By removing the body in a mass grave, one man in the Hazmat suit turns to the other and asks: “When did we run out of the bag?”
“Two days ago.”
Fortunately, the stage comes only from the movie “Contagion”, although it is probably close enough to what happens in some parts of West Africa.
The hit in 2011 about the refugee of the virus, which kills millions, probably came to mind more than a few people, when we observe how the rule is fighting to stop Ebola and peaceful down the public.
So far, real life is much less terrifying. In the film, the bat virus stabs into a pig, and then into a solid American played by Gwyneth Paltrow, who quickly dies as a “patient zero” terrifying global pandemic. Ironically, as an American patient from Ebola Zero died in a hospital in Dallas last week, Paltrow played a fundraiser of $ 15,000 for albums in her home in Los Angeles and praising the president. “You are so handsome that I can’t speak correctly,” Paltrow fed. She also said: “It would be great if we were able to give this man all the power he needs to convey things he must convey.”
Even without the lend a hand of Paltrow Pandemic, it can provide a disgusting performance.
There were plenty of films about deadly amok viruses. But most include dim conspiracies, aliens, or at least secret programs and government corruption. The terrible film “Explosion” from 1995 is typical for the genre: good scientists are fighting a bad determined army to keep their hands at the biological body at all costs, even if it means killing Americans. (Oh, I’m sorry, the spoiler alert.)
“Contagion” broke away from the shackles of the species. Ross Douthat placed it well in an essay about the national review, calling him a “pro-establyment thriller”. District officials, scientists, even the army were competent and determined to act properly.
It was a fascinating departure from the Truth-Truth-to-Power of the Bush cinema, and even Hollywood paranoia in Clinton. (In the film version “The X-Files” FEMA was a wicked Kabbala.)
In “Contagion” the only real villain was a blogger, Alan Krumwide (played by Jude Law). He refuses to take the government in a word. It spreads lies for personal profit. He asks about the motives of the mainstream media. At one point, the federal agent says Krumwide: “If I could throw your computer in prison, I would do it.”
Given the time, I think it is not a coincidence that Hollywood produced “infection”. Finally, Obama intended to restore faith in the government. The clever and decent people were responsible. Under another president, “Contagion” could have been a paranoid illusion, “JFK” by La Oliver Stone, and Krumwide could be a leftist hero, such as Edward Snowden or an if. But there had to be more cartoon Matt Dridge near Obama.
As Obama would tell Ohio State students in 2013: “Unfortunately, you grew up, hearing a voice that he constantly warned about the government as nothing more than some separate, sinister being, which underlies all our problems. Some of the same voices also do it, it is best to rub your work. ” (Funny fact: a few days later the IRS scandal broke.)
Again, people thinking people do not question power like Krumwide. They, like Palltrow, already wish the “whole power” they need.
Now we have our own version of “Contagion” in real time. The disease is of course different, just like the answer. Despite this, I have no doubt that real players at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health are as intention as their film versions.
But they are not so calming. They tell us that they know what can not happen until it happens. They put the theory of their specialist knowledge on Earth. The nurse concludes a contract with Ebola, and experts immediately blame the “violation of the protocol” that they cannot identify. Loyal bureaucrats rush to blame the lack of vaccine for budget cuts. Democrats point in the Republican. Republicans answer that the administration has sent billions to smaller priorities.
Nobody blames bloggers yet. But this can change if the supply of body bags is low.
