Having written hundreds of movie reviews, I deeply realized a truth: Movies come from life but not life is wonderful.
In 2011, a movie called "Infectious Diseases" was released in the United States, which was inspired by Nipah virus and SARS virus.
The film simulates the rapid spread of the virus in society and how society reacts to the outbreak.
The progress of human beings in science and technology always leads to the illusion that the level of basic human knowledge is also advancing rapidly at the same time.
If you compare the reaction of humans to the virus in the movie and the response of humans to this coronavirus in reality, you will find that the two are very similar.
1. Virus spread
The first person to host and spread the virus was a corporate executive named Beth (played by Gwyneth Paltrow), whom I named the Poison King.
At that time, she was on a business trip in Hong Kong and shook hands warmly with a chef who wiped his sleeves after touching live pigs, and thus became the host of the virus.
After being infected with the virus, Beth didn't notice anything unusual, and still went to bars, casinos and other places where people gathered.
The virus is easy to linger on people's hands and objects she touches. At the bar, Beth grabbed two glasses of wine and forgot her phone.
A beautiful Ukrainian woman gave her cell phone to Beth and unfortunately became infected with the virus.
The Ukrainian beauty, a model, flew from Hong Kong to London to continue her work, but she soon took time off because she felt unwell and was eventually found dead in a hotel apartment. (The virus comes to London)
Beth's colleague, a Japanese man who boarded the plane, began to feel uncomfortable, and when he returned to Japan, he took the bus and fainted on the bus. (The virus came to Japan)
Poison King Beth's husband and children are in Minneapolis, but she has a lover named Jon Neal in Chicago.
On the way back, she went to Chicago to clap for love with Jon Neal before returning to Minneapolis. (The virus comes to Chicago and Minneapolis in the US)
Back home, the poison king Beth warmly hugged her husband Thomas (Matt Damon) and son.
Thomas is fine because he is immune to the virus (the protagonist Halo), and the poison king Beth and her son have died one after another.
In Hong Kong, after Beth finished drinking at the bar, she touched the cup with her hand, and a long-haired waiter, Li Hui (Poison 2), took the cup.
Li Fei began to have uncomfortable symptoms when he took the ferry after get off work, and then he continued to take the subway (pay attention to his hands):
Although he was already dizzy after returning home, he continued to go out the next day, relying on his youth.
When Li Hui took the elevator, he touched the elevator button with his hand. When he walked into the elevator, he encountered an old grandmother with two children. Li Hui coughed in the elevator:
After that, Li Hui also went to the vegetable market and other places where the population gathered. In the end, he was hit by a car because he was dizzy when crossing the road and could not see the road clearly. Of course, the root cause of his death was not a car accident.
Since then, the grandmother (poison 3) who had been in contact with Li Hui was sent to the hospital and died...
After the grandmother was infected, she returned to the village without knowing it, and most of the people in the entire village (drug n) were persecuted by the virus.
And I describe the process of virus spread in detail, mainly to attract everyone's attention.
After the outbreak of the Wuhan virus, academicians Zhong Nanshan and Li Lanjuan have been warning everyone to wash as often as possible and go out less often.
This is because the virus can survive for two days after leaving the host. After touching public items with our hands, we will pick boogers, rub our eyes, and throw food into our mouths. The way the virus enters the human body.
The viral spread in the movie begins with the warm handshake between a flying executive and a chef who doesn't wash his hands.
The response of the U.S. government
Six days after the incident, CDC leader Ellis Cheever (played by Lawrence Fishburne) sent researcher Erin Mills (Kate Winslet) to Minnesota to investigate the incident. thing.
Before Mills left, the leader diligently told her:
"Call me if you need any resources; call me if you're involved in a political fight; call me if you can't sleep at 3 a.m., staring at the clock on the wall, thinking about why you're taking the job, Give me."
After Dr. Irene, who was investigating and working on the front line, went to the place where the epidemic occurred, the staff of the local government looked like I didn't want to take the blame.
Dr. Mills rented the stadium to accommodate the influx of patients, and the local staff said: "This cost cannot be borne by us."
In the end, Dr. Mills fell ill on the front lines, and she slept in the rented gym.
Her boss, Ellis, wanted to get her back in a helicopter with an isolation chamber, but Senior Officer Lyle told him:
"A congressman from Washington, Illinois, who fell ill while on vacation in Chicago, is on this plane returning home."
An MD contracted the virus because he went to the front line, a congressman contracted the virus because he was on vacation in Chicago, but the latter was able to fly home, and the former died in the gym and was buried in mass like many other patients.
Ellis also got word from senior officer Lyle that government personnel were mobilizing the National Guard to blockade Chicago.
The officer warned Ellis: This matter must not be leaked! If this news spreads, it will definitely cause panic, and banks, gas stations, and grocery stores will definitely be robbed due to security issues.
In Lyle's words: "We just need to block as much as possible until everyone knows about it."
But Ellis turned around and told his wife about it, telling her to leave Chicago quickly.
To develop a vaccine, the virus must first be successfully grown in cells.
