I cannot say this too many times:
Stephen King’s UNABRIDGED “The Stand” tells this story in an unparalleled fashion. Yes we are not experiencing a civilization-ending event but the mechanism of transmission , the reaction of individuals and institutions, the nature of sorrow from loss is portrayed remarkably well.
Btw, if you can get hold of Jack London’s The Scarlet Plague, an amazing short story which presages all the apocalyptic literature masterfully, I mean it’s JACK LONDON for crying out loud. I believe you can download it for free here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21970
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Scary as hell. 
However, before I'd read it, I'd never read such a perfect description of "exponential growth". For me, it was like an unfinished blueprint for what's happening in the States now. And it was seamless.
Stephen King managed to address the entire population's personal preoccupations. Because they didn't know about Capt. Tripps, their normal behavior became careless. And no one was privy to the story unfolding but the reader.
Hey, thanks for the link! I'll check it out. 
I'm using this link. I'm sending it to all the people I've talked to about this so they can instantly get the story.
You! 
It was written in 1949.
Post-fatal-epidemic life would not be as much of an adventure as even Stephen King would have you believe.
one of Randall Flagg's lieutenants. And of course the vulnerability of so many who want to be good, who in many ways are, but choose to follow bad leaders down wrong roads has often brought it to mind.
Thanks for the link. I don't remember if I've read it or not, but as you say, Jack London!
I saw that movie years ago and need to seek it out again. I think cable TV should start running a new movie channel called WTFU, (for "Wake the F*** Up!"
and run nothing but political movies with a cautionary message, like: The Dead Zone, The Manchurian Candidate, Wag the Dog, V for Vendetta, W., Vice, and, to keep people from melting into a puddle of despair, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
Looks like soon we will all be holed up and watching a whole lotta movies.
that's a good idea for a new channel! I would watch it almost constantly!
I remember when The Manchurian Candidate came out, that was when I was a kid so I didn't understand it until I got older. I heard it was one movie that JFK encouraged Frank Sinatra to make. That was enough for me, I love JFK! He was right, it's a great movie!
Add All the President's Men to that list, another one of my favorites!
The Stand does a good job of showing why we should all keep fighting to contain this virus.
When he was writing this book, that was back during the Legionnaire's disease. At the time he thought no one would ever read it because everyone would be dead before he finished writing it!
