I don’t see where they “claimed it’s footage of COVID-19 pandemic”.
It’s stock footage. This is how television operates, they don’t send a camera crew out every time they need a new video of a man with a shopping cart.
It may be stock footage, but how hard is it to find their own stock footage of the current pandemic shoppers? They have to reach back years to HURRICANE footage?
By reporting on the CV-19 crisis and how people are dealing and showing a picture from Hurricane Harvey as current grocery shopping conditions, by innuendo, they are claiming it is footage of C-19.
I have been to the grocery stores since the beginning, and while I am not actually going in, my son goes in. There are not lines anywhere. There is low inventory, but no lines.
Panicky people will see “lines” at their grocery store, panic, and rush the stores.
So, showing footage of a Wuhan flu hospital ward, in Italy, and saying it’s NY, is okay by you, too?