Film makers had looked at previous
epidemics and infections. AIDS was
lurking in their minds, but sudden
spurt of Ebola and Zika virus’
cases turned the film into a real
time saga, and both AIDS and SARS
slipped into background.
In the global village narrative,
every citizen is open to risk factors
in case of pandemics. The diseases
assail everything whatever comes
into their way - may it be health or
wealth. When a pandemic happens,
people don’t work, economies
collapse, and even social fabric
is dismembered. People attempt
to avoid their own infected close
relatives and friends out of fear
that they will be the next seizure if
precautions were not clamped.
She mentions that in case of
pandemics, whatever happens on
the front line in Liberia affects
people in Europe and North
America. In the fr