tv Documentary RT August 21, 2020 7:30am-8:01am EDT
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i have been waiting for the moment of complete and total societal collapse i never knew it would happen this. new york alone has become a place to. demonstrate. we're driving through. new york's neighbor. on the side sitting in the city. going. to some of the scenes. way before going to the 2nd grade so we're going to go with the 1st one. little let you tell me what. was going on behind those walls the richest country most powerful and yet has the worst response are well countries.
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are doing nothing about it. are going to be so great. that. we're going to have to bury them maybe and. maybe in. this truly has become a symbol. in new york. this is the vietnam. war more than 4 decades ago their names are inscribed on the black granite wall in memory of the national tragedy which claimed. 1000 lives of u.s. men and women in uniform over the last couple of months 900. 50000 people. in the u.s.
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it's 3 times more lives than the vietnam war 2 can its entire 10 years it's a different kind of anime now but this is a war and america is losing it pretty badly and. something has gone wrong and we came here to find out what it will take a look at how the corona virus has ripped through america's health care and economy and what it means for the rest of the world so. the new york of 2020 will probably be featured in the history books this city is nothing like it used to be ever humming downtown streets deserted those who can isolate themselves and those who can't wear masks or protective face traps as if the viruses and every breath of fear. in all of these somehow going to occur and with alice demonstrations and protests happening last minute riots. in.
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new york alone has become a place of dozens and dozens of demonstrations taking place all of what to do on a saturday i counted 30 different events related to the black lives matter movement and people protest about sumi things and equality police brutality racial profiling black life latino life friends lives that these people for example are protesting against truong and the federal agents that he's sending to cities in response to sole crime rate. cuts. that are very crudely. it's amazing how a short amount of time it you would like march all of a sudden we had to figure out everybody had to work from home and that's when the paperwork and that became a get you know highly valued. april may we're getting used to it and i'm george
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florida's murder multiple other police unjustly against people of color are brought to the forefront and it's just really lit up. not coalmines over here. then we had looting have you been downtown have you been to could discover things the cab in madison avenue a $1000000.00 out of plus these incredible fashion houses ordered up plywood and then came the riots organized riots pallets of bricks i have been
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waiting for the moment of complete and total societal collapse my whole life i never knew it would happen this way the country was held together by the slimmest of glue societal bloom and this just broken apart. this is the last missing piece of this. are you concerned at all about social distancing. eversley is not 6 feet away they . want to. keep. anybody. we want anyone. to be potentially causing the people around. him. we need to be out here nobody is even questioning
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the horror of the death of george ford but i defy anybody to explain to you what's black and the number of people white americans suburban high income who have their black lives matter they have the black live matter sign in the front yard. gay sleigh year they've got it all covered they've got it all covered and they couldn't tell you it's become almost like it's some cases you know article of clothing near it's a style. matter and. lives not only. is it really what it is you're selling. and ryan are. the real point of these trailers that if if it brings more light for the. people who speak about this so there's not a lot of people that are educated about it. you know what we love it. when you
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think you've seen it all. but how did it all began how did the usa end up in such a situation. what would be a proper greeting. sure. thank you. something we should get used to you know if you threw it. he works as a nurse in one of the hospitals right and he also was a vocal critic of the way this whole pandemic and crisis was in new york and in the country do you think that was prepared for this outbreak honestly i don't feel like we were prepared very much at all i think a quicker shutdown would have done a bit better to mitigate the spread that was going on part of the reason the virus has spread so much is that so many people live in big cities like new york. or no
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access to proper health here these are the homeless and poor people who don't have good insurance plans. so this is going to be our 1st shooting location a small park in manhattan where a volunteer is already distributing food for homeless and poor statistics show that most people are dying from covert 19 at a rate 61 percent higher than the general population in new york and public shelters where most of them live are notorious for being coronavirus hot baths so we look around and talk to these people to find out what this in them is like for them. i've heard that they have a like they give away food here like every monday and wednesday. to you. know getting. some how this pandemics thing going on for you personally i don't hold enough. only going on speaking. with people who want to.
