Disease Expert Breaks Down Pandemic Scenes From Film & TV | WIRED

Brian Amman, ecologist for the Centers for Disease Control, takes a look at disastrous pandemics from a variety of television shows and movies and breaks down how accurate their depictions really are. Find out how realistic pandemics are as portrayed in 'Contagion,' 'World War Z,' 'Outbreak,' 'ER,' 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,' 'House,' 'The Walking Dead,' 'Pandemic,' 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,' The Andromeda Strain,' 'The Crazies,' 'The Girl with All the Gifts,' '28 Weeks Later,' 'The Thing' and 'The Hot Zone.'
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Disease Expert Breaks Down Pandemic Scenes From Film & TV | WIRED

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[@Manuel_B.]

you people realize that if these movies were like real life the movie would last like 5 hours with exposition..you can't show the slow subtle signs of infection, there isn't enough time to do differential diagnosis.... all that can get explained visually by projectile vomiting or explosive diarrhea.. it doesnt have to be factual, they just have to get the point across.

[@tianapitesr8553]

Uh when he says House!

[@josecastanon6412]

WIRED tell him to do a review of the Rec Movies 👌🏻

[@GrimReaperNegi]

If you can have him back. He could break down everything wrong in The Strain seasons, and talk about how they would handle stuff like Blue Ringed Octopus. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-ringed_octopus

[@Muckytuja]

@@Manuel_B. We DO know, but some people just curious what would really happen in those scenarios. That's why movies usually doesn't follow reality. To be entertaining. ;)

[@woodsy.2977]

This KZbin algorithm got some twisted sense of humour...

[@craftgames1882]

yup

[@ArnoldsKtm]

It's literally what people are searching for... the algorithm is correct.

[@roefulkerson955]

haha

[@TaterKakez]

Lmao right

[@spectreian5042]

i knooow😂😂😂😂😂

[@IGoByRocky]

None of this is accurate they don't mention how people take all the toilet paper

[@PamJernigan]

Underrated comment... rofl...

[@ammpdmtb9828]

Facts

[@SabrineKsouri]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@BlueSky-oe4fn]

Cheaper than kleenex. Ps. Who is making more toilet paper, since manufacturing is in shut down?

[@Tiabliaj1989]

Imagine a time when toilet paper was a luxury only the rich partook of

[@csvega]

COVID has taught me that IF the world saw a Zombie plauge, we would see Zombie sympathizers, Bite Hiders, and Zombie Cults everywhere.

[@ra3016]

They’re just people with a disease and out of their mind! (That’s sarcasm… you’re not wrong lol)

[@ExiaMesa]

The book version of world war Z includes zombie worshipping cults, people who think they’re zombies and bite hiders

[@JosePineda-jn8jk]

You forgot the flat out deniers and down-players 😂

[@anonomous8649]

@@ExiaMesa That actually makes me want to read it lol. Would love to see a realistic zombie apocolypse like that represented

[@ExiaMesa]

@@anonomous8649 the movie kinda threw all of it out of the window

[@notbatman7331]

He seems like a good guy with a lot of faith in humanity, We've let Brian down guys .

[@micheal2458]

I agree, Ted Bundy

[@fiiredark]

I feel like this needs to be a meme. “We’ve let Brian down guys.”

[@babyramses5066]

We've let Brian down guys . - Ted Bundy, 2020

[@pghbekka]

He works for the CDC, so he let us down.

[@mehere8038]

@@pghbekka yup all his advice on here was wrong & what the CDC did was wrong. Of particular note on that I think is the way that countries that were successful on the virus did in fact lock up anyone exposed in quarantine facilities that were not hospitals, but rather hotels, under guard. Some like China went much further than that though. Failing to lock up the exposed lead to the world's highest death rates

[@jayscragg2434]

“In real life things are a lot more controlled” Well this is awkward

[@morganmartin7543]

😂😂😂

[@toasterroven5329]

well it would be a lot more controlled, if dumb fucks would stop going outside

[@evanbrown2396]

toasterroven Facts

[@Matthew075]

Yep.. they forgot that 'stupid people' exist.

[@gold333]

Well it is a lot more controlled than the zombie apocalypse

[@billyparkins757]

“Kissing is a great way to get a virus” Guess I’m safe then

[@Moleda1986]

Billy Parkins Me too 😩

[@williamnelson5549]

Billy Parkins same 😅

[@lunatic5162]

Same. We Will survive lmao

[@wigglyfruit4708]

Billy Parkins 😔 feels bad man

[@kertaspaper94]

Maybe not necessarily kissing another person

[@chasehardison6743]

"A pandemic is not as nearly incontrollable as Hollywood makes it out to be" Covid: and I took that personally

[@romxxii]

Yo man I need you to photoshop the Rona onto MJ now. Don't leave us hanging.

[@romxxii]

@@Cmonbruh8549 It _is_ dangerous, because it spreads before it can kill you. And because it spreads so fast, hospitals are overwhelmed, so more and more people can't get treated, so more people eventually die. That's why diseases that kill slower kill more than extremely lethal pathogens like Ebola. Ebola kills too quickly to spread properly.

[@erics5572]

I just learnt something new. Was about to correct you on spelling uncontrollable. Thought I'd double check first and for Americans incontrollable is uncontrollable.

