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- The coronovirus.
- The coronovirus.

COVID-19.

Coronavirus officially
hitting the US.

The coronavirus
on both coasts.

This virus does
not respect borders.

What we've got here is

failure to communicate.

As the novel
coronavirus made landfall

in the US,

an air of extreme uncertainty
fell over the nation.

Despite spreading in China
and Europe for several weeks,

the initial information
surrounding COVID-19 was mixed.

When COVID struck,
you know, we,

this was a

this was a big new thing.

We hadn't seen anything
exactly like this

and it was crisis for all of us.

We didn't know what was coming.

We didn't know how bad
it was going to be.

We'd all been trained, of
course, in PPE, in isolation,

we do that every
day in the hospital

with, you know,
different patients,

TB and different infections

that we isolate patients for.

We were used to that,

but what we weren't
used to was not knowing

how bad it was going to get,

or exactly what these patients
were going to look like.

It was a new thing.

I found three weeks in
that I felt so unsteady

and confused and I
think everybody has.

And I think that's
why a lot of people

don't take it seriously.

I think that's why
a lot of people

are taking it way too seriously.

It's just really
confusing for everyone.

So there's so much
that we don't know still

about COVID in general.

Right now, the scientific
community thinks

that for those aged
18 or so, and under,

the risk is much lower relative
to people who are older.

In the
spring and summer of 2020,

dozens of Georgia
residents were interviewed

about COVID-19
shutdown policies.

Their backgrounds were as
diverse as their opinions

but their experience made
one thing very clear.

This wasn't just a
story about Georgia.

What happened in your
state happened everywhere.

You know, you hear the
rhetoric from Republicans

is that it's

not more severe than the flu.

It's not going to harm people

as we initially
thought it would.

And then when you talk to
members in the democratic side,

it's very much based on science.

There are going to be
millions of people dying.

And I don't think there's
any way to get around that.

The immediate
risk of this virus

to the American
public remains low.

Somewhere in the
neighborhood of three to 5%.

- .1%
- About 3.4%

- Between two and 3%.
- Down to 1%.

- Around 10%.
- About .6%.

- Evolving situation.
- Similar to the season flu.

This is not the common
flu, severe influenza season.

10 times
more than the seasonal flu.

And we know
80% of the population

is going to survive.

There's a lot of information

that is not what the
people originally got.

And then the news
constantly changes,

oh, it stays in the air.

Oh, it doesn't stay in there.

Oh, it's in your clothes.

Oh, it's not in your clothes.

Airborne transmission.

Doesn't fly
around in the air.

- Sore throat.
- Fever, cough.

Headache and
shortness of breath.

An
alternation in smell.

Is more
like a slow burn.

The fear
is gonna cause the damage,

not the virus.

From the beginning,
battle lines were drawn

across political and
ideological fronts.

As conflicting
information arose,

society became
further polarized.

There were mayors
in different cities

or city managers
in different cities

that assessed the threat
of COVID-19 differently.

You know, when you got
on those group calls,

some people took
it very seriously

and some people in
different communities,

different community
leaders did not.

At this point, the
pandemic has been politicized

so aggressively, so ferociously,

and I am fearful
that this is because

it is an election year,

that it makes the
stakes much higher.

It's become very
hyper-partisaned.

And at the end of the
day, it really should be

about what is in the best
interest of all of our citizens.

And it's a tough situation
for any elected official

to be in right now.

I believe that there are
people in politics right now

that love their power
and their position

more than they
love this country.

And they're willing to
do whatever it takes

to maintain that power,

if it means creating panic,

if it will help get the
administration that's in now, out,

they're willing to do
whatever it takes.

The first coronavirus death.

The new
developments in the coronavirus.

Researchers
suggest coronavirus

had already been circulated...

Prepare of the
expected, the unexpected

and the unimaginable.

I felt responsible
in the job that I have

for making sure that we
were in the best situation

that we could be day-to-day

for the operation
of the hospital.

And thankfully, our numbers
never got out of hand.

We were able to keep
it all to one unit.

Our COVID patient population,

the ones that ended up
in ICU tended to be older

and have coexisting conditions.

To us, Regency Manor
is not just a business.

It's really an
extension of our family.

The first month was horrible,

because we weren't
sure if anybody,

if any of us has
COVID, you know, so,

that first two three weeks of

we would get the
residents up in stages.

So literally all day,

the first month was
getting people up,

breakfast, you know,

lunch, dinner in phases,
you know, two at a time.

So all day long we
were eating.

I really believe that once
you've lived a little bit,

I think you, I think
even the fear of calamity

or death or whatever

is not nearly as strong
as when you're younger.

I think most of the residents

have done great
things in their lives,

have traveled, have done
a lot of great things.

I don't really think
they're necessarily

very concerned or
afraid of death or,

you know, which is
kind of a nice thing.

My firm belief is that

at the federal level
and at the state level,

this has been
mishandled so intensely,

and again, we were trying
to work very quickly.

Everybody's trying
to work quickly

and understand
what was going on,

but it became pretty
clear early on

that those is in
long-term care facilities,

especially those in nursing
homes were very vulnerable.

And it is true that
many of the deaths

that have been
experienced thus far,

in terms of the pandemic
in the United States,

have occurred in
long-term care facilities.

It is without a doubt also true

that many of those facilities
struggle to meet their needs

on a daily basis,
completely pre-pandemic.

