((PKG)) LIFE UNDER SHUTDOWN
((Banner: Life Under Shutdown))
((Reporter/Camera: Genia Dulot))
((Map: Los Angeles, California))
((Main characters: 1 female; 1 male))
((NATS))
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This story was filmed between March 17 and March 22,
during which time California’s Stay at Home order went into
effect))
((NATS))
((Nabil Kabbani, Los Angeles Resident))
Or it could stop at 2,000 people. We have no idea.
We have no idea how bad it can get. We don’t know how
long we’re going to be locked in. So, you know, and it’s
probably going to be a while before we have all the
information.
Just, I think, from my background growing up in a war, we
started seeing the news in China and I started getting
prepared. We got food reserves, you know, not a long time
but a couple of weeks we could be okay. We even bought an
extra freezer.
((NATS))
((Nabil Kabbani, Los Angeles Resident))
You know, the dates are an excellent idea. People cross the
desert with a handful of dates. You can eat one or two for a
whole day and have your calories.
Past two weeks, I don’t know what we will do. I don’t think it
is responsible to hoard for months and months. I see people
doing that and they are just taking away from people who
may have come late to the game and started thinking about
this a little too late and didn’t take it seriously at the
beginning and we don’t want to take away from them. So,
ideally, we can do it two weeks by two weeks at a time and
stores will stay open and the pharmacy will stay open which
is the plan so far with here.
((NATS))
So, tell me, have you considered buying guns before?
((Nabil Kabbani, Los Angeles Resident))
Yeah, I was considering it for sport shooting, but it wasn’t, it
was nothing urgent. And at some point, I had one but now
we are thinking about it for home defense. You know, in
case if people want to come in and rob your food and
supplies because they didn’t plan and all sorts of crazy can
happen.
((NATS:
Vilena Baranova: Olivia, Daniel, I need help please.))
((Vilena Baranova, Los Angeles Resident))
My grandma grew up during the World War II. She was a
young girl, maybe like 18 during that time. And she told us
stories how difficult it was. At a certain point, they didn’t
have anything to eat. She told me those scary stories where
she had to go and dig in a trash and pull, like, potato peels
and boil potato peels and that was their dinner one time. So,
it’s scary. This situation made us think of the nearest future.
What if you are stuck at home? What am I going to do if the
kids are hungry? How I am going to feed them and I cannot
get out of the house?
((Vilena Baranova, Los Angeles Resident))
Garlic time! Olivia, Daniel! Come here, babies.
So, they say garlic is an antiviral. So, we need to swallow it
on empty stomach but sometimes I cannot catch those kids
before they grab a bowl of cereal, so.
Did you swallow?
Yeah, we’re not sure if it’s going to actually help but they say
it should be.
((Popup Banner:
While garlic may have some antimicrobial properties, no
evidence suggests it has protected people from COVID-19 :
World Health Organization))
((NATS))
((Nabil Kabbani, Los Angeles Resident))
All the emergency feeling that you have around everything
that’s happening reminds me of war back in Lebanon. You
know, we used to spend weeks in the shelter with bombs
falling around us. There was no food. There was no running
water. There was no electricity. People did food runs in the
middle of bombing. I mean, they would wait for the bombs to
slow down a little bit and they would get in their car and go to
the bakery or go to the supermarket. The bakery would open
for a few hours. You go in, you get in line, you get some
bread, you get some water. You have to go to the reservoir
locally and get some water and bring it back. If you were
lucky enough to get some gas, you can go line up at the gas
station, get gas, put it in a generator, if you were lucky
enough to have a generator and then had light and maybe a
little TV. So, I think, we are very lucky with the situation here.
It’s still not pleasant and it’s still very important for people to
stay isolated but it’s nothing compared to what we had during
the war.
((NATS))
((Vilena Baranova, Los Angeles Resident))
I came from Russia in 2001, right at the summer before 9/11.
It was morning. We heard knock on a door. It was our
American young friends knocking on the door and telling us
the war started. The first thought in my head was that there
might be a chance of me not being able to go back to Russia
and not being able to see my mom and my dad and my
brother.
This situation with Coronavirus and restrictions on traveling,
it is scary. I spoke with my mom a couple days ago and she
said, “There is something I need to ask you. If I get sick, do
not come.” And it’s sad. You kind of think that there might be
a chance if your relative or your close one would die, you will
not be able to go there and say your last good-bye to them.
