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Not even this film could predict...

posted 5 years ago by SoZi (103)
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...the crazy need of toilet papers. There's always that factor of the unpredictability of the human stupidity.
On the more serious note: They scientifically researched every aspect of this film to make it accurate, and they figured out that the hand sanitizers gonna be out, the media paranoia, the believers of the vaccines, the right masks, social distancing, fake cures (they failed at drinking bleach, but again, human stupidity is unpredictable)

Only other thing (next to TP) didn't happened now is the looting and the armed robberies. I wonder is this because in the film the virus was faster and a bit more deadlier than COVID?

[–] duckofprey (1557) 5 years ago

The TP hoarding, while not exactly depicted in this film (the ENTIRE grocery was 95% depleted), our real life toilet paper shortage was not. In recent short-lived mini-outbreaks like SARS etc there were localized buying sprees of items like TP.

As for looting and robberies, that will come if a worse case situation arises which is certainly possible. We very well be just seeing the tip of the iceberg here.

The spread of COVID-19 is based on two factors:
1) How dense the population is
2) How dense the population is

[–] AmeriGirl26 (15124) 5 years ago

https://d2c7ipcroan06u.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Bob-Moran.jpg

http://www.shutupandtakemymoney.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/if-you-need-144-rolls-of-toilet-paper-for-a-14-day-quarantine-corona-virus-meme.jpg

https://i1.wp.com/politicallyincorrecthumor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/marked-safe-from-coronavirus-outbreak-toilet-paper-fort.jpg?resize=520%2C348&ssl=1

http://www.bullshift.net/data/images/2020/03/theo-moudakis-four-horsemen.jpg

[–] tsrt (1177) 5 years ago

It failed to predict the ignorance more than anything.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (18435) 5 years ago

^^^ THIS. Wearing masks in public is now a topic of controversy worthy of political mudslinging and fearmongering. Americans are so fucking stupid it's now literally killing the country. Fuck, at least this pandemic will thin some of the herd out.

[–] tsrt (1177) 5 years ago

To be fair, there was the one scene where the guy said "F-off lady" after being asked to cover his mouth, but no one predicted the level of ignorance we're seeing right now.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (18435) 2 years ago

Very true.