Contagion Page #3

Okay, good.

As of this moment,|you and I are attached at the cell phone.

If you need resources, call me.|If you get into a political dogfight, call me.

If you find yourself wide awake,|staring at the walls at 3 a.m...

...wondering why you took the job,|call me.

I sure hope you packed something|warmer than that.

We're looking at around zero|with the windchill.

Don't want you to catch cold.

Do you wanna go to the hotel first,|get situated?

I'd prefer to get started, if that's possible.

- Okay.|- How far is the office?

About a half-hour from here.

Your dad's in isolation.

You can go up to the window,|pick up the phone, and you can talk to him.

- Hey.|- Dad.

- Hey.|- Are you sick?

No, no, no. I'm...

This is all just, you know, a precaution.|They're, you know, just making sure.

But you were with them.|You could still get it.

No, I won't. They said|this happens really, really fast.

And I'm fine.|There's nothing wrong with me.

There's nothing wrong with me.|We're okay. We're okay.

And Clark?

Yeah, you know, I...

I wasn't there.|I went in the ambulance with Beth.

And I just didn't... I...

I left him with Carrie Anne.

I should have been there.

- I could have helped.|- No, no, no. Honey, no, no.

It's good that you weren't there.|I'm happy.

If something had happened to you,|I mean, I'd...

Honey, you're here now, you know.|I'm happy about that.

I'm happy about that.

When are you coming home?

Soon. Very soon. They, you know...

- Why don't you go to your mom's?|- No.

- Just stay in Wisconsin.|- No. She doesn't need me.

She's got Dan. I live here.

You don't have anybody.|I'm not leaving you.

We have 47 cases|and eight deaths as of 5 this afternoon.

It's a weekend.|These numbers might be low.

People are staying home for a couple days,|see if they get better.

At this point, I think|we have to believe this is respiratory.

- Maybe fomites too.|- What's that, fomites?

It refers to transmission|from surfaces.

The average person touches their face|2- or 3000 times a day.

- Two- or 3000 times a day?|- Three to five times every waking minute.

In between, we're touching doorknobs...

...water fountains,|elevator buttons and each other.

Those things become fomites.

Is this something we wanna release|to the press? Respiratory and fomites?

- How's the public gonna react?|- Hard to say. A plastic shark in a movie...

...will keep people from getting|in the ocean, but a warning on cigarettes...

We need to walk the governor through this|before we freak everybody out.

I mean, we can't even tell people|right now what they should be afraid of.

We tried that with swine flu.|All we did was get healthy people scared.

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