tv The Big Picture RT August 21, 2020 10:30pm-11:01pm EDT
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these somehow concurrent with countless demonstrations and protests happening last . week to. new york a place of dozens and dozens of demonstrations taking place. there are different events related to the black. people protest about. inequality brutality racial profiling black life latino life. these people for example are protesting against the federal agents that he's sending to cities in response to soaring crime rate. cuts. that are very predictable it's amazing how a short amount of time if you would like march all of
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a sudden we had to figure out everybody had to work from home and going to pay for them out became a get you know highly valued april may we were getting used to it and i'm george 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 do everything the cab in madison avenue a $1000000.00 you know to plus these incredible.
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humanity. nobody is even questioning the horror of the death of 4 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 a black live matter sign in the front yard. gay slag here they've got it all covered they've got it all covered and they couldn't tell you it's become almost like in some cases your article of clothing. it's a style that * little is matter of. fact many lives not only that but is it really what it is you're selling. the import of these trailers that are further away from bringing more light for the general. i don't speak about. that i just read about it.
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when you 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. yeah sure. thank you. something we should get used to you know in that he said you through it and. he works as a nurse in one of the hospitals right and he also was a vocal critic of the way this whole pandemic a crisis in new york and in the country do you think that need 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
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has spread so much is that so many people live in big cities like new york with minimal or no access to proper health year 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 or homeless and. statistics show that most people are dying from coded 9000 at a rate 61 percent higher than the general population in new york and shelter risk were 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 and them it is like for them . i've heard that they have a like give away food here like every monday and wednesday. to you. know getting. so how this pandemics been going on for you personally
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we hold are not. only going on speaking. at the launch. also pounced on. 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 a real fragment this is something for real. i don't think it's right to. my influence. it's not 3. 100. will get. real and it's just hard to. write code like this and i know this crazy this is crazy this isn't very dark and this is how
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things were screwed it what we were doing nothing about it there's we take no precautions so you guys now wearing a mask so. i got a bunch of them and they were just like kids act. like you 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 interviewed in new york when i get here and this guy literally he just to go out a syringe and he made a shot with heroin i mean this is crazy and it's just you know i'm not comfortable . with what that is just is just so over the top. it is scary. these people they believe in the whole bit they frankly don't care maybe poverty isn't the main reason. corona virus has spread in the u.s.
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but you know it's definitely contributed to make the numbers look bad specially new york city we have a lot of people who don't have access to clean water antibacterials 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 this pandemic like for you oh. well you know what. we did the turkey. i. mean do you have a plan like for example tomorrow you still 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. 26.
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an entire village in alaska. if another country run the wife of an american. we do everything in our power to protect. wanted needed skipping climate change is the same threat right now alaska seems some of the fuss just coastal erosion in the world we lost about 30 feet. 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. is fast and that means the river is 35 closer to the power than was 4 i don't think we're part of thirst for. others financials i don't buy any i've caught on
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a futures. face almost 5 years as the last of my ex in the future. 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 terrible pictures of men sleeping on the floor inches apart went viral this is a half minute 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
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there are not enough baths and not enough people to eat man sleep on top of each other it's it's a. that's what's 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 odd bats. and. little else they're going to jail time just want to know you could use them you know what. we are not allowed to go inside without permission plus there are probably people who are in fact right now and don't want to risk it so but we might find someone outside few would be willing to talk. i still a lot of reports that you know at the height of the pandemic it was overcrowded people worse livin 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
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a. time one. example that's not a social distance it's what do you think about this whole cold that thing i mean this whole cold but thing is. compilation. so what's your plan for tonight the plan for the night sleeping in. you already got a spot yeah i got a struggle in the show let's do it all right no problem so you know if. you're not scared like i mean i mean it's not about being scared is about listening
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. to god it's because. their belief they give peace with. that they don't really want to know. is just just a microcosm. of this cold and 90 crisis in new york if you look at this from these guys perspective he doesn't appear. is going to sleep outside tonight and doesn't wear a mask he doesn't know they were following any social distancing. this guy probably. not aware of that. is just the way it goes.
