Posted on 09/15/2011 10:33:03 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
As a health care provider and pandemic expert, I have never been interested in movies or television shows involving a massive outbreak. I want entertainment to escape from my work, not to watch it unfold again in front of me. Few movies aside, the medical realism could also hinder my ability to generate compassion, empathy or fear. But "Contagion," which opened in theaters last week, is different.
"Contagion" tracks the anatomy of a viral pandemic, from its zoonotic origin to social disruption. The fear of a cough, disintegration of basic social services, the ineptitude of governmental officials and the death of loved ones are all employed to generate a primal fear that is familiar to viewers. But below the surface is an even deeper fear that society rarely engages – the disintegration and distrust of the health care system. This impact of a pandemic, which the film highlights well, is the greatest fear of health care and public health experts, and for that reason, it is a very scary film.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
...we rarely think or realize that our most critical resources, from medication to ventilators, will be limited.
Another example of how the ‘Walmart way’ can effect society at large. With a big enough social or economic breakdown after only a few days all required items be it food, medicine or Gasoline will be in scarce supply.
What we call ‘prepping’ today is nothing more than a return to a way of life before modern transportation and availability of formerly scarce items became the ‘normal’ way of life.
-—I crawled under the bed and have stayed there since the bird flu epidemic killed off half of the population—(sarc)
Yes, and there’s hardly anyone left in my neighborhood since SARS hit.
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