Contagion (2011)

Jude Law: Alan Krumwiede

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• Dr. Ian Sussman : Get away from here.

  Alan Krumwiede : Where'd it come from? Military?

  Dr. Ian Sussman : You're not a doctor and you're not a writer.

  Alan Krumwiede : Yes, I am a writer. Yes, I am.

  Dr. Ian Sussman : Blogging is not writing. It's graffiti with punctuation.

  Alan Krumwiede : I am a journalist and there's informed discussion on the blogosphere that this is a biological weapon.

• Alan Krumwiede : It's a bad day to be a rhesus monkey.

• Alan Krumwiede : Godzilla, King Kong, Frankenstein all in one.

• Alan Krumwiede : Now it all changes. Sussman gets anointed by the National Academy of Sciences and every pharmaceutical executive gets a hard-on. They'll be growing the virus in every lab on Earth.

• Alan Krumwiede : My temperature's 101. Higher than it was earlier. My head hurts and my throat feels like it's closing. This is forsythia. I've been taking it since the onset of the symptoms. If I'm here tomorrow, you'll know it works. Truth Serum Now. I'm Alan Krumwiede.

• Alan Krumwiede : Tell them what an R-nought of two really means, Dr. Cheever. Teach them some math. No? I'll do it. On day 1, there were two people with it, and then there were four. And then it was 16, and you think you've got it in front of you, but next it's 256, and then it's 65,000, and it's behind you, above you, and all around you. In 30 steps, it's a billion sick. Three months. It's a math problem you can do on a napkin. And that's where we're headed.

• Sanjay Gupta : Alan, today on Twitter you wrote that the truth about this virus is being kept from the world by the CDC, by the World Health Organization, to allow friends of the administration to benefit from it both financially and physically.

  Alan Krumwiede : There are therapies we know are effective right now, like forsythia, and they don't even appear on the CDC website.

  Sanjay Gupta : On your blog, you also wrote that the World Health Organization is somehow in bed with pharmaceutical companies?

  Alan Krumwiede : Because they are. That's who stands to gain from this They're working hand in glove. And the *hand* is reaching into our pockets.

• Alan Krumwiede : After the Spanish flu in 1918, you know, people got rich. The Vicks VapoRub people, the Lysol people, look it up. One man dies, another man makes money off his coffin. One country culls all their chickens, red meat goes into higher demand.

• Hedge Fund Man in Park : Studies show that there is no proof that forsythia works.

  Alan Krumwiede : Who conducted the studies? What defines "works"? Against what strain of the virus?

  Hedge Fund Man in Park : Did you know about the studies when we met the last time? We can get in a lot of trouble.

  Alan Krumwiede : Do you really think this Dr. Hextall, CDC person, is Jesus in a lab coat? The government rushed the trials. The lawyers indemnified the drug companies. Maybe it causes autism or narcolepsy or cancer 10 years from now. Who knows? You - the - the swine flu vaccine killed people back in 1976. Nerve disease. So we're all guinea pigs, starting from today. Just wait, they'll start listing side effects like the credits at the end of a movie.

• Alan Krumwiede : Print media is dying, Lorraine. It's dying. I'll save you a seat on the bus.

• Alan Krumwiede : You wait. A few days, this will be tweeted and YouTubed...

  Lorraine Vasquez : We don't wanna be the paper that cries wolf.

  Alan Krumwiede : All over the planet.

• Alan Krumwiede : If you check on Facebook...

• Dr. Ellis Cheever : The CDC is exploring forsythia and other homeopathic treatments. But right now, there's no sciencet o back any of these claims.

  Alan Krumwiede : Or no way Dr. Cheever or the people who put him into power can profit from it.

  Dr. Ellis Cheever : We're not ruling anything out.

• Alan Krumwiede : This is entrapment. You can't take my blood. You can't, that's my property.