The White House and Congress

reached a deal
early this morning

on the economic rescue package

that dwarfs the
entire national...

Throw and economic
lifeline to businesses

and to workers...

Providing over
800 billion dollars in support

for businesses, big and small.

At last, we have a deal.

All government expenditures
come from two primary sources,

taxes and borrowing.

You know, I
heard about the PPP

and I immediately
went on their site.

Well, first round, they didn't
have their stuff together.

I mean it literally, they didn't
even take our application.

And then all the
first part was gone.

So then the second part
of the stimulus came in,

and I thought,
this is ridiculous.

Everybody's getting, you know,

a bail of money except us.

Right now to this day,

I get almost a hundred emails
a day about unemployment.

And it's so far behind now

that there are people
that are at-risk

of losing their homes, you know,

and losing everything
just because

they just haven't gotten to
their name yet in the system.

Well, I believe that as
finances are distributed,

it depends on the
priority of the people

that are distributing the money.

And whether it's
nursing homes or not,

they're the ones that are,

they're picking the
ones that get the money.

I probably
applied to about six

or seven places, literally.

I would just stay on the
computer and just apply.

And finally, they
did, ultimately.

It was not what

we were led to believe.

I would say,

it was about 60% of what I
thought we qualified for.

As you adequately put,
the problem is choice.

As confirmed
cases of COVID-19 began

to increase and
exactly one week after,

16 Gwinnett County cities
closed all bars and restaurants.

Gwinnett County commission
chairman, Charlotte Nash,

issued a county-wide shelter-in-place
order, on March 27th.

Well, I think the
policy itself was a sound.

I think the county went
about it the right way

to craft a
shelter-in-place order.

Did it take time
to put in place?

Yes, but these things
are not done overnight.

It was really sort
of a joint effort

between the county and the
cities about the same time.

My name is Curt Yeomans.

I am the senior reporter
at the Gwinnett Daily Post

in Lawrenceville, Georgia.

They released a
statement saying,

we're just going to
shut everything down.

And that was, of course,
before the state stepped in

with its own order
from the governor,

which superseded any
local ordinances.

We came in at eight
o'clock that morning.

It was a one day special session

to give emergency
powers to Governor Kemp.

And so it was pretty
common sense for me

as a representative and as a
constitutional conservative

that I was not going to
support the unlimited power

but I would support
the 30 day renewal

because I thought it was
responsible and it was reasonable.

We had to have
a special session

where we all came in
during the pandemic,

and what we had to
do was basically,

give the governor
his emergency powers.

And in doing that,

we basically relinquished
our legislative powers.

It actually turned into a
seven hour almost standoff

about how long he should
have those emergency powers.

So there was one camp
that basically said,

that we need to
come back in 30 days

and decide if we're
going to renew.

And another campus that said,

we need to give him the
power to renew on his own.

It came down to a vote

and everybody that said
that they were not going

to vote for the unlimited

voted for the
unlimited, except me.

Now, I'm not sure why a lot
of people voted yes to it.

I think a lot of it
had to do with fear,

fear of their seats,
fear of their power,

fear of retribution
for the media, maybe,

fear of retribution
from the leadership.

On
Thursday, April 2nd,

following in the footsteps of
city and county governments

and state governors elsewhere,

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp

issued a statewide
shelter-in-place order.

So we had something unique

for Gwinnett County that fit
the needs of Gwinnett County.

The governor's
order, what it did,

was superseded all of that

and really trampled
the home rule authority

or local control of counties

and municipalities
all across Georgia.

It was never said how
many lives they might save

or how many cases
they might avoid.

They just wanted
to limit the chance

that there would be spread
in the community, in general.

They didn't really want
anybody to catch the disease.

The goal to shut down
was to minimize the spread

of the coronavirus.

Really about
health care supply.

A reaction to the numbers.

They're saying it
was for healthcare.

I would think that
any crisis would be just as big

as the shutdown
decision in any crisis,

whether it is a natural
disaster or a manmade disaster,

or a pandemic.

I would think that as a leader,

you would have to make
a very tough decision

on whether to continue
operating or to shut down

and always making a decision

in the best interest
of our constituents.

This is one of the
toughest decisions

that anyone could make.

And then when you look at
it, everybody was involved.

There was no Democrats,
there was no Republicans,

no libertarians.

Everybody came on board

and realized we've
got to do something.

Specifically, the
data that were forefront

in that decision really centered

around health care supplies.

So there's a lot of
language that's been used

about flattening the curve.

The whole idea, of course,

of these shelter-in-place
ordinances and policies

were to try to basically
prevent our healthcare system

from being completely
overwhelmed.

I think it's helping
limit the spread...

Of the virus

you know, the pandemic.

And that's what kind of
the important message

to get to policy makers is that

limiting the spread of the virus

and kind of stalling along
until we can get treatments,

therapies and vaccines

will help the economy
in the longer run

because we'll actually
be able to get back

into business faster.

The governor now issuing

a statewide
shelter-in-place order.

Statewide order for
people to stay at home stay.

Stay home.

I think people are
enjoying being reconnected

to their families.

What I found is that
I'm able to get back

really to the basics.

And what I've observed is that

there's been so much growth
within my own three kids.

I missed it, working.

I totally missed the
autonomy that they've gained.

The benefits for the
citizens public safety,

I mean, we're in the middle,

or we're still in the middle

of a deadly public
health pandemic.

