Pandemic 2020 review: Witness statements to a human collective failure
The IndependentGet our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy I didn’t realise before I watched the BBC’s excellent Pandemic 2020 that in the earlier stages of the coronavirus crisis, a three-piece folk band in Belarus had composed a patriotic song about the international public health emergency. Prancing along a deserted highway somewhere near Minsk, in an instantly recognisable grey post-Soviet landscape, Valery and the lads belted out their uplifting hit, “We Don’t Need You, Coronavirus”. Pandemic 2020 is basically a series of witness statements to a human collective failure, to help remind us about what happened, but also to offer insights from across the globe. open image in gallery Dr Amie shares her experience of working at a Coventry hospital during the pandemic Pandemic 2020 isn’t deeply political, still less a lazy hit on an officialdom as bewildered as any of us at this unfamiliar disease.
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