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also. i mean people are dying on its. you. and you don't believe in you like you don't believe in coded that this is the real frat this is something for real. i don't think it's right to jam mine. it's not. good. to. write code like this i don't know this crazy this is crazy this is crazy i can do this is how things were screwed and. we're doing nothing about it there's we. no precautions so you guys now wearing a mask so. i got
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a bunch of them and they were just like good that's gold and i know that i could be down here in the world is. like literally this this is so. crazy this is i'm not kidding this is the 1st man i knew in new york when i get here and this guy literally he just to go out with a syringe and he made a shop with heroin i mean this is crazy and it's just you know i'm not comfortable . with that is just is just so over the top. it is scary. these people they believe in they frankly don't care maybe poverty isn't the main reason corona virus has spread in the u.s. but you know it's definitely contributed to making the numbers look bad specially new york city we have a lot of analysis people who don't have access to clean water anti-bacterial is
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hand sanitizer even the ability to socially distance is a luxury for them right so without that ability 1st of all it's horrible but 2nd of all it breeds the possibility of contagion going forwards what was this pandemic like for you oh. well you know what they. did the turkey. i. mean do you have a plan like for example if tomorrow you feel any symptoms like what would you do you go to a hospital you have insurance like you have a plan. if you know some folks who are staying in the shelter or something like that will be. 26. this part of manhattan. all right so these. directed us to one of the largest
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shelters in manhattan and there's been a lot of reports that these facilities are overcrowded and the people there are well they have been left to cope with the cold it's on their own. join me every day on the alex i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sport i'm show business i'll see you then.
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so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only. exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. time to sit down and talk. an entire village in alaska. if another country trying to wipe out an american. we do everything i. want to think of skipping climate change as the same threat right now alaska seems some of the fuss just coastal erosion in the world. about 30 feet. 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we
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so this is the place to shelter we were told about. it's getting late so people are coming in and out bellevue homeless shelter it's the name was all over the news just recently when the terrible pictures of men slipping on the floor inches apart went viral this is the half of the thing not the way you contain the spread of for grown a virus in a city and here's what happened after the public outcry about homeless people crowding new york subways city authorities came after them and forced them into this public shelters the problem is that the facilities were weakly overcrowded there are not enough bats and not enough people eat man sleep on top of each other it's it's a mass was going on behind those walls so you have around 20 shelters across the city at the height of the pandemic which are of nothing but all but. bats.
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little know if they're going to lose a time just want to know you could use them you know. we are not allowed to go inside without permission plus there are probably people who are in fact right now and we don't want to risk it so but we might find someone outside you would be willing to talk. i've seen a lot of reports that you know at the height of that kind that make it was overcrowded people worse living on top of each other yeah it was their right it was people you know in the same room is supposed to be 6 feet away at a. time one. of the people. who said i'm. not not a social distance. what do you think about this whole cold that thing i mean
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this whole cold but thing is. compilation. so what's your plan for tonight my plan for the night sleep in the garage you already got a spot yeah i got a spot in the show let's do it all right no problem so you know. you're not scared like i mean i mean it's not about the escapism those. that say god it's because. they give peace. they don't really.
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it's just it's a microcosm. of this cold and 90 crisis in new york if you look at this from these guys 1st back to you doesn't hear. is going to sleep outside sometimes doesn't wear a mask he doesn't know or follow any social distancing. this guy probably. not aware of that. is just the way it goes. there are people in this city who are saying they're not homeless yes they are homeless because of their insane but also toothless shoeless and jobless and
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sometimes hopeless. and whatever you want to call it insanity drug addiction alcohol addiction a combination of the i don't know i am seeing level of insanity of this being that i've never seen and i'm used to a lot of. you and. it's not just how muslim poor fallen victim to the crisis in the u.s. and there was one place not far from new york that reveals the unprecedented scale is to get past your feet. this place is called island it's about an hour ride from new york and 10 minutes both ride from the nearest dock if a body can be identified or if a person has no family or and family could not afford burial costs then island is the answer and it has been serving as a mass grave for centuries but now with all this pandemic this place is in a high. i demand. gruesome and aerial footage shown on plane bodies being buried in
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trenches here. rumor has it that when it blows north east from the north the storm all the rocks on the northeast side of the island here are placed through for the erosion of the current there's a. wash up on city island like that all the time that's 3 days i've heard some people saying that there's some old city islanders around skulls or things like that. out of trees. and. i think this is this close as we can get actually not a lot of set foot on the island well i mean now when it's so quiet you're really getting goose bumps i mean this is the largest mass grave in the united states and
