Michael Bay decided to do a dystopian action movie based on COVID.
It is called Songbird and the trailer just dropped.
Didn’t I just write a post yesterday containing this:
I’m expecting news from the future to be:
“October 2023, to prevent a COVID 12th wave, the government has ordered a Stage 6 lockdown. No one will be allowed to leave their home for any reason. The government has contracted with Amazon Prime to provide drone delivery of food and necessity rations to all Americans. In other news, Jeff Bezos is the first person to become a trillionaire.”
For my next trick, I’m predicting lottery numbers.
The part where one of the characters showed a wristband and says “I’m immune.”
This from Mass Live, yesterday:
Hooray, government-mandated badges, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen those before.
After what it calls an alarming rise in coronavirus cases, Boston University said this week it will start requiring that students show online badges in certain locations on campus indicating they tested negative for the viral respiratory infection.
After completing daily health screenings online, students, staff and faculty will receive an email confirmation with a green “cleared” badge that they must show to be allowed to enter dining halls, the George Sherman Union and several other public spaces at the university, the school said in a statement Wednesday.
You must wear your badge to go and get food. Read that sentence again.
“We hope this will be a reminder to everyone of the importance of daily symptom attestation and testing for keeping our campus safe,” the statement said.
You can imagine that exact phrase being blasted over a loudspeaker by some dictatorial government stooge in a dystopian sci-fi movie.
Boston University is just enforcing what Dr. Fauci came up with back in April.
Fauci: Coronavirus immunity cards for Americans are ‘being discussed’
The proposal, already being implemented by German researchers, is under consideration in the United Kingdom and Italy.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, revealed Friday the federal government is considering issuing Americans certificates of immunity from the coronavirus, as the Trump administration works to better identify those who have been infected and restart the U.S. economy in the coming weeks.
Ya, dis is good. Der immune uber-menschen should have more freedoms.
Then the armed health police come to this girl’s apartment and battering ram down the door looking for someone with a fever.
Um…
https://twitter.com/ConservCityGirl/status/1319679971959492608
And from another post from fucking yesterday:
Police chiefs have warned that Christmas family celebrations will be broken up by officers if they flout lockdown rules.
So we’re still at the knock and announce stage of a virus-induced police state.
How about we check out Down Under:
Coronavirus: Melbourne police arrest 74 anti-lockdown protesters
More than 70 people have been arrested in Melbourne, Australia, for flouting the state’s stay-at-home orders to attend an anti-lockdown protest.
About 250 people went to the illegal protest – the second one this weekend.
Protests are non-essential.
Melbourne just came out of 111 days of lockdown. Don’t worry. Someone will get the virus and they will lock down all over again. Their quarantine procedures actually exacerbated the problem.
‘Appalling and inconsistent’: how Melbourne’s hotel quarantine unleashed a second wave
Victoria’s second wave is almost entirely linked to the hotel quarantine program.
What has now been established with a high degree of confidence is that, in May, coronavirus spread from two hotels – Rydges on Swanston and the Stamford Plaza. As Prof Ben Howden of the institute explained, of the 1,837 cases of local transmission sequenced since 8 May, 99.8% came from just three “transmission networks”, with no evidence of any other clusters. One network was from Rydges and two from Stamford.
About 90% of cases in the state since May originated at Rydges and 10% from Stamford, both hotels used to quarantine people arriving in Melbourne from overseas.
Cramming several sick people into a hotel created a hotspot, which got had a leak, and that spread the infection. No matter what you do, you can’t lock down an end to an airborne pandemic. It delays transmission, but it won’t stop it.
Now here is the really scary part of this article.
Australia’s mandatory 14-day quarantine for returning overseas travellers is credited as a key reason why the country’s coronavirus response has been internationally impressive. A meeting of the national cabinet on 27 March decided on hotel quarantine with the states and territories to implement it “with the support of the Australian Defence Force and the Australian Border Force where necessary”, as senior counsel assisting Tony Neal QC summarised it.
Victoria controversially used private security guards to secure those quarantined, and this will be picked apart by the inquiry next week to determine whether it made any difference to the second outbreak or if other factors were as important.
So when it spikes again, Australia will be tempted to roll out the army to assist with the lockdown.
Do you want proof? How about this insane headline?
New Zealand Stamps Out the Virus. For a Second Time.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who is facing re-election, called the country’s reopening a validation of its “go hard, go early” response.
If they stamped it out once, why would they need to stamp it out again?
Because they didn’t. So they locked down again, harder.
New Zealand’s lessons from second lockdown after being 100 days COVID-free
After months of lockdown, the country eventually removed its restrictions due to no cases being reported. The country then experienced over 100 days without COVID-19. Life in New Zealand went back to normal. People ate at restaurants, went to rugby games, and caught up with friends, said Timothy Fadgen, associate director of the New Zealand Public Policy Institute.
Two days after the 100-day milestone, however, four new cases of coronavirus emerged in Auckland. By the end of that week, Ardern announced a second round of lockdown for the city.
Give them another 100 days and they will lockdown again.
Europe is jumping into a second Lockdown with both feet.
Covid: Merkel warns of ‘long, hard winter’ as lockdowns return
CNN, however, has by far my favorite headline on the topic.
Europe tried a scalpel on the second wave. Now it’s going back to the sledgehammer
Germany and France both announced new four-week national lockdowns on Wednesday night. They followed the Czech Republic and Ireland, which put country-wide restrictions in place earlier this month. Spain and the United Kingdom could be next.
Under the new rules, people will only be allowed to leave their homes to go to work or school, for a medical appointment, to care for a relative, to do essential shopping and to exercise. Non-essential businesses, restaurants and bars will be closed. Like in the spring, they will need a certificate to venture outside.
Holy fucking shit!
The only thing fictitious in the movie is a 50% mortality rate in an airborne virus.
Permanent lockdowns, immunity certificates, travel restrictions, martial law, law enforcement raids looking for sick people, public quarantine centers that turn into vectors for infection, human interaction only by internet contact…
All of that is real and most of that in the last couple of months.
At this rate, by the time this movie hits theaters in 2021, you are going to need your proof of immunity to your local Lockdown Director to get your paperwork signed so that you can have a government-approved non-essential activity pass to see it.
CNN is lying as usual – you still can move freely in Germany.
But the lockdown is still bullshit.
Deaths *WITH* covid are rising, yes – but that’s because it’s the time of the year when EVERYONE has some kind of respiratory illness.
The good news is, that we eradicated the flu. *Sarc*
Damn. Give Michael Bay props for putting his finger right on the goddamn fear and zeitgeist.
Sounds like a Babylon Bee article.
Without a punchline.
As Instapundit describes it, “America’s newspaper of record”
Early on in this panicdemic, the wife and I watched (re-watched actually) a movie called Contagion (if I remember the title correctly). The GOOP lady, what’s here name??? Gweneth Paltrow goes to China, picks up a virus, and brings it back home to her family.
The difference between the movie and this virus is in the movie, the virus had a spread rate of several times COVID-19 (for fun, go to rt.live to see current spread rates), and it WAS the cause of death for a large percentage of infected people, regardless of underlying medical conditions.
In the movie, travel restrictions, immunity cards, etc… were all needed because yes, this virus can and did kill about 30% of the population.
COVID? Not so much…
If I were in that college I’d start wearing a star to troll them/in protest, that is absurd.