[Genuine Realist]

I enjoyed the Steven Soderburgh movie 'Contagion' enormously on its release in 2011, bought it, and rewatched it. These days it has a lot more relevance than one would like, down to the virus in question originating from a bat - 'somewhere in the world the wrong bat met the wrong pig' - and in China. The disease in question in the movie is far more lethal than C-19. Unfortunately, the remedy is much more easily at hand. National politics are engaged only peripherally. The real story is of a CDC energized far more quickly and efficiently than our real life model in 2020. OTOH, patient zero is an American traveler to Hong Kong, who becomes ill and dies in Minneapolis. The lethal quality of the virus, which has a mortality rate of between 20 and 30 percent, is recognized almost immediately. So you don't have the problem of dawning awareness that afflicted this real life response from the outset.

I'm late to this party, so probably already everyone is aware of it. But it is still of interest to note that the title 'Contagion' is rather clever. There is not one contagion in the movie, but three - and the other two bear on some of other themes (particularly communication) in an interesting way.

[Genuine Realist]

I enjoyed the Steven Soderburgh movie 'Contagion' enormously on its release in 2011, bought it, and rewatched it. These days it has a lot more relevance than one would like, down to the virus in question originating from a bat - 'somewhere in the world the wrong bat met the wrong pig' - and in China. The disease in question in the movie is far more lethal than C-19. Unfortunately, the remedy is much more easily at hand. National politics are engaged only peripherally. The real story is of a CDC energized far more quickly and efficiently than our real life model in 2020. OTOH, patient zero is an American traveler to Hong Kong, who becomes ill and dies in Minneapolis. The lethal quality of the virus, which has a mortality rate of between 20 and 30 percent, is recognized almost immediately. So you don't have the problem of dawning awareness that afflicted this real life response from the outset.

I'm late to this party, so probably already everyone is aware of it. But it is still of interest to note that the title 'Contagion' is rather clever. There is not one contagion in the movie, but three - and the other two bear on some of other themes (particularly communication) in an interesting way.