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there are people in this city who are say they are not homeless yes they are homeless because of their insane they're also toothless and shoeless and jobless and sometimes hopeless. and whatever you want to call it insanity drug addiction alcohol addiction a combination thereof i don't know i am seeing level of insanity on the street that i've never seen and i'm used to a lot. of that you wouldn't believe. it's not just how muslim poor fallen victim to the crisis in the us 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 the 10 minutes both ride from the nearest dock if a body can be identified or if
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a person has no family or and family could not afford. real cost 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 high demand. gruesome and aerial footage shown on plane bodies being buried in trenches here. oh. rumor has it that when it blows northeast from the northeast 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. as a country. and. i think this is this
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close as we can get you actually have not a lot of set foot on the island well i mean now when it's so quiet you're really getting goosebumps i mean this is the largest mass graves in the united states and you know how many bodies are out there and just. this truly has become a symbol of the current pandemic in new york. this is what we will to one more level of deaths are going to be so great that dead that we're going to have to bury them maybe in parks 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 re the. demand of the overflow.
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or. thank you do. you know he's a nurse at one of the new york hospitals. you know both are really good at the way this and then because. they want me walking into words we no longer know what we're walking into we don't know. we don't know we've been here 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 and you me everybody in the health care we are essentially just are they kept 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 wearing we don't want to see
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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 some but we never have so many people in isolation that you would run out so we would have one to isolation in a unit in a single unit at a given time and now we're talking about $100.00 people we quickly ran out because they didn't anticipate what it would be like or how much they would meet and of course just thinking about. so am i going to buy hundreds and hundreds and now knowing how many i'm going to need i can't it's not a matter of money right because money is they are the united states is the richest country on earth still is an expense to most. people per capita the
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money went. the wrong people or the wrong places the billionaires made the monks money during the pen and paper and the poor people still struggle they were worried about big corporations you worry about 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 and i've seen reports 'd in the local press in new york to some nurses who put on a strauss fax as a protective equipment i mean the picture the real it really did happen they didn't really put that on because like i said we ran out the were hanging there yeah it was from the door so ok so i discount is 30 i can't leave the room with a but i'm going to have to hang it 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 gloves
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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 try to take his weapon and then you should be ok. the. thing here when they go out there and throw gas is that people they have good gear 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've asked the hospital what they had to say about these allegations but unfortunately they refused to give us a proper interview instead they send a standard reply that says quote we are continuing to move heaven and earth to ensure our health care workers have access to proper p.p.d.
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adding that the system was operating in the high capacity and the greatest humanitarian. in crisis and the century. the richest country most powerful. yet has the worst response are well countries that. china did so much better than. you. can explain that in there. if we had the resources money. 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 us over the last 7 days 73000 new cases have been registered there more than in any other state at the moment there are over
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400000. $900.00 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. now it seems to have shifted to florida and we're going to cross state line any minute now. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race is scary dramatic to follow the only really. ready. to sit down and talk.
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else shows same wrong what old clothes just don't hold. any cue ball to get to shape out disdain comes to educate and in games from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. in the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage through parts of northern ireland that was coordinated loyalist attacks protect the only catholic population in belfast tens of thousands were forced to flee their homes a mob was striking to put these attacks was a p.r. you see the police actually took part in the attacks so instead of preventing them
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they were active participants in the burning of coal streets in belfast at the hague more than a 100 innocent civilians were murdered as the review can seniors and we found out more i was surprised about the extent of the cranes which think pollution was involved in some of those cases the killers would later be named. in the gang i think it went to the very very top i think it is frosts the water where all the patients you thought was going on and give the go ahead. an entire village in alaska has had to move if another country trying to wipe out an american town. we do everything in our power to protect. want of a escaping climate change poses the same threat right now alaska does seem some of
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in the depths. or remain in the shallows. by the pandemic no certainly no borders and is blind to nationalities. as much time with the we don't look like seeing the whole world needs to be. judged. come in every crisis what is the sentence in my times we can do better we should. everyone is contributing each or own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges create the response has been masked so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are
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in it together. thank you for an air ambulance carrying a like an appalling is on its way to berlin where the russian opposition figure will receive emergency treatment. since falling critically ill on. the us an opposition leader urges to keep up the pressure on president bush and go with more strikes and protests but there's also a growing show support for the embattled leader. i came here because i want to give balance i don't want to underestimate and i was outraged at your position provoked . i saw it myself.
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