, um...
yeah.
Do you want more than that or...
Five!
Turn!
I have an 18-year-old and a
16-year-old.
Turn!
And then I have a 12-year-old
and an 11-year-old.
And then I have a six-year-old
and a five-year-old.
Thomas, you see where
everybody's going?
Get on beat.
Hop!
Come on, come on!
By the third week of March I had
pulled my children out of
school, and then three days
later, the whole country shut
down.
♪
Unless we absolutely have to, we
are not going outside.
And so it was just me, and my
partner, and six children in
this three-bedroom apartment, in
a five-story walk up.
And we were scared.
♪
>> IVAN VASILIEV (in Russian):
♪
>> Actually, I... the first six
weeks I loved the lockdown.
I was enjoying the streets of
Beirut empty.
It was amazing, actually.
You could hear, you know, the
birds.
You could see cats all over.
It was, you know, a city for
cats all over Beirut.
(cat meowing)
I remember I would sit on the
balcony at night and I would
say, "Carol, maybe this is the
last time you hear the silence."
It was fantastic.
♪
(whispering, speaking French):
>> My name is Veronique De
Viguerie.
I've got two daughters-- Lou,
who is now eight years old, and
Ella, who is six years old.
They hate my job.
>> Why do they hate your job?
>> Because I'm away too much.
My little one will say when we
are having a big cuddle before
bedtime like, "Do you prefer
me and Lou or do you prefer all
of these kids that you're taking
pictures of?"
You know I try to involve them a
bit too, but it's not working
very well really.
You have a lot of people who
will say, "Yeah, you know,
conflict photographer.
You are just, you know, looking
for your adrenaline dose, and
you are just completely hooked
with it."
And, um...
Yeah, maybe... yeah, part of it
is true.
Some people are scared of death.
Me, I'm more, like my biggest
fear is not to live my life.
♪
>> VALERIE (in French):
>> VALERIA: We enter a lockdown
in all of France.
And there is a bit of a panic.
Benoit, the father of my kids,
is the kind of guy who always
think about the worst.
So he's telling me, "It's going
to be kind of civil war," and
I'm like, "Come on, calm down."
And then, we had these friends
and she said, you know, "That's
it for me, I'm taking my two
daughters, and I'm moving to my
parents' house, which is one
hour away from Paris.
Do you want to come with me?"
And I'm like, well, I didn't
think really of that.
And Benoit is like, you know,
"We should go.
I think we should go.
We have to go, but we have to
go now.
I'm leaving tonight with the
girls.
What do you want to do?
Are you with us or do you stay
here?"
And this is a big question.
If I don't go with them, I am a
bad mother, and if I go with
them, I am a bad reporter.
So...
Yeah, I chose to be a good
reporter.
♪
I went to say goodbye and I took
the picture.
It was helpful for me to have
this camera to keep my tears up,
because I didn't want my
daughter to see me crying.
I didn't want them to...
see me...
yeah, crying or fragile.
♪
At the beginning of lockdown, I
was just doing, yeah, this kind
of symbolic places to show the
emptiness.
♪
Then, I started to go more in
the suburb of Paris, where
people are a lot poorer.
♪
I went to a flat where like
there were like nine kids and
two parents, the six sister
sleeping in the same bedroom
right on bunk beds.
They are going to be locked
down, like 11 of them in this
small flat.
♪
>> What is the password to this?
What is that again?
Raising a family in the Bronx I
imagine is not any different
than raising a family anywhere
else, and then it's a crap ton
different.
>> One more set.
One more set.
>> There would be days that my
children would not go outside.
>> Take up plenty of space.
>> Like I'm homeschooling now,
you know, I'm on my Laura
Ingalls (bleep).
(laughs)
You know, like, like some
urban pandemic version of
"Little House on the Prairie."
I'll let your teachers know that
I'm going to let you take a nap
for about two hours, okay?
I'm going to leave that running
so that I can hear what they're
working on.
>> If you want I can text you
the, the information?
>> Yes, that'd be helpful.
Hunter come in the room and she
be like, "Mom."
I be like, "Yeah."
She be like, "Is the coronavirus
still out there?
When the coronavirus gonna
leave?"
Like the coronavirus to her is a
person.
Like it's a burglar on the
loose.
Like... (laughs)
(sirens blaring)
♪
>> New York, New York.
The worst affected city in
what's now the worst affected
country.
>> Statistics show the poorest
neighborhoods have been hit
hardest.
(siren blaring)
♪
>> How is it?
