Please Get These Coronavirus PSAs From the Stars of Contagion Out of My Face!
LatestIn a horrific turn of events, I have watched Contagion at least three times this past month—once for work, once for pleasure, and once, ambiently, as my sister was watching it in the shared common space of our bunker. I do not want to think about Contagion any more than I have to, but these goddamn PSAs from the stars of that film are making me do so and I reject that notion with every fiber of my being.
Kate Winslet, Laurence Fishburne, Matt Damon, and Jennifer Ehle teamed up with scientists at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health to offer advice about social distancing and proper hand-washing techniques. Fishburne, Ehle, and Damon filmed their videos without turning their phones horizontally; Winslet gets a pass because she set her shit down on a steady surface and filmed herself washing her hands with bar soap from a barren bathroom. Great news is that these PSAs are full of science, from scientists. Bad news? I don’t want this!
Here is Matt Damon, a man who was immune to the disease in Contagion, for reasons that I still do not understand after viewing the film three times in one month.
Here is Laurence Fishburne. He was a very good boss in Contagion, and is now here to make you feel better.