Scenes from films or shows about flus or infections really hit differently in these COVID times

[AuthenticM]

The other day, the gf and I were watching The Bernie Mac Show on streaming. I hadn't watched the show since it aired way back then, so I had forgotten nearly everything about it (I'm also way older and in a much better position to enjoy the show, btw). It's pretty good and I recommend it to everyone.

Anyways. Early on in the first season, there's an episode about the flu going around. There is even a scene where they show the virus getting passed around from person to person, and my lord does that scene hit differently now lol. Check it out:




I haven't had any anxiety issues while watching films or TV showing lots of people in cramped spaces, like a lot of others have had since COVID has been a thing. But that scene came the closest to giving me such a moment lol.

EDIT: the embed doesn't work. I had timestamped it to 2:25. That's where it starts.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

This is from 2013.

 

[More_Badass]

Not just a scene, but a whole movie. Panic In The Streets is a contract-tracing noir from 1950. There is a surreal fascination in seeing now-familiar notions framed through a noir lens: contract tracing, quarantine, skeptical bureaucracy, preventing panic taking precedence over public safety, a less-than-helpful public. Elia Kazan's doctor-hero noir was probably unique even in its day, but it definitely gains new relevance in the COVID era.

 

[Richiek]

Any type of scene involving large crowds of people not social distancing indoors triggers me.