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Ebola Is Back. Hantavirus Is Spreading. Time to Watch These Movies.

5/25/202646 min

Ebola is back. Hantavirus is spreading. So Sonny Bunch and Jonathan Cohn revisited three pandemic "classics"—And the Band Played On, Contagion, and Outbreak—to see which one we're actually living in.

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  1. Tyler Reddick0:00

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  2. Speaker 10:15

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  3. Sonny Bunch· Host0:37

    Hey, everybody. Welcome back to Bulwark Takes. Uh, I'm Sonny Bunch. I'm culture editor at The Bulwark. I'm joined here by Jonathan Cohn, who is wearing a mask because we are discussing, uh, outbreak movies, virus movies, contagion movies, uh, on the show today, uh, because, you know, we got, we got bad things in the air, Jonathan, which I know this is why you're wearing a mask. We got hantavirus on cruise ships. We got Ebola in Africa. We got the occasional monkeypox still coming out. It's, uh, it's a nightmare out there. Uh, Jonathan, th- uh, we are remote though, so I think you can take off the mask. I think the people- Okay ... wanna see your face. It's, uh- You can't, you can't be too careful, you know? [laughs] You can't be too careful. That's my, that is my- Actually, you can, actually, you can be too careful, but yeah. [laughs] Well, that's-- This is one of my takeaways from, uh,

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