Days of the pandemic the impact on health. I love you so much. Its just kind of a blur what happened after i got intubated. Narrator and the economy. E ied putting in for the Small Business loan, unfortunately, we werent approved. We are the free people of america. Su narrator to er of protest as long as thh catce dirty cop at a time, im happy. One at a t narrator the backlash shouting narrator and ultimately, the election that roused a eply divided nation and the aftermath. chanting trump 2020 trp 2020 cars honking narrator now, a frontline special presentation we want to live narrator american voices a nation in turmoil frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbsn statom viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, commitd to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. The Ford Foundation working with visnaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. At fordfoundation. Org. Additional support is provided by the abrams foundation, committed to excellence in journalism the park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of ctical issues. And by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. And Additional Support fromni laurdeand scott nathan. overlapping voices how can i love america . I cat. I dont think i can love america, i cant put that into words. We dont know when its nna pass. I feel a revolution coming, g itting closer every day. I have learnt to love being alone. Narrator these are the voices of americans. overlapping vces people are getting angrier and angrier. I wanna be in charge of my own life nrator gathered from were just going too far in opposite directions. Just set the scene for us, how are you feeling . Give us a clap, first. Narrator in this film, americans reflect on a year of turmoil. Its never gonna be the same after this. I wish there wasnt as much hate in this world as what we have. rt guns were scared to death of this thing and nobody wants to die. We have no reason to trust the state. Im not going to tolerate somebody telling me how i needif to live my le. An activist, a mother, a barber, a retiree, the owners of a nail salon, and of a construction company, and a flower shop, a doctor,an d patient. Their stories begin in march 2020, as covid was spreading, and the country was shutting down. Cdc says there are now more than 4,200 cases of coronavirus. In iowa, governor kim reynolds has recommended. Mass gatherings are restricted to less than ten people. radio fading who so falleth not down andet worshishall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. All the people, the nations and the languages fell down and worshipped the golden image that nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. My ame is cary gordon. Im the Senior Pastor of cornerstone world outreach in sioux city, iowa. How do i water baptize someone in a Virtual Service . How do i bury the dead . How do i have a wedding . How are people have me lay my hands upon them and aloint them with oil and pray over them to be in the midst of a pandemic when im told that i cant have physical contact . Last sunday morning, i drove past menards. Hundreds of cars. Eryard, and only a quarter mile away my church in contrast, i know e ty, because theyve said, the church is not essential. The church is not essential. In a time of crisis with imminent death and pandemic, the church is not essential, but menards can stay open, someone might need to buy a screwdriver. Its o. New numbers show the damage coronavirus has inflicted upon oregs economy. 266,000 oregonians are without a job. Ym unempt is at a record high in oregon. People are spooked because of covid. Theyre scared to death of this thing and nobody wants to die going out the house getting a haircut. My name is bryant moore. Im a barber from portland, oregon. Ck the bills keep sg up. With no money coming in. Scared to look at the bills from our business, cause i cant pay. So ill survive by just doing what i have to do to make it, man, you know, its. If i would go to a seniors house or go to a bus stop, i couldnt do anything else, i had to make do. So im having a get together at my house. So i escaped, came here. I gotta get my hair done. O he got tget his money. Gonna go back looking fly. My business is one of those things where it makes you feel good. Which we really all need to be feeling good right now. chuckles you know . Its jusa common human thing to do, its human to make people feelood. Oh, yeah, go for a queen. That part. Im hopeful. This may be the right thing to stop all this fighting amon each other. You know, democrat, republican, independent, black, white, yellow, whatever. So this might be the right ing. Because what ive been seeing is folkseen sticking together. It doesnt matter what color they are. I mean, seeing it in person. Ack and forth, and in an out, and bk and forth again. For we are strong people, and we will come out of this and be on top again. I do believe. The coronavirus pandemic is putting an end to the longest economic expansion in u. S. History. We are going into a global recession. Entire parts of the u. S. C economy are atplete standstill. People are afraid to go out. P are afraid even to call and have something delivered. Its jusa total different. Half the businesses are broke. Or theyre out of business. When i started my flower shop, i started with two used cooler boxes, and a piece of plyboard across the top of the boxein our yard. Thats how i started. A do you neeceipt . Um, sure. Thank you so much. Keep me posted on that wedding. I will for sure. All right. Bye bye bye ive been here in this one, probably 24 years in this one spot, so im kind of a staple here. But its kind of sad to only see this many orders on my board. Because normally should be about 50 to 60 orders on my board for easter. And i have one, two,hree,. Four, fisix. So i better do a pray dance tonight. cckles oh, i dont know. It is what it is. Is what it is. Okayits done. Which ones that . This is your st one to auburn. Wheres sharons . I havent done it yet, but its too early to take hers. Gonna take it now. Ouaid i was no. I didnt see. My husband