This is the worst movie I have ever seen.

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19. I was off the board a couple days so

I missed it.

Even the politics of the book fit our times, as well as the pandemic. The main difference is that the current coronavirus evolved naturally. In the book, it was a bioweapon that escaped the lab.

I can understand not wanting to add to already existing anxiety. I read the book decades ago when the idea was more theoretical, so it's not as shocking to remember it as it would be to read about it or watch film of it now for the first time.

I'm fascinated by the fact that some writers are so attuned to the dynamics of their times that they write fiction that is remarkably close to reality within a few years or decades. There have been a few such cases, but I can only think of one now (besides The Stand). There was a story about a huge luxury passenger ship hitting an iceberg and sinking with several prominent people on board. It was published before the Titanic existed.