And this public health
is a vital function

of local government,
of county government.

If I told you, don't
go out into the world,

don't get any germs,

don't associate with anybody,

you might remain healthy,

you might not get a cold,

you might not catch any viruses,

but what's that going to
do to you emotionally,

psychologically,
or even physically?

There are always
going to be challenges

in making any decisions because
whatever decision you make,

whether it's about a law
or health or anything else,

it's going to affect lives.

The social distancing
and the shutdowns,

the most immediate and
direct impact, is of course,

in those industries
that require in-person

kinds of activities.

My name is Normal Scholz.

This is The Globe,
Athens, Georgia.

Currently, the general
manager and also a part owner.

We've been watching
the situation

obviously for weeks before.

And we actually
closed down the 17th,

the afternoon of the 17th.

That was the,

I believe that was the stay-at-home
for Athens Clark County,

passed their separate
stay-at-home.

And we went ahead and shut down.

It was really unusual.

The 17th was St. Patrick's Day,

which is typically a
massive, massive day for us.

High formation,
Christian Payne, fullback..

He blocks the...

Decided just to go
ahead and close it down,

if it was going to be that,

if it was that risky to be open,

then we figured it wasn't
worthwhile to be open.

And again, the
business numbers, just,

the sales just didn't really,
weren't worthwhile anyway.

My name's Terry Hanley.

I'm the owner of of Black Diamond
Grill in Cumming, Georgia.

We shut down for six weeks.

So at that point we had
let all our employees go.

We've offered all
of them jobs again.

I think most everybody knew
what was going to happen

just from what the
media had expressed

and what was going
on in the world.

I think everybody
knew there would be

some type of restrictions
in every business.

My name is Davendra Gautuam

and everybody call me Gautuam.

I own this restaurant
for more than 11 years.

We decided to close the
restaurant March, 2020.

And since then, we
opened for takeout only,

which is in the evening.

And we stopped lunch buffet
and the dinner dining out.

As the
spring of 2020 continued,

and with it, the confusion
and uncertainty that COVID-19

and the shutdown had created,

a rift between elected officials

and those they were
elected by began to show.

What we need in this time

is calm, sound,
professional leadership

from state and local
elected officials.

And I feel

in Gwinnett County,

that's probably
what was missing.

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Working together,
we can do this.

No, I don't think
it's appropriate.

And if they're
withholding information,

that doesn't seem very
transparent to me.

Again, I'm open for
transparency in my campaign.

I believe that you should
open up, talk to everybody.

No, I don't think
that the government

should withhold information
from the public.

I think that there needs
to be transparency.

Wasn't giving any information
that the public didn't have.

There were no hearings
on the shutdown.

Public, in the county
level, not really.

It was just a joint
announcement from the cities.

I personally believe that

the responsibility of
emergency management is,

that's the responsibility
of the public sector.

I don't think
anything should be done

for political purposes.

You know, the legislator

or the policymakers can
do whatever they can

to protect their seat, right?

So when they look at a
cost benefit analysis

and any decision that they make,

what are they really doing?

They're trying to
maximize the probability

that they get reelected, right?

It's unusual for
politicians to admit mistakes

because that would mean that
they're not good leaders.

Parties never admit
mistakes unless you catch them

with indisputable proof,
that they made a mistake.

Here's a number.

Every 1% unemployment goes
up, 40,000 people died.

Did you know that?

- No.
- Did you know that?

No, I didn't know this.

It's the most severe
contraction we've had

since the great depression.

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Early indicators
that economists use

like contraction of output,

gross domestic product
and unemployment.

Those numbers are
looking really bad.

So it's a pretty dire
looking situation right now

on the employment side.

3.3 million
unemployment claims.

- More than 6.6 million.
- 17,000,000.

One in five Americans
is out of work.

- 26 million.
- 44 million Americans filed.

What has changed
for me is job loss,

access to quality and
affordable healthcare,

a decrease of income
in my household.

People don't have as
much footing right now.

Their savings are being
used to pay bills,

to pay rent,

get into survival
mode with their money.

If you shift away from
dining in restaurants,

towards takeout and delivery...

80% of the restaurant
industry jobs are gone.

National Restaurant
Association projects

some $225 billion in
sales could be lost

over the next three months.

People are being fired,

especially the people who
are working at restaurants,

as well.

I've got a couple of clients

and a couple of friends actually
who have lost their jobs.

And one of their restaurants
has closed down entirely.

So they will not be
returning to that job.

The uncertainty of
not being employed

or not knowing where
your next paycheck

is going to come from

or how long you'll be receiving
unemployment benefits.

We're probably about
40% of our business right now.

If we're just at a breakeven
spot or any restaurant,

then there's no reason
for them to be open.

There are businesses closing.

The economy may never
recover in this industry.

And us specifically,
we tend to run, you know,

on a almost week-to-week
basis, as far as cash flow.

So having, you know,
a couple of weeks,

you know, at minimum of not
having any income whatsoever,

I spend a lot of time here with
nobody else in the building,

you know pouring over numbers

and trying to figure stuff out.

For many people,

school closings in particular
were especially damaging.

Athens is a college town

and most of our business
is based around, you know,

at least tangentially
to the university.

So without the university
operating right now,

there's just not enough
business in town.

This week.

A massive football party
in Athens, Georgia.

We have these massive
crazy event weekends

where we have an extra couple
hundred thousand people

come into town

and everybody does
tremendous business

for those time periods.