>> Hell.
Biblical.
I kid you not.
People come in, they get
intubated, they die, the cycle
repeats.
♪
(siren blaring)
>> When we talk about essential
workers, it was like people in
doctor's coats.
But essential workers also look
like the people who clean up
behind doctors, right?
Essential workers are the folks
who serve you your food at the
McDonalds and the Burger Kings.
Those never closed.
Who's doing that work?
♪
Those are folks who are
classified as lower on the
socio-economic ladder and those
people live in the Bronx, those
people live in very specific
communities in Brooklyn, those
people live in Jamaica Queens.
(sirens blaring)
Yeah, lockdown looked different.
♪
>> I've been watching that for
the last week on television--
body bags all over, in hallways.
I've been watching them bring in
trailer trucks, freezer trucks,
freezer trucks.
Because they can't handle the
bodies, there's so many of them.
This is in my... essentially in
my community, in Queens.
Queens, New York.
I've seen things that I've never
seen before.
I mean I've seen them, but I've
seen them on television in
faraway lands.
I've never seen them in our
country.
♪
>> I want to inform you that the
Minister of Health has confirmed
the first coronavirus case in
Kenya.
♪
(crowd singing)
>> KHADIJA MOYO (in Swahili):
(people chattering)
(people laughing, speaking
Swahili)
(dance music playing)
(Khadija laughing)
(dance music continues)
(Khadija speaking Swahili)
♪
(dogs barking)
>> My name is Benta Agola.
I live in Kibera, Nairobi.
♪
I knew the life we were living,
I knew very well that the social
distance, it wouldn't work for
us.
And life goes on, yeah.
(children chattering)
Just pass, pass.
You have to excuse her to pass.
Just pass, pass.
We were not ready to face the
reality.
Just saw death.
We just saw death coming.
♪
(horn honking)
>> There will be a daily curfew
from 7:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. in
the morning.
These additional measures have
been taken as a clear result of
Kenyans failing to heed to
advice.
♪
>> The curfew, it didn't work
for us, people living in the
slums.
(man shouting in Swahili)
I think all slum dwellers, the
way the police look at us, is
like we are associated with
crime, with gangs.
(shouting in Swahili)
When four policemen beat you up,
you know, it's so painful.
(shouting in Swahili)
(sirens blaring)
And the police deal with us
ruthlessly.
(shouting, gunshots)
People lost so much, people lost
so much.
(whistle blowing)
They even killed people, they
killed people just to get them
to their houses.
(crowd shouting)
>> MAN:
>> In fact, in Kibera, COVID
didn't kill as much compared to
the police.
Police did much killing.
Yes.
♪
(chopping)
♪
>> KHADIJA:
♪
(man shouting in Swahili)
>> HUSSEIN MOYO:
♪
(birds twittering)
>> VASILIEV:
♪
(cheers and applause)
♪
>> A quarter of the world's
population is now living under
some form of lockdown due to
coronavirus.
More than three billion people
in almost 70 countries.
>> The World Health Organization
warns countries across the globe
not to end the coronavirus
lockdown too soon.
>> Make no mistake.
We have a long way to go.
This virus will be with us for a
a long time.
>> MAN (on phone, in Italian):
>> MATTEO DERAI:
>> FOSCA BALLARDINI:
>> MAN (on phone):
♪
>> In Spain, children aren't
allowed to leave the house at
all.
And concerns are mounting about
the impact on children's mental
and physical health.
♪
>> CARMEN VALLE (in Spanish):
>> CHRISTIAN VALLE:
♪
>> Coo coo.
(in French):
So, at this point, it's maybe
like five weeks without seeing
each other.
My kids are okay, but Benoit is
starting to get really, really
annoyed.
Basically at the beginning he
was like, "Please don't come,
you know, you might be
contaminated," and all that.
But at some point he called me
and he told me, you know, "I
don't care if you are
contaminated, but just come
now, because I cannot take it
anymore!"
♪
>> BENOIT:
♪
Suddenly, you know, suddenly
life is taking another rhythm.
(girl shouting in French)
Now I am in the countryside and
the only thing we have to do is
homeschooling and getting the
meal ready.
♪
I have just to be there for my
kids and adapt to this very slow
motion.
Just try to penetrate their
world.
(laughing)
♪
(girl roaring)
(Veronique speaking French)
(girl screaming, laughter)
♪
>> VERONIQUE:
>> GIRL AND VERONIQUE:
♪
One day "Paris Match" called me
and say, you ready for a job?
