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After two months of "monthly life", the epidemic in China has finally been brought under control.
However, the growth rates of countries such as Italy, South Korea, and Iran are like rockets, out of control.
The United States, in particular, is getting more and more intense while playing hidden cards.
Many netizens said: The high-scoring homework given by China is really hard to copy.
Why not copy? After reading this American self-directed and self-acted "Illustrated Guide to All Living Beings of Infectious Diseases", you will probably understand.
The film "Contagion", starred by 3 Oscar winners and 2 Oscar nominees, has a very strong cast.
It is about a sudden infectious disease that swept the world in a few days, and caused changes in various institutions, groups, and groups of people.
Gwyneth Paltrow (Pepper) plays "Patient 0" of an unknown infectious disease. After returning from a business trip in Hong Kong, she should have returned directly to Minnesota, but she took advantage of the turnaround to have an affair in Chicago, which caused the virus to spread. Direct transmission between the two places.
Matt Damon (Mars Potato Brother) plays Pepper's husband, who happily welcomes his wife home, but receives news of the death of his wife and stepson overnight. Naturally immune, he escaped, but his life was turned upside down.
Kate Winslet (Fat Win) plays a CDC officer assigned to Minnesota to help isolate an unknown virus, but the outbreak has yet to be brought under control.
"Beautiful boy" Ju De Law plays a conspiracy theory reporter, relying on the support of 12 million trustees to spread rumors and even use the epidemic to make huge profits.
6 groups of people under the epidemic
From the first signs, to the emergency response, to the closure of the city and the state, to the final out of control, an epidemic, the response is nothing more than these six groups of people.
1. The sick
The sick person is the most sympathetic, but in addition to sympathy, it is also the fuse for the deterioration of the whole situation.
People who are the first to get sick usually choose to "treat" before they have time to think about it .
Hospitals that are still in normal operation can generally be properly treated. But the scary thing about unknown diseases is "disputes". Families who heard the news of the death were grief-stricken, and it was inevitable that they would have disputes with medical staff.
In the film, Matt Damon finally controlled his emotions, but the attack on a doctor in real life is the epitome of the negative.
When the number of patients gradually increases, and the morbidity group is unknown, choose "grab" .
The crowd who rushed in all wanted to get treatment earlier, but the hospital was already overloaded at this time, and the crowd who were looking for medical treatment either continued to wait.
Or, they chose to "escape", fleeing to areas with abundant medical resources, and going all the way, increasing the spread along the way.
2. Medical staff
Compared with the sick, the medical staff is the most stressed and the most critical group in the whole situation.
The medical staff who inspected Chili Pepper's body were the first to receive the case, but for unknown reasons, they decided to arrange an autopsy.
The forensic doctor found that the situation was not good after the craniotomy, and reported it urgently, which attracted the attention of the disease control department. The front-line personnel pay enough attention, which is undoubtedly a good start.
But when the makeshift hospital was established, many nurses and doctors chose to strike for their own health. As a result, many patients cannot be admitted, and those who have been admitted are waiting to die.
The leaders of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cooperated with the higher authorities to conceal the data, which further aggravated the panic and the disease.
3. Those in power
Thanksgiving is the peak time for people in the United States to come and go and consume. The primary consideration of local power holders is naturally the economic and social impact.
When the outbreak first appeared, Kate Winslet was ordered to come to the Minnesota Department of Health to consult with the authorities. However, the Health Bureau criticized everywhere, and continued to report it to those in power at the next higher level on the grounds that the etiology and transmission base were not yet clear. Completed the first stage of "drag" .
When the disease intensified and the masses clearly felt panic, the key word at this time became "conceal" again .
In the film, the leaders of Minnesota knew that the epidemic was gradually getting out of control, but said: "Do everything possible to hide it until you can't hide it."
And when the methods of deception could no longer cover up the panic of the people, the third stage of "towns" began , and the army was dispatched to blockade the entire city and state and county before it was too late.
4. Privileged
When a disaster occurs, the first to be informed and blessed are undoubtedly the privileged.
When they found that the situation became dangerous, Congress began to work online, and the president was immediately transferred to the "underground".
The Illinois congressman used public resources to send himself out of the epidemic area in an isolation cabin because he fell ill on vacation, causing the entire Chicago airport to be blocked.
Even the leaders of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention responded to the news interviews vaguely as required by the government, while privately informing his wife in Chicago to flee quickly.
5. Speculators
When a craftsman becomes a coffin, he wants to die prematurely. In an epidemic situation, speculators are the most hateful .
The freelance journalists in the film are a mix of "keyboard warriors" and "profiteers". On the one hand, they use their right to speak, spread rumors, wantonly smear and criticize the authorities.
On the one hand, using his own credibility and influence, he cooperated with drug dealers and designated "Forsythia" as a special effect drug, taking human life as the ladder to make huge profits.
And when all the conspiracies were revealed, they even publicly boycotted the vaccine, threatening the lives of fans and asking the authorities to release them.
6. Ordinary people
The most innocent people are often the most deprived. It is used by both those in power and speculators.
Matt Damon, as the only immune ordinary person in the film, can be said to have witnessed how normal life gradually collapsed.
His wife and stepson died one after another. As an ordinary person, he wanted to transport his body for burial and invited relatives and friends to mourn, but the motorcade went on strike and the body could not be transported.
She lives with her only daughter, and encounters a complete shutdown of society. The supermarket is sold out, and the streets are full of hooligans.
He wanted to escape, but before he left the state border, he encountered military suppression and was sent back to the city.
Even if they stayed at home and didn't walk half a step, there were people who broke into and looted in the middle of the night, killing people with guns.
Family and love have become phantoms, and even survival has become a huge problem.
three key factors
If the epidemic situation is super-simplified and sorted out, the process is probably: host-transmission-interruption-cure.
The core factors involved are nothing more than three: the medical system, the national system, and the people.
The medical system is the first layer of protection. In an ideal situation, diagnosis, isolation, treatment, and vaccine development will be made as soon as possible.
The national system is the second layer of protection. Ideally, it should respond quickly to ensure the normal operation of the medical system, and to maximize the stability of the largest variable factor "the people".
In the film, the medical system collapsed and riots erupted.
And the reason is that everyone is for themselves.
The epidemic is at the forefront, medical staff protect themselves, and the virus intensifies;
Those in power protect themselves, and public trust collapses;
Speculators took advantage of the opportunity to profit, and the panic was further intensified.
Selfishness is a common disease of human nature. No matter which country or region it is located in, the same six types of positions will naturally repeat itself over and over again.
There is no such thing as "plagiarism".
The difference between the results lies in the game of strength and weakness among the three forces of medical care, the state, and the people.
The film is based in the United States and believes in individualism, a view that is understandable in peacetime.
But when the disaster comes, everyone is for themselves, that is, everyone relies on oneself, and in the end it can only be a mess of sand.
Conversely, we stepped on the pit and made mistakes along the way, but when the epidemic broke out, we were able to break the arm of the strong man, the medical staff regardless of life and death, the people actively cooperated, and the core strength came from the big concept of "selflessness" and "goodness".
This kind of power is also the key to the final improvement of the epidemic in the film.
Experts from the P3 laboratory cultivated the virus to provide the basis for vaccine development; while experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tested medicines and raced against time to save lives, and finally reversed the declining epidemic situation.
Of course, Danzi believes that yin and selfishness and good and evil must not be the only themes that the director of this film wants to present. After all, there are too many things presented in a multi-line narrative.
If you want to know more about it, you might as well open the movie yourself and find out.
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