Quotes About Contagion

Don't worry, it's not contagious.

As the Houses tumbled upon the Streets with a great roaring Noise, they cryed out We are undone! We are great Sinners! and the like: and yet as soon as the Danger was passed, they came back with their: Hey ho the Devil is Dead! Eat, drink, and go merry to Bed! Thus the Sick confesse to their Contagion only when they are like to Die of it, even tho' they carry their Death with them every where.

What he did not know then is that it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. To listen to Gloria rationally ask to die was to inhale the contagion. It was a Chinese finger trap, where the harder you pull to get out, the tighter the trap gets.

The medium by which the suicide contagion spread was mass media.

To fear the contagion of poverty is reasonable. To keep voting for policies that ensure the permanent existence of an underclass is what is meant by 'structural racism'.)

Opinions are caught like infection, and put into practice without examination.

Do not succumb to darkness. Lack of hope, as I learned long ago, is a deadly affliction. And in one so highly regarded as you, it is not merely a blight on one precious soul, but a contagion that may leave many in darkness. Recall that the light you bear, though it may flicker, yet illuminates the path for our people. Bear it. For in this world there is no alternative.

Virtues are no less contagious than vices.

Once a viral program gets started, there is nothing to stop it.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

If an employee told you he had the flu, you'd send him home. If an employee told you he was feeling anxious, you'd probably tell him to get back to work. But the emotion is just as contagious as a flu virus.

One of the things that's particularly nefarious about Ebola is that it continues to live in a dead person for some period of time after death. A person who's been dead for a day or two may still be seething with Ebola virus.

If a healthy person were placed on the other side of a room from a person who was sick with AIDS, the AIDS virus would not be able to drift across the room through the air and infect the healthy person.

McDermott and two colleagues - James H. Fowler of the University of California, San Diego, and Nicholas A. Christakis of Harvard University - published a paper titled 'Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Unless Everyone Else is Doing it Too.' Their study shows that divorce can spread like a virus among friends, siblings and co-workers.

Behavior is a virus. We spread our behavior to those around us, whether passively or on purpose.

Other recommendations are generally simple and obvious: for example, keeping sick children home from school—which is standard behavior—and having sick adults stay home from work—which is not standard behavior

But two days later, six hundred men were hospitalized with this strange disease. The hospital ran out of empty beds, and hospital staff began falling ill.

in New York State coughing or sneezing without covering the face was now punishable by a year in jail and a $500 fine

Emotion is contagious.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness contagion of trust can make trust.

Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.

Negative thoughts are contagious and they get passed around like a disease. I inoculate myself against the fear of failure.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

Last week I got a flu that I caught, 'cause my daughter coughed ... into my mouth.