And everyone in this area's rent

is based on us being
able to operate

for those six to six or
seven weekends in a year

to be able to cover our rent
for the whole rest of the year.

So if none of
those are in place,

no one's going to be
able to pay their rent.

Digital
learning and being cooped up

has been a nightmare.

Half the parents did the digital
learning for their children

just to get over it.

You know, I know I've talked
to my son's friends like,

so the students aren't learning.

So either they're
struggling in guessing

or online with their other
friends trying to get the answers

or their parents are
doing it for them.

With
schools closed,

many parents struggled to balance
their financial livelihood

with their new
found responsibility

as teacher and babysitter.

If we don't bring our guests
in, we don't make money.

I'm going to have to go for it.
I have two kids at home.

I've got to take care of them,
feed 'em and get through this.

I'm concerned about
parents feeling concerned

about not being able to
provide their kids' basic needs

because they can't go to work,

because they have to be at home
to take care of their kids.

I'm concerned about their
emotional needs, as well.

A lot of my kiddos,
when they go to schools,

for some of them, that's
the only meal that they get.

So many will not be
able to return to work

because many of them have
small school-aged kids

that require supervision.

So they can't, and they
can't afford daycare.

They can't afford to have
an independent babysitter

to come in so they are responsible
for providing their care.

So that's going to
impact them financially.

Parents like myself,

who have children
with special needs

are extremely overwhelmed.

How they learn, they
learn differently.

Well, I'm not trained
in special education.

So it makes it,

it poses some
different challenges.

I would say that
in-person learning

is without a doubt, preferably.

So when you take a
child out of a school,

particularly a child
with certain needs,

whether they be
instructional needs

or economic needs

or medical needs,

you do shut down that avenue.

The schools are essential

for the overall future
of this country.

If you want to compete in
today's worldwide market place,

you have got to be armed with
an educated workforce, period.

And we know how
important school is.

You know, you can't
retroactively correct stupid.

You can't retroactively
get a kid back

on a reading level, right,

especially in third
and fourth grade.

So I often wonder,

did we take the best approach

when it came to public
education, responding to COVID?

When you say let's just
shut down the school,

it's just not, oh boy, the kids
get more time off, you know,

and the kids don't have
the social interaction

that they need.

They're not learning.

It's almost
like taking a person,

putting somebody in jail.

It's got to have an impact

when children are
isolated from their peers

over an extended period of time.

I can't imagine
what it's, you know,

the impact would be on the
seven or eight-year-old child

sitting at home.

And then the parents are trying

to keep body and soul together,

working and dealing with
child care and what have ya.

It's got to be

an awfully strenuous
environment,

got to be.

When you think
about things

that are stressful
in people's lives,

it's the unknown and
the unpredictable

and things that don't
have a timeline.

My name is Dr. Wendy Dickinson.

I am a licensed psychologist

and the director
at Grow Counseling.

We've had a collective
traumatic experience

and that doesn't just go away.

Most people, at some
point in their life,

will have suicidal thoughts.

It's a pretty normal experience,

even though we don't talk
about it a whole lot.

So a lot of times
that can come from

an ongoing mental health issue
like depression or anxiety.

Sometimes, it can
come from situations

when people just
feel overwhelmed.

Being at home and being
in stressful situations,

be it with a partner or a job,

or just the stress of the
environment, in general,

just of our society

has led to an increase
in substance use.

Most certainly.

My name is Isom White.

I'm a licensed
clinical social worker.

I can't speak to whether
or not we'll see a rise

and a fall or a rise
in suicide attempts.

You know, given the
stress that, you know,

some people are going
to have to endure

and then if they've
already got, you know,

an underlying
depressive disorder

that may be going untreated

because they can't
receive services

because they've lost
their health insurance

or they can't afford the
rates of a therapist.

Well, then that, I think that
maybe increases their risk.

Spousal abuse is
at an all time high.

Why aren't we talking suicides?

I know my son, he's in the Army.

Somebody committed suicide

at his base a
couple of weeks ago.

Your mental health impacts
everything that you do.

You have a cycle pathology

that impacts all
of your behaviors.

So if we are aware that
mental health is important,

it makes absolutely no
sense for us to react

and wait for situations
to occur to then respond.

Anytime we
have a family unit,

a family system where
the stress is increased,

it causes other
kinds of fallouts.

So I think for
families and couples,

whether they have
children or not,

there are significant impacts
around financial stress,

under employment, unemployment.

It can lead to depression,
anxiety, even suicidal ideation.

I think that there's going
to be some mental strain there

because of the order.

And a lot of people,

a lot of families didn't
have the necessary skills

to cope with that situation.

Anytime that you have
an economical downturn,

you're going to see an
increase or an uptick in crime.

I think we're gonna see
some residuals from people,

you know, as we do
start to open back up,

that there's going to be some
things that has manifested

with people that we probably
are not on top of right now.

Black Lives Matter

and Blue Lives Matter
protesters square off.

Witnesses say they heard

at least three gunshots

before spotting a
victim on the ground.

Police here
now firing tear gas.

The nation
erupted into scenes of chaos.

Portland police
say 10 people were arrested

following last night's protest.

Another huge
turnout for the second day

thousands of protestors
out in force.

The flip side to
families being together,

unfortunately, I have a lot
of kiddos that I work with

who don't reside
in safe households.

They don't reside
in safe communities.