[@silentphotographer117]

If only ppl had common sense it wouldn't have gotten so bad

[@ShadingNight]

"Animals spreading disease" "Shows bat" OH BOY

[@autisticpanda6824]

Sheeeeeeeeeeeesh

[@WEYffles]

Bats are common hosts of many viruses including other coronaviruses, so it’s not a “prediction”

[@ShadingNight]

@@WEYffles I know this Captain Ackshually, we're all here for some laughs.

[@weezothekid]

@@WEYffles man shut up it's a joke.

[@hereiam2005]

The more scary part was his comment on the fact that viruses are in "freezers in really secure labs" Oops.

[@nabilahuda3447]

"diseases like this dont ever get to the stage of global pandemic" covid-19: let me introduce myself

[@natashal3337]

I laughed sooo hard.😂

[@gold333]

He said the CDC’s job is to prevent them becoming pandemic, not that they never do. The last major one was only 100 years ago

[@chrisbeaty3572]

@@gold333 do more research last pandemic was in 1968 which was 52 years ago

[@francobugueno9989]

se refiere a que una pandemia tan letal no se trasmite globalmente porque mata al huesped de manera muy rapida, el caso cov es todo lo contrario un virus muy contagioso con muy poca letalidad.por esa misma razon es que es tan peligroso ironico pero cierto.

[@evawertz201]

what time stamp is that?

[@JohnDoe-dj3lw]

"We wouldn't use a live person as bait, LET ALONE A CHILD" LMAO

[@Shadow77999]

Lol..

[@oscargold1554]

We've done that throughout history.

[@beautifullEternal]

The CIA says hello, and assassinates you.

[@HELLO_KORO]

Lemme tell u sum...

[@_wayward_494]

@@oscargold1554 we've done alot of things throughout history

[@konquerorkei]

"This would never happen, people would not go and contaminate hallways in the hospital" COVID-19 "hold my beer"

[@marinadeburgos8666]

Hold my corona

[@mehere8038]

My favourite on that was the tv doctors who were doing interviews with masks around their necks & other PPE on for show, while sitting in their office within the hospital. That was during the supply shortages, so that PPE wasn't put on for the interview, it was stuff they had been wearing in covid wards, but then left the ward & walked all the way to their office still wearing, so as to do the interview on tv, as the "expert" on infectious diseases. Corridors between wards is bad enough, but offices are normally in completely different sections of the hospital & it would have been SO easy for them to have removed the PPE to prevent contaminating the entire path they took! Meanwhile in Australia, all press conferences & interviews with doctors were conducted outdoors, with good ventilation & the professionals wearing no PPE for effect, just wearing regular clothes or whatever was actually appropriate for the job they were doing at the time, no attempts to make them look "credible" in stereotypical clothing, they just used their words & scientific facts & stats to give that impression without the need for props & every transmission case prior to mass vaccinations being completed was traced in Australia, a couple happened in hospitals & there was serious consequences for those involved. I hate to think how many transmission cases happened in American hospitals!

[@TheDeadRat69]

This dude tried to warn us early without becoming a known time traveller.

[@11YoPEEPS]

"Some with gloves, some without... pure Hollywood fiction." The innocence

[@MichaelEverheartt]

Megan Thompson he’s a sweet winter snowflake

[@theplotarmoredtitan5781]

He haven't seen shortages of PPE in real life pandemic like we have in NY right now.

[@LIZSDCALI66]

I was just thinking that lol. But in his defense there hasn't been a worldwide pandemic in a long time & no one knew our healthcare professionals were vastly under stocked for one

[@marrileemiles3974]

Same for masks, eye protection, well, just all of it. That gloves statement made me /smh/. Reality has trumped fiction. (pun intended)

[@yarzuak3599]

@@LIZSDCALI66 Well, actually, they knew but hardly anyone listened, as far as I know.

[@madae.2183]

Poor guy he had so much more faith in humanity.. I just imagine how that faith has been destroyed in these months..

[@Hi-ey5zt]

"JUST WEAR A DANG MASK" "WHY IS EVERYBODY GOING OUTSIDE" "STOP TRAVELING" "ITS A FRICKING PANDEMIC YALL"

[@hbhtcr5707]

Yeah that hurted 😔✌🏻

[@PG-wz7by]

😢

[@avatrawick4890]

he has faith in the people that are trying to find a vaccine not in the people not wearing mask or doing dumb stuff

[@chaseo814]

@@Hi-ey5zt stfu

[@Willysmb44]

I went through the unit NBC defense course in the Army and we had a guy who'd studied with the CDC who happened to be nearby and who came over. We focused on nuclear and chemical weapons mostly, but he went over biological issues and back then, before 9/11, he nailed EXACTLY what would happen in an outbreak that went nationwide. He even nailed the divisions along party lines as to how each side of the aisle would handle things, the breakdown in the supply chain, even the refusal of people to wear protective gear and refusal to acknowledge the problem at all. I wish I could find him today to tell him how impressed I am that he called the current situation over 20 years in advance

[@mehere8038]

Out of interest did he say anything about how other countries would respond? Really curious if he did & how close he got on them, did he predict how China would respond with really heavy handed tactics for example? How about Australia/NZ, did he predict the heavy quarantine & doing ok? I'm guessing he probably would have with all that stuff, more interesting might have been what he thought the UK would do, especially being pre-brexit & when their government was more competent & less divisive than it was by the time the pandemic happened. EU I'm guessing he also would have picked with the nationalism over supplies etc happening

[@nazirkazi2588]

​@@mehere8038To be fair those are easy predictions. Aus/Nz already had a good understanding of quarantining and zero tolerance to imported flora and fauna. And calling Chinese government tactics "heavy-handed" is just calling them Chinese government tactics. 😁

[@thefoxyscentury]

Smart man.

