Thanks for the link. I don’t think I ever saw it!
OJ Simpson plays an FBI agent?!?!!?
Ironically, one of the very few dangerous pulmonary diseases that exists is out there right now: H5N1 Avian flu, which has not resulted in a worldwide pandemic of unprecedented scale only because of pure dumb luck. It could emerge into a strain that is easily spread human to human at any time, and it is a mystery why it has not yet done so.
Like the disease in the movie, it has about a 60% mortality rate, and because it is a novel pathogen, nobody has even a partial immunity to it.
This means only a tiny amount is needed to establish an infection, not a significant amount that is needed for influenza for which we have partial immunity. But it is much, much worse.
H5N1 affects a much larger spectrum of animal vectors than any other flu, even animals with markedly different immune systems. So even if it doesn’t emerge among people, it could wipe out much of the world’s supply of food animals.
Typically, over time, diseases become less virulent, but H5N1 has mysteriously maintained its 60% mortality rate since its discovery in China in 1996.
Watched a Danny Kaye film festival in honor of what would have been his hundredth birthday on TCM all day - The pellet with the poison’s in the chalis with the palace... - someone with Kaye’s humility, humanity, and grace would have been so superior to what we’re stuck with for the next four years - but at least as of tonight we do have less than four years to go......