`Body Snatchers (4) Fear as Contagion

What makes disease in an pandemic or epidemic so pernicious is this: The very fear of disease, in and of itself, is a contagion.  In general we seem to pride ourselves on our intellect and rationality, our objectivity and logic.  But as Sigmund Freud began to argue more than a century ago, this is just one aspect of ourselves.  Indeed we may be more emotional, irrational and subjective than we'd like to imagine or acknowledge.

So, to understand and remedy disease better, we must turn to more than just medicine and science.  Psychology, culture and lore are complementary frameworks, too.  In brief, we must take into account complex human nature.

Note: In the DVD for `The Invasion (2007), the fourth film adaptation of the classic Jack Finney novel `The Body Snatchers, We've Been Snatched Before is a feature program.  I couldn't find an upload of it on YouTube, so the next best thing, I thought, was to capture this thought-provoking program via the foregoing screen shots.