Understanding our COVID crisis

Showmax adds edu-tainment documentaries to your streaming line-up with these COVID-19 productions.

- CRAIG FALCK

Confused by all the medical jargon in the media and online as you try to understand the global pandemic that’s kept us at home for over two years? Not sure which vaccination is the best, how they differ, and why the COVID-19 virus is mutating at an alarming rate? Fear no more – Showmax has added doccies to its catalog that’ll help you understand COVID better, see what damage it’s done since 2020, and have you entering 2022 ready to do battle (and hopefully defeat) this vicious virus as we try to survive.

IN THE SAME BREATH

Doccie filmmaker Nanfu Wang (she made Asian doccie One Child Nation – also available on Showmax) compares the reactions and behaviours of the United States and China during the start of the global pandemic in this documentary film. And there’s a very worrying parallel. Throw in misinformation directly from China’s government, then-President Trump tan-truming his way through speeches and telling people to drink bleach, denial about COVID being manufactured in a Chinese research lab in Wuhan and you’ve got an alarming inside look at how unprepared the world really was for COVID.

THE LAST CRUISE