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Why don't they make a movie about a gov't playing up a possibly viral outbreak and then causing it, allowing them to institute martial law and consolidate economic control? Oh wait... they did... it was called V for Vendetta.
Obvious fear tactic - Be Afraid! Bird Flu will Mutate and get you!WASHINGTON Apr 28, 2006 (AP)- Bodies piling up so quickly it takes dump trucks to haul them away. Barbed wire to keep whole neighborhoods quarantined. It's Hollywood's version of bird flu, a blur of fact and fiction that some scientists say could confuse the public.
"Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America," an ABC made-for-television movie, airs May 9, just as scientists are to begin testing of wild birds in Alaska that could herald the arrival of bird flu in North America. Scientists fear the bird flu virus could evolve so it could be passed from human to human, sparking a global pandemic.
The two-hour movie plays up that notion to the fullest, with a running ticker that tallies tens of millions of victims worldwide. In one scene, the bodies are thrown on a pyre, like the carcasses of cows torched in the 2001 foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Great Britain. The producers of the movie, from the writer of 2002's "Atomic Twister," bill their work as a "thinking man's disaster film."
"We call this a plausible, worst-case scenario. This could actually happen. It may not be this bad but it could be this bad. The reason to portray it this way is to kind of give a wake-up call to everyone and this is something we shouldn't ignore and we should be as prepared as we should be," said Diana Kerew, one of the movie's executive producers.
Why don't they make a movie about a gov't playing up a possibly viral outbreak and then causing it, allowing them to institute martial law and consolidate economic control? Oh wait... they did... it was called V for Vendetta.