[@Gingerwalker.]

Did he happen to say which party would pretend a pandemic was not real?

[@TheKittengoddess]

I wonder if little things like this will change in movies now that we've all had some exposure to the real thing. I immediately noticed them shaking hands rather than an elbow greeting.

[@TheKittengoddess]

@@Cmonbruh8549 In recent history. People don't know these things. That's why they have to be told.

[@TheKittengoddess]

@@Cmonbruh8549 But we didn't all wear masks. The United States wasn't shut down in this way like we are now. Everything didn't come to a close here. It may have been bad in other places but not nearly like it is now. They are calling Covid a once in a hundred year pandemic. H1N1 wasn't.

[@romxxii]

@@Cmonbruh8549 It's the pandemic that most living humans will have a frame of reference for, especially since COVID already killed plenty of the boomers who survived the Spanish Flu.

[@jordanwhite352]

My prediction is that similar to afternoon Hollywood is just going to ignore diseases as a topic for like 10 years. Again, similar thing happened during 9/11. Where like in the 90s you would constantly see buildings in skyscrapers blowing up and then once we saw the real thing unless it was a documentary or recreation of 9/11 like that disappeared for like almost a decade because nobody wants to touch it now that we've seen the real thing. Kind of like why nobody actually uses cell phones in films the way people actually use them where they're using their apps all the time because people don't want to focus on like the banal horrific reality of their lives unfortunately.

[@okramra]

​@@romxxiiboomers weren't born when spanish flu was around. Ignorance on the internet

[@FreeDomSy-nk9ue]

I would re-invite this same doctor and get his reaction on the latest movie "2020"

[@joshualee2833]

"They tend to be not nearly as... Uncontrollable as Hollywood makes it seem." Oh it's not the virus you can't control. It's Karen the unstoppable handshaker who thinks a surgical mask will cause acute hypoxia.

[@treebles]

yeah, this irl is worse than sci-fi! #DontBeAKaren #MaskGlovesSoapScrubs

[@miss_elegant_society]

I bet he maybe working on the vaccine for coronavirus

[@Nugcon]

Too unrealistic, so many stuff happening in the span of just 1 year. Just another exaggerated Hollywood "film".

[@fastfoodrembrandt3933]

@@miss_elegant_society He indeed was apart of the world team

[@Emily-rq3ee]

Not gonna lie, I saw this video's release date and straight booked it to the comments

[@esmeraldagonzalez9566]

RIGHT SAME. The fact that it came out 2 months before the first few cases of the virus.

[@fallinlight3944]

same lol

[@marieblade5275]

Same lol

[@Reverend_Beezy]

Also same

[@AvgLeaguePlayer]

same lmao

[@hellozukohere6514]

“In real life things are a lot more controlled” This man had too much faith in how this would go down in real life.

[@nancyomalley6286]

The De-contamination before seeing E.T. makes a lot of sense. E.T. is sick and the doctors don't want to give him anything more than he already has, or he'll die. The protection is as much for him as it is for the humans-so they'd de-contaminate going both ways

[@Shade01982]

I've worked with clean rooms where you actually 'decontaminate' going in. So, it's not unheard of at all.

[@nancyomalley6286]

@@Shade01982 Exactly! Otherwise, they won't be 'clean rooms' anymore

[@codyguyan480]

4:06 "bats are a possible host for resting virus" 2020: you dont say

[@tgn-contentandotherstuff5652]

If you were to eat cooked bat it would be less likely to give you COVID but there is still that chance of the olate having it

[@gconspiracy]

Reston virus, not resting virus. Reston virus is a type of ebolavirus.

[@ashgood7368]

It wasn’t actually a bat though

[@richarddawkinsthemusical8728]

@@ashgood7368 when?

[@ashgood7368]

RichardDawkins TheMusical idk but Chinese people don’t eat bats unless I’m mistaken

[@daddyboulay]

“we wouldn’t use a live person as bait, let alone a child” why was this so funny

[@daddyboulay]

Que_Rico i didn’t mean using a child as bait was funny...

[@claritygrey8567]

The way he said it! xD haha it was funny because of the way he pointed out how idiotic that is -- to use a live child to catch a dangerous animal.

[@daddyboulay]

Clarity Grey exactly🤣

[@simply6162]

Que_Rico I ate terrible with ur stupid logic

[@phil6715]

I loled

[@MsBamafanatic]

I would love to hear Brian's take on the last two years, especially in relation to these movies.

[@sillyoldliz]

i hope he is still alive. a lot of people didn't make it

[@shiftygoose7230]

I love how 2 years later a lot of the things this guy is saying is both proved wrong AND correct.

[@nevaehhamilton3493]

It's because humans are incompetent failures who never listen to reason or logic.

[@eddyrajan3523]

when this pandemic is over, he needs to come back for a part 2. i’m sure he is busy with this crisis rn.