((Banner: Life Under Shutdown))
((Reporter/Camera: Genia Dulot))
((Map: Los Angeles, California))
((Main characters: 1 female; 1 male))
((NATS))
((Popup Banner:
This story was filmed between March 17 and March 22,
during which time California’s Stay at Home order went into
effect))
((NATS))
((Nabil Kabbani, Los Angeles Resident))
Or it could stop at 2,000 people. We have no idea.
We have no idea how bad it can get. We don’t know how
long we’re going to be locked in. So, you know, and it’s
probably going to be a while before we have all the
information.
Just, I think, from my background growing up in a war, we
started seeing the news in China and I started getting
prepared. We got food reserves, you know, not a long time
but a couple of weeks we could be okay. We even bought an
extra freezer.
((NATS))
((Nabil Kabbani, Los Angeles Resident))
You know, the dates are an excellent idea. People cross the
desert with a handful of dates. You can eat one or two for a
whole day and have your calories.
Past two weeks, I don’t know what we will do. I don’t think it
is responsible to hoard for months and months. I see people
doing that and they are just taking away from people who
may have come late to the game and started thinking about
this a little too late and didn’t take it seriously at the
beginning and we don’t want to take away from them. So,
ideally, we can do it two weeks by two weeks at a time and
stores will stay open and the pharmacy will stay open which
is the plan so far with here.
((NATS))
So, tell me, have you considered buying guns before?
((Nabil Kabbani, Los Angeles Resident))
Yeah, I was considering it for sport shooting, but it wasn’t, it
was nothing urgent. And at some point, I had one but now
we are thinking about it for home defense. You know, in
case if people want to come in and rob your food and
supplies because they didn’t plan and all sorts of crazy can
happen.
((NATS:
Vilena Baranova: Olivia, Daniel, I need help please.))
((Vilena Baranova, Los Angeles Resident))
My grandma grew up during the World War II. She was a
young girl, maybe like 18 during that time. And she told us
stories how difficult it was. At a certain point, they didn’t
have anything to eat. She told me those scary stories where
she had to go and dig in a trash and pull, like, potato peels
and boil potato peels and that was their dinner one time. So,
it’s scary. This situation made us think of the nearest future.
What if you are stuck at home? What am I going to do if the
kids are hungry? How I am going to feed them and I cannot
get out of the house?
((Vilena Baranova, Los Angeles Resident))
Garlic time! Olivia, Daniel! Come here, babies.
So, they say garlic is an antiviral. So, we need to swallow it
on empty stomach but sometimes I cannot catch those kids
before they grab a bowl of cereal, so.
Did you swallow?
Yeah, we’re not sure if it’s going to actually help but they say
it should be.
((Popup Banner:
While garlic may have some antimicrobial properties, no
evidence suggests it has protected people from COVID-19 :
World Health Organization))
((NATS))
((Nabil Kabbani, Los Angeles Resident))
All the emergency feeling that you have around everything
that’s happening reminds me of war back in Lebanon. You
know, we used to spend weeks in the shelter with bombs
falling around us. There was no food. There was no running
water. There was no electricity. People did food runs in the
middle of bombing. I mean, they would wait for the bombs to
slow down a little bit and they would get in their car and go to
the bakery or go to the supermarket. The bakery would open
for a few hours. You go in, you get in line, you get some
bread, you get some water. You have to go to the reservoir
locally and get some water and bring it back. If you were
lucky enough to get some gas, you can go line up at the gas
station, get gas, put it in a generator, if you were lucky
enough to have a generator and then had light and maybe a
little TV. So, I think, we are very lucky with the situation here.
It’s still not pleasant and it’s still very important for people to
stay isolated but it’s nothing compared to what we had during
the war.
((NATS))
((Vilena Baranova, Los Angeles Resident))
I came from Russia in 2001, right at the summer before 9/11.
It was morning. We heard knock on a door. It was our
American young friends knocking on the door and telling us
the war started. The first thought in my head was that there
might be a chance of me not being able to go back to Russia
and not being able to see my mom and my dad and my
brother.
This situation with Coronavirus and restrictions on traveling,
it is scary. I spoke with my mom a couple days ago and she
said, “There is something I need to ask you. If I get sick, do
not come.” And it’s sad. You kind of think that there might be
a chance if your relative or your close one would die, you will
not be able to go there and say your last good-bye to them.