Like, in three or four days?
I'm like, "Yeah!
Okay, I'm ready."
And then he was like, "Well,
okay, you go to Brazil."
♪
Brazil was all over the news
being the new epicenter of the
epidemic.
It did look like it was going to
be massive in Brazil.
Bolsonaro was completely
pretending that it was not
happening, making things worse.
(crowd cheering)
♪
>> For the first time, the
country's daily death toll
reached 1,000 people.
>> Endless fresh graves for the
dead, who also seem to never
stop arriving.
♪
>> I was horrified.
Everybody presumably died of
COVID was in a like kind of mass
grave.
♪
And they don't start the burial
before there are five, you know,
otherwise it's not worth making
the thing work.
So they wait for five coffins,
then they put the five coffin in
the hole, five coffin...
Like in two minutes it's done.
♪
(truck beeping)
It was very shocking to me that
the digger not even stopping
during the five minutes of
little ceremony.
So it's, you know, it's like
really like a factory or
industrial burial with one
after the other.
(truck beeping, people singing)
And the chaos of, you know,
these holes everywhere.
And the machine digging,
digging, digging, digging, you
know.
There is no time to...
There is no time to die even,
yeah.
(shouting, horns honking)
Going to the graveyard, we
passed through a protest,
pro Bolsonaro.
Which was, they were like,
"Yeah, we don't want a lockdown.
We are with you, Bolsonaro."
So they were basically, you
know, denying completely the...
the virus.
It's like if it is a disease,
very dangerous for the poor, and
annoying for the not so poor.
>> Hey, Chris!
He still safe?
>> ...tired of them deciding
we're essential or not.
We the people!
(person cheering)
>> Let freedom ring!
>> There you go!
>> Open L.A.!
(car horns honking)
>> These protesters were not
interested in social distancing.
As activists held their rally
outside the state capitol
building here, many are openly
dismissive of the science, and
increasingly seething at the
economic costs that they are
paying.
>> I get tired of the media
turning around and saying, "Hey,
don't you care about... about
sick people or whatever?"
It's like, what are you talking
about?
Everybody is well!
(crowd cheering, applause)
>> Thousands descending on
Michigan's capitol in Lansing to
protest the governor's current
stay-at-home rules.
>> These are people expressing
their views, I see where they
are, and I see the way they're
working-- they seem to be very
responsible people to me.
>> Let us in!
Let us in!
(chanting fading)
♪
(deep exhale)
>> Um...
May 25 becomes another date
that will forever mark the spark
of this incendiary, social...
thing that we live in.
I don't really always know how
to describe it because I feel
like as a Black person you
always know it's there.
>> I can't breathe, officer.
(George Floyd groaning)
>> Shut up!
>> Trying to killing me.
They're gonna kill me, man.
♪
>> People all across this
country watched a man have the
life gleefully-- gleefully--
choked out of him.
Was it heartbreaking?
Absolutely.
Was it surprising?
No.
This happens every day across
this country.
And finally, in this time,
during a pandemic, Black folks
said enough is enough.
>> I can't breathe!
(crowd chanting "George Floyd")
>> Massive crowds swarming
cities across the country are
choosing social justice over
social distancing.
>> I don't think that Black
Lives Matter would have had the
traction had it not been for
corona, they are inextricably
linked.
>> No justice, no peace!
>> The president's tweet, an
extraordinary line, "When the
looting starts, the shooting
starts."
>> When this president talks
about (bleep) countries, he is
talking about us.
We are the (bleep) country.
"Make America great again."
Great again for who?
Because it was never great for
large groups of people.
>> I think I understand some
piece of the anger you're
feeling.
I'm still beseeching you, we
are still all in this together.
(crowd shouting, siren blaring)
>> No more tolerance.
They have to be off the street.
An 8:00 curfew.
We gave them until 9:00.
This area has been hurt enough,
there's businesses here are
suffering, the residents here
have suffered, we've taken 60
arrests for violating the
curfew, we're just not gonna
take it.
>> In New York City there was
like all of these coordinated
protests and my daughter wanted
to go.
And she was going to go with her
friends.
And I was like, "Absolutely
not!"
That is like Ray Charles leading
Stevie Wonder.
I was like, "Girl, no."
Like because the police had
already been bugging, right?
A curfew had kicked in.
I was not gonna allow my
17-year-old daughter to go out
there by herself.
And so I went with her and we
got our asses kicked!
Police have us surrounded right
now.
Police got us trapped.
And we ain't do nothing wrong.
