Express News: "I am not a virus": East Bay coronavirus short film captures humanity

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From Express News:

It's easy in such troubling times to look at your fellow San Franciscan as a threat.

That's why East Bay filmmkaers Abey and Sabrina Lin created "Catching Love," a two minute short film featuring dozens of their friends and families saying the simple phrase, "I am not a virus, I am a human. We're all human."

The two fourth generation Chinese American siblings told the East Bay Times that they created the film in response to discrimination they felt once news of the coronavirus initially began to make news.

"From the moment the virus spread beyond China, every second we walked in a public space you could feel that people were glaring at you. You could feel the tension,” high school senior Sabrina Lin told the East Bay Times.

The film was released in mid-February, long before the city's official shelter-in-place orders, but is more poignant now than ever and serves as an important reminder that we're all in this together.