“The fictional virus that we created in the movie ‘Contagion’ is far worse than [COVID-19],” he says. “We made that movie in order to kind of refute the sentiment in the country after the swine flu of 2008-2009, where people thought, ‘Ho hum, if that’s what a pandemic is, I’m not worried.’ We wanted to kind of rejigger people’s sentiments, so they understood what a real pandemic would look like.”
All fiction is created to make a political or cultural point - except maybe porn. Often the script writers don’t even know they are doing it. But it looks like that movie was raw propaganda. I’ve never seen it.
But the bottom line is that only in movies are these things real.
We need to get back to work and prevent the Great Depression II.
This is gonna leave a mark.
we need to send people back to work with masks if neccessary.