Screenwriter Forced To Tell Anti-Vaccines “I’m A Legend” Wrong

The screenwriter who wrote the 2007 zombie movie I’m a legend with Will Smith was forced to clarify something on Twitter that is sure to depress us all today. The writer, Akiva Goldsman, had to explain that I’m a legend is in fact a fiction. It’s not a zombie documentary or anything like that.

“Oh. My.God. It’s a movie. I made that up. Sound. Not. Real,” Goldsman tweeted. Monday evening.

Why on earth would Goldsman feel the need to clarify something so obvious? It appears that anti-vaccination advocates campaigning against covid-19 vaccines have turned to I’m a legend in a meme.

The meme falsely claims that the zombies were created in the movie from a vaccination program gone awry, as if it had something to do with the real-world covid-19 pandemic which at least made sick. 203 million people in the world and killed 4.3 million.

A report from New York Times about someone who believed the meme might be real went viral and included arguably one of the strangest explanations in diary history:

Employee said she was worried because she believed a vaccine had caused the characters in the film I’m a legend turn into zombies. But the plague that turned people into zombies in the movie was caused by a genetically reprogrammed virus, not a vaccine.

But this is far from the first time the film has appeared in mainstream reporting on resistance to the covid-19 vaccine. the Washington post included a similar anecdote of an anti-vaxxer back in may.

Simmons, a Democrat, told the Post that she was haunted by a 2007 horror film, “I Am Legend,” starring actor Will Smith. This movie portrays a botched cancer cure that kills most people and turns survivors into monsters – and Simmons said the image crossed her mind last year as she heard about the rapid development of vaccines against coronaviruses.

“I love this movie, for all kinds of reasons. But it was a little scary. I don’t want to be a zombie, ”Simmons said.

If all of this is too depressing to think about it, remember that the number of people who think I’m a legend is real is probably small. But not small enough to resonate with the wider anti-vaccine community.

Meanwhile, the United States is seeing a disturbing increase in covid-19 cases as the highly infectious delta variant of the virus makes its way through the unvaccinated population. The seven-day average of new cases in the United States is currently over 124,000 cases per day, the highest since early February.

Hospitals in Mississippi and Texas lack intensive care beds and the governor of Texas has even asked hospitals On Monday voluntarily delay elective surgeries to make room for covid-19 patients. This governor, Greg Abbott, has been actively hostile to any measure aimed at mitigating the spread of the virus.

Many anti-vaccine idiots insist that taking the covid-19 vaccine is a matter of personal choice. But as many people have pointed out, these personal choices affect society. If you live in places like Austin, Texas, or Jackson, Mississippi, hopefully you don’t need medical attention this month. All these “personal choices” of the unvaccinated are now occupying life-saving beds.