Big Brother breaks the COVID-19 news to the housemates | Big Brother Australia 

The U.S. 100k per day.

America just hit 10 million cases 😐😐😐

when you have 0 cases a few is a lot and it still is a lot. i think people have just gotten way to used to the numbers and normalized it now

And America said hold my beer. Now in 2021 the U.S. has nearly 23 million cases thanks to misinformation from Donald Trump and his supporters who blame China but refuse to wear masks.

@@stephenanderson1594 it’s sad really. i used to laugh at trump supporters, but now I just get really sad

it sounds so surreal, doesn't it?

march-april 2020, it just feels like it never happened. looking back at pictures i took of empty shopping centres and main streets which are normally packed, it’s weird. watching this again made me feel anxious. we’ve come such a long way and in 5 years time, we’ll look back on this pandemic and wonder how on earth we survived it mentally. it’s been horrible but the worst is over in australia.

I'm watching it now, May 2021 and it still gave me chills and I got emotional just being brought back to that reality

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@@meaghans4014 same it’s crazy how we been in a pandemic for a year now

Wish it was Florida

I’m still trying to tell if North Carolina is still in quarantine. I myself am not going anywhere. But idk about others

when they shutdown the malls and public transportations here in Manila I felt like I was dreaming and in a movie.

@John Mateer How so? I'm curious

The rest is the hunger games and the purge

And to this day, bugger all has actually happened 😂😂

And it’s still dragging on to this day. The past 2 years have merged into one

It never made any difference to me, I was forced to work not from home the entire time, there has always been people who won’t wear masks or social distance (which weirdly stopped being a thing). Stopped giving a sh*t at this point, it’s a joke and a distraction.

@@j.c7719 I think with the Vaccine, a lot of things have changed. People take it less seriously which sucks. I was off of work for 2 months then haven't stopped working since. I also work with kids so I've had. to be with a mask the whole time. Covid isn't going away.

Yes

Lol

LMAO

As a US resident, that might've been for the best. Sometimes it feels like I'm surrounded by idiots.

@@abbycollins we still are with people politicizing vaccines here.

@@abbycollins same, people can be so stupid sometimes (including myself).

"How high can you count?"

More like "There are some questions better left unanswered 😅"

Almost had to cancel All Stars, but precautions gave them the green light. The California department of health negotiated with the show on medical situations.

@@274pacific yeah. That was essentially how bad it was here, but 5 times worse.

You were a hero, as long as you agreed to be injected with the latest thing!!! Only those vaccinated with the latest pharmaceutical products are true heroes.

I worked throughout 2020 in a supermarket as well. I had a few people tell me that they appreciated me, but most didn't care and still treated me like shit or just ignored my existence completely.

@@YoMTV_Raps Well did you get injected with a COVID-19 vaccine and booster shots? If you had done all that and maybe displayed a sticker on your shirt proclaiming what you had done, then maybe the customers would have been nicer to you.... Sorry, but you were really only a hero if you were injected with the latest pharmaceutical products.

Ye I worked in a grocery store and nothing changed except a bunch of people wearing chin diapers complaining when any employees weren’t wearing masks properly over their nose and mouth.

I worked collecting medical waste from doctors,hospitals,old age etc. We weren't hailed as f all. Still the same...

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It's like an Indian soap opera in this house. 😂🤣

i know! i miss the old big brother aus.

Yeah it's so overdone.

I know I'm late to the party but MAN is the editing awful! I'm Australian but I hadn't seen this clip. I'd seen some other versions of the show where the news about this was being broken. I'm not a BB fan but having unsuspecting people receive news like this is by far the most interesting thing about it. I still remember the early days when they broke the news of 9/11. That footage holds up. In 20 years, when people look back to this time, the BB canada clip is going to hold up too. It's history. We're talking about the worst pandemic in many generations, but I guess that wasn't dramatic enough. No- let's not see them quietly reflect in horror at how fast moving this terrible world changing virus is. Let's pump it up with DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN!!!!! Wow now people will know it's serious! Way to fuck up the only good television you ever could have made BBaus. It was literally handed to you on a platter but oh well.

Despite the Amedican BB starting in June the host gave them zero updates they came about before the election looking the at the numbers like 👁👄👁😳

Australia is a different situation. Canada had to shutdown due to a lockdown order being issued by the government. Austral.ia wasn't that bad.

In Australia the worst state was Victoria which went into a 2nd lockdown. The house was in a bubble on North Head in Sydney, easily controlled, the production crew member tested negative and the game went on!

I don't know why that made me spit my water out it just tickled me hahaha

big brother brazil just kept on going lol they didnt even get a phone call, it actually ran longer than expected by a few days (but they were informed about their family’s health)

The Indian version ‘bigg boss’ started during the pandemic and had an extended season.

Honestly I would be happy

there's a british tv series called dead set which explored this idea but instead of a pandemic it was a zombie apocalypse

BB Canada cancelled the season part way in, as soon as the covid restrictions made production cease. Housemates were heartbroken and mad at the same time. Didn't blame them.

filming began when the pandemic was going on so they wouldve known about it beforehand

@@abbyrose6660 Plus they said they'd been keeping them updated in the house already. This wasn't the first meeting.

It's a pLandemic. Nothing to fear.

