Ultraviolet (2008)
“The disease established itself so rapidly in a new building that a man who’d gone to work that morning feeling just fine might easily come out at lunchtime to discover that the sunbeams felt like lasers on the surface of his eyes. It went rapidly out of control—common sense and extreme sanitary habits could have gone a long way toward keeping the numbers on the reasonable side—and spiraled rapidly into the realm of panic. Mankind has always leaned toward sensationalism and exaggeration. After a...ll, where’s the excitement in not blowing everything out of proportion?
VAMPIRISM EPIDEMIC!
The words were splashed across the newspaper headlines and the news programs. At first, victims of the contagion were required only to register, the logic being that this would enable medical workers and facilities to easily identify them in case of sickness or accident. After all, hadn’t that same system worked for diabetics and HIV victims before the diseases had been eradicated? But there were different things involved here, different stakes—no pun intended—and then the clerks refused to work unless they were issued nose and mouth masks, and no amount of pointing out that it was a blood-borne pathogen, not airborne, would make them change their minds.MoreLess
VAMPIRISM EPIDEMIC!
The words were splashed across the newspaper headlines and the news programs. At first, victims of the contagion were required only to register, the logic being that this would enable medical workers and facilities to easily identify them in case of sickness or accident. After all, hadn’t that same system worked for diabetics and HIV victims before the diseases had been eradicated? But there were different things involved here, different stakes—no pun intended—and then the clerks refused to work unless they were issued nose and mouth masks, and no amount of pointing out that it was a blood-borne pathogen, not airborne, would make them change their minds.MoreLess
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