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Pandemic Fears in 'Contagion'

The document discusses the 2011 film "Contagion" and its realistic portrayal of a global pandemic. It describes how the film accurately shows the rapid spread of a deadly virus through various transmission methods. Various pandemic response strategies are also realistically depicted, such as quarantine, social distancing, and vaccine development. Both positive and negative human behaviors in response to the crisis are discussed, including misinformation, self-interest, and also heroic acts from scientists and caregivers.

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Pandemic Fears in 'Contagion'

The document discusses the 2011 film "Contagion" and its realistic portrayal of a global pandemic. It describes how the film accurately shows the rapid spread of a deadly virus through various transmission methods. Various pandemic response strategies are also realistically depicted, such as quarantine, social distancing, and vaccine development. Both positive and negative human behaviors in response to the crisis are discussed, including misinformation, self-interest, and also heroic acts from scientists and caregivers.

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Macaraig, Janine Mae C.

BS Nursing ||

In the movie called “Contagion”, a strange virus is affecting the U.S population. I
honestly felt scared and frightened watching the movie knowing that we are here in a
covid 19 Pandemic. Contagion is a movie for the young and the old. It is the only movie
out here that perfectly describes how the world would react to an outbreak of this kind.
It’s amazing how Mitch Emhoff handled what he found out about his wife's foolishness
and being protective father to his daughter who has a boyfriend. Beth Emhoff returns to
Minnesota from a Hong Kong business trip, with her affair she attributes the malaise
she feels to jet lag. However, two days later, Beth is dead, and doctors tell her shocked
husband that they have no idea what killed her. Her young son dies later the same
day. Soon, many others start to exhibit the same symptoms, and a global pandemic
explodes. There have been cases of death among scientists who try to discover the
origin of the acute disease that is spreading rapidly through population. Within their
studies it is believed that the cause was an attack rate. The virus possible spread from
person to person, and the person who contracted it transferred it to another person.
These investigations were conducted through descriptive and observational studies.
The film captures almost perfectly what a contemporary worst-case scenario might look
like, and is eerily familiar because it trades on realistic fears. Contagion, the
transmission of communicable infectious disease from one person to another (either by
direct contact, as in this film, sneezing or coughing or touching one’s nose or mouth,
then a surface like a tabletop or doorknob that someone else then touches or
transmission through an intermediate vector like the mosquito or the rabid bat) is among
the oldest fears of humankind, and yet also among the most contemporary as our world
has become so much more interconnected by air travel. The scenario depicted in this
terrifying film is entirely realistic.
The modes of transmission of an airborne virus are deftly portrayed. Various scenarios
of pandemic planning, including quarantine and isolation, mandatory social distancing,
vaccine research, and prioritization for access to treatment and prevention are all
accurately depicted. And so, chillingly, is the human potential for fear and self-interest. I
see misinformation, deception, crime in the pursuit of self-protection, and the
governments of countries trying to evade economically devastating publicity by hiding
the facts. But I also see what looks like heroism: the scientist who works desperately
towards the development of a vaccine in defiance of explicit orders to leave an unsafe
lab; nuns who treat patients when nurses are on strike; and the person of greatest
privilege and authority who gives his own dose of vaccine, when it is eventually
developed, to the son of the janitor in his building, an act of selfless justice in trying to
distribute the vaccine in an equitable way.

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