Quotes About Prevention

If they were all concerned, why didn't they do something about it? But of course that's human nature. Nobody does anything until it's too late. We put the stoplight at the intersection after the kid is killed

She is determined to learn to anticipate her worst bouts of psychosis, and head them off before they overwhelm her. I'm trying to recognize when it's coming on, she says, so I can get out of the way or at least drop to the ground like you would when caught in the crossfire of a shootout. (233)

You can keep mistakes from happening if you can identify the almost mistakes. This kind of changes how I view everything.

Walking through the ruins, she saw all over again what she had seen so many times: how much better Americans were at responding to a disaster than preventing it.

The guy walks around with a banana in his ear. And people are like, 'Why do you have a banana in your ear?' He says, 'To keep the alligators away! There are no alligators! See?

In the end he plotted both the deaths and the restrictions imposed to prevent them, and saw that the earlier the restrictions imposed in any given outbreak, the fewer the deaths. In the case of Philadelphia, he wrote, "the closing of schools and churches, banning of public meetings, and banning of large public gatherings occurred relatively late into the epidemic"—nearly one month after the outbreak began and just a week before its peak.

human imagination is a poor tool for judging risk. People are really good at responding to the crisis that just happened, as they naturally imagine that whatever just happened is most likely to happen again. They are less good at imagining a crisis before it happens—and taking action to prevent it.

At the top of Charlie Ledley's list of concerns, after Cornwall Capital had laid its bets against subprime loans, was that the powers that be might step in at any time to prevent individual American subprime mortgage borrowers from failing. The powers that be never did that, of course. Instead they stepped in to prevent the failure of the big Wall Street firms that had contrived to bankrupt themselves by making a lot of dumb bets on subprime borrowers. After

Redelmeier had actually co-written an article about that: "Elevator Buttons as Unrecognized Sources of Bacterial Colonization in Hospitals.

The first SARS outbreak had ended because those infected had been isolated quickly and prevented from infecting others. Those capable of infecting others were easy to identify because they were so obviously ill. There were few, if any, asymptomatic spreaders.

The first SARS outbreak had ended because those infected had been isolated quickly and prevented from infecting others. Those capable of infecting others were easy to identify because they were so obviously ill. There were few, if any, asymptomatic spreaders. The virus had not vanished, however. "It's still out there," said Joe. "It didn't come from outer space. There's a very meaningful probability that it can arise again.

earlier the restrictions imposed in any given outbreak, the fewer the deaths.

The absence of pandemic prevention was another example of a deficiency in the system.

There was the CDC way of doing things," she said. "It was vaccinate and isolate. And this wasn't that.

Flu strains mutate all the time," she'd written on them. "What would we do if we didn't have the right vaccine in time?

From the point of view of American culture, the trouble with disease prevention was that there was no money in it. She needed to find a way to make it pay.

That is, various social interventions would reduce infections, hospitalizations, and deaths to a tenth of what they otherwise would have been.

The book, truth be told, left the reader feeling that there was little that might have been done to prevent all those people from dying.

Libertarians are not the brightest lights in the candelabra, a fact that is evident from the alternatives they tend to offer to public prevention of private abuses. For example: if you don't like working a hundred hours a week for twenty-five cents a day, then find another employer! It is obvious to intelligent people, if not libertarians, that more generous employers will price themselves out of a market whose standards are set by the most rapacious.

Lots of traffic heading into town. One dirty, smoke-belching van makes me so angry that if I'd been alongside I think I would have had a go at the driver. I'd rather see pollution wardens than parking wardens but I suppose there's no money in pollution prevention.

There's a lot of money in the Western diet. The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare industry makes more money treating chronic diseases (which account for three quarters of the $2 trillion plus we spend each year on health care in this country) than preventing them.

There are scores of studies demonstrating that a diet rich in vegetables and fruits reduces the risk of dying from all the Western diseases; in countries where people eat a pound or more of vegetables and fruits a day, the rate of cancer is half what is in the United States.

As grandmothers used to say, 'Better to pay the grocer than the doctor

The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare industry makes more money treating chronic diseases (which account for three quarters of the $2 trillion plus we spend each year on health care in this country) than preventing them. So we ignore the elephant in the room and focus instead on good and evil nutrients, the identities of which seem to change with every new study.