This movie is my third watch on Amazon Prime overall, and comes soon after I watched Parasite. Under ordinary circumstances, I ought to have watched the movie much earlier – it has a starcast I love – Matt Damon and Kate Winslet both star in it. I don’t know if this movie was released in India or how it fared at the box-office, but it is surreal to watch how it creates a world that’s affected by a flu-like pandemic that originates in Asia. It also creates the world of a journalist (Jude Law) who blogs about the truth of the pandemic much to the discomfort of the establishment.
The movie left me gripped for most part, especially the scenes that show ordinary people violating the social distancing norm put in place, the requirement of masks and other medical kits, and the spread in Asia. If this isn’t being ahead of the curve, I don’t know what is. It explains what R naught is (the basic reproduction number) and how a pandemic develops based on differing R naught. It shows an autopsy in more detail – I was not prepared to watch Gwyneth Paltrow’s brain getting dissected.
There are many dialogues that struck as applicable for today’s Covid-19 scenario and I am mentioning three of them here. I feel like validating some of these numbers and comparing myself to the average person metrics, but don't quite know dependable resources to do the same.
The movie left me gripped for most part, especially the scenes that show ordinary people violating the social distancing norm put in place, the requirement of masks and other medical kits, and the spread in Asia. If this isn’t being ahead of the curve, I don’t know what is. It explains what R naught is (the basic reproduction number) and how a pandemic develops based on differing R naught. It shows an autopsy in more detail – I was not prepared to watch Gwyneth Paltrow’s brain getting dissected.
There are many dialogues that struck as applicable for today’s Covid-19 scenario and I am mentioning three of them here. I feel like validating some of these numbers and comparing myself to the average person metrics, but don't quite know dependable resources to do the same.
“But right now, our best defense has been social distancing. No hand-shaking, staying home when you're sick washing your hands frequently.”
“How fast it multiplies depends on a variety of factors. The incubation period, how long a person is contagious. Sometimes people can be contagious without even having symptoms.”
"The average person touches their face 2- or 3000 times a day. Three to five times every waking minute. In between, we're touching doorknobs water fountains, elevator buttons and each other. Those things become fomites."Watch the trailer here to get a glimpse of what the movie is all about. If you are the sort who gets anxious after receiving more information about a disease, I’d recommend not watching this movie right now.
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