Czech-made video gets CNN air time, inspires world to wear face masks

A 3.5-minute video made by Petr Ludwig and Aneta Kernová encouraging other countries to don face masks, like the Czech Republic has in efforts to slow the spread of coronavirus, has been getting air time around the globe.

With local experts and friend Aneta Kernová, who narrates and stars in the video, the video was produced over the course of a few days and posted to YouTube over the weekend along with the hashtag #Masks4All.

“I was shocked to learn this. Sooner or later someone had to do something about it.”

On Monday, Trump acknowledged that a short-term obligation to wear face masks in public could also be adopted by the United States.

“We are not going to be wearing masks forever, but it could be for a short period of time after we get back into gear. I could see something like that happening for a period of time,” the US President said during a White House press briefing.

And yesterday, Ludwig and Kernová’s video got airtime on US news giant CNN.

A CNN report on the mandatory use of face masks in some areas of Europe included footage from the #Masks4All video, along with local TV footage of Czech PM Andrej Babiš wearing a face mask during a press conference.

Czech Deputy Prime Minister Karel Havlíček posted screencaps of the CNN report to his Twitter profile:

“The Czech Republic inspires other countries by its obligatory use of masks, which is once again noticed by the world media,” Havlíček writes.