With panic and confusion, we face the "new crown"

Keven 2022-03-21 09:01:42

After watching the film, I feel the same way. It has been more than a month since the "new crown epidemic" we are experiencing. To sum up, there are two psychological factors that are more remarkable.

The first is the panic about the virus itself, which mainly comes from ignorance of the virus.

①What is the source of the poison?

②What is the intermediate host?

If you don't know these two problems, you don't know where they come from, whether they will come again in the future, and how to prevent them from happening.

③ How powerful is it? When does the inflection point occur?

Through several days of data, we roughly understand its infectiousness (RO≈2.2), case fatality rate (about 2%), and transmission routes.

④ There is no vaccine and no specific medicine. The antiviral plasma (serum?) of the recovered people should be a breakthrough.

Several experimental drugs launched now give us hope, and a vaccine may have to wait for a while.

Everyone understands that we didn't know anything about the virus, because it came too suddenly and we were caught off guard. Everyone is also ready to overcome the difficulties together. After all, we have experienced SARS together.

The second psychology is the confusion about certain things, such as the dereliction of duty in some departments, which keeps appearing these days.

The virus is undoubtedly a natural disaster, then these man-made problems are man-made disasters, which could have been avoided, especially when life is related.

Who has no fault? Over and over, it's great to be good. In the face of disaster, we can only move forward hand in hand and overcome the epidemic if we stick to our original intention and deal with it calmly!

I hope there will be more real heroes like Dr. Zhang Jixian, real "angels", to pay tribute to Dr. Zhang!

PS: I am not a medical professional, please feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

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Extended Reading
  • Clovis 2022-04-20 09:01:36

    It's a very routine movie, and it's logical from beginning to end. There are no surprises, but there are no regrets. There is a lot of knowledge involved, but the director and the screenwriter did not make a fool of themselves. They have always tried to keep the story simple and clear, and the characters portrayed in the movie are too three-dimensional and full of emotions. I really like this kind of movie, and the ending is also very good. . The director of "Perfect Storm" is indeed similar to some extent.

  • Bonnie 2021-11-15 08:01:26

    At this time, a batch of secretly infected serum was sent, but Sam and a group of people found that this batch of serum can cure the disease in 1967, but it has no effect on the now mutated virus. Soon, when Sam's wife was unfortunately infected and her life was dying, the government also made a decision to put bombs to destroy the entire town in order to eliminate the virus.

Outbreak quotes

  • General Billy Ford: You know, Colonel Daniels is not going to like us going behind his back like this.

    General Donald McClintock: Then we'll kill him.

    [beat]

    General Donald McClintock: Lighten up, Billy. We have no alternative. You're so goddamn sentimental. That's the trouble with this country.

  • [the staff at Cedar Creek Hospital is desperately trying to save Rudy]

    Dr. Mascelli: Rudy, can you hear me? Come on, Rudy! Help me out here! Squeeze my hand! It looks like toxic shock.

    Nurse Emma: Fred said he was fine yesterday.

    Dr. Mascelli: Come on, Rudy!

    Nurse Jane: I've been reading about these really bad strep cases in Newsweek.

    Dr. Mascelli: Maybe I should subscribe. Henry, get me a blood culture, chemistry profile, and a blood count.

    [Henry takes a blood sample from Rudy]

    Dr. Mascelli: Goddamn it! Come on, Rudy!