Mentoris writes: The upside of being infectious

Until now, I had avoided watching the movie, Contagion, despite many people telling me to watch it. With the announcement this week of a plan to ease the lockdown and start on the journey back to some semblance of normality, I thought I’d better give it a shot. For those who don’t know it is a film, directed by Steven Soderbergh in 2011, that follows the path of a deadly virus as it spreads across the globe.

If you are anything like me, you would have been completely clueless about the nature of infectious diseases. You may have some idea how to prevent the transmission of conjunctivitis or other eye-related conditions but that was the limit of my knowledge.