The new movie "Contagion" was No. 1 in its opening weekend at the box office. CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden speaks to Erica Hill about the film and the whether the pandemic it portrays is plausible.
@@worldwide3267 They would be spreading the virus during that 2 weeks when they have no symptoms. So the best solution to stop it spreading would be, everyone wears a mask everywhere they go. Even if not feeling any symptoms. I just don't see that happening in my country. Everything business as usual. Only hospitals are on high alert. In the streets, barely anyone with mask and people as usual sneezing and coughing without a care. The real impact of this will come about in a weeks time. After the holidays.
2011: People are going to be washing their hands and using a lot of hand sanitizer. 2020: PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE WASHING THEIR HANDS AND USING A LOT OF HAND SANITIZER.
Victor T The Contagion movie was inspired by SARS & H1N1, so they followed the blueprints of past epidemics. So it’s non surprise that a new one mirrors the one in the movie.
@@ashurajusli2910 yes the virus origin scene at the end cm from Nipah. Nipah still haunting countries like Bangladesh and India today. Imagine Covid still running amok 5-6 years later, my God...
@@Frankieefootballmundial It was first detected in December 2019. That is why it is called covid19. There haven't been 18 covids before, its the year of discovery.
Laufield Stop acting like this is the only pandemic to ever happen! It’s literally the 4th one this century. 85k people with a 2% mortality rate is literally nowhere near as deadly or scary as this movie is!
@@bletrick3352 but the infection rate is still pretty high and the death rate is still relatively unknown. If you watch the movie, it is really close to what is happening as info is still unknown. We will figure out the true death rate once we get a lot of cases but in the meanwhile we are just in the ballpark
China in my beilef is creating a post apocalyptic world. I saw in a documntary about china doing survailance, the company who provides the system name "Skynet". I think the documentary is from Vice. Refer youtube CLo3e1Pak-Y @6:20
thsu8 No, it’s been made in a lab, and the RNA has been spliced with bats & snakes. But, was caused by eating bats or snakes. That a BS rumor. People need to hear lots of sources. Dr.Paul Cottrell!
I have to thank "Contagion" for my high level of preparedness against COVID-19. It was fascinating at the time and I've watched it at least 10 times before the current situation. When I started to pick up on news out of China in Jan., I immediately recognized the potential for a "Contagion"-like scenario and didn't hesitate to start preparing and warn family.
@@melvina628 I purchased enough masks, latex gloves, goggles, and sanitizer for my family that we still have stock 6 months later. Also purchased vitamin C, D3, and zinc in bulk, stocked up on basic medical supplies, planted a garden, and stored extra food and water to ensure our ability to stay inside for at least 3 months if necessary. I also bought materials in case we needed to make our own masks. Nothing wasteful or excessive, just the basics.
Before everyone proclaims this movie’s writers are Nostradamus, the movie evidently is based on the SARS outbreak the previous decade. The current illness might just be life imitating art imitating life. Relax and drink a Corona. Oops SARry.
Justin Trudeau shipped most of Canada's masks and gowns off shore before the pandemic. Provincial governments allowed their PPE stockpiles to expire without replacing them. The WHO said "no evidence of human-human transmission" when Chinese doctors warned exactly that was happening. Those same doctors were muzzled by the Chinese government. Yes, Trump failed in ensuring national preparedness for a pandemic. Literally everyone failed, including the god damn WHO, whose one job is preparedness.
The one thing that spread this everywhere, is the lack of the world to stop air travel, the money from that was more important! PROFIT OVER PEOPLE, nothing ever changes!
You cannot stop people from travelling even during war there are people traveling between Germany and US. There boat, cruise ship, cars, rails... Do you want to stop them all? Then welcome to North Korea
@@kaptenhiu5623 that was all they had to do.Because they didn't stop travel they allowed the virus to spread costing a lot more money than a few planes and boats, until they knew what they were dealing with. Then they could of introduced real testing and not just checking for fevers, now we know not everyone shows symptoms can still spread it
Ramp up your immune system be eating healthfully. Then you probably survive. Everything has risks. Live each day! Be a liver (or a heart, or a pancreas).
I never though this movie would've predicted a worldwide pandemic, social distancing, people stocking up on supplies, world wide panic, and a experimental vaccine.
How did this not get millions of views even now? If anything, this was a rare movie gem of a real possibility to happen in the world. Most movies anymore, forget about it.
Having a discussion on if it's possible when it already happened a century earlier even before 2020 kicked the door down is nuts. How soon will it take to forget before asking the question again?
When the CDC agent starts to talk about the loss of jobs in the Public Health of people who were there to analyse these possible outbreaks the journalist cutts him off. You have right there the reason why the SARS CO2 is such a problem in America now: Public Health budget cuts for decades. Well done America, vote for Trump or Biden now...
All my life as a teenager in the 2010s I was afraid of the year 2020 frankly because in our history it has been 100 years since the 1918 pandemic and 1929 Great Depression. With every force of nature that can cause destruction in every city throughout the globe, I was always expecting or never doubted its capability. However for a bacterial or viral infection to spread globally, I always wanted to doubt the capability but you cannot rewrite history to make it seem the world is perfect
F E A R - False Evidence Appearing Real. A minor problem happens; people panic; the government grabs more power. Have Faith. Live with kindness. -Hey, we are all going to die sometime anyway. Main thing is: don't let the greed 1% take your freedom.
02:09 “even in our own lifetime”! Watching this old video after watching Contagion while in quarantine during COVID-19 outbreak here in the USA. I have to say this film really was ahead of its time. Although some things like the break down of society have not happened (and this virus is not as lethal as the one in the film) the makers of this film were right about a lot of things!
It means that everything is pre-planned they show us make us fool and when we forget that just happens. They always give a message through the films what's gonna happen in future????
They used CDC experts to write the movie because they wanted it to ring true. Below is a link to a podcast with one of those experts/writers explaining in great detail how they chose this story line. Basically, they used past, viral events as the plot. Then, they chose a virus to focus on, but then-current events made them change to a different virus. That new virus they chose was a virus from bats because this is not the first issue with bats. So, if you're asking why not get rid of all the bats, she said that's not a good idea because bats keep the jungle alive by pollenating all the plants there. The bats are the bees of the jungle plant life. They are critical to the plant life staying alive. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DTuVpWLkfCo.html
2011: Is it plausible? 2020: It's happening now... Half of the world is in lockdown. Who would have thought it would happen in our lifetime? WW1: People need to get out to fight. WW2: People need to get out to fight. WW3/COVID-19: People need to stay at home to fight. We have it easy for sure. So STAY HOME people to save humanity.
Watched it the 1st day our country was on 21 days of lock down. But remember for the COVID-19 virus to become a pandemic the amount of people that have died and the amount that have recovered need to be switched around at this stage.