[@ityrlifeafter6564]

Over?? Pffftt

[@karlathompson3700]

@@ityrlifeafter6564 Pandemics always have an end. History has taught us that much. The outcome on the other hand.....that is to be determined.

[@ityrlifeafter6564]

@@karlathompson3700 this virus is different. Its not like the pandemic on 1918, 2013. This virus not dangerous as the previous but more more infectious. It will change our lifestyle until we found the right vaccine. If only if the vaccine will be found.

[@eyebite7740]

@@ityrlifeafter6564 Yes, but that's what she basically said.

[@aguynamedsmith6489]

If*

[@cgh7337]

Might want to invite old boy back for a follow-up interview

[@devinpeirce7152]

CGH you ain't so young

[@AvgJane19]

@@devinpeirce7152 k...

[@PACXS]

@@humpingmushroom2658 You mean because PornHub premium is free now, right?

[@denver3739]

@@devinpeirce7152 Tf kinda response was that?

[@LunatiqHigh]

Check out Michael Osterholm on JRE

[@Your_Future_Overlord]

"It's not as uncontrollable as it seems." Coronavirus: "Hold my beer."

[@sauteedgarlic3237]

Beating a dead horse bud

[@Your_Future_Overlord]

@@sauteedgarlic3237 You say that as though a good 40% of the comments here aren't.

[@sauteedgarlic3237]

@@Your_Future_Overlord Exactly my point

[@teoengchin]

In all the pandemic movies, none of them featured governments/politicians denying the existence/severity of the virus. Guess they must have though back then that such a thing would just be too unrealistic...

[@teoengchin]

well 4m+ dead world wide is a small percentage. but its still 4,000,000++

[@Cmonbruh8549]

@@teoengchin It is a small percentage. It's ~0.05% of the population. Do you know how many people die in 1.5 years anyways without a pandemic? About 82,5 million. Covid has added only 4 million to that count and it mostly kills old people so I don't find it that serious.

[@teoengchin]

@@Cmonbruh8549 what percentage of death would you consider serious?

[@Cmonbruh8549]

@@teoengchin I already consider it serious to old people but to answer your question probably 1% or something. And even then if it only killed old people I wouldn't be too worried about it existing.

[@teoengchin]

@@Cmonbruh8549 1% death among the infected, or 1% death of the world population?

[@hasanahhasan1608]

He knows a lot about viruses. Just not about how stupid people are.

[@WowoStorm_]

True very very very true

[@whittengreen8781]

Poor guy he had so much more faith in humanity.. I just imagine how that faith has been destroyed in these months..

[@michaelstark7388]

So this entire pandemic is because this guy didnt knock on wood when he said "in real life things would be more controlled"

[@stickanimations1900]

@@whittengreen8781 bruh you just copied someone’s comment

[@feengaming4688]

Tell em

[@bulgariagaming2852]

“In real life, things are a lot more controlled” This aged like milk

[@paxundpeace9970]

Milk doesn't age well.

[@juttamaier2111]

You know, your comment made me laugh out loud. Thanks for that.

[@sabibarahman7278]

@@paxundpeace9970 That's the point.

[@pashauzan]

@@paxundpeace9970 that's the point

[@holgerkrog8549]

@@paxundpeace9970 That's the point

[@uofc57]

I want this guy to do a video critiquing the handling of COVID by different governments

[@samp-w7439]

Yes please!

[@RoseJacqueline426]

The original timing of this video? Impeccable.

[@winswind2823]

" How I hate it when my flamethrower isnt working " That man speaks irony fluently

[@Hell_Inc]

right? it was effortless

[@o2dyt]

Maybe... it wasn't irony

[@chrissyrhone524]

That cracked me up

[@3xitt]

He's apparently very smart...

[@mrlegkick91]

Learn how to English ffs that isn't irony

[@artemishunter4242]

This guy's matter of fact attitude makes this 1000 times better

[@booklover18]

He’s a straight shooter! Bring him back for more videos!

[@SH19922x]

@@booklover18 lol 😂

[@gurlbye9942]

I laughed so hard at the "welcome to the hot zone" CDC guy: NO!.. we don't ever call it the hot zone, it's the lab. lmao

[@no_peace]

I love how no nonsense he is but it doesn't totally match up with the 90% nonsense world of outbreak horror movies I wish he'd commented more on hypotheticals not just standard operating procedure

[@makaylawaters2568]

In COVID-19 2020, not so much now

[@theteamranbir]

Disease expert: "small pox has been eradicated." Anti-vaxxers: "Hold my beer."

[@TheLastArbiter]

7:17 I absolutely love the edited back and forth between him and House here 😂

“You can imagine what neat viruses you can find in an alien” This man is dangerous.

[@levi___2096]

👽

[@iowafarmboy]

He's not wrong though. Lol

[@boudidouboudi3891]

That was the happiest nerdiest moment of my week.

[@Xerrill]

For science.

[@ayoissac]

@Artiqo then have an alien virus outbreak? Nah bruh

[@alecvansandt4200]

> the cdc would never allow it to get to the point of a global pandemic This didn’t age well

[@ThirstyHistory]

thought exactly the same thing haha

[@handlefornate]

they had too much faith in the everyday person.

[@waywardgoddess7219]

The CDC didn't calculate for trump and his merry band of magatards

[@c.h.y]

Trump made sure of this

[@Rannnooww]

Right? Big yikes

[@spotspoister172]

In the movies everything is chaos but now we just make memes about quarantine.

