Coltan Scrivner

Because it came out in 2011?

Yeah?

I don't know.

I think you looked it up because I think Contagion was only available on Apple TV or some, at the time, obscure platform.

A few good men.

Don't we watch movies to escape the world?

Why would you escape into a world that was basically the world you were living in?

Oh.

Shut down.

Yes, it does.

Information about yourself even.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, the good news is, I don't know about watching it like 12 times, but you're not alone on watching it for the first time.

If you look at Google Trends data and you map the film Contagion, you see a little bump in 2011 when it came out, and then it's fairly flat.

And then in March of 2020, it shot to the highest point that it had ever been on Google Trends.

And what's interesting is if you superimpose searches for COVID on that or coronavirus on that,

You see the same bump in March of 2020.

Perfect correlation.

That blew me away when I saw that because I knew that contagion was popular and it was spiking in popularity.

And I, of course, was like, well, I think I know why.