There's been an increase
in domestic violence calls.

I had a woman that,

who I was providing
counseling for via tele-health

and she was signaling to me

that she was in a
dangerous situation.

And it was a struggle
and somewhat chaotic

just to be able to get first
responders to her household,

to ensure her safety.

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There's been some new
additions to the families.

And if you've got families
that live across the state

or across the country like my
father, I can't get to him.

So that's emotionally
hard for us as a family.

And when you couple that
with health problems.

So my father is elderly
and he has health problems.

I'm his primary caregiver.

It is a struggle getting him
to doctor's appointments.

It is a struggle contacting

and making those
arrangements for him.

If you don't go to the
doctor because you're afraid

or because the doctor's
office is closed

or you don't get your treatment,

you don't go to your dialysis,

you don't do it,

you're increasing the chances

of either getting
sicker or dying.

That's what the
shutdown has caused.

The hospital did
pretty much across the country,

from what I understand,

stopped doing
elective procedures,

particularly people with
stroke symptoms and chest pain,

not coming in.

We did see some people
that had chest pain

and should have come in
immediately and waited.

And there was nationally
a rise in strokes

and heart attacks.

I got a call from a friend
whose husband had fallen,

passed out, filleted
his face open,

and she was afraid to bring
him to the emergency room

and he obviously needed to come.

So when it comes to the
issue of elective surgeries

and the fact that many hospitals

discontinued elective surgeries,

and the word elective here
is a little bit misleading

because it doesn't mean

that the surgery was
actually not important

or it couldn't save a life.

I'm sure that there were
lives lost over that.

We don't have the data,

those data are being made
available in real time.

But what I can tell you is
that you have to consider

who, where the locus
of authority is

in the decisions around
preventing elective surgeries.

And those decisions
are typically made

by the healthcare
systems themselves.

My understanding was it came,

it was just internally from
the hospitals themselves

wanting to get ahead.

Those instructions have
come from the association,

the American
Pediatric Association

or the American
Dental Associations.

When the governor passed
his shelter-in-place order,

it prevented certain
healthcare professionals

from doing certain work.

I don't know
where the directive

to stop the elective
surgeries came from.

A growing
disconnect in overall experience

began to manifest
as the difference

in people's individual
environments were exposed,

so too, was the
overall course they had

and would continue to pay.

What I've been able to
do is have conversations

with people who
seem disconnected

and what I've noticed is that

the only thing about
their lives that changed

was being able to visit
family and friends.

They were able to pay
their bills on time.

They were still able
to feed their families.

They didn't lose access to
quality, affordable health care.

- In a
written statement,

Gwinnett County commission
chairman Charlotte Nash,

thanked businesses and residents

for their temporary sacrifices.

I think citizens were
making temporary sacrifices

with handling their day-to-day,

you know, activities,

you know, such as going
to the barbershop,

nail salons, grocery stores,

being out in public,

attending some of our, you
know, parks and recreation

and beaches and
that kind of thing.

I think they had to make
temporary sacrifices.

The sacrifices that
Americans are experiencing,

these sacrifices are significant

and there are not temporary.

I think any elected leader
needs to take this seriously.

And I think the residents

and the voters will
respect you more

for taking it seriously.

It's not temporary.

When you lose your job,

when you commit suicide,
the suicide rate went up,

the divorce rate went up,

the alcoholism rate went up.

Those are not
temporary situations.

And not to mention,

the number of people that
lost their businesses

and they put their life
savings into those businesses.

That's not temporary.

Almost finished with
the potential disasters.

Worst scenario is either quick
sand, spontaneous combustion.

There's a
part of our brain

that is the most primal
part of our brain

that keeps us alive.

It's the part that
jumps out of the way

when we drop a knife,

before we even realize that
we've we've dropped the knife

or the pair of scissors.

So we're constantly
hardwired for survival.

And that part of our brain
is largely driven by fear.

Fear is one of the
indicators that tells us,

hey, something's not safe here.

We might not be okay

and need to change
the situation.

And so, unless we're
really in touch

with how we're feeling and
paying attention to the way

that the fear is motivating us,

we're most likely
to make decisions

from a fear based perspective.

If you are fearful for your
life or for your livelihood,

it may cause you to react,

first, without maybe
thinking or considering

the logic or the
numbers or the science,

or the statistics.

If a person catches it,

then there's one of three
things they're going to happen.

You're either going
to be asymptomatic.

Well, I'll say four things.

You're going to be asymptomatic.

You going to have mild symptoms.

You're going to have
really, really bad symptoms

that might be life-threatening.

Or you might die from the virus.

And unfortunately, what
we've seen with this virus

is that part is a lottery.

We have been
taking it very seriously.

I think it's
a very serious issue.

So there's
a gamble in this.

Clear
and convincing evidence.

Putting up
my own guidelines.

It's better
to be safe than sorry.

If we overreact,
thank God, we overreacted.

How serious is it?

As we get
more data going forward.

It's just
so much higher.

It's a
roller coaster ride.

The likelihood
versus the possibility

are two different things.

'Cause you never
know what you don't know.

Always based on data.

The whole idea, well,
children barely, you know,

get very sick or if
they do get sick,

they don't die.

And the numbers don't show that.

I absolutely believe that

the media, local, national,

is pandering to a
certain group of people.

And it's amazing how
many of the people

that run these different
news organizations

are related through
marriage or business

or some other way
to the politicians

that want to see the present...

president and others out.

