I watched Contagion last night. Possibly unwise. It basically regressed me to my mental state at the start of lock-down. Paranoia and a Terminator-like vision of potentially contaminated surfaces.
Huge credit is deserved for the writer of that film. It is fucking uncanny how presciently it treats what is happening to us now in a fictional form. Clearly the product of massive amounts of research. The last minute is terrifyingly on-point.
It's also oddly inspiring. Experts, the ones who try to understand things and act on them to preserve humanity, are the heroes.
It was also perceptive enough to recognise how much public appetite there would be for self-interested conspiracy theorists. Although not pessimistic enough to conclude that one of them could become president of the United States.
