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Comment by SketchySeaBeast | Hacker News Reader

I can't even figure out the genre anymore - political drama shifted into a medical procedural, now we're going to end in a full on disaster movie? Pick a lane people.

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Don't forget that the San Andreas fault is supposed to be "overdue".

This just goes to show, "truth is stranger than fiction".

If someone had tried to make a movie that showed the true events of 2020, people would think it's ridiculously unrealistic.

12 Monkeys?

So... Ridiculously unrealistic checks up.

Maybe, but with all the people stuck at home, it really should be on everyone's Netflix to-watch list. Fantastic movie.

Some other good picks relevant for these times: The Andromeda Strain (1971) Outbreak (1995) Contagion (2011) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 and 1978 versions) 28 Days Later (2002)

My guess is, at this scale, it's at least one heist film (more likely a concurrent series of them), with the earmarks of a biblical tragedy providing a smoke screen; starring old white dudes who prefer not to appear on the marquee. I'd imagine the exchange "isn't that illegal?", "not yet!" appears in the script at least once.

Drawing paralels to computer systems, It usually take 3 or more separate events to take a system down. No one thought that we would get both a pandemic, big volcano eruption, and a asteroid hit at the same time. When you roll a dice and get two sixes there is still 1/6 chance to roll a third six in a row.

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