Pandemic: Como Prevenir uma Epidemia

This has little to do with science or the flu. It's just a bunch of mini stories about people who work in the industry. This is cringe level stuff: the 45 year old guy who wears leather jackets and rides a skateboard. The young female scientist with a nose ring who seemingly knows nothing. The Indian woman who says she is working on 30 projects at once but pretends to feed her children each meal and read them bedtime stories after playing building games with them. If these are the people on the front lines, we're in deep trouble.

Why the focus on the flu? Because in the modern age this is the most dangerous pathogen capable of rapidly spreading across the globe in a matter of weeks, possibly infecting and killing millions. And because it constantly mutates, there is no universal vaccine to stop it. These facts alone should concern anyone.

What's educational about this series is that I did not know the how much of it is zoonotic - e.g. capable of spreading from animal to animal including humans. The current 2019-nCoV that started at a wild meat market in Wuhan is only an example of what's possible with the flu. And that should scare everyone.

Too much focus on irrelevant things and personal lives. A bit of context is ok but so many boring details without purpose have ruined this series. Better editing would have done wonders to keep it interesting and engaging.

First a quick review. This documentary takes on a great topic, then beats the hell out of it. The threat of a pandemic is real and seeing what is being done to help prevent it is interesting and educating. The people who work hard to help prevent widespread disease outbreaks are often motivated altruistically and use science as a main tool. You get to see a lot of this in the show, Which is good, but it tends to be redundant . You also get to see a lot of things you may not be expecting such as personal lives, descriptions of religious beliefs, extracurricular activities, etc. This may not be such a bad thing, but it is done to an extent that leaves the movie jumping between important scientific endeavor within the context of public health, and somewhat disjointed and rather uninteresting topics outside the realm of what the movie claims to be. A "6" is an honest ranking that doesn't pump it up, and doesn't push it too undeservedly low. Next, comments on the widely varying reviews. Because this movie/series Decides to touch on topics and ideas that are outside the realm of public health and safety, many reviewers seem to feel a need to criticize it for going against, or supporting certain political, religious, or other believes. Giving this show a 1/10 or a 10/10 rating is absolutely silly. It seems that anti-vaxers can't stand it because it goes directly against their "beliefs" regardless of reality and science. People giving it a 10 seem to be doing so simply because they don't like that some people gave it a low ranking. If you like good documentaries you'll probably feel it's ok, not great. if you are in public health or science in general, you may like it even more. If you're politically sensitive or anti-vaxer, you probably won't like it.

I am stunned by the so many bad reviewers and the rating it received (at the time of writing it had a rating of 5.9*).

I do not know what these people were expecting but this docuserie tells the story of people working on the front line to prevent any pandemic and keep our world safe.

Why you basher cannot even appreciate or value this docuserie on face value? Quiting after a few episodes and than rating it low telling everybody it is bad eventhough you bashers havent seen it all.

Please, give it a shot as it gives you a good inside view of the working life of all those people working to keep our world safe of a pandemic.