Contagion Film | Rose Scholars Spring 2020

From the movie, the main takeaways I got from it were the reality of the food industry and the importance of cleanliness. The origin of the highly lethal virus was from a chef’s hand after he was handling a dead pig, that ingested bat feces. This movie made me reconsider what exactly I am putting into my body and how effective my measures are during flu season. If the food industry had better systems in place that could ensure wholesome food being bought my consumers, then the deadly virus would not have come about. Also, if the chef would have thoroughly washed his hands instead of simply wiping them onto his apron, the virus would also not have existed. With these two proposals of how the virus could have been avoided, I have had second thoughts about how cautious I have to be during the current flu season. Washing your hands more frequently and avoiding touching my mouth and face less frequently are two things I have been more wary of. Also, since the ingestion of pork is true, I’ve been limiting my pork intake.

4 thoughts on “Contagion Film”

It is good that you are watching your personal hygiene out of concern of getting viral infections. This is more prevalent especially during the current coronavirus epidemic. In this movie, it is an example of how viruses can spread from one organism to another. However, viruses are inactivated during extreme temperatures of cooking (killing pathogens is one of the reasons why we cook); it is the unhygienic practice that one should watch out for (e.g. washing hands appropriately).

Wow! This film sounds really interesting. Are there any actions in specific you are going to take after watching this film?

I agree that the immediate cause of the spread of the virus was the unhygienic practices in food preparation, but one question I have is: is there anything you drew from the movie that could be informative on a societal level for when a virus (such as COVID 19) has already begun to spread, so as to minimize its impact?

Your thoughts are very interesting to me because in the three times I’ve watched this movie I’ve never thought about it from this perspective. Now thinking about it, had the chef took better hygiene practice, maybe this could’ve been avoided. Thank you for pointing that out, I will make a mental note of this and try to always keep the best hygiene practice in mind when I work in the industry (I’m a hotelie).

yy826 on March 2, 2020 at 7:05 pm said:

It is good that you are watching your personal hygiene out of concern of getting viral infections. This is more prevalent especially during the current coronavirus epidemic. In this movie, it is an example of how viruses can spread from one organism to another. However, viruses are inactivated during extreme temperatures of cooking (killing pathogens is one of the reasons why we cook); it is the unhygienic practice that one should watch out for (e.g. washing hands appropriately).
sk2377 on March 11, 2020 at 3:23 pm said:

Wow! This film sounds really interesting. Are there any actions in specific you are going to take after watching this film?
cg527 on March 23, 2020 at 5:40 pm said:

I agree that the immediate cause of the spread of the virus was the unhygienic practices in food preparation, but one question I have is: is there anything you drew from the movie that could be informative on a societal level for when a virus (such as COVID 19) has already begun to spread, so as to minimize its impact?
Ashley Chen on April 13, 2020 at 10:31 pm said:

Your thoughts are very interesting to me because in the three times I’ve watched this movie I’ve never thought about it from this perspective. Now thinking about it, had the chef took better hygiene practice, maybe this could’ve been avoided. Thank you for pointing that out, I will make a mental note of this and try to always keep the best hygiene practice in mind when I work in the industry (I’m a hotelie).