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Contagion (2011), this movie is eerily similar to the coronavirus


I remember watching this movie a few years back and it's basically true to what's happening with the coronavirus at the moment. From where it starts, the deaths,handwashing importance,i think everyone should watch this movie.

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hmmm... sounds like the kinda movie one shouldn't watch right now

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That's true, probably scare them but still an interesting movie.

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That's what I was thinking 😀

Comedies and fun or entertaining escapist types of movies would benefit our immune systems.

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The most realistic movie about this kind of subject I've ever seen.

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Yeah, but the real coronavirus is nowhere near as lethal as the one in the movie is. I mean, the virus in the movie was killing millions of people right an left, sometimes within just 24 hours of being infected. It got almost apocalyptic by the time that one woman scientist risked using an experimental vaccine on herself. This actual virus has only killed 5% of the people who got it, people who were old, already sick, or had a compromised immune system. 50% of the people infected have survived it.

It's the panic that's been a real problem. Unnecessary panic, mind you.

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All the world's leaders or rulers are using this as the perfect excuse to become or remain isolationist. When all the Isolationism finally ends is anybody's guess.

It's not a coincidence the United States has been pushing such sweeping changes to combat the virus. Either it's a Trump power grab or they know something we don't.

I hope the virus isn't going to go dormant and wait until you get old.

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I also smell some ugly schemes brooding. I mean, first off, all the presstitutes out there are torking people up with their overblown acting and hyping, and then you've got them telling everyone how Trump is incompetent, doing a power-grab, don't care about the virus, or is shutting everything down just to show off. They sure love it when Democraps write their scripts, don't they? It would be too scary for them to tell what is actually happening, vs. the perceived horrors and tragedies that are cherry-picked out of the whole of what's going on. They're totally going off of Joseph Goebbels' mantra of "Never let a good crisis go to waste."

Honestly, if I had things my way, I'd have some of those assholes in the media prosecuted for getting people killed and causing a panic. It's one of many reasons I don't watch the lamestream news and look up information outside of their stupid little box. You should too.

Second, this is just another scheme to try and take down Trump by the Left, and it's gonna blow up in their faces just like every other hare-brained scheme they've hatched in the past 3 years.

Third, China is doing this on purpose for several reasons. They don't care at all about collateral damage. They're doing this to benefit themselves and to retaliate, mark my words.

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Soderberg sucks, what a tedious film that was.

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Just saw this. A fairly accurate prediction, even though it was grim.

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