I watch a lot of "BAD" movies.
I've seen about 5 movies based on Covid and they all suk!
There are movies which are good which are based on global pandemics.
Andromeda Strain was not based on a global pandemic but an alien pathogen.
I class it as the same genre as The Day of the Triffids. A novel written by John Wyndham.
Personally, I preferred the mini series of Andromeda Strain & Day of the Triffids better than the original films.
Some ... decent global pandemic films include;
Day of Resurrection aka Virus (1980) - After a virus devastates the global human population, survivors in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure and save the human race.
Contagion (2011) - When Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow) returns to Minnesota from a Hong Kong business trip, she attributes the malaise she feels to jet lag. However, two days later, Beth is dead, and doctors tell her shocked husband (Matt Damon) that they have no idea what killed her. Soon, many others start to exhibit the same symptoms, and a global pandemic explodes. Doctors try to contain the lethal microbe, but society begins to collapse as a blogger (Jude Law) fans the flames of paranoia.
Carriers (2009) - When a virus threatens to wipe out humanity, Danny (Lou Taylor Pucci), his brother Brian (Chris Pine), and their friends Bobby (Piper Perabo) and Kate (Emily VanCamp) set out across the desert in the Southwest, trying to elude the pandemic. Over the course of several days, the four friends learn that the darkness within themselves may prove deadlier than any microbe.
Songbird (2020) - American dystopian science fiction thriller film based on the COVID-19 pandemic. Immune to the COVID-23 virus, a courier races against time to save the woman he loves from a quarantine camp. (IMDb Rating 4.7/10)
12 Monkeys (1995)
The Omega Man (1971) good movie despite zombies
I am Legend (2007) good movie despite zombies
The Happening (2008)
Pontypool (2008) not really global but an interesting take on viral infection
Children of Men (2006)
The Stand: Part One (1994)
Ebola Syndrome (1996)
Perfect Sense (2012)
Bird Box (2018)
Locked Down (2021)
The Directive (2019)
Host (2020)
Help (filming)
Orca (2020)
Dead Or? (2021)
Lockdown (2021)
The Neon Across The Ocean (2020)
The Day of Destruction (2020)
The Pandemic Anthology (2020)
Covid-25 (2021) Tv Show
COVID-21: Lethal Virus (2021)
COVID-19 (2020)
COVID-19: Invasion (Post-production)
COVID-25 the Virus Has Mutated (2020)
COVID (2021)
Covid (2020) (TV Mini-Series)
The Covid Killer (2021)
Covidences (2020)
Covid Diaries NYC (2021)
COVID: 2020 (2021)
COVID-19: The System (2020)
The Vaccine: Conquering Covid (2021) (TV Movie)
Surviving Covid (2020) (TV Movie)
The Covid Conspiracy (in development)
A Covid Christmas (2021)
Covid Release (2021)
Covid-19 Ground Zero (2021)
Covid.12 the Hanged (2020)
COVID-93 (2021)
Four Seasons of Covid (2021)
Global Threat: Covid 19 (2020) (TV Mini-Series)
Mission COVID (2020)
Corona (II) (2020)
Corona (2021) (TV Mini-Series)
Corona Zombies (2020) (Video)
Corona Depression (2020)
Coronavirus (II) (2020)
Coronaphobia (2020)
Corona Clown (2021)
Anti Corona Virus (2020)
Corona Camp (2020)
Coronapocalypse (2021)
Alone (XXI) (2020) aka
"Pandemic"
Pandemic (2007) (TV Mini-Series)
Toxic Skies (2008) aka
"Pandemic: Kansen wakusei"
The Pandemic Anthology (2020)
Epidemic (1987)
Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010)
The Coming Pandemic (2005)
Pandemiocracy (2021) (TV Movie)
Pandemic Response (2021)
Race Against Pandemic (2020) (TV Movie)
Birdemic 2: The Resurrection (2013)
Anatomy of a Pandemic (2009) (TV Movie)
Its easy to see the films based on the Covid pandemic are not very good.
There are many more covid based films featuring zombies and none of them are good.
There are pandemic films featuring zombies which are good.
Any rage virus - live infected film considered a zombie movie is a pandemic based film.
There are also alien invasion films featuring alien initiated pandemics.
Alien: Covenant (2017) postulates the alien universe was initiated by a viral pathogen.
Prometheus (2012) set the story to go that way.
Many vampire films and werewolf films portray vampirism and lycanthropy as a viral condition.
Personally, I like viral infection stories which are not common. I really enjoyed Pontypool for its unique viral pretense.
Covid is a pandemic and it is a real virus. The virus however is not as deadly as some virus outbreaks. What makes the covid pandemic so bad is the response of the public and the fear propagated by the media. Another result of media overload.
Population density caused the pandemic situation. World-wide travel made it spread fast.
The numbers are insignificant tho. Not only are the total infected less than 1% of the world population, there are far more recoveries than deaths.
Many things in history have killed more people. Not that loss of life isn't tragic, the numbers don't justify the panic....Media Overload, media-induced panic.
You say "No Politics" but the current pandemic hysteria is politically driven by the media.
The public hysteria is doing more harm than the virus itself. (Lynch Mob Mentality) (Pavlovian 'sheeple' response)