does my deliveries as much as he can do. St were twoman team just trying to survive. We got married when we were 18. We dated in high school. From the first time we met we were each others best friends, because Everybody Knows rosie. Shes a pretty special woman. I personally have a problem with a mask at times because of my congestive heart failure. Theres times im fighting for air. Hello, deliverfor pat. But you dont want to wear a mask because its not going to save you, well, no, its not going to save you, but you might ve somebody elses life. Governor Ralph Northam and his vid19 response team. See another spike in cases. Repeal the states stayat home order. Social distancing guidelines are going to be with us. My immune system is weakened. So i have learnt to love being alone. I have learned to be pretty darn comfortable. Oh, lord, technology. Just not my thing. My name is carran lewis, i live in north chesterfield, virginia. Yeah, good morning second baptist, praise the lord,y. Everyb i drive close to an hour from my he to church. I got a heavy foot, but if i followed the law, it would be clearly an hour drive. Welcome to the seco Baptist Church of south richmond, a bringing you the w god. Ch en i have enjoyed the comfort of waking up and lig to it online. Wre now goi to have a virtual peter verse selectionoi from the mass. I miss the environment of the building. Building, because the people, we are the church. The church. L human beings are whats going on in the white house, or the state house, the mayors house ofttimes is not based on. Ive still helpede, even in this virus, ive picked up groceries for a couple of friends, older people that could not go out, didnt have the means to go out. And they know my number. Our seniors, amen, because of covid19, should not be out and about. Thats right. Thats part of what god wants you to do, you know. Just help people. For all youve done for me this is the part thats scary. I think some people are getting too comfortable being at home watching the service. Al thebelong to you thank y, jesus for blessing me President Trump appears to be stoking unrest in states around the u. S. Where longterm damage from a shuttered economy. Signs urging leaders tope reutah. You cant do one size fitsl. You cant shut everybody in, you cant make healthy peoe wear masks. Oh, thats looking ne. You look so happy about it. I am amy garner. And i am a mom of six kids. Okay, where did you want the bow . We say, likeeconomy, sometimes we just think of finances as a whole of society, but instead i see my brother, whose business was going down. At riggered the stress, which triggered his health issues, which triggered his mentals, health issnd he was gone in 60 days. Three years ago, he took his life. This is myrother, brian. Yeah. sighs ed i wao save other families from going through what we went through. voice cracking so so thats why i became so passionate about not shutting things down, letting people choose. Are we sheep or are we people . People lets go to work that doesnt mean that we dont lieve there are people at extra risk, or that we dont love them or accept their concerns. Im like, mine says, my. Our deonnition, oh, your defini of essential is not the same as mine. So, im like, they really are missing out on the hardworking ople who cant earn money for their family, like. I think the rate of suicide is going to go way higher. You take away peoples connections, their hobbies, their friends, their worsh, their work, and everyones gonna be depressed and i am so blessed to have a family of children and a husband. What about the people who dont . Its heartbreaking. Small business is theli blood of this country, and we cannot kill it any longer we are open for Business Today this is my first rally, so im really happy to be here with all of you gu, all of you patriots, all of you activists i really hope people will let go of wh were stuck in, what were stressed out about right now, and take into consideration the longterm impact of whats going on. God bless ameriee my home home cheers and applause mr. Trump is now insisting the states have step up their testing. Fewer than than one percent of all texans have been tested. In making sure texans are healthy enough to fully reopen the economy. Clearly, were in the middle of a pandemic, and were suffering much worse than we would have had we had a competent, sciencebased head of state. My name is dr. Christine edy mann, i am a Family Practice doctor in cedar park. When the covid19 pandemic started, we were left without any guidance. Individual clinics likmine, doctors like me, werent really given any information about how to manage the pandemic, and so we kind of all had to make it up on the fly. Kn we didnow the processes that we needed to use at able to managents as they came in. It takes between one and three days to get result. Sorry. patient coughing im one of thcovid19 testers at my workplace. This is a deep nasal swab, its very uncomfortable. Pull your mask down, i think youve had this before so you know whats coming. We didnt have equipment, we didnt have test kits, and it was very stressful. indistinct chatter it was just a mess for months and months and months. Deaths in the United States has now reached had at least onrlying health issue. A new effort to keep chicagoans safe ring the coivd19 pandemic. In early april was when i started feeling lightheaded, dizzy, um. I was coughing. I lost my sense of taste and smell. Yibecause i have an underlng symptoms were related to that. Youre wearing your mask wrong. You have to cover your nose. My name is mayra ramir. I am 28 years old. chuckling one day i woke up, i was so weak, i just fell over. Re bhing deeply and rapidly everything was, like, dark. And i remember calling out for my boyfriend, i was like, george, george, like, and he would, like, run and, like, help me, and i was like, okay, i really need to go to theergen diey, like, immediately, like, put me in a roomt even ask me my name or anything. medical equipment beeping i remember a doctor came in and told me that, were pretty intubate you, do you have someone that can make medical decisions r you . Then, um. Its just kind of a blur, what happened after i got intubated. The day they told us that mayra, um, it was her last day, were all on the trampoline, just. My mom was crying, um, my sisters, all my aunts were there, they were crying. They didnt know what to do. And we were just planning, um, u to go pia corpse. I was trying to avoid it. I love you so much. Hoh chuckles . Medical people are wonderful people, eyre heroes. But theyre not omniscient. And they make mistakes and they contradict one another. Everyones going to die at some point. As a christianwe believe that were set free from the fear of death. Do you have any Hand Sanitizer . Do w were spiritual beings and we require fellowship. Its a Beautiful Day i know, its gorgeous if its okay to take a risk and go to stores, i think its okay to take a risk and go to chur. 99. 