[@ryanhaight3793]

Man KZbins algorithms got a great sense of humor

[@shecat1964]

Ya they like to after the fact.

[@jimmylilyjohn]

yeah...great "dark" sense of humor

[@DakaONER94]

You guys probably been watching updates on KZbin don’t act like this video was brought to you randomly

[@501Patrick]

Facts

[@vindiesel682]

Exactly bro

[@mirimiriela480]

Ahh, October 2019. We were so young.

[@abelis644]

Good one!

[@niemanickurwa]

Haha, ah yeah, the good old days.

[@ReadObituaries]

mirimiriela480 so young, so naive lol

[@ImperadorLucius]

The good old days when we actually don't know how it is...

[@darkerimage1235]

mirimiriela480 who would have thought in the next month Trump would know about COVID-19

[@hakhm]

That's why I like the movie "Contagious", it's very similar to what happened when covid-19 hit. And thank God that covid-19 is not as fatal as the virus in the movie and if it was, the exact same would happen in real life

[@mehere8038]

pity the vaccine isn't as effective as the one in contagion though

[@kaptainkaos1202]

Mr. Amman was fantastic! I loved his concise explanations and his dry sense of humor. I really think the CDC should use him in public relations and outreach programs.

[@imtiredpleasego8687]

Deadly alien viruses: theoretically exist Man of science: I just think they’re neat

[@garlicbread685]

I think it would be an interesting topic to see how otherworldly viruses develop and how they’re structured

[@mikecimerian6913]

I suppose he was thinking of all the implications. While viruses are not living things on their own, finding an ET virus would prove that life exists elsewhere. Just this would be mind blowing. Would they be carbon based? What are they coding for. Can these viruses be studied in order to better fight our own... he is mind blown by the number of new fields of research that could be opened in one stroke. Imagine him at 30 :-) enthusiastic, dedicated and full of energy. He might have clapped his hands in wonder or even delight.

[@eternityD9]

@@garlicbread685 I'd rather just live to see another day to be honest.

[@mr.turtle4394]

I would love to see a Movie about an Alien invasion but the Aliens bring their viruses and infect us instead of the other way

[@tomtemple69]

@@mikecimerian6913 their viruses might be useless against human dna

[@JacF6734]

"A pandemic is not nearly as incontrollable as Hollywood makes it seem." *Narrator voice:* "It was just as incontrollable as Hollywood made it seem."

[@dinamosflams]

The thing is, after the spanish Flu and before covid, every potential pandemic was well controlled

[@beckham3533]

Well i guess they werent expecting one of the most infectious diseases of the decade to appear

[@darian11t]

It’s impossible to control stupid people

[@Rakerong]

@@darian11t Exactly. And absolutely terrible leadership only furthered the stupidity and caused people to question and ignore actual medical professionals and scientists.

[@SQUDSNPR]

Only uncontrollable because we had an incompetent president

[@LuLu-Sil]

When it comes to Zombie movies and infections I pretty much always write it off as heart rate. If it's a blood thing, the bite happens then when the infection enters the system and it gets transported throughout the body via the blood, with an increased heart rate the infection will travel faster to the heart and brain. Which is why they usually turn so fast. High stress situation = even faster heart rate.

[@anthonyx916]

A revisit might be interesting given the last two years of COVID. Despite inaccuracies for the sake of drama, pacing, etc., Contagion seems remarkably prescient.

[@joeymartindacuycuy1494]

This guy is like ur cool grandpa who buys u burgers after school and explains how many bacterias are in ur face right now

[@buttermebuns6974]

Joey Martin Dacuycuy burgers are a great way to spread a virus you know

[@miapjo12]

Joey Martin Dacuycuy 😂

[@simon-tm3bg]

I was the 169th liker just sayin

[@sharonranjit4227]

Joey Martin Dacuycuy I need a grandpa/senior friend like that 😂

[@Gloomyraindrop]

Idk what's cool about the explaining bacteria on your face but okay lol whatever floats your boat. Kindof a random fantasy though.

[@tommybro5313]

Recommended during the coronavirus “pandemic”

[@timstephens5893]

Is that what you get when you drink too much Corona?

[@undeadkiller9594]

Fr

[@poisonapple6138]

Wu Flu

[@GodlysRebirth]

Ikr

[@SqwdI]

@@timstephens5893 r/woooshhh

[@ejkoscielski]

Oh man... Watching at this video in the second year of COVID is something else.

[@yakuza01]

One thing that Contagion got spot on was Jude Law's character. Who knew people like him would be as harmful or even more so than the virus itself.

[@GHST-jv8th]

*watches zombie bite human and turn him into a zombie* CDC specialist- typically it doesn’t happen that fast. Me- wait... what?

[@dalazyworf]

If anything, it would be like in the last of us where you slowly have your bodily functions taken over by the infection. So you lose your humanity and turn into a feral monster.

[@thegamingmonkey939]

Magicsword89 I think his comment was implying that the cdc guy knew zombies existed and had seen them cuz of the way he bluntly said it doesn’t happen that fast.