After discovering that this is a new type of bat-pig hybrid virus, people at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention intend to hand over all the research to the government-managed BSL-4 laboratory. Hextor (played by Jennifer Ehle) immediately calls Dr. Sussman and tells him to stop working. (BSL-4 laboratory is the highest level of biosafety laboratory)
However, people from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been unable to successfully cultivate the virus in BSL-4. Dr. Sussman, who stayed in the market, has succeeded!
3. Rumors, profiteers and the masses
In this film, the role of the rumormonger and profiteer is played by the same person, freelance writer Alan (played by Jurode).
Allen first used the conspiracy theory that the virus is a biological weapon to attract the public's attention and became a blogger with millions of fans.
But in private, Allen met with hedge fund managers to discuss business. In Allen's eyes, disaster is a great opportunity for him to make a fortune!
Allen's profit-making method is to use his influence to tell the public that forsythia can cure diseases, so that the stock price of a certain pharmaceutical company can rise sharply, and the hedge fund manager can buy it in advance to make money after getting the news. All Lun wanted was a share of this huge profit. Through the live broadcast on the Internet, he first declared that he was infected and his body temperature was abnormal. Then he took forsythia oral liquid and told everyone that if he was alive the next day, it means that forsythia is right. Viruses work.
What is forsythia?
I went to Baidu, and it is a Chinese herbal medicine that has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying:
In terms of clearing heat and detoxifying, Forsythia and Shuanghuanglian are very similar:
Under the panic and Allen's misleading propaganda, the public went out and lined up to buy forsythia.
Among the people who lined up to buy forsythia, some wore masks, while others did not.
Originally, they would not be infected as long as they stayed at home and did not come out, but the people listened to Loren's words and went out to buy medicine and did not wear masks, but they were infected instead.
The woman in the picture above is named Loren, who works in traditional media and is pregnant. She and Ellen know each other and are freelance writer Ellen's partner in traditional media.
She begged Ellen to give her some forsythia to save her life after she got infected, after all she was pregnant with a child.
Let's take a look at Allen's defenses:
Of course Ellen is fine. Is it okay to dress more tightly than the medical staff?
In the United States, it is no joke if it causes panic among the people. Because Americans have guns in their hands.
Some people started to rob houses with guns, and the sound of gunshots came one after another like firecrackers in the New Year...
4. The source of the epidemic
Similar disaster films in the United States have similar endings, with a hero appearing to save all mankind.
In "Infectious Diseases", Dr. Ellie used her own body as an experiment to test the vaccine. After the success, the vaccine was mass-produced immediately to solve the disaster.
But what I am more concerned about is, what is the source of this epidemic? How can humans prevent this from happening in the future?
At the end of the movie, a bulldozer knocks down two trees, and the sleeping fruit bats fly out.
Fruit bats that have lost their habitat have to find another habitat. A fruit bat that ate a banana came to the pig shed to sleep, accidentally dropped the residue, and the pig ate the residue.
The pig that ate the scraps was sent to a high-end restaurant. The chef shook hands with Beth without washing his hands after handling the pig. Beth became the poison king of infectious diseases...
This setting used in the movie is not groundless, because this is the reality, and its prototype is the Nipah virus.
The first outbreak of Nipah virus occurred among pig farmers in Malaysia in 1999, as pig farms penetrated deep into bat habitats.
The symptoms of the virus-infected person in the movie are fever, cough, seizures, death, and the autopsy will reveal severe brain damage.
The Nipah virus infection is basically similar to the symptoms in the movie:
Nipah virus is an RNA virus closely related to Hendra virus.
Hendra virus originates from Australia, and its origin is similar to that of Nipah virus. Due to human destruction of forests, fruit bats fly into places where humans live, causing humans to be infected with this virus.
In 2003, the coronavirus from Chinese chrysanthemum-headed bats spread to civet cats, and Chinese people ate the civet cats and contracted the SARS virus.
In 2019, a new type of coronavirus emerged from the South China Seafood Market.
It can be seen that the virus can be regarded as a kind of revenge of nature to human beings for wanton destruction of ecology and eating of wild animals to some extent.
Plague has long been recorded in the history books, and the frequency of occurrence is getting higher and higher.
Taking my country as an example, the Great Plague occurred 13 times in the Qin and Han Dynasties, 17 times in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, 17 times in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, 17 times in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, 32 times in the Song Dynasty, 64 times in the Ming Dynasty, and 74 times in the Qing Dynasty.
In ancient times, people were infected with the plague. Due to poor medical conditions, it was basically equivalent to destroying the village. However, due to poor traffic conditions, all the people in a village died, and the plague was cured.
In modern society, due to the large population, aggregation, and high circulation, if one person is infected with the virus, it will cause a large-scale spread.
On March 4, 1918, an influenza outbreak occurred in a military camp in Kansas, USA, followed by China, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
The flu broke out in large numbers around the world in the fall of 1918, and by 1920, 1 billion people were infected worldwide, and nearly 40 million people died from the flu.
In this flu, 8 million people died in Spain, so this flu that originated in the United States is also known as the Spanish flu.
Remember, World War I killed 20 million people, and the Spanish flu killed twice as many!
There is one scene in the movie that is very meaningful.
Virus researcher Allie put the virus sample named MEV-1 into the ultra-low temperature storage box of the CL-4 laboratory, and there are two other boxes with H1N1 and SARS written on them.
I don't know how many virus samples we will put in in the future.
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