Quotes About Epidemic

That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.

The success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.

A Connector might tell ten friends where to stay in Los Angeles, and half of them might take his advice. A Maven might tell five people where to stay in Los Angeles but make the case for the hotel so emphatically that all of them would take his advice. These are different personalities at work, acting for different reasons. But they both have the power to spark word-of-mouth epidemics.

Broken Windows theory and the Power of Context are one and the same. They are both based on the premise that an epidemic can be reversed, can be tipped, by tinkering with the smallest details of the immediate environment. This

a social epidemic, Mavens are data banks. They provide the message. Connectors are social glue: they spread it. But there is also a select group of people—Salesmen—with the skills to persuade us when we are unconvinced of what we are hearing, and they are as critical to the tipping of word-of-mouth epidemics as the other two groups. Who

Broken Windows theory and the Power of Context are one and the same. They are both based on the premise that an epidemic can be reversed, can be tipped, by tinkering with the smallest details of the immediate environment.

The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.

Paul Revere's ride is perhaps the most famous historical example of a word-of-mouth epidemic. A piece of extraordinary news traveled a long distance in a very short time, mobilizing an entire region to arms. Not all word-of-mouth epidemics are this sensational, of course. But it is safe to say that word of mouth is-even in this age of mass communications and multimillion-dollar advertising campaigns-still the most important form of human communication

Just as Tom Gau could, through the persuasive force of his personality, serve as a Tipping Point in a word-of-mouth epidemic, the people who die in highly publicized suicides-whose deaths give others permission to die-serve as the Tipping Points in suicide epidemics.

it takes only the smallest of changes to shatter an epidemic's equilibrium.

In other words, in all of the city of Colorado Springs-a town of well in excess of 100,000 people-the epidemic of gonorrhea tipped because of the activities of 168 people living in four small neighborhoods and basically frequenting the same six bars.

This is an epidemic theory of crime. It says that crime is contagious—just as a fashion trend is contagious —that it can start with a broken window and spread to an entire community.

The line between hostility and acceptance between an epidemic that tips and one that does not, is sometimes a lot narrower than it seems.

The name given to that one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once is the Tipping Point.

If anyone wants to start an epidemic, then-whether it is of shoes or behavior or a piece of software-he or she has to somehow employ Connectors, Mavens, and Salesmen in this very way: he or she has to find some person or some means to translate the message of the Innovators into something the rest of us can understand.

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America's opioid epidemic is another warning light. Émile Durkheim, the father of modern sociology, said that when societies hit a civilisational break the suicide rate soars.

Virtually, I realize differently rather than others' perspective since protective measures against the outbreak of coronavirus epidemic, execute not a self-isolation; it shows a determined and forcing-advice-isolation unconsciously. Consequently, family and friends' contacts also have become broken, unfortunately.

We are part of the world creation, and we ourselves create nothing. Our knowledge allows us to make use of all the forces already in existence, our art to interpret emotions already felt. One big war, an epidemic, and we collapse into ignorance and darkness, fit sons of chimpanzees.

One big war, an epidemic, and we collapse into ignorance and darkness, fit sons of chimpanzees.

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

AIDS is the revenge of the rain forest.

AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.

The Ebola epidemic was the most frightening outbreak I have witnessed in my lifetime, and I believe it was necessary to react globally as strongly as we did.