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Michael Bay’s new movie is about a bizarro alternate universe where the US government is mishandling a pandemic, but I did the math and I’m 95% certain the virus would have died out by killing all of its hosts too fast to find new ones under the conditions portrayed in the film.
Thursday, 14-Jan-21 10:23:44 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Wait, really? Not that he'd botch the math, that I super-believe... But the whole-ass movie??
Thursday, 14-Jan-21 17:08:14 UTC from web-
@scribus yeah, look up “Songbird” sometime. Written at the very beginning of the pandemic and filmed almost entirely by the cast with cell phones, it takes place in 2024 in a world where COVID mutated into a deadly super virus which kills 50% of the people it infects, anyone who gets it is automatically reported to the government via smartphone tracking, and they’re quarantined in a concentration camp until they either die or get better. I’m no virologist, but I’m pretty sure that under those conditions, the virus would have been dealt with a long time ago.
Thursday, 14-Jan-21 18:43:24 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation I mean considering what a 3% mortality rate did to us, I must be inclined to agree, one way or another...
Thursday, 14-Jan-21 19:34:59 UTC from web
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