After Armageddon

I recently found this video at the local library. I thought it was just one more movie about the collapse of society after some traumatic event. As I watched it I came to believe that this was someone's idea of capitalizing on the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 by taking events to the next level of "what might have happened" if things had gotten worse. Imagine my shock when I later learned that this movie was made in 2010! There were so many instances of scenes in the film which were actually broadcast on real TV during the crisis such as people on the lawns at hospitals for lack of space and narration talking about the inability to bury the dead as a result of the enormous number of casualties. There was also something about the rush to develop a vaccine - all of which made me feel that I was reliving those terrible days.

Thankfully things did not become as dreadful in reality as they did in the film, but the uncanny accuracy with which the film depicted the early events presented this viewer with the horrifying question of how accurate to the film the Covid-19 pandemic might have actually played out had containment efforts failed.

An exceptionally prescient film !!!!