6. Phew try to keep Families Together eo e chatting welcome back into the Church Building cheers and applause chuckles whoohoo cheers and applause praise the lord were going to teach you a new esong this morning as we er the church, you can stand with us. Oh, christ be magnified just let his prayers arise christ be magnified in me hallelujah i said hallelujah oveapping chatter the attemptedrrest was caught on camera. The video of last nights confrontation shows a white Police Officer with his ee pinning down the neck. Ng his name was george floyd, hes on video saplease, please, i cant breathe as a minneapoliPolice Officer. Were just like, man, this is crazy. Were already fighting a commoterror, which is covid, and now this now . , you knople were just pissed off, like, this is just ridiculous how can you kill this man . O stice, no peace, prosecute the police the outrage began with a video showing an officer kneeng on floyds neck. Many people have gathered in front of the third precinct. Sitting here in front of officers who are complicit in the murder of george floyd. Thousands packed the area. Protesting the death of georgeloyd. How many times have we watched Police Officers murder people . crowd reacting youre numb to it after so many of them. Its been happening for so long. Dont shoot, nds up but then its a little dierent, youre like, wow, that just happened right here on 38th. The fact that it happened in my neighborhood was what really pulled me into it. overlapping chatter peoplere getting anger, and angrier, and angrier, and then hold up. We have a whole bunch of police t with helmets right in fr. glass shattering crowds of protestors facing off with officers in riot ge. Xplosion booms explosions boom woman screaming chanting i cant breathe protests turned violent last night. Overnight protests left parts of downtown in ruins multiple fires were set windows smashed, and stores looted. As far as volunteering efforts go, so far youre our goto volunteer coordinator right . Yeah. So we really have to get her them. With. Them. My name is tayo daniel. Im from south minneapolis, minnesota, co foder of 10k. You know, we were listening to the news, and the narrativepr that theeading was like, oh these looters and rioters, people from minneapolis, just burning down their own and all that kind of stuff, and i i was like, man. Im from here and i know everybody that lives here, were not like that. So a lot of guys from the neighborhood decided to getnd togetherreate the 10k foundation. And we want to show that wen ve a peaceful protest. 10k is about, its mobilizing 10,000 people and the power in that, the sovereignty m in being able ilize 10,000 people. Im royce white, i grew up here in the twin cities. I was an athlete. I s drafted to the nba back in 2013, and had a huge fight with the nba regarding Mental Health policy. You know, when all the protests broke out, my first thought was, im headed down there. Im not gonna claim to have a crystal ball ato whats gonna happen, i really have no clue. Im just going off of pure opinion. The four officers were arrested and, temporarily, thats enoughi justice we wait and see what happens with the court process. I ow people are still very unhappy, theyre not in the uproar that they were in, obviously, when the city was burning down or even a few days ever day we get away from it, that energys gonna go down a little bit. I think its spiking uin other places around the country. I want the goal of this march to be how can we reab some of that energy . helicopter droning the reason why were here is because the history has been misconstrued, because every 4th of july i used to go out and party, and i used to just. Really scream independence. Not realizing that my ancestors with the same color in of mine were not independent. They were chains, they were being whipped, ty were being tortured. People, the times right now. Can everybody say that one time . O the count of three say the the time is now, two, three the time is now say it again the time is now louder the timis now the time is right now. chains dragging ou look, we dibest to think through how the protests would put people at risk for covid19 transmission. Bu at the end of the day, theres no way that we could low the state to tell us hey, were going to kill black men out on the streets, and also, stay in your house because we also. You know,id because of c9. If you think about the Historical Context of black men, black people in this country in general, we have no reason to trust the state. G ineral, when we wake up in the morning, theres no good reason for us to have any faith in the state. In and maybimes where there needs to be a trust, it falls through. Yeah, maybe black people should have more trust in the state when it comes to covid19, butit a tough sell. The reason why were doing this silent march is because when you take a moment of silence, youre taking a moment rs silence for the dead. For the eric garfor the breonna taylors, for the George Floyds. Hey, it is what it is, this is a war. This is a war. And so the only other optionw, is to, you kno board up in your house and wait for the next orge floyd to be murdere i mean, thats just the reality. light chatter, shuffling protestors have been on the s