Employment Videos, Part Five - Bloodborne Pathogens: Fast Facts for School
A very basic and fleeting look at how to prevent the transmission of bloodborne pathogens.
Educational Value - 6/10
The video runs through a few important aspects of how to prevent transmission, showing how to properly take off gloves and telling us to avoid touching people who are bleeding (they should touch themselves, pun intended). But the video only touches briefly on specific symptoms that result from these pathogens. How are we really supposed to tell if we may be infected? I also wanted to know how to properly clean up a pool of blood, which the video, predictably, never covers.
Aesthetics - 2/10
Based on the poster for Kangaroo Jack that I saw in a long shot of Time Square (don't ask), I'm assuming this video was made around 2003. Even then, the camerawork, the sets, the transitions are all pretty terrible. Are they better than the classic 80s videos? Perhaps, but just barely.
Unintentional Laughs - 5/10
This video tries too hard to be funny. It just doesn't have the spontaneous, unintentionally hilarious charm of the 80s videos. First of all, I hate the narrator, whose name, we learn because she and the video mention it multiple times, is apparently Kelly Davis. I just think it's incredibly arrogant of her and the video to assume she's of any importance and deserves our respect. It doesn't help that her first line goes as follows: "Hi, I'm Kelly Davis. You know back when I was in school..." and proceeds to run through a horrendous, wannabe comedic sequence where she flashes back, apparently to the 50s (she looks remarkably young now!), to her vacuous high school life where she didn't care about bloodborne pathogens, just boys and drama. Blah, and yuck. It sounds kind of funny on paper, but it's just painful to sit through.
Oh, and here's Kelly Davis in all her glory.
There's this sequence in the beginning that goes on far too long that tries to illustrate how large a group 5.6 million infected people really is. A semi-direct quote: "That's 56 filled college football stadiums. That's 2/3rds of NYC. That's 3x the population of the state of Iowa... yee-ha [Cue Kelly Davis in a cowboy hat and obligatory sound of a whip]!" Just. Stop it.
Also, I found the representation of the three major viruses (HIV, HCV, HBV) as bullies at school insulting to my intelligence. The actors suck and the concept is sooo contrived. HBV says in a "tough-guy/woman" voice, after being "insulted" by Kelly Davis, "Hey! She called us viral!" It's stupid, just stupid.
Closing Thoughts
I learned a few things, but the video's constant attempt to be funny totally sucked the life out of the proceedings. A disappointment.
Rating: 1/10
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