[@giannhsskokotas1289]

For all of you in the replies and the comment, he means viruses spreading and completely infecting a human, not for zombies

[@Mike-md8oi]

It should be obvious he is saying viruses of any kind don't just take over the body so quickly

[@insertsomethingfuni2617]

@@GHST-jv8th what's with the emojis? Also the joke was that the dood siad it TYPICALLY doesn't happen that fast, implying that there are examples in real life

[@jasperclydeinsd592]

*CDC expert:* Talks about the inaccuracy of all medical staff not wearing proper protection. *Actual medical staff in 2020:* Do not have access to proper protective items. 😞

[@Remer714]

It's the same thing I wondered. If such a large pandemic would break out: Would we limit medical staff based on our equipment or risk it and send people in being unprepared and underprotected? It seems like the latter is indeed the case.

[@Sagittarius_Dec.1.2009]

Hollywood: This is serious! CDC: Don't worry.

[@themore-you-know]

@@Sagittarius_Dec.1.2009, in truth, the CDC had a pandemic preparation/response team but Trump's administration fired all of that in 2018. So it's more like... Hollywood & CDC: This is serious! Republicans: "FaKE nEwS!1!! HoAZX!"

[@Sagittarius_Dec.1.2009]

@@themore-you-know Mmh! True. I live in the EU and it doesn't look good here either.

[@themore-you-know]

@@Sagittarius_Dec.1.2009 The EU is screwed, because it has plenty of small entry points, with close proximity to other communities. I don't think it ever stood a chance. The US and North America could have slowed down their outbreaks, had they better handled our entry points better. And the 2 months warning to prep our manufacturing.

[@squattycoati931]

This video needs an updated version now that we have lived through a pandemic for sure!

[@kylieroth2326]

The editing for the house segment is perfect

[@DankUrbanBoss]

Why didn’t they show monsters inc? When the sock landed on the monster!

[@AshLoRo]

Love it : )

[@AshbeeGaming]

Dammit! Missed opportunity

[@lukecargill5963]

2319

[@sarahtucker3151]

Lmao

[@DankUrbanBoss]

Lance Boyle yaaaas!

[@parkeypence5974]

"It's total chaos, it's a mess. That's pure Hollywood fiction." Should we tell him?

[@tiltedmouse1972]

yeah Hollywood fiction became a reality

[@asj9837]

Don't you dare.

[@tiltedmouse1972]

@@asj9837 be he should know 😅

[@crossthekira99]

Poor dude is probably living it now

[@karlotamm1165]

I wish they did an update with his opinions about what is happening now.

[@JustJanitor]

This was a pleasure to watch. Thank you for doing this

[@Refog1]

Decontamination before entering isolation in E.T. might make sense when thinking about how most likely aliens would not have immunity to our pathogens and then disinfecting before going in becomes an attempt to keep the alien alive as long as possible

[@Soeia.ElliotClark]

He never denied the existence of zombies. Just sayin'.

[@Cynistrelle]

Kelly Marie just like you don’t need to tell people that magic doesn’t exist

[@spinakker14]

Yeah, that concerned me too. He said how other things were sci-fi, but a zombie infection? All he said was how you can get infected

[@Samuitsuki]

Zombies do exist in some way. Just not human ones.

[@ineedaname5928]

It’s very possible for a zombie like disease to occur, though maybe not the entire raising of the dead type zombie but more just turning living humans into a ‘walking corpse’ per say.

[@anthonypradana4521]

Cause there are zombies,just like this kzbin.info/www/bejne/faDCfXywbNCHpc0

[@MsAdlerHolmes]

It's so cute when he gets excited talking about alien viruses

[@ayushkumar-bg1xf]

maybe that is his dream come true at his job

[@i3rucei3ruce]

except that he missed the reason for decontaminating prior to entering ET's tent

[@unknow11712]

@@i3rucei3ruce well, he may have a xenophobe tendency , so he doesn't care about ET health , but i guess you think its good not to contaminate ET with earth virus (WAY TOO LATE , i would say. )

[@andrek6920]

It is probably too late, but you might aswell decontaminate beforehand anyways just in the slight chance that the ET didnt already catch anything, atleast not anything fatal, so you make sure you dont introduce something new that would be fatal or which could together with something he already has be fatal. Having 2 diseases is worse than 1 afterall.

[@marclou4228]

He seems nice

[@Niki-noo]

Really enjoyed this video. I could listen to Brian talk for hours.

[@lieutenantdiamond5601]

This video was very interestingly timed

[@iloveplasticbottles]

We let him down, man. He vouched for us and we let him down. Also, I'd like to point out that the virus in Contagion is a coronavirus.

[@Saif-zf9vb]

Nah I’m doing the right thing, and a lot of people I know. It’s not “we”, it’s specific idiots who did this.

[@geraltofrivia7456]

@@Saif-zf9vb karens....

[@419waywardkid5]

@@Saif-zf9vb It’s a group project buddy either all of us participate or we’re all going down

[@kuriousk927]

Contagion was ahead of its time in many ways

[@fngaming5064]

@@geraltofrivia7456 conservatives*

[@misterteee9471]

this video is kinda sad man... Dude had so much faith in us could you imagine how he feels everytime he hears some kids are going to parties

[@roxythecat4720]

:(

[@ivypatty]

I'm quarantining for him and him only dude, I lost faith in the rest of the world long ago :(

[@misterteee9471]

@@ivypatty same

[@brynnsahved3681]

Or rioting in giant groups like the virus cares what your politics are.

