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Lara Williams
If you are looking for lessons on how to be prepared for a crisis, you could do worse than to watch 28 Days Later, the 2002 cult zombie thriller, or its 2007 sequel 28 Weeks Later (a third instalment is scheduled for later in June). Here are my movie notes:
The characters in 28 Days Later are, of course, battling a society-ending viral epidemic of the undead, which is unlikely. But that doesn’t mean the lessons aren’t pertinent.