It's just amazing to see that

and to publish information
to cause panic,

disruption, and
disrupt people's lives

the way that they have,

I think it's criminal.

Fear, I think
it's fear-driven and emotional.

And I didn't know Americans
were so scared.

And I'm like, wow,
it's just really,

the percentages even,
it's just so low.

I'm sure there's people
that legitimately died.

I'm not saying that.

And I'm not
discrediting the life

of the people that
love them, okay?

But people die every day.

And now, you crush our economy.

It's not about money, it's
not that I don't care.

You crush families.

People are going to be
homeless because of this.

People are gonna
lose their homes.

People are going to
be on the streets.

You're putting women, men
and children on the streets.

They played off our fear
and people's emotion.

The fear is, oh my God, oh
my God, you're gonna die,

you're gonna die,
you're gonna die.

And the emotion is,

if you don't stay
home and stay safe,

you don't care
about other people.

Many
began to see the media

as a chief contributor to
the country's divisiveness.

Even locally, we get people,

they just don't like us
reporting the numbers

because they think
we're over playing it.

They believe we're blowing
it out of proportion.

I mean, that's essentially it.

The liberal media wants
to shut everything down

and their collusion
with the Democrats

and blow it out of proportion.

Deaths are rising
in at least 17 states.

One day this week, there was
a death nearly every minute.

The worst thing,
coronavirus outbreak.

Here are the very latest
details this morning.

In the nation's
three most populous states,

things are going
from bad to worse.

That's exactly what they did.

And we fell right in line.

And I've expected
more from them.

I thought more people,

maybe people aren't
such freethinkers.

Maybe people are so in
tune to what they're told.

One of the things
that I talk to clients a lot about

is that what we focus on grows

and our brain actually
doesn't know the difference

between what's real
and what we imagine.

So when there's a
stressor out there

and we focus on
it and we imagine

that there's this invisible
monster that's going to get us,

and we stay focused on that,

it continues to grow

and our body actually
responds biochemically

as if there's a real
monster out there.

I think one thing
that people could do

in terms of, I
guess in a response

to the reactionary part of fear

is to practice being
comfortable with fear,

practice sitting with it,

practice sitting with the
bodily experience of fear.

So what does that fear
feel like in your body

and how can you maybe withstand

or like I use the
term, sit with,

how can you sit with that fear

for an extended period of time?

This is a once in a
lifetime situation that we're in.

With COVID-19,

I think we've seen, we've
never had this before.

The year was 1957.

Elvis was entertaining
the masses

and "I Love Lucy" was
airing its final episode.

New advances in
science and technology

were capturing the attention
of Americans everywhere.

And while local
industries boomed,

something else was happening.

A new strain of
the influenza virus

was killing 116,000 Americans.

Like COVID-19, it was
especially dangerous

to the elderly population
but in a frightening twist,

the virus could be fatal
to pregnant women, as well.

The US population was
half its current size

and life expectancy was
nearly 10 years less.

However, without a 24 hour news
cycle, hungry for eyeballs,

hardly anyone noticed and
next to nothing was shut down.

Other than a renewed
commitment to basic hygiene,

American life went on as usual.

I don't remember that.

I don't remember that.

I do remember flu
epidemics that popped up

from time to time, but I don't
remember that specific one,

but I honestly do not recall
anything unusual taking place

around my home or in my
school associated with it.

Again, years back,
a few years ago,

was it the H1N1, the swine
flu, it was killing people.

The avian blue bird
flu was killing people.

And what was scaring me
to death is that one year,

it was killing little kids

and that's all the world
news was scaring me about.

And I had two younger ones.

They were younger then.

Scared me to death
at night nearly.

And eventually, guess what?

It fades way because
Hawaii has a volcano

and starts erupting

and no more you hear about
the flu, it just goes away.

So sometimes I wonder,

does media like to
blow it up too much?

Or did they give us
too much, too little?

We begin tonight with a
stunning number, 150,000.

Deaths from
coronavirus in the United States

have surpassed 160,000.

Total US death toll,
now nearing 170,000.

In
the United States,

around three million people
die on average every year.

The death rate is just under
900 deaths per 100,000 people

in the population.

Life expectancy currently
stands at 78.6 years.

And the infant mortality rate

is about six deaths
per 1000 live births.

The leading causes
of death in the US

are heart disease and cancer

with over a million
on average, combined.

Other common causes
include accidents

with about 170,000
deaths every year

and chronic lower respiratory
disease with 160,000.

About 150,000 people die
every year from stroke.

And Alzheimer's disease
kills about 120,000 Americans

every 12 months.

Over 80,000 people perish
yearly from diabetes.

And the flu and pneumonia
send almost 60,000 people

to their ultimate demise
over the course of 52 weeks.

And finally, suicide results

in under 50,000
fatalities annually.

The numbers aren't
even close to correct.

I have yet to meet one person

and I talk a lot
to a lot of people.

I ask every single person

do they personally know
somebody that died of COVID-19

and nobody can say yes.

Adding to an
already full load of problems,

many people also began
to grow suspicious

of reported cases and deaths.

My mechanic, his name is Sal,

his aunt just died of some
type of terminal cancer.

They put her down for COVID-19,

didn't test her for COVID-19.

It's interesting.

I've had a few people pass away,

not because of COVID,

but they've been
marked as COVID deaths.

I don't know anyone
personally who's had it.

