I just saw Contagion...

So...Contagion.

I'm gonna be honest...it was a little bit boring. I mean, there was no crazy A-HA moment. Well, maybe boring isn't exactly the right word. Maybe realistic is better. As is, when I was watching that movie, I thought to myself, "Holy shit. I think this could actually happen."

One person gets sick and it becomes a virus that is going to be contracted by 1 in 12 people in the entire world.

And really, think about how easy that would be, in a really, really scary way.

Let's say an airport.

You don't have any luggage to check, so you go to one of those automated check in computers and start pushing buttons. Well, what if the person pushing the buttons before you had some mad virus? Now you have it. And then you go in the Hudson News store and flip through 3 magazine before deciding on one and pick up a bag of Combo's before deciding you'd rather have pretzels and now you've spread it to whomever picks up the 2 magazines and the Combo's you discarded. And so on and so forth.

We'd all be, for lack of a better word, fucked.

So I walked out of the theater partially wishing I'd gone to see Straw Dogs and partially thinking about all the tiny bottles of hand sanitizer that my mom sends me that are floating around my house. I thought I'd start being more careful about germs...just in case.

I came home and petted the dogs, and pulled the Edy's ice cream out of the freezer and started to scoop some into a bowl...when OOPS...I dropped some ice cream on the counter. I picked it up-with my fingers-before it melted, and popped it into my mouth. OOPS again, I didn't wash my hands when I got home. If there's an outbreak, I'm fucked already.