Contagion
The index film for the COVID-19 generation. Wicked sick.
They took the worst case scenario and dialled it up to eleven. An R0 of 4, seizures and meningitis, death in about 1 day? That is a freaking civilisation buster. Our flu++ is child’s play.
It’s really funny how this was simultaneously very familiar and very alien. Of course, the funniest part is that Jude Law’s character was the president of the United States!
Forsythia is Ivermectin (the so called horse worm drug), but even more homeopathic. I’m guessing there were no riots over that shit. The antivaxxer nutter is literally millions of nutjubs.
The Trump wildcard ruined the predictions. The CDC spokesman was mostly undermined by the president himself, the BSL-4 lab chief is Peter Strzok (not a cleaner and heroic Jonas Salk figure, at best a bureaucratic paper pusher that outsourced research to China). Elliot Gould’s character are probably the Turkish-German guys.
My favourite part is Gwyneth Paltrow, the patient zero, being autopsied and getting her scalp ripped off in one piece, like a banana. Science!
PS: Yes, “patient zero” is derogatory on purpose, “index case” is too mild for the Goop peddler).
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