In the coming weeks, we will send a list of titles available on Max at launch. When Max launches on May 23, a large portion of subscribers will have their apps automatically updated, while others will be prompted to download the updated Max app. Not all bees, and not necessarily killer bees, but they lop off the heads of certain bees.The below list includes titles coming to HBO Max between May 1 and May 22. Murder hornets are hornets as I described previously for Forbes. Moreover, bees are not the same as murder hornets. There is actually an IMDB listing of the “ Most Popular Killer Bee Movies and TV Shows.” Not even all killer bee movies and TV shows, but just the most popular ones. What about the killer bee thing in the episode? The Simpsons episode was not the first and will certainly not be the last show to portray killer bees. If everyone doesn’t learn enough from this pandemic about fixing the many, many existing problems in preparedness and response that have been exposed by this pandemic, things will be worse in the future.įinally, using an episode from The Simpsons to support this whole “the pandemic was planned or created” conspiracy theory is really scraping at the bottom of the barrel, isn’t it? That’s akin to confronting your significant other, saying, “I saw Carrie Bradshaw and Big cheating together on Sex and the City, which proves that you cheated on me.” Huh? How long has it been since the last pandemic? Just over ten years? There’s a good chance that a virus or other microbe spreading in the future could be even worse. The current COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic will certainly not be the last pandemic to occur. You may not be able to see it immediately. You may not be clear on how bad it’s going to be. So it would not be too unusual for a TV show to have portrayed something like this.Ī TV episode that includes an epidemic would be like a TV episode that includes a person lying about himself or herself on Tinder. There have been movies and other TV shows about disease outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics. As I have covered previously for Forbes, many experts in infectious diseases and public health have been warning for years that another infectious disease pandemic will happen. Assuming that they are the same can be like saying, living in Pasadena, Texas, or Pasadena, California, what’s the difference?įourth, predicting that a pandemic will happen at some point is not too difficult to do. In fact, different cities in China can be quite different from each other. While some people may not take the time and effort to distinguish different Asian countries as they would different European countries such as Sweden and Italy, the diversity that exists in East Asia at least equals if not exceeds the diversity in Europe. The two cities are “day and night” in many various ways. Osaka doesn’t have the same wet markets that Wuhan has. Third, Osaka, Japan, is very different from Wuhan, China. Plus, how the heck did Homer Simpson get his facial hair to look like someone put a flapjack on his face? There were the many aforementioned scientific inaccuracies. Secondly, as alluded to previously, this The Simpsons episode was very unrealistic in many different ways. ![]() Yeah, if you think that The Brady Brunch was a super realistic portrayal of the average family life, you may be pretty “far out.” Using The Simpsons as proof of anything like that is reminiscent of the time anti-vaccination advocates circulated an episode of The Brady Brunch, suggesting that it “proved” that the measles was not a serious disease. ![]() This has been part of pushing such conspiracy theories and even the name “plandemic.” Just check out the comments on YouTube below the ABC 10 News Report such as “It was well planned, not predicted” and “Not predicting, it’s planned by the government.” And where exactly is the scientific evidence behind such claims? Nevertheless, it seems like some are trying to use the cartoon as “evidence” that this pandemic was somehow planned. The next study will be presented on Married with Children.” No real scientist has said, “I decided to publish the results of our study on The Simpsons. Gross, indeed, and scientifically inaccurate.įirst of all, a cartoon is not exactly the same thing as scientific evidence. In terms of trying to place blame on Asia - I think that is gross." Trying to put the blame on an entire continent? Aw man. Parker included a quote from Bill Oakley who co-wrote the episode with Josh Weinstein: "The idea that anyone misappropriates it to make coronavirus seem like an Asian plot is terrible. ![]() Ryan Parker reported for The Hollywood Reporter that “internet trolls have used the episode for racist propaganda in response to the coronavirus outbreak.” Gee, racism against people of Asian-descent? What a surprise.
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