[@vh1707]

Or the idiots who think they know better than doctors and experts like himself

[@crystalmeier6579]

After working as a lab tech in a lab for several years I thought I was so great at pointing out the contamination flaws in these movies but man, you nailed it! I missed so much! Good thing I'm retired now.

[@billiewells6465]

Thank you for looking at Girl With all the Gifts. That’s an amazing and overlooked gilm

[@Alkis05]

"That monkey deserves an Oscar!" LMAO That one cracked me up.

[@clevernamehere]

I laughed so hard I startled my boyfriend

[@cuac5869]

underrated comment, I've been scrolling looking for this.

[@LarryL3g3nd]

Cuz hes black

[@bukuh4956]

Larry Legend 💀🤦🏽‍♂️

[@Mr19awsome92]

need any gluee for those cracks? ... ;D

[@Sanne78]

I like that he got excited about a potential alien bringing new "neat" virusses to us :D

[@marcinszudrowicz6988]

Best part

[@alicefinardi1025]

He was more excited about the alien viruses that about the alien itself lol

[@volcanocollins9845]

Why you think they are in antarctica. The old and frozen is alien to us. They found a few big ones down there.

[@julia-claire]

@@volcanocollins9845 really? source please?

[@conman1395]

That is a scientist for ya

[@v.567]

I like how in the beginning he dismisses a couple of healthcare workers not having proper PPE , whereas some of their colleagues do during an outbreak as "pure Hollywood fiction" but now a year or two later it's pure reality with all the understaffed hospitals and the resources draining out with COVID-19. It's actually sad if you think about it.

[@keithweaver7585]

Love how he says "we do not have authority to make people get help." That's when I realized, when this video was made.... He made this video about 5-6 months early... lol. I would love to see a part 2 on this now and then have him review what actually happened as if it was a movie. Bet he would say how much of what we did was wrong cause no one knew what was going on and the plot didn't add up... But, just my guess.

[@brookeruskin]

“No. We don’t ever call it the hot zone. It’s the lab.” 😂

[@janeeyre1990]

I love how matter of fact he was.

[@wvmurse]

I'd like to see her "hot zone"

[@Neur0nauT]

@It's Private Welcome to the "sweat box" ...nah that's not cool sounding either is it?

[@wingsofdivinity]

Also “we don’t call it patient zero. We would use the term index patient” Why? Because Patient Zero sounds too cool!?

[@Alianger]

not even the hot lab? aaw

[@anonymousgarbage4594]

Person in pandemic movie: *coughs* Everyone else: *intense sweating*

[@samwallaceart288]

Anonymous Garbage - imagine someone coughing and everyone else in the elevator looking like your profile pic.

[@MarcusVinicius-ft9ll]

Technically, this is one of the symptoms.

[@puffix6895]

SamWallace Art 😂😂😂😂 dead

[@clonechoopa31]

Vaccinated kid: *coughs* All the other un-vaccinated kids in the same room: *intense sweating*

[@AlexSDU]

@@clonechoopa31 more like drop dead instantly.

[@qwahaxahn]

I really missed *Cabin Fever* in this video. Please make another one with more clips.

[@creativeaaditya2436]

“In real life, things are much more controlled” Covid 19- Imma end this man’s whole career!!!

[@carlosmarte428]

How do movie producers spend millions, but they can’t afford to hire an expert to make sure that glaring mistakes like this don’t make it to the final cut?

[@Mindcrashed]

They probably don’t care because 99% of people watching the movie wouldnt notice the mistakes

[@MrsNiaboo2000]

Because it's a movie, story, fiction, made up sometimes with nuggets of truth. Still entertainment at the end of the day. If you go to a movie for education then you are the problem.

[@mattb9708]

that's what you think "the problem" is huh

[@Deadlable]

@@MrsNiaboo2000 "you're the problem" as if it's actually that important enough to think it's a problem at all.

[@bentonybizzarinarierinzer7315]

Christopher Nolan did a lot of research and worked with some scientists for interstellar

[@Advent3546]

I'm curious how this guy would play Plague Inc.

[@fikretkomurcu7161]

You beat me to it!

[@walkz007]

Same!!!

[@icekatta]

Make him do it please

[@matts5247]

Advent3546 god mode

[@Advent3546]

@@matts5247 God hack

[@Hollowdude15]

Nice video and good job at breaking down it man :]

[@MachenLand]

of this entire video.. the bat picture @ 4:59 , i will never forget it..

[@FanofEverythingz]

I love that they clapped for him at the end. He deserved that. He was such a good teacher!

[@paupajares9678]

likes

[@redrath2]

I agree, though for some reason he never really addressed a point he kept making. That you don't get locked up like in the movies. Well what would he do with zombies? Put them in a tent? I am sure they would have some kind of restraints, but okay what if you have like 50 restraints and 100 patients who are all infected with some horrible virus that makes your violent?

[@hermensonsantana3090]

Mick Reilly rabies?

[@Genethitami]

"This one isn't wearing a facemask and that one isn't wearing eye protection." Welcome to 2020 shortage of things. :D

[@vindiesel682]

Very fun

[@jamesjones1226]

Lol yea that’s a good point.

