Link – Germs on the Big Screen: 11 Infectious Movies

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News of a disease outbreak or possible pandemic may readily conjure up Hollywood fantasies of horrible disease symptoms, government crackdowns and mass death. The very notion of infection, or viruses and bacteria invisibly taking over the human body, creates a sense of both uncertainty and helplessness that can lend itself to thoughts of doomsday. Movies have not hesitated to play out those worst-case scenarios time and again.

An interesting list, to be sure. However, one that was neglected but, in my opinion, worthy of a watch, is “Carriers”. (Featuring the smoking hot Emily Can Camp). Most notably for the ride into grittiness and ruthlessness as the characters start facing harder and harder choices.

But, really, who needs to watch stuff like this when it’s happening, to a slightly lesser degree, in real life?

The media is telling us that a ‘second wave’ is on the way, or that reported infection rates are increasing (keyword: reported…by whom? Reported how?), and that we should expect worse times to come.

Well, yeah….is there anyone who really thought this was over? Even if they came up with a vaccine tomorrow it will still be months, if not years, before the consequences of this thing are behind us. Even if you snapped your fingers and it disappeared tomorrow, the effects will still be here…the economic, social, and political fallout will linger even after the Kung Flu is considered ‘no longer a threat’.

You and I, we’ve been expecting something like this for a while…some sort of event that makes us start locking our doors more often, keeping a wary eye open, and start circling the wagons. Now it’s here and it’s time to see if we’ve been making smart choices these last few years (or decades).

If this really is an escalation of the current situation, it’s been a quiet one. I haven’t seen an increase in panic buying at the supermarket. However,  guns and ammo are still virtually unobtainable without paying ‘the Covid tax’. Fortunately, for many of us, guns and ammo were the first thing we stockpiled when we were a fresh wet-behind-the-ears newly minted survivalist.

Anyway, there you have it…a list of movies to download and watch in a darkened room while patting yourself on the back for your foresight and planning. You did stockpile popcorn, right?

 

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There’s a link at the top of the column on the right hand of your screen. I think what I’ll probably do is, on an experimental basis for now, post a footer in a random post once a week with a quick link. We’ll see if that doesn’t come across as too crass and self-serving.

14 thoughts on “Link – Germs on the Big Screen: 11 Infectious Movies”

  1. Two more, Omega Man and The last Man On Earth, from the same book as I Am Legend.

  2. Fall out indeed. 32% (reported) US households missed their July mortgage payment. Defaults are official at 90 days past due. The bad cheeto man has us in the hole to the tune of $3 Trillion and counting.

    No jobs, no money, no health care, no home, no car, no food. Hospitals parking people in over flow tents outside in the grass.

    Recession, depression, revolts, riots.

    Pandemic + economic collapse + race war = shit storm.

    Buckle up.

  3. Misread the headline as “Infectious Moves” and thought “Well, that explains my STD”. Just kidding. Really. I tested negative. Honest.

  4. Huh. You mentioned “Carriers” as being overlooked, so I looked; took halfway thru the the preview video before I realized I had already seen it and remembered barely anything. I gotta stop drinking while watching end-of-the-world movies… Nonetheless Cmdr Z, I concur that it is worth watching if for nothing other than the message to not tear down the barrier protecting you just because some snot-nosed brat is suffocating. Of course, I may be miss-remembering the moral of the flick.

    As for the politico-medical situation: beats me. I’m going to my “essential” work and continuing to prep. Anyone know of a source for cheap .50 cal ammo? 🙂

    • Hah, even if you reload it .50BMG ammo is pricey. Nothing cheap about that one.

  6. Who is to say that a vaccine will be effective at all. The 1st flu vaccines (garden variety) were developed in the 1940’s. So after 80 years of tinkering, the U.S. still receives an annual 65,000 – 75,000 death rate. OTOH, the polio vaccine proved much better, nearly eradicating the disease.

    So its still a guessing game at this point.

  7. The severity of this situation is largely overblown. There are larger forces at work which dictate the narrative, and it is in the interest of many who control the media to make the narrative as grim as possible–at least until November.

    This is a great time to “prep” for the later stages of life buy using excess capital not to buy bullets (why don’t you already have enough??), but stocks. The economy will come back. Even if it takes a few years to recover back to near the levels of prosperity we were experiencing in late 2019, those people who had the foresight to invest now will reap a huge windfall. Warren Buffet’s best advice was “be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.”

    Right now, Cinemark and AMC are both down over 50% from their 12 month high. Do you really think movie theaters are never going to reopen? Do you think cruise ships will never sail again? Sooner or later, perhaps slowly, the world will come back. Prep for your future by betting on a recovery.

  8. I find it somewhat dismaying that even fellow preppers/survivalists are, like so many on the left, prone to hyperbole and unfounded claims.

    Jimbo says there are 32% mortgage defaults. Huh? Perhaps in his geographic area. In mine ( south east Wisconsin) there is nowhere near that kind of delinquency. Also admittedly service sector jobs in restaurants and entertainment have been hard it in the Covid times. But construction and manufacturing are, again in my area, booming. None of the hospitals in this state are overflowing, in fact they didn’t even come close to it at the height of this whole rigmarole.

    So perhaps we should all say stuff like “ in my AO “ when we claim disaster or its ugly sister depression/recession. This is the mildest pandemic I could have imagined. I always envisioned something like Carriers or I am Legend type diseases running rampant. That is when the preps and the survival skills will be sorely tested. Not this pussy” I can go to the store for food “ or “ PU my order at McDonald’s “ pandemic. Morons can survive this.

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