How The Movie Jaws Predicted The US Pandemic Response
8 min readApr 9, 2020
In the United States, it is the second month of quarantines and shutdowns. Technically it’s only been three weeks for my day job and me but it has gone from March to April.
Despite our state and local governments taking action, the federal one is, as expected, less than impressive. It reminds one of the movie Jaws. The 1975 movie got a lot of facts wrong about sharks, but it seems more relevant to how governments handle a crisis.
