Evidently, some of you have taken offense to my “flippant” take on this unfolding coronavirus pandemic. I regret that.
But I feel constrained to note that I invariably juxtapose my take with far more deadly concerns like the seasonal flu and the tornado that just devastated Tennessee.
It is in this panic-driven context that I could not resist sharing this truly hysterical (i.e., frantic and funny) PSA poster:
But all kidding aside (not), here’s why this is such serious business:
The release of the new James Bond film has been put back by seven months as coronavirus continues to spread.
The producers said they had moved the release of No Time To Die from April to November after ‘careful consideration and thorough evaluation of the global theatrical marketplace’.
(BBC, March 4, 2020)
If you can’t laugh at this, then I hope you’re prepared to stay hermetically sealed in your home for the next six months. And you might want to bathe yourself in Purell every day just in case.
But I hope you get the irony that it’s an adult thriller like Bond’s No Time to Die that is the first film to be so shaken and stirred. After all, one might’ve expected it to be a children’s animation like Elsa’s Frozen, no?
Granted, there’s something to be said for the double entendre at play:
- no time to die (as in lives) by risking exposure to the virus; and
- no time to die (as in box office receipts) by releasing this movie in the midst of growing worldwide quarantines.
So, that’s a wrap!
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