this shit is creepy as fuck.

It's like The Andromeda Strain and John Carpenter's "The Thing" and Close Encounters of the Third Kind all rolled into one.

Close Encounters because "the government" fools all those people into evacuating a whole region and kills animals to terrify the people to get out.
The Andromeda Strain because people are freaking out over who has the virus. Even scientists.
And the intense xenophobia from "The Thing".