Quotes About Epidemic

The face of the eviction epidemic is moms and kids, especially poor moms from predominantly Latino and African American neighborhoods.

There were fearful consequences to the open tolerance of brutality: the depravity would "spread like an epidemic." Surprisingly quickly the like-minded and the deviant personalities come together, as is the case in Poland, in order to give full vent to their animalistic and pathological instincts. Eventually, Blaskowitz said, "only the brutal will rule.

Imagine a plague you catch through your ears.

The Deluge wasn't a wave, was it? It was blind men with axes; it was the great on their knees begging not to die at the hands of idiots; it was the itch of the irrational grown to an epidemic.

As the vaccinations were found to be ineffective, authorities would resort to the last available means of stopping the epidemic: mass quarantine. Public assemblies and gatherings would be banned in a desperate attempt to halt the viral storm. Airports would be closed, subways halted, and buses parked as mandatory travel restrictions would be imposed. Businesses would be forced to furlough employees while local governments curtailed their services to avoid debilitating their entire workforce.

We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives and not knowing what it's like, what we're going through. We're living through war, but where they're living it's peacetime, and we're all in the same country.

During the first nineteen months of the epidemic, the New York Times wrote about it a total of seven times:

Government research at the National Institutes of Health did not commence in reality until January 1983, eighteen months after the same government had declared the epidemic.

Nobody listens for very long anyway. There's a new disease of the month every day.

Great plagues from little microbes start.

Hospital-acquired infections are now killing more people every year in the United States than die from AIDS or cancer or car accidents combined - about 100,000.

Nations don't have friends; they have interests. The best motivation for a state to act if it is remote from an epidemic is if its own security is at risk.

Cybercrime is becoming everything in crime. Again, because people have connected their entire lives to the Internet, that's where those who want to steal money or hurt kids or defraud go. So it's an epidemic for reasons that make sense.

Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague.

Exercise is essential for good health. But we can't exercise our way out of the obesity epidemic.

People love information. Right now in our society, we have an obesity epidemic. Because for the first time in history, we have access to food whenever we want, we don't know how to control ourselves. I think we have the exact same problem with information.

This country must break the cycle of childhood obesity. Unless we reverse course, this epidemic will continue to put more of our children and the future of our nation at risk.

If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.

there was an outbreak in China of a virus that caused a severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks 'em.

Zaman?nda di?er salg?nlar?n aras?nda, bugünkü terimiyle tahminen benzer veya ayn? olan "?arbon" hastal??? da vard?. ?nsanlarla birlikte çiftlik hayvanlar? ve atlar? da vuran ?arbon, baz? yazarlara göre MS 80'lerde Hunlar? da vurdu; Bat? seferlerinde 30 bin Hun, 40 bin at ve 100 bin büyükba? hayvan bundan etkilendi.

Salg?n Bizans'? 4 ay etkiledi. Günde 5-10 bin ölü vard?: "Sonunda mezar kaz?c? bulunamay?nca, kalelerdeki kulelerin çat?lar? ç?kar?ld?, cesetler koyulup çat? tekrar kapat?ld?." Cenazeler gemilere koyulup denize terk ediliyordu. "Salg?n bittikten sonra ahlâks?zl?k ve sapk?nl?k o kadar artt? ki, salg?n geriye sadece günahkârlar? b?rakt? sanard?n?z.

Bu kitab? da ismine adad???m?z Charles Nicolle, 1909'da tifüsün bit arac?l???yla geçti?ini ke?fetmi?ti. Sava?ç?lar, politikac?lar, milliyetçiler ve sava?lardan sorumlu olan di?er insanlar, dünyay? bir yüz y?l daha rahat b?raksayd? bu bulu?, Bat?'daki epidemik tifüsün sonu anlam?na gelebilirdi.

In our own time, when child abduction has become epidemic and even our milk cartons are imprinted with the faces of the missing, that truth has been confirmed with dismaying regularity.