4.19
A group of protestors gather at the Washington State Capitol in Olympia to argue against the State’s stay-at-home orders, claiming they infringe on their constitutional rights. Here’s a CNA broadcast that uses some of the footage too.
4.6
After a month under the stay-at-home order, there were signs that the actions taken in Washington State had succeeded in flattening the curve, so I shot this piece including a remote interview with IMHE researcher Dr Ali Mokdad.
3.29
With the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival cancelled due to the virus, I checked in with a tulip farm to see how they were handling the loss of their major revenue generator for the year
3.23
With restaurants closed down, some started looking for ways to help. Pioneer Square’s The London Plane started a program making meals for hospital workers, helping keep some of their workers employed and hospital workers cared for.
3.17
After Jay Inslee closed down all Seattle restaurant’s dine-in operations, I went out and got people’s reactions to the change.
3.14
On Friday night, March 14 I went into Seattle to talk to restaurant owners at Nirmal’s, Good Bar, and Mamnoon who were all struggling with a huge drop in business as people stayed home to avoid the virus. Two days later, Jay Inslee would order all restaurants to close their dine-in operations.
3.11
On March 11 I interviewed recovered COVID patient Elizabeth Schneider at her apartment in Eastlake. On the left is a segment from a Mumbai based new channel that used the footage, the right is the edit AFP released on their youtube. Photos from the shoot were used all over as well; People.com, Yahoo, NY Post, Daily Mail and many others.
3.5 & 3.6
On March 5, as COVID was just starting to be taken more seriously by the general public in Seattle, I went out in Downtown and South Lake Union to see if it really was the “ghost town” that news outlets were starting to report it was. The next day, March 6, UW suspended all in-person classes, so I went to campus to get their reactions.