Pentagon and CIA Shaped 1000s of Hollywood Films into Super Effective Propaganda

Re:Pentagon and CIA Shaped 1000s of Hollywood Films into Sup... by jibe on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @12:17PM (#37407292)

It wasn’t too bad, the movie spanned 4 months from outbreak to vaccine. Pfizer’s Covid trial started 5 months after outbreak. If Covid was killing 20% like the virus in the movie, we could have matched or beaten the movie timeline.

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Re:Pentagon and CIA Shaped 1000s of Hollywood Films into Sup... by elteto on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @01:34PM (#37408278)

Good point.

Although if we do have a pandemic with 20% mortality rates I feel like we would experience societal collapse in a much larger scale than in the movie. Much larger as in: we can’t finish developing a vaccine because world order is severely degraded.

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Re:Pentagon and CIA Shaped 1000s of Hollywood Films into Sup... by anonym29 on Thursday September 07, 2023 @12:22AM (#37414737)

Thank goodness COVID's mortality rates for nonsmokers aged 18-50 without diabetes were 2-3 orders of magnitude lower than that.

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Re:Pentagon and CIA Shaped 1000s of Hollywood Films into Sup... by elteto on Thursday September 07, 2023 @08:39PM (#37427751)

And mortality rates in children was even lower. I think that really helped cool things down. And even then, we all know how crazy things got.

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Re:Pentagon and CIA Shaped 1000s of Hollywood Films into Sup... by bakuninsbart on Friday September 08, 2023 @10:51AM (#37434243)

Right, I think it is fascinating that basically the whole world decided to wait for the trials to finish. If death rate had been higher I'm sure some countries would have just started vaccinating and hoping for the best.

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