Sounds like someone is trying to be funny perhaps? I agree the name is too much of a coincidence. Some books have already been published, though. There is a Kindle book on
Amazon entitled "Working From Home: A Covid-19 Guide." I am sure we will see a lot more people trying to capitalise on the situation as the long, tedious, fearful months pass, though.
PBS has been in pledge drive mode all month again, so ironically, there has not been much to watch on telly. Last night I decided to screen that film from some years back entitled "Contagion" on YouTube. It is almost a three hour film.
I waded through an hour or so of it so far. As the art of filmmaking goes, it is a second rate film at best, but I was amazed at how closely it mirrors this emergency with the Coronavirus.
SPOILER ALERT--Do not read any further if plan to screen the film but have not yet done so.
I think the film portrays clueless government officials pretty accurately, and it squarely nails the selfish behaviour of a few people whose own wants and needs must outweigh the wants and needs of the larger society. Of course, I am talking about the oily estate agent whose only thought is to close a deal on a ten million dollar property, so he absconds from the airport during the confusion. Then there is the criminal who is broken out of the hospital by his fellow criminals. Then, there is the absolutely jaw dropping stupidity of the one obnoxious, loudmouthed man who encourages everyone to leave the quarantine because someone there was shot and killed by the criminals as they broke out of the facility, not to mention the rest of the inmates who foolishly follow him.
The subplots are pretty boring as are the characters themselves, but now that I have invested an hour of my time in it, I suppose I will finish it in bits here and there. I never heard of this film before now and had to wonder if it was a made for telly film or was released for cinema. Considering the film's quality, surely it must have been a made for telly film. That is not to say that I have not screened some really decent made for telly films of course, but this film is pretty forgettable outside of a similar situation in real life such as the one we are in the midst of now.
