The 2007 film I Am Legend, starring Will Smith, is a fiction film. It is not a documentary. The movie may not have had a disclaimer at first, just like the Shrek movie didn’t warn other people that Shrek isn’t real. However, there is an assumption that other people would not treat the film as a science class.
However, apparently the fact that the film is fictional doesn’t stop other people on social media from claiming that I Am Legend is an explanation for why not get vaccinated against Covid-19. Nor does it prevent others from hearing such statements.
The claim is that in the film, being a fiction film, a vaccine unleashed the zombie apocalypse that then wiped out much of humanity. Therefore, assuming you stick to what fictional videos can tell you, you deserve not to be vaccinated against Covid-19. . After all, who would need a carnivorous zombie?This can make it even harder to get an assignment or date and cause other people to mute you on Zoom.
However, this statement poses a great challenge. I Am Legend is a fiction film, which means that it did not happen. The film is loosely based on a novel written in the 1950s by Richard Matheson. The main character, Robert Neville, was not a genuine person. He was played by an actor named Will Smith, you know, the guy who got mad about it.
In fact, there are two big ones with this statement. As Time correspondent Vera Bergengruen, Time’s Washington correspondent, pointed out in the following tweet, it wasn’t even a vaccine that zombified society in I Am Legend:
Instead, it is a genetically modified measles virus that caused disruption in the film, the fictional film. Come on, people. It is a failed task to spread conspiracy theories. If you need to spread a conspiracy theory based on a movie, at least make sure the movie’s plot is correct.
Oh, and there’s a third problem. The movie was set in 2012, not 2021. So if the events of I Am Legend had happened, you might have missed the zombie apocalypse. Maybe the line at Starbucks nine years ago was longer than you thought. ?Maybe that diarrhea you got from crushing raw pie dough made you miss all the apocalyptic chaos happening outside.
Still, quality doesn’t seem to be a fear in the darker, deeper corners of social media, as Bergengruen discovered:
If you’re still wondering, there’s no clinical evidence to suggest that getting vaccinated turns you into a zombie. An online page from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lists the imaginable side effects of Covid-19 coronavirus vaccines. Turning into a carnivorous zombie is rarely one of them, although you may feel chills and headaches.
Using I Am Legend to advise you on your fitness decision-making would be like traveling across the Pacific Ocean in search of Gilligan and Mary Ann or trying to get stuck in a video game to meet Ruther Roundhouse from Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. In such a movie for medical advice, “legend” is probably not the next word for you when you start with the words “I am. “Perhaps “I am” deserves to be followed until “I am going to get help. “now”:
While it is smart to perceive the perspectives of others, some noted that there are limitations:
This is not precisely American exponentialism in action. Oh, and by the way, today I’m trending Legend on Twitter:
So here we are in 2021. The zombie apocalypse depicted in the movie I Am Legend didn’t take place in 2012. Many other people haven’t exactly lost their minds in the last decade. They have not become a group of mindless creatures that relentlessly seek only meat. Or did they?
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