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you know how many bodies are out there and just. this truly has become a grim symbol of the current pandemic in new york. this is where we will too one more level of deaths are going to be so great that dead that we're going to have to bury them maybe in part because maybe in potter's field maybe but we're going to have to we won't be able to handle those who had next to the hospitals trailer tractor trailers replied you waited. to handle the overflow. or orleans. and it ain't. doing it the young is a nurse and one of your hospitals in the new boat. we go the way this and then
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because. they want me walking into a word we no longer know what we're talking. we don't know. we don't know we've been in jail you took part in numerous demonstrations. can you explain to us. we're protesting against protective equipment it should have been the decision of who gets a massive does it that's in the main everybody in the health care we are essentially just taken telling us don't use. the mass because you don't need it and we don't want to waste them. i don't know in the management of the hospital you work in was that was telling you that i. should not wear we don't want to see people wearing masks because we don't want to waste them that we didn't have enough masks we had no gowns we had this is just sounds crazy to me. how is that even possible that you didn't have i know that what happened was we had
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some but we never have so many people in isolation that you would run now so we would have 12 isolations in a unit in a single unit at a given time and now we're talking about $100000.00 people we quickly ran out because they didn't anticipate what it would be like or how much stay with me and of course thinking about. so am i going to buy hundreds and hundreds and not knowing how many i'm going to need i can't it's not a matter of money right because money is there the united states is the richest country on earth still is the expense to most. people per capita the money went. the wrong or the wrong place in. the billionaires made money during the pandemic and the poor people still struggle. they were worried about big
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corporations you were told the corporation they might not be workers to work in and run up the words because the field going to make it but he's not the one doing the work i've seen reports in the local press in new york to some nurses who put on a stress fax as a protective equipment i mean the picture is real it really did happen they did really. because like i said we ran out people were hanging in there yeah it was from the door so ok so i didn't count as 30 i can leave the room with a but i'm going to have to hang in the door because when i come back here and i have to come back and i'm not going to have another gown those. gallons. it was never meant to stay on and it was never made to use a once over and over again you don't bring soldiers to war and you know give them weapons and you tell them yeah go out there and go luck you know try to figure it out hopefully you can kill the enemy if you take his weapon and then you should be
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ok. the. thing here when they go out there and throw gases and people they have could hear they have a good man behind the mask that we should have been using. nobody helped. you know it was our own by we had to fight her every day we asked the hospital what they had to say about these allegations but unfortunately they refused to give us a proper interview instead they sent a standard reply that says quote we are continuing to move on in earth to ensure our health care workers have access to proper p.p.d. i think that the system was operating in the high capacity and at the greatest humanitarian crisis and the century and the richest country most powerful and yet has the worst response there is are well countries that.
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china so much better than. you. can explain this and there's no excuse if we had the resources money the intelligence. we had some of the. everything here and yet we still couldn't get it together. we thought we should also visit another state florida because it has become a new coronavirus hot spot in the u.s. over the last 7 days 73000 new cases have been registered there more than in any other state at the moment there are over 400000 going to firm covert 900 cases in florida and it's twice as many as new york and 5 times more than the whole of china has experienced since the beginning of the pandemic so if new york used to be america's covert 19 epicenter now it seems to have shifted to florida and we're
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going to cross state line any minute now. is you'll be a reflection of reality. in the world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you good in the right way or are you being so. what is true. is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or i'm a good. this
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is just not. going it will. why sure some variation in all the clues here is for fresh. water back to you guys are important some are solution siri next as well as daisy harbor and today we're going to be talking about the banning cell of money stop stop being self cost of the and stop the world alliance joining us very quickly will be jamieson of keys dot casa. in front of all.
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in today's headlines the belorussian opposition leader urges her fellow citizens to keep up the pressure on president lukashenko with more strikes and protests as further large rallies both for and against him are held across the country. also this hour a russian opposition figure head out to see it not only has tested negative for the presence of oxygen substances so far as doctors will opt poisoning for now. and a u.s. request to reimpose thinking against tehran is rejected by the remaining members of the iranian nuclear deal.
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