I know people who
had some symptoms

and we've kind of assumed
that's probably what it was.

A friend of mine,

he was, I believe in his
sixties, he had a heart attack.

He was very healthy.

He was making a veggie smoothie

for him and his wife
and his paraplegic son.

And he had a heart attack.

And they tested him
and his wife, his body,

they tested his body
and he was positive.

And so was she.

They took another test
and they were negative,

but they listed him
as a COVID death.

And therefore,

the funeral,

she couldn't be touched.

She couldn't receive hugs.

She had a mask on,
everybody was uncomfortable

and they have discontinued
her food train.

She's not receiving any dinners.

It's just really,

I'm actually getting emotional.

I haven't cried about this yet,

but it's just frustrating.

The hospitals are getting
money for every COVID death,

I think just, you know,

to cover whatever
the finances are

to like put people on
ventilators, et cetera,

which I've actually read that
they put people on ventilators

before they die
just to like prove

that they treated
someone for COVID.

And that actually decreases
your chance of survival

because you're depending
on that machine.

Another
friend of mine,

her nephew died in a car wreck
in New York, 20 years old.

And they put them
down for COVID-19.

Everyone knows FEMA's
given the hospital, what?

25, $3,500 for every case
they say is COVID-19.

So I have a friend in Arizona

who my sister was
talking to the other day.

And she said that
her friend's husband,

clearly retired

with serious heart issues,

went to the hospital

with having a hard
time breathing.

But as I said, very, very
compromised with his heart.

He died.

They tested him, he had COVID.

He died,

they say of COVID.

His wife says with COVID.

Slight difference, but you know.

But in his case, they
really thought that,

if it wasn't going to be this,

it would have been something
else pretty quickly.

So my wife's stepfather's

father passed away.

He was in a retirement
home in Gainesville.

And they had an outbreak
in the retirement home

and he passed away last week.

Maybe a couple of patients

that I checked out at
the morgue that I said,

okay, well, we never
got a positive,

but we're calling
it a COVID death.

We didn't always trust the test.

You don't, you can't risk,

you know, that a
test wasn't correct.

You have to assume.

A lot of the information
that I've obtained

basically says that

if you die of a heart attack,

but you have tested positive
for COVID, you died from COVID.

I can speak to some of the
cynicism that people may feel.

I know the Georgia
Department of Public Health

has been criticized recently,

made its way in
the national news

by putting out misleading,

we'll say,

maybe just outright
say blanket false

graphs or information coming
from state government.

What the reason, the
reasoning is, I'm not sure.

Some say it's financial.

Some say it's political.

You know, I don't know
what the reasoning is,

but I know that a lot of deaths

have been attributed to
COVID, that weren't COVID.

If you ever can make
yourself appear as a hero,

and there are some
financial benefits to that,

I think that's a good
incentive for people.

I don't have any
personal or professional experience

but I have had conversations
with other colleagues,

medical and clinical colleagues.

And COVID was listed
as the cause of death.

But they felt like
there was something else

that this person
passed away from.

So we've had conversations about
why that may have happened.

And it has a lot
to do with money.

Toto?

I have a feeling we're
not in Kansas anymore.

There are a
lot of people right now

who don't have hope.

They don't have jobs.

They live in areas
that are deteriorating.

I think it really
changes our expectations

of how stable life
is going to be.

We, as a
people, are resilient.

When we go through adversity,
we become stronger.

Anytime we've had a challenge,

it's never been easy, right?

Whether it was World War II,

whether it was
recovering from 9-11,

whether it was recovering
from the great recession.

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♪ You're 21 and you've
never had this feeling ♪

♪ You check your pulse to find
the answer, just be queaving ♪

♪ You paid it out, didn't
try to hide the reaching ♪

♪ You struggle with us and we're
show you how we're living ♪

♪ 'Cause we are so done ♪

I'm hoping this
toughens us up.

I think it's toughened me up.

I've become a lot more aware
of my effect on the world

and people around me.

And it's amazing how
connected we really are.

And I hope that, you know,

a lot of people my age,

I hope their eyes are
being peeled financially.

There was a message
for our generation,

millennial, Gen X, whatever
you want to call it,

that if you do the right thing,

you finish high school,

you go to college,
you get a good job,

and you'll be stable.

Some of us got there
and some of us didn't.

Yeah, it makes the
future uncertain.

You know, some of the
clients that I know

and that I have that
we're similar in age,

they're really
struggling right now.

They don't have careers.

And if they did have a career,

some of them have
been put on pause.

When we go into
something expecting

for life to go our way and
things to be predictable

and stable and calm

and an outcome that's congruent

with whatever work
we put into it,

that's a really
different expectation

than somebody who's lived
through trauma or stress.

I think one of the
positive things

that we learned from it

is a sense of resilience
about who we are.

So we adopt this idea

that we are strong
enough to overcome things

or we're creative
enough to problem-solve

or we can rally together
with a support system

and figure out a way to
navigate something together.

You can't quit
living, you know.

You just can't give up on life.

You've got to keep pressing
forward, moving forward,

and make the best that you can.

Like
any good crisis,

COVID-19 and its
wide-reaching effects

created a laundry list

of varying opinions on
the best way forward.

We have a lot
of people

who have nothing

including health insurance.

They're in poor health.

There is little to no
prospect of upward mobility.

