Hong Kong’s famous Jumbo Floating Restaurant was once used in 2011 by the production team of the American thriller “Contagion” as the setting of a Macau casino. A customer (Beth) was the first to be infected with an unknown virus. In the plot, the virus carried by a bat, mixes with a pig virus, and eventually a SARS-like plague breaks out leading to a loss of social order. Society is eventually saved by vaccines.
Eleven years later, the “Pearl of the Orient” in the South China Sea, once flourishing in the 70s ad 80s, was strongly hit by the pandemic and saw its shimmering lights diminish and disappear.
