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How different is the world of Children of Men from our current coronavirus world?


Chaos? Police controls everywhere? Isolated people? Check. Check. Check.

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I don't know where you live. I live in the New York City area, one of the worst locations for COVID-19, and the two worlds could not be more different.
a) Chaos? - Where? Everything is orderly. People are generally getting what they need (food, medicine, etc). People are not dying in the streets. There are no gun battles. No bombs going off.
b) Police controls? - Where? There are no roadblocks. No checkpoints. No roundups.
c) Isolated people? - Yes, to stop the spread of COVID. That was not a common practice in COM. I can only think of Michael Caine's character living isolated. Everyone else was going to work, waiting in line as the coffee shop, walking the streets.

This is not a good comparison.

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CONvid is fake af!

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Fuck off, conspiracy nutjob

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👍😂

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Go check the death census records from the last 5 years versus the last year, and you will see a straight line! There is no spike! That is not indicative of a pandemic. Thank you come again!

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Go back to Twitter with your conspiracies.

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Send a picture of the spike in the deaths per year graph or STFU

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"Just a flu, brah!"

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your arguments are particularly enlightening

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There's no reasoning with these virus believers. It turns out they are making more money from unemployment than they did from their grocery bagger jobs, so they tow the line it's real to keep the cash flowing.

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Oh, yes. Soros pays me just to stay at home.

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Arguing with someone who gets his "facts" from youtubers and anonymous Twitter accounts is a waste of time.

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Go back to cashing your unemployment checks you communist. If you don't have proof of any death census record spike you've got nothing. And, that is a FACT. Death records are FACTS in the public record, so you can go verify it yourself. The FACTS in the death census records have nothing to do with Twitter or youtube, so you can go suck an egg loser. You lose.

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>Go back to cashing your unemployment checks you communist

See why these right wing nutjobs are not taken seriously? 👆

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What's the matter? Can't handle the FACTS? Everyone sees how you ignore them, and keep saying I'm talking about twitter and youtube when I never referenced those even once. Oh, poor, poor maskhole commie can't take it so just flutters away. Goodbye maskhole.

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it is pretty easy to check.. there was a very small increase in deaths last year in Canada - likely due to boomers dying of COVID or the flu. Plus the immigration loophole called family reunification which brings in thousands of sick and old people wanting to mooch our health care.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/443061/number-of-deaths-in-canada/

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Yeah, sure, I rather get my facts from an anonymous idiot, calling himself "TheArgentinian".

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You can't debate with CNN nutjobs

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Says the Fox News viewer.

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I'm more of an independent news media reade - but even fox news is more on point when it comes to this covid sham.

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Fox News on point? Lol

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"independent news". aka right wing libertarian leaning online news. lol

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you must be getting your news from cnn and the government - lolz

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never watched can but try again. you mislabeled me. but im sure I was totally accurate about you clown

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Oh? right wing libertarian leaning online news - wtf is that? give some examples, please - I'll confirm, if you are right, dumb arse.

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Its different in that they have a real problem that there is no obvious solution to.

Our Covid problem is small potatoes in comparison ,
our problem is made worse by morons refusing to be part of the solution and thereby making the problem bigger

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China's ahead of the West with the concentration camps. If Trump wins reelection, maybe he'll do the same to New York and California.

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Here in the US, aside from masks and social distancing, the world doesn't seem that much different. But it makes one wonder how different things might look if Covid-19 was more like the Spanish Flu of 1918-1920. Now THAT was a scary beast. With worldwide death estimates ranging from 17-100 million (including millions of children)...and that was when the world population was only about 1.8 billion. If Covid was like the Spanish Flu, you likely would be seeing chaos, police controls, and lots more self-imposed isolation. Definitely would be closer to Children of Men.

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it is scary. we are currently at 6 million deaths.

and thats with

-modern medicine
-being more capable figuring out how the virus spread
-mass shutdowns and safety measures
-the benefit of not being in a world war which clumped people together en masse
-a vaccine developed

I am not saying its just as deadly because we can not be sure. but given the 6 million dead despite having all these advantages mentioned above compared to the Spanish flu, it may well have been

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we are currently at 6 million deaths

And without Covid it would be...what? 0?
When they finally recount the deaths REALLY related to Covid they will find out that it is less than 100k.

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we are at 6 million global covid deaths. so yes, without covid we wouldn't have covid deaths.. derp derp.


LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLL you need medication for your conspiracies

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I never had any doubt that you are a Fauci-believer...

Unfortunately there is no medication for your idiocy...

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Fauci believer? wow you parrots just repeat the script huh?

this is a fact well researched by millions of scientists worldwide. recognized by tens of millions of doctors worldwide.

up your medication for your global covid conspiracy..

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The only fact I see is that you are a good sheeple. And an idiot.

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yes and im a sheeple because I believe in germ theory, gravity and combustion too... thats the koolaid man... get help

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You are so boring, troll. Your effin' stupid user name alone...yawn...

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Follow the science*! Until the science changes! Then follow the new science! Until that changes! Golly, science sure has changed a lot in the last two years.

*which is never, ever political

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Yes as the best available evidence comes we can change out position! thats why science is superior to "my feelings tell me" or "muhhh freedom"

we didnt know covid was a pandemic until we saw its spread
we didnt know how masks would work with this particular virus until we saw how ti spread, had data on masks and til we saw the available evidence.

welcome to fucking science clown. your name is suiting because you are a joke.

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You are very smart to follow the science that changes every few months/days/minutes! We should always listen to government officials because they always have our best interests in mind. They definitely see the world better than us plebes!

If Children of Men taught us anything it was this...be very wary of governments.

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yes welcome to fucking science you clown! thats how it works!! best available evidence!!

its why we don't use lead in gas or paint! or asbestos in buildings!!

yes when it comes to a highly contagious virus and biology, I will listen to he consensus of virologists over a fucking nobody pleb like you.

are you really this stupid man? stop posting on movie chat. you are possibly one of the dumbest people on here.

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You are a very smart man/lady/thing!

Also, your thoughtful responses seem to have made you so many friends on here...oh wait, my bad.

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The world wasn't really portrayed in detail in the movie and I have not read the book.

What little information we did get from the movie is that the British Government controls the narrative of what's going on outside, and that narrative is that the rest of the world has gone to shit, but it's obvious that this is a lie because the UK can't survive living in a bubble.

It stands to reason to me that places like North America and Asia Pacifica are probably doing the same thing as the UK and keeping refugees out but to different degrees of scale and probably lesser violence and some cases probably more. It depends on how autocratic the government and homogenous the culture is.

As for our current world, this is a weak analogy to use and people are easily making more babies during shutdown than Children of Men world could ever hope to imagine.

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You serious?

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The world of "Children of Men" is entirely fictional. Our current corona virus world is only about 90 percent fictional. So they are a little bit different.

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Oh, so you're one of those hoaxers 🙄

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its like all the conspiracy clowns congregate on this site. is there even two whoa cutely accept science and don't think its a massive global conspiracy?

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