Event 3 | Contagion
Image of the zoom call attendance I attended the watch party for Contagion on May 19th. While the movie is almost a decade old, it was more relevant than ever due to the current global pandemic caused by Covid-19. The virus in the movie and covid were both novel viruses that caused massive global shutdowns. The movie portrayed how quickly a virus can spread unknowingly, like how the chef gave it to the businesswoman, and subsequently those that interacted with the businesswoman. Once governments discovered the virus, known as MEV-1, they were slow to react to restricting travel, which led to widespread infections across the world. Throughout the middle of the movie, there was a journalist that spread misinformation for his own personal gains. Towards the end of the movie, there started to have vaccines rollout and life slowly returned to normal. This portion hit me the hardest because it is in a similar phase that we are facing in the covid pandemic, where vaccines a...