You know, the intersection
of all of this

in the global pandemic,

the lessons it's teaching us,

I think that we're still the
richest country in the world

but it really doesn't matter

if you can't access the
resources that you need.

One of the things
I've learned is

that there are a number
of policies being made

in regards to funding,

in regards to access
to healthcare,

that unfortunately don't
always include people

who are implementing and
practicing this healthcare.

We're not included at the table

when these decisions
are being made.

So that can cause like
a negative impact,

specifically, people who are
on the lower income bracket.

I don't think
that they realized

the personal costs,

the individual costs
of the shutdown

and the costs of
lives that it took,

the cost of businesses.

But I think this will be a
unique time to look back on

where there were shortcomings,

where there were ways

we probably could have
addressed situations better.

You know, we need to take that

and weave that
into public policy

and SOPs across the country.

I'm hoping public
health experts,

public policy will be shaped

for the better
after this pandemic.

Thank God, here in Georgia,

none of us were required
or forced to take people,

residents with COVID.

But I'm thinking in New
York City, for example,

where they were
required to take,

knowing that the
resident had COVID

and to take them back
into the population,

that is just terrible.

That is just unbelievable.

Among
the biggest unknowns

is the future of the restaurant
and service industries.

As one of the largest
employers of people worldwide,

its prospects will
influence millions of lives

in the near and long-term.

It's hard to say right now,

you know, how it goes.

I mean, for the short
time, it's okay,

if a month or two months,

if it is long time,
then you know,

I definitely be
concerned about this.

I want to thank
everyone

that supported The
Globe, in general.

So the GoFundMe, especially,

we had such amazing
outpour and support.

It means a lot to be well loved

and respected and taken
care of in our community.

I just
wanted to say thanks

to all the customers.

If we have another
pandemic in the fall,

I'm sure we're
going to be closed.

We can't spend money
that we don't have.

If you're only doing
20% of your business,

there's no reason to be open.

My parents are 80

and suddenly I wasn't
able to see them.

And it got kind
of nerve wracking.

I started cross-stitching.

I went and bought
a God bless America

cross stitch pattern

and essentially,
prayed over the nation

and all of the first responders
as I cross stitched it.

And I had my dad in
mind when I did it.

And with him being at-risk,

if he had contacted it,

really made me dive
deep into myself

about what was important

and our nation and how
we all work together.

You know, I have
a 93-year-old dad

and a 91-year-old stepmom
living in Massachusetts.

And you know, they're in
lockdown in their retirement home

and you know, they've
made it this far.

He was a soldier
in World War II.

You know, to me,
it's like priceless.

I couldn't put a monetary
value on saving my dad's life.

Sorry, I'm getting emotional.

But yeah, I can't
think of it that way.

If you got sick from this,

I would feel horrible

because if you passed it
along to your grandparents

or your father or your mother,
and one of those passed away,

it would be very
difficult for you

when you got married and you
can't walk down the aisle

with your father,

or you can't,

your parents never get to
meet their grandchildren.

When we closed
down last March,

and went to virtual learning,

I could not be of much help

to the people here in the system

that were scrambling, trying
to keep the thing going.

And they did a yeoman's job.

I mean, I was absolutely amazed

at the kind of job,
I want to say we did,

but that wouldn't
be fair to them,

the kind of job they did.

Our intensivist
emergency room doctors,

we had two doctors,
two marvelous doctors

that I can't say enough about

who volunteered to
man the COVID unit.

Yeah, you see the heroes
and then suddenly,

it makes everybody better.

A crisis ultimately
does make people better.

And it's something like this

that really makes you
appreciate great people.

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♪ And I want the river to flow ♪

♪ Hide all the troubles ♪

♪ To only discover
more, oh oh oh ♪

♪ There was a rise, more
than I'm trying to go ♪

♪ Out there along
the water edge ♪

♪ One step closer, I
can't feel the ledge ♪

This is not a one size
fits all scenario, right?

So I think everybody has
been impacted in some way

by the shutdown, by the
quarantine, by COVID-19.

How do you get caught
off guard by nature?

I don't know how we keep
getting caught off guard

by certain things.

This isn't the first
pandemic that's happened.

So how are we not
better prepared?

I have, what's called a wishlist

that I leave for Santa
Claus every year.

I'll put that on my wishlist.

Well, in the future,
we need to have a plan.

You know, we need to have
certain criteria available

to us to help us make
that kind of a decision

or not.

And we're going to
have to start gathering

that information now

because evidently, we
didn't have it before.

I just begin to worry about
what we got going on around us

and how long it's going
to take to deal with it

and what the
situation is gonna be,

after it's run its course.

I mean, it's doing damage.

There's no question about it.

It's doing damage as we speak

on all kinds of fronts.

And...

I just hope it ends soon.

I'm interested to see
what happens in the future.

We can't shut down again.

It's just too much.

It's going to be too
much on too many people.

Only time will tell.

You know, we'll have
to wait and see.

We have the tools
to be able to estimate

how many lives have been
saved from shelter-in-place.

That's definitely
something that we do.

And actually, I can tell you,

I already know of a whole
gaggle of economists

that are working to
do that right now

with the latest available
data that we have.

It's very clear to me
that we'll have the data

and the tools to be able
to answer that question.

What's not clear to
me is whether or not

the policy makers and
society in general

is going to be open to the
answers, what the answers are.

Not shutting down,

we would have seen
even more deaths

than we are seeing right now.

Could
you point us to a report

that would support that?

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