Comparing the pandemic/plague/vampire/zombie/Jaws movies to the response we're doing for Covid.

[Baitball Blogger]

So far we have seen the plot of every bad calamity movie play out.

The Jaws boneheaded Mayor is president, so we're seeing that dilemma explode exponentially.

Instead of people sheltering in place with guns to protect their homestead, we're seeing boneheads with guns protecting their right to infect and to get infected.

I guess we should be thankful that we don't have the plot twist where the government is kidnapping survivors to look for a vaccine. Nor that other bad ending where they blow up cities and towns that have been infected.

Obviously, we're going into a new scenario that no fiction writer thought of. Pushing children back into schools, where they will get sick and bring the virus home where vulnerable adults are going to die because of it. But, that really goes back to the Jaws boneheaded Mayor situation.

[Mike 03]

1. Well, there's the movie World War Z, where the virus infects almost everyone on the planet

before they figure out how to evade infection. Unfortunately, because China doesn't allow movies about "Zombies" to be screened in China, the sequel to World War Z was scrapped (even though David Fincher was set to direct it) so we don't know how that story ends.

The key is: they know how to prevent infection, but not cure those already infected. So the human race is destroyed except for a small colony of uninfected people.

I agree, we're so far beyond "Jaws" and "Towering Inferno" level comparisons--we're well past that.

World War Z is the only disaster movie I can think of that really captures where we are, and it doesn't really have an ending, just a small colony of survivors and a handful of people who understand the virus and how to prevent it.

EDIT: I mean, things are quite as bad here as they are in WWZ, but the analogy seems relevant.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Very true about WWZ. The book version was a beautiful overview of the socio-political

response to the crisis.

The one thing that we are seeing today that it didn't cover was how countries would compete for a cure, instead of cooperate with each other. It never anticipated an America that was run by a capitalistic-centric leader that would be willing to put its own people in danger.

So, now we have Russia conducting cyberattacks to try to steal the information. And, since we have a president who is fellatios Putin, he's probably giving the wink, wink to people in our research centers to help Putin get that information.

November won't come fast enough, and Biden better go after Trump for the criminal way he ran this country into the ground.

[irisblue]

2. The book World War Z, is almost fact not fiction. Depressing & gripping read in a lockdown

[Baitball Blogger]

5. The book was far better than the movie.

I did respond to the WWZ scenario in the post above.

[lagomorph777]

3. MAGAT zombie invasion

Their brains have already been eaten and they want to spread the disease to everybody.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. They were already infected. Manchurian idiots.