Contagion vs. The Hot Zone
While contagion and The Hot Zone show politics of a pandemic in Ha similar way, the way both the media and panic are addressed in both works is quite different. The politics are the much alike in both situations because the decisions made by the government have to be ethical to protect the public. The media and panic are largely different between the two pieces because of how classified the virus was and how big the time gap was for the use of technology.
Although the politics in Contagion are fiction they are highly similar to The Hot Zones politics. The way the the government acts upon decisions reflects on the outcome of everyone's situation. They do their best to contain the virus and take all precautionary measures. For example they both enclose information the as best as possible so the people don't panic and the virus doesn't spread.
The panic is much different in both works all because of the way the disease is known and how the word spreads. In The Hot Zone, the world doesn't know about …show more content…
The technology is quite different because of the big time gap between the two works, and in result of that word traveled differently. When an outbreak took place in the Hot Zone few would hear about it and word wouldnt spread easy. Although when an outbreak happened in Contagion people from all over could hear about it because of all the different sources of communication. In The Hot Zone when a news reporter would ask about what was happening at the CDC, the scientists would say that nothing was going on and the news had to go with that because there were no other sources to get information from.Contagion takes place in modern time so when a person died in a strange way someone just took out their phone, took a video and in less than 10 minutes it was all over the
While contagion and The Hot Zone show politics of a pandemic in Ha similar way, the way both the media and panic are addressed in both works is quite different. The politics are the much alike in both situations because the decisions made by the government have to be ethical to protect the public. The media and panic are largely different between the two pieces because of how classified the virus was and how big the time gap was for the use of technology.
Although the politics in Contagion are fiction they are highly similar to The Hot Zones politics. The way the the government acts upon decisions reflects on the outcome of everyone's situation. They do their best to contain the virus and take all precautionary measures. For example they both enclose information the as best as possible so the people don't panic and the virus doesn't spread.
The panic is much different in both works all because of the way the disease is known and how the word spreads. In The Hot Zone, the world doesn't know about …show more content…
The technology is quite different because of the big time gap between the two works, and in result of that word traveled differently. When an outbreak took place in the Hot Zone few would hear about it and word wouldnt spread easy. Although when an outbreak happened in Contagion people from all over could hear about it because of all the different sources of communication. In The Hot Zone when a news reporter would ask about what was happening at the CDC, the scientists would say that nothing was going on and the news had to go with that because there were no other sources to get information from.Contagion takes place in modern time so when a person died in a strange way someone just took out their phone, took a video and in less than 10 minutes it was all over the