@@breeviewAWAKENING 😂😂

I don't think it truly hit them how bad it was until that. I mean you hear it but when you are isolated it isn't until it is affecting the game that it hits home how bad it truly is. BBUS was filming during September 11th they admitted later they didn't grasp anywhere close to the scope of it until they got out.

It's was all fake, you fell for it

Same here. Now when someone cancels plans because they have covid, I'm like "First time for you?"

@@tashwuzhair season 12

It wasn’t bad at all. The world over reacted way too much to it. We’re in more of a mess now we’re having to pay the money all back

​@@nay8991exactly.

Best movie

That’s because they did this before, there’s a (fictional) UK series called Dead Set which revolves around a Big Brother cast that gets trapped onset while the zombie apocalypse happens outside. Pretty surreal that the fiction came first, and then this happens!

And Big Brother All Stars was nearly cancelled by the California Government

Huh? No, I think in the beginning people thought is was going to be NOTHING, just something passing through. It turned out to be WAY WORSE. No one imagined 700,000 Americans dying (millions worldwide) and still counting. This is worse.

@@circe... we could have different experiences 🤔 where I was at, everyone thought this was the apocalypse, ordering gas masks, preparing for off-the-grid living, just completely losing their minds. You didn’t experience the hysteria? There was even scientists who feared it would kill 10%+ of the population. If you research SARS viruses in general, some in the past were much more deadly. It’s absolutely horrific that so many people have died and suffered, and I’m not trying to diminish that at all. But it’s important to acknowledge it hasn’t been to level that some experts were predicting. Let’s just hope things start to get better from here.

@@DrBased123 Actually, it’s not a fraud. It almost killed my mom’s best friend, and I know people who’ve died from it. I can only speak from personal experience, but I, at 24, had just finished running a half marathon in the summer. I am healthy, my diet is clean, and I got COVID on August 14th, could barely breath, and had a 102/103 fever for almost 10 days. I couldn’t eat, I could barely drink, and I’m still recovering. It’s real and horrific, but it’s not at the level of an apocalypse, as some people predicted in the beginning.

"A lot of people thought it was going to be way worse." Really? Well those people were right. It got way out of hand.

@@Wtfwhatisthis "There was even scientists who feared it would kill 10%+ of the population." Which forum did you read that on lmaooooooooo

They mean like stop filming and no comps and such.

Did you make it reagan?

Very true.

I actually like it, dosent sound annoying

Nightmare* but yes

@@PhoenixFlowerEmma The insanely irrational and overblown societal response to a single respiratory virus was indeed a nightmare.

The manipulative, science-illiterate news media did a great job of misrepresenting public health data to lead people to believe a SARS-CoV2 infection was far deadlier than it actually was. I recall major news networks suggesting the infection fatality rate was as high as THIRTY-PERCENT (it is actually less than 0.2% for the general population). They also refused to inform people that the virus had a similar risk profile to the flu for the vast majority of people under the age of 70. It was an astonishingly stupid and ignorant time to be alive. I will never forget it.

The tv virus. People was fooled, people tried to warn others yet we got called crazy conspiracy theorists. Now people know even the gov was out partying, people need to stop being so gullible 😷

covid is a joke and has always been one LOL.

Especially when compared to us here in the states.

Thats literally a show😂 I think it’s called dead set

Lol 😂😂

Yup, we will be pfizer-zombies pretty much soon.

At least it's gonna be returnees so if they end up packing up because of covid contact between staff, no big deal since they know what to expect and nothing is guaranteed during this pandemic.

Currently, Big Brother USA is airing its 22nd season composed of all-star players (16 previous players 2 of which were winners from their respective season).

Lmao 😂

You're a sheep 😄

China is really number 1 they just lie about the cases

There were no critical thinkers.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Very small protest numbers in Australia proves that it aged very well

Haha I forgot that show existed until I watched this video, it was totally giving me Dead Set vibes

that season was going downhill anyways. People quitting the game and bullying others to vote them out. They just needed a reason to end it sooner.

This show had been filming from the start of March. The footage here is the end of March and the show wrapped filming start of April. All housemates would have been home by second week of April. So they really only spent 3 weeks into the shutdown in the house.

We dont care. dramatic much?

Peak big brother

Why is it 'cringe'?

What’s most “cringe” about it is the fact that a “case” isn’t even a useful public health metric in this context. A case is merely an instance in which a person tested positive for SARS-CoV; it doesn’t necessarily mean they have Covid, which is the actual DISEASE associated with SARS-CoV illness. This is especially important to understand considering more than 80% of those who do test positive for the virus report very mild symptoms or no symptoms at all. The obsession over “cases” was truly one of the most idiotic aspects of Covid mania.

Pink hair. It fits.

​@percynfts-lm1cw How does having pink hair fit? Does having honeysuckle brunette hair mean that I can't care about my fellow human beings? Should I go dye my hair pink to become a better person? Because if that's what YOU need to do to not be such an ahole, I will gladly buy you a box of hair color.

I am so, so, sorry. I can only imagine what it was like to be on the end of a phone call, wanting to reach out and help people in their most desperate moments, but being unable to do much of anything. I hope you find strength in the knowledge that you certainly must have helped a lot of people, even though you couldn't see it with your own eyes.

What a joke.

@@christinagarza2429 Wow. What a compassionate response to someone writing about how their mental health struggles after hearing people talk about the loved ones they lost and the hardships they endured during lockdown. You are truly a paragon of humanity’s capacity for understanding and kindness. ❤