This article is written by Hu Xiaoxian
Márquez's "Love in the Time of Cholera" has such a passage: within two weeks of the cholera epidemic, the cemetery was already overcrowded, and the dry bones of many unknown dignitaries could only be moved into the mass grave... In the third week, the cloister of the Convent of Santa Clara could not be piled up...
Cholera is also an infectious disease that spreads quickly, and its main symptom is acute diarrhea, which can cause people to die of diarrhea dehydration within hours. However, such a scene in the book is not completely fictional, in the summer during the peak of the disease, in some countries, millions of people were infected and hundreds of thousands of people died.
This kind of scene, which can only appear in books and movies, sometimes really comes from life.
Two days ago, I watched the Korean movie "Flu" and the American movie "Infectious Disease", which are also about the spread of the virus, which infects the world and leads to large-scale human deaths. The scenes on the movie bear a striking resemblance to the outbreak in Wuhan, and I was in a cold sweat. Can't help but remind me of the American movie "28 Weeks of Shock", the Zombies in the Korean movie "Busan Trip", these people are also infected by the virus.
The virus is constantly evolving, will it one day be like in the movie, the infected people will become zombies who stretch out their fangs and open their blood basins to the people around them?
So how are the zombies in the movie contagious?
The movie "28 Weeks of Shock", as a sequel to "28 Days of Shock", is about a large area of the British infection with the virus, medical experts say that the virus is only transmitted through saliva, blood and close contact, the air is not contagious (infectious diseases are always strikingly similar), but the virus still spread in the United Kingdom for half a year, and later the Americans helped the British to eliminate all the zombies, and the last small group of remaining British people were taken to the United States for quarantine.
The Americans disinfected British cities extensively, and after 28 weeks, they circled a safe spot to send the surviving Britons back to rebuild their homes.
The virus is constantly mutating, and they are afraid that there are new viruses alive. American troops were stationed day and night in the highest corners of the city, guarding the last of the British, while also monitoring their every move.
They are very, very afraid of a comeback.
Among the people, there is a pair of children, their grandparents, mothers and sisters have been bitten to death by zombies, and only the father is still alive. Seeing the father, the two children shed tears of both joy and sadness, yes, at least they still have a relative to rely on, and most of them have returned to England and are already unaccompanied.
The two children lived in a strange house, missing their mother so much that they quietly returned to the old house to find that their mother was alive and had not turned into a zombie, but she was greatly frightened and had become confused.
It turned out that the mother had natural immunity in her body, so she did not turn into a zombie, but she was already infected and could transmit the virus to others at any time. The discovery shocked medical experts from the United States, who wanted to extract serum from her body and make a vaccine to treat the virus. However, the army leaders were afraid of re-infection, and just before the order was given to execute her, her husband, without her knowledge, sneaked into his wife's isolation room, kissed her, quickly infected, and bit her to death, rushing out.
Soon, one person after another was infected, and the city fell again.
The soldiers guarding the corner received orders to shoot all the people on the street, whether infected or not, and those who were chased by zombies, on the one hand, dodged the crazy pursuit of zombies, on the other hand, dodged bullets flying from high in the air...
Then, one bomber after another, swept through the city, the city was buried in the sea of fire with people and zombies, but the infected little boy inherited his mother's immunity, and he took a plane under the protection of his sister.
Soon, a group of zombies suddenly appeared, and they ran towards the crowd of the Eiffel Tower...
Anyone who has seen a zombie movie knows how frightening that scene is. If the flu is just an invisible killer, then zombies are tangible killers, who turn saliva and sneezing into living ghosts with red eyes, blood-filled mouths, and sharp fingers, like beasts, throw down the people closest to them.
If one day, the virus evolves again, will the zombies in "28 Weeks of Shock" and "Busan Trip" appear in front of us? Even if it is not as terrible as turning into a zombie, what is the difference between a person with a deadly virus and a zombie? Is there a way we can treat them? Would the inability to treat them also wipe them out like the U.S. military, or isolate them all? But isolation can also have vulnerabilities. So, either option is very tough, then the best way is not to let the virus spread. But if it was promised that the virus would not appear like during the SARS period, it would no longer be self-defeating.
Medicine is getting more and more advanced, viruses are getting weirder, and human nature has not changed.
Some people say that Wuhan is now short of funeral personnel, and they can't help but think of the passage in the novel "Love in the Time of Cholera", and the bodies of those noble and poor people do not know how many are waiting to be dealt with. Yes, they are not us, but will one day, they be us?
Although the film has exaggerated techniques, strong contrasts, to highlight the good and evil of human nature, so that the audience can feel panic, pain and separation in the fictional plot, but it can never be compared with the real disaster.
Fortunately, several newly established hospitals in Wuhan have almost included people who cannot be treated, those who are rescued online, those who do not hide at home alone on the Internet, the elderly who cough and have fevers... Finally, they were all properly handled, which made us cry with joy.
I don't know how many people have died after the epidemic, how much pain, how much pain.
It's just that we don't need sensationalism or emotion, we just hope that such tragedies don't happen again, even if disasters come again, and we don't see holes and lies anymore.
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