At about 7:45, they
intentionally started cornering
us, they have us pushed in, in a
pin.
We peaceful protesting.
They are pushing us!
They are pushing us.
Stay tight, stay tight.
>> Oh my God!
Oh my God!
(screaming, shouting)
>> Let me through with my
daughter!
Let me through with my daughter!
Taylor!
I got pepper sprayed.
I got straight pepper sprayed.
My daughter got pepper sprayed,
Y'all, I done peed on myself.
Do you understand how terrifying
it is?
Like yo!
>> Look at that bus!
Half those people are teenagers.
We were doing nothing.
>> Taylor, you got to calm down,
mama.
(Taylor sobbing)
You got to calm down, mama.
You got to calm down, mama, it's
all right.
They're not letting us go that
way.
Here they go, here they go.
They're coming.
Look, look, look!
Go, go, go, go!
Go!
Go, go, go!
Go this way.
Let's go, let's go, let's go!
>> Look at...
Look, did you guys see that?
Did you guys see that?
>> Taylor, you gotta calm down.
You cannot bring attention to
yourself.
Now we over here by ourselves.
You gotta shut up.
This is terrifying.
Here, baby drink that water.
Drink that water.
It's terrifying
You are able-bodied, armed white
people in front of courthouses,
threatening law enforcement for
their right to be able to get a
haircut.
The same people that they wanted
a haircut from were now in the
street, unarmed, asking,
demanding that cops and white
folks stop killing them.
Do you see how different it is
to be white and Black in this
country?
♪
>> MANSOUR: My name is Carol
Mansour.
I'm a filmmaker.
I like to document anything
that's happening around me.
Not only empty streets, but
interactions and things
happening.
(in Arabic):
>> Hey.
Whoo-hoo!
It's important to document.
It's important to know what we
went through, what you know,
people went through.
>> GIRL (in Arabic):
>> MANSOUR:
♪
In Lebanon we were at a state
where, pandemic or not, it was
(bleep).
(crowd chatter)
Before COVID, the country was
falling apart.
(crowd shouting)
>> You see the corruption, you
know about it, and... it just
drives you mad, you know?
(crowd chanting)
>> The protestors are angry.
They see hard lives stretching
before them, while political
elites keep the power and the
money.
>> The pandemic accelerated the
country going downfall.
>> There are financial crises
now all over the world.
Jobs gone, livelihoods lost.
But here, in Lebanon, it is on a
different level.
>> We have shortage of
electricity, we have shortage of
water, you know, everything,
everything-- we have absolutely
nothing.
Nobody gives a (bleep) about us.
About the people.
And then, to top it all, you
know, up we had this explosion
on the fourth of August, so.
♪
(wind howling)
(loud explosion)
(screaming, glass shattering)
(screaming, shouting)
>> Babe?!
>> I'm good, I'm good.
>> Come!
What is it?
>> I'm here!
(shouting)
(sirens blaring)
(shouting)
(sirens blaring continues)
(shouting)
♪
>> The government says the blast
was caused by 2,750 tons of
ammonium nitrate stored unsafely
in a warehouse at the port.
>> The governor of the city
estimates that 300,000 people
have been left without a place
to live.
♪
>> WOMAN:
♪
>> MANSOUR:
♪
>> MANSOUR: Right now, honestly,
when you walk on the streets
here, you don't feel that there
is a pandemic.
Because people are so worried
about so many other things.
Eating, getting money, living,
sleeping.
So COVID is in the back of their
minds.
COVID is almost inexistent.
(hammering nearby)
♪
>> VASILIEV:
♪
>> WOMAN:
>> VASILIEV:
>> WOMAN:
>> VASILIEV:
(indistinct chatter)
(orchestra tuning up)
>> WOMAN:
>> Ladies and gentlemen,
the performance will start in
two minutes.
Please wear a mask in the
theater.
Thank you.
(clapping to the beat)
♪
>> VASILIEV:
♪
>> We cannot continue to exist
in the way that we have.
But I do believe that it's going
to get better.
I do believe that at least for
my grandchildren that we are
going to get through whatever
the muck, and the mire, and the
foolishness is so that my little
grandbabies-- whether I'm here
to see it or not-- are gonna be
better off than I was in this
lifetime.
♪
>> We are all in this together.
♪
>> (speaking Portugese):
>> (speaking Hindi):
>> (cheers)
>> If this election doesn't go
my way then I'm going to spend
time behind bars.
>> NARRATOR: The conclusion of
The Virus That Shook The World.
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