Lockdown: Tales from Panama and Brazil
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
There is a sense of fatigue around the lockdown. Ray Gillenwater owns a gym, and explains that if he’s ordered to close down again – he will civilly resist. Kody Siegal explains how the tight restrictions of Panama are not quite as tough as you would expect, and Luiza Marchiori from Florianopolis returns to explain how the worst case scenario predicted by many in Brazil appears to be coming true.
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| 0:00.0 | After an explosion in space, now it's the climax of the rescue mission. |
| 0:05.4 | Can the astronauts be brought home safely? |
| 0:08.7 | What could we have missed? |
| 0:10.8 | This can't be happening. |
| 0:14.0 | You could hear a pen drop. 13 minutes to the moon from the BBC World Service, the final episode. |
| 0:25.0 | Available now. |
| 0:27.0 | Hello, welcome to the response coronavirus. |
| 0:32.0 | Smart phone recordings from across the globe, describing how COVID-19 |
| 0:36.3 | and the changing lockdown is affecting you. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm Winifred Robinson. |
| 0:52.0 | Many of the countries severely affected by the pandemic are attempting to ease the restrictions. Cody Seagull lives in Panama City and he thought it was a good time to reflect on the reality of what seemed at first to be a rigid lockdown. |
| 1:00.0 | Up until recently there was no alcohol sold. It was completely illegal to buy, |
| 1:07.8 | purchased, and consume alcohol. Also, the quarantine was separated by gender, meaning that only men can leave on |
| 1:17.8 | Tuesdays and Thursdays depending on the last digit of their ID and women being Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, again depending on the |
| 1:25.2 | last digit of their ID. |
| 1:27.2 | So on paper the quarantine is incredibly strict, but a lot of people are given what's called |
| 1:31.2 | Salvo conductos, the translation to English, I guess there's roughly safe passage, |
| 1:36.1 | meaning that you're exempt from quarantine. |
| 1:38.5 | So because I'm the owner of two restaurants that I'm considered an essential worker and therefore |
| 1:44.9 | I'm able to get a salvo conducto. |
| 1:47.0 | But in the news article that I read it says that in a city of 1 million, which is Panama City, |
| 1:51.9 | over 300,000 sal salsa conductors were given, |
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