[@daytrapplays3424]

But you wouldn't be allowed near the isolation ward without the proper equipment. The need for equipment is so more people can help

[@majajani8077]

@@daytrapplays3424 Hahahahhaahaaaaaaaa "wouldn't be allowed near the isolation" is the most untrue thing right now. They have people without PPE TREATING the patients with COVID-19 right now because shortages are that bad in some places!

[@beep3242]

@@daytrapplays3424 They really don't have much of a choice when NOBODY has enough stuff. It's either don't treat the patients or risk getting the virus

[@YuBeace]

"We don't force people into treatment." I noticed. :(

[@TheIliteratePoet]

Wow this was perfectly timed

[@UrbanPanic]

1:15 "You notice that she's not wearing any eye protection and the guy right behind her is... Some gloves, some others without gloves. It's total chaos. It's a mess. That's pure Hollywood fiction." Ahh, October of 2019. Such an innocent time.

[@skydiamsteam6005]

BRING ME BACK TO 2019 AAAAAAA

[@mookiekashif]

The arrogance of the medical field and even more so the human race

[@henrybatley980]

SkyDiams Team lol fr I remember thinking 2020 was gonna be a good year haha I was so very wrong

[@spoonistoobig3316]

surely we'd have enough medical equipment for such a situation /s

[@yousefa3735]

i will be the one 2 get u to 1000 likes

[@zwodder4424]

“They turn out to be not as uncontrollable as Hollywood makes it look like” *cough* Yeah about that . .

[@wegigprasasti1425]

Cough cough toilet paper cough cough

[@undzwar2498]

Don't cough at us!

[@colonelmonkey990]

Hey cover your mouth if you're gonna cough

[@Tinyga]

YOU GOT THE VIRUS

[@Tinyga]

@@acidstrawberries7667 r/woooosh

[@e2sxp]

4:02 heard philippines and honestly felt my heart drop.

[@Mrs.Doubtfire007]

OMG!!! Look at the date when this was released! It was 1 month before COVID 19 was discovered.

[@heyning6769]

This is the definition of not aging well

[@ems7623]

I think it has aged extremely well, with the exception of one overly optimistic comment at the end.

[@aeiou4184]

Aged like milk

[@miriampoyitt5552]

I get a feeling Hollywood pandemics are going to be a lot more accurate now....

[@marrileemiles3974]

We sure won't need an expert to analyze the scenes, we'll be able to do it ourselves.

[@PKAmedia]

Going to be more accurate... for like four years, five years tops. I mean I hope more but yeah...

[@mnomadvfx]

Contagion was fairly accurate to a point.

[@mnomadvfx]

I doubt there will be films about this for a while - too soon is the term I'm looking for.

[@miriampoyitt5552]

@@mnomadvfx I'm not so sure - they were making WW2 films withing a couple of years of it ending. There may be films about hospital staff and other people who risked their lives for others.

[@cakepigs]

8:24 wow he used the word event for the first time, I'm so proud of him :D!

[@spookee3708]

I loved the House segment. Cutting in him saying "can we focus on what THEY did" every time, it made me laugh.

[@PostScarcityNOW]

Brian Amman: "In real life..." Real Life: "Hold my beer."

[@orlandolaurentiu731]

*sweats profusely* ''What beer?''

[@marinadeburgos8666]

Hold my corona beer

[@mikeydoherty7739]

This is scary how close this was released in relation to our actual pandemic

[@nirvikarastogi1848]

I’ve been thinking about that for a year

[@zombieblood1675]

@@nirvikarastogi1848 pandemics throughout history follow a very similar pattern. The movie was well researched.

[@nirvikarastogi1848]

@@zombieblood1675 in fact many governmental warning signs and drills throughout the world are carried out to keep prepared in such events. Even though it’s widely accepted that as we populate the earth epidemics if not pandemics are only going to be more commonplace, epidemiology and associated disaster management is ever given its due importance in real life :(

[@kristerrs]

it was planned all along

[@Truth_Seeker1]

No it isn’t. I have seen experts do videos like this on other channels.

[@amymanen5699]

I wonder what Brian's been up to for the past couple years, I'm sure it's been quite exciting

[@crystalphelps1254]

Watching this after a year of pandemic...*collar tug* uhh. Hey, can we have Brian rate the last year and a half? Nah, that would be too depressing.

[@redkiere7177]

Before everyone says “this is recommended during corona virus” it is getting recommended because everyone is searching stuff up about viruses

[@joshmckenzie1458]

I think if people thought about it, they'd figure this out. But I'm pretty sure everyone's just having a good laugh lmao

[@Dysktm]

Thank you for clarifying this, it seems people don’t use their brain anymore

[@charletpedley3927]

Lol looks like you're too late

[@Gigi_Rose_005]

... Actually I've been looking back at the past and watching L4D character and infected analyses, leaning over to Plague Inc. and then this... So not exactly-

[@redkiere7177]

Gigi Rose but the plague inc content currently is linked with corona virus

[@rockstarJDP]

"Man I hate it when my flamethrower stops working..." Killed me 😅

[@NilRacing]

He said so well too... haha

[@ramirogalvan9665]

Bruh I was dying😂😂

[@triv1]

R.I.P.

[@Raven-bz4ps]

I Wanna know if he was being serious or not he had no joking tone to it but who knows lmao

[@CUCHO777]

*DING!*

[@AustrianCitizen]

Finally, that man waited at least 40 years to say the word *event*

[@rjladd2787]